Lyr Req: British music hall songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 02:30 PM

Does anyone have the words to a song performed by Lilly Morris - "Only a Working Man"?
It was used as the theme tune for Charly Drake's TV series "The Worker"

Doug

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 02:24 PM

Anyone got the Words to the Galloping Major? Written by Mr Barstow or Bristow?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 10:46 AM

Re: Cosmotheka, a new thread asked about Dambuster Records. I found This;
Dambuster Records 24 Mercer Row/ Louth/ Lincolnshire LN11 9JJ/ England Found at the following site: http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/special/label.html

CHEERS!

Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 10:32 AM

If you are interested in music hall songs Roy Hudd's "Those Were the Music Hall Days" is a good buy. and from the Society of St George site
Click here
The following is available plus a variety of English folk material

COCKNEY KINGS OF MUSIC HALL
CD-SDL 413 (CD)/CSDL 413 (MC) 78 mins
The major stars of the London Music Hall stage from 1899 to 1931 from the original recordings. 25 songs including Gus Elen If It Wasn't For The 'ouses In Between, Down the Road. Harry Champion Any Old Iron?, Boiled Beef and Carrots, I'm Getting Ready for My Mother-in-Law. Albert Chevalier The Future Mrs. 'awkins, Right As Ninepence. Dan Leno The May-Day Fireman. Sam Mayo I've Only Come Down For The Day. Charles Coborn Should Husbands Work? Nat Travers Won't Yer Buy Some Beer? Harry Bedford The Germans Are Coming, So They Say. Fred Earle Meat! Meat! Tom Woottwell Wait A Minute. Fred Lay The Penny Whistler. Harry Ford The Day That I Became A Millionaire. Ernie Mayne And The Fog Grew Thicker and Thicker. Duncan & Godfrey The Coster's Christening. George Brooks And His Day's Work Was Done. Charles Austin I've Only Been Married A Week. Rich & Rich The King of Karactacus. Herbert Darnley My Next Door Neighbour's Garden and more. "Some really choice stuff here… period humour on eternal themes." – Daily Telegraph.

THE GOLDEN YEARS OF MUSIC HALL
CD-SDL 380 (CD)/CSDL 380 (MC) 77 mins
Favourite songs sung by the original artists. 23 original recordings including My Old Dutch, I'm Henery the Eighth, Burlington Bertie, Old Bull & Bush, Nellie Dean, I'm Shy Mary Ellen, I Belong to Glasgow, A Little of What You Fancy, Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Albert Chevalier, Gus Elen, Marie Lloyd, Florrie Forde, Dan Leno, Little Tich, Harry Champion, Mark Sheridan, Vesta Victoria, Jack Pleasants, Harry Fragson, Vesta Tilley, George Robey, Clarice Mayne, Ella Shields, George Formby Snr., Harry Lauder, Gertie Gitana. "A thoroughly enthralling 77 minutes… the yardstick by which all future such compilations will be measured." – Folk Roots.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: GUEST,Dagenham Doc
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 08:44 AM

Thanks so much you folks for all your help.. it's got me out of a real pickle.. {I like pickled onions.. i like piccalilli} .. weeeeell I'm in a good mood now . Thanks Grayd for yours and those very useful links too. Out of interest does anyone hear old music hall songs sung in public anywhere now??

Doc

Subject: Lyr Add: BREAD AND MARMALADE
From: GUEST,Grayd
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 08:06 AM

Taken from the album that I mentioned above:

BREAD AND MARMALADE
As recorded by Cosmotheka - originally recorded by Sam Mayo

Some years ago when I was mother's baby
For bread and marmalade I 'ad a craze.
I got so very fond of it that really
I always 'ave some wiv me nowadays.
Last night I spooned with a girl named Jane Louise,
And as we sat beneath the shady trees,
She starts to murmur, "Darling, give me something,
As a token that your love will never fade,
Just something I can slip inside me shift dear.”
So I slipped 'er me bread and marmalade

Poor father 'ee was taken ill one evening.
We knew not what to give 'im for the best.
We 'adn't got a single drop o' brandy,
So I made a mustard plaster for 'is chest.
I crept up to 'is bedroom late at night,
And slapped it on 'is chest with all me might.
Poor father jumped from bed shoutin', "Murder!"
The temper of a tiger 'ee displayed.
Instead of pickin' up the mustard plaster,
I'd shoved inside me bread and marmalade.

Once I was in a smash-up on the railway.
To me it was a bit beyond a joke.
For 'alf an hour or more I lay unconscious,
Then to the smell of whisky I awoke.
I crawled a yard or two along the ground,
But not a sign of anyone I found.
At last I clutched at something in the darkness,
And the sweetest little voice cried from the shade,
"How dare you touch me there!" I said, "I'm sorry.
I thought it was me bread and marmalade."

Like every Englishman, I'm patriotic.
I went to see a tattooed girl today,
And on 'er form she'd got the map of Europe
Tattooed in different colours by the way.
She'd France and Belgium in red and green and black,
And good old England tattooed on 'er back.
I looked at 'er and shouted, "Rule Britannia!"
And as me Union Jack I 'ad displayed,
Right on the part where she'd the German Empire,
I slapped me bloomin' bread and marmalade. (She didn't like it, but...)

I looked at 'er and shouted, "Rule Britannia!"
And as me Union Jack I 'ad displayed,
Right on the part where she'd the German Empire,
I slapped me bloomin' bread and marmalade.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 21-Apr-02.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: The Walrus
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 06:36 AM

For those that prefer to keep recordings, a lot of the songs (the civilian ones)- Including "Bit of Cucumber" - quoted on the web site above can be found on the CD "Laughter on the Home Front" (Past CD 7047 from Pavilion Records Ltd).

Regards

Walrus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: GUEST,Grayd
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 08:22 PM

The whole of Harry Champion's original recording is available at

http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/index.htm .

And quite splendid it is. Thanks for drawing it to my attention.

"Bread and Marmalade" was recorded by the outstanding duo "Cosmotheka" on the album "Cosmotheka" on Dambuster Records (DAM008) if you can track it down - the record is a bit rare though. Sorry, haven't got the time to do a transcription for you at the moment. I'll keep you in mind. If you don't get any joy on this thread, watch for a future posting.

For info. there is also an outstanding site for music hall monologues (an essential part of the genre) at http://www.monologues.co.uk/ .

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 07:11 PM

I think it is the audience that is supposed to supply "I come, you come". It isn't part of the official lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 03:44 AM

Isn't it
A little bit of cu-cum
I come, you come,
A little bit of cu-cum-ber...? I heard it done that way on the BBC Light Programme by Billy Cotton & his band (or some other of that ilk); in those days it wouldn't have been thought of as "unsuitable" because of the sheltered lives led by The Powers That Were on the wireless. But it wouldn't be our 'Arry if it didn't sound smutty, would it?

Steve

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:33 AM

"Little Bit of Cucumber" is in the DigiTrad (with a tune) along with 3 or 4 other "cumbumber" songs. (Search for cucumber...)

Not finding anything on the "bread and marmalade" one, though. I'll keep looking too--but if Sorcha The Search Queen can't find it, I'm not feeling too hopeful!

Lin in Kansas

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: GUEST,Dagenham Doc
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 01:25 AM

Sorcha ... I can't thank you enough for the Harry Champion song, cheers. I have no lyric hints for the other one. There is a part in the song where the lad is with his girlfriend and he 'reaches' for something in the dark?? she complains and his reply includes' I thought it was me bread and marmalade'. hey thanks again

Doc

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 09:41 PM

The only thing I found about "Bread and Marmalade" is a very short "chant" thing to the breakfast bugle call........any lyric snippets at all?

Subject: Add: A LITTLE BIT OF CUCUMBER (Harry Champion)^^^
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 09:39 PM

Is this the one?

A LITTLE BIT OF CUCUMBER
(Harry Champion)

I was weaned on cucumber, and on my wedding day,
Sitting down to supper when the guests had gone away,
My old darling said to me, "You must be hungry, Joe.
What is it you fancy?" I said, "Fancy! Don't you know?"

CHORUS: "I like pickled onions, I like piccalilli.
Pickled cabbage is all right
With a bit of cold meat on Sunday night.
I can go termartoes, but what I do prefer,
Is a little bit of cu-cum-cu-cum-cu-cum, little bit of cucumber."

I went flying in the air with my old college chum.
Suddenly he said to me, "We're bound for kingdom come!
Is there anything on your mind before you wear a crown?"
I began to shake and said, "Write this confession down: CHORUS

To the Lord Mayor's banquet, I got in one foggy day.
When I saw the grub, it took my appetite away:
"Sparrowgrass" and chaffinches, and pigs-head stuffed with jam!
I said to the waiter there, "You don't know who I am!" CHORUS

Sev'ral years of married life have brought me lots of joys.
I don't know how many girls, I think it's fourteen boys.
When the last one came to town, it nearly turned my head.
It was marked with a cucumber, and the fust words that it said
Were: CHORUS^^^

(I'll go look for the other one.)

Subject: British musichall songs
From: GUEST,Dagenham Doc
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 08:38 PM

Without going in to details .. I've had burglars and I desperately need the words of two songs. First is " A little bit of cucmber" and the other is " Bread and Marmalade" Any help would be so welcome.

Doc