He initially rose to fame in the early 1960s for his novelty song "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, sport", featuring the distinctive sound of the "wobble-board" - a large piece of plywood(?) which was played by "wobbling" it back and forth and sounds vaguely like the efforts of a novice rap DJ.
He is probably best known to younger Britons as the host of the reality television programme Animal Hospital[?], which chronicles the real-life activity of a British animal hospital.
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