"Jake the Peg" was a fictional three-legged man, the subject of a song played by
Rolf HarrisRolf Harris, CBE, AM , is an Australian/British musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host and personality.- Biography :...
in the 1960s. The song was written in 1965 with Frank Roosen, a Dutchman in Vancouver, Canada. In a 2004 poll it was voted the fourth best Australian single of all time.
Harris would perform the song with the aid of a theatrical prop leg.
June WhitfieldJune Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series....
reports, in her autobiography
And June Whitfield, that she used to watch Harris' performance of the number on stage from the wings, as she waited to follow him, and could never tell during the performance which of his three legs was the prop.
Jake wore a long coat that came down to the knees, and apparently had three identical legs.
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"Jake the Peg" was a fictional three-legged man, the subject of a song played by
Rolf HarrisRolf Harris, CBE, AM , is an Australian/British musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host and personality.- Biography :...
in the 1960s. The song was written in 1965 with Frank Roosen, a Dutchman in Vancouver, Canada. In a 2004 poll it was voted the fourth best Australian single of all time.
Harris would perform the song with the aid of a theatrical prop leg.
June WhitfieldJune Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series....
reports, in her autobiography
And June Whitfield, that she used to watch Harris' performance of the number on stage from the wings, as she waited to follow him, and could never tell during the performance which of his three legs was the prop.
Jake wore a long coat that came down to the knees, and apparently had three identical legs. Part of the fun was trying to guess which leg was false, as he kept both hands in his pockets, one of which operated the extra leg. He would walk around the stage putting his middle foot forward, and then his two side feet, and at times would also stand on his middle leg and stick both outer legs out. While he was moving around the stage he sang a song, which told of his life with three legs.
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Full lyrics available at http://www.rolfharris.com/Music/lyrics/lyrics_jakethe.htm