Rolf Harris re-records greatest hit

12:35am Thursday 16th October 2008

Veteran entertainer and artist Rolf Harris is re-recording his classic hit single Two Little Boys with a Welsh male voice choir.

The multi-talented Australian has strong Welsh roots himself and saw the 60-member Fron Male Voice Choir as an obvious choice of partner.

Harris topped the charts for an impressive six weeks with his Christmas 1969 No 1 hit the first time around.

But the popular choir is a chart-topping outfit in its own right, having had the No 1 classical and Top 10 pop album Voices Of The Valley in 2006.

Both Harris and the choir hope that the re-recorded single will promote awareness of the 90th anniversary of the Armistice.

For those too old to remember, the original song tells of two boys whose friendship goes from playing at war as children and fighting in a war as adults.

For most in the choir, the partnership with Rolf Harris will be a trip down memory lane as, with an average age of 67, many remember the original song.

The 60 members have a combined age of 3,947, making the choir the oldest boyband in the world - 78-year-old Harris takes the headline age to 4025.

Two Little Boys will be released on single on November 10. It will also appear on the Fron's new album, Voices Of The Valley: Home, which will be released simultaneously.

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