Harold Hill - in Song

In Song

Ian Dury referenced Harold Hill in This Is What We Find:

Home improvement expert Harold Hill from Harold Hill

Of do it yourself dexterity and double glazing skill
Came home to find another gentlemen's kippers in the grill
so he sanded off his winkle with his Black & Decker Drill

—Ian Dury

The song set all three of its verses in real places; the others were Turnham Green and Lambeth Walk. In his 2CD Retrospective Reasons To be Cheerful produced by Repertoire Records Dury stated that he never wrote another verse as good as Harold Hill's verse.

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