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23 Dec 08 - 09:58 AM (#2522946) Subject: when father painted the parlour From: cudder when father painted the parlour, you couldnt see pa for paint, slapping it here, slapping it there, paste and paper everywhere, kids were stuck to the ceiling, dog was stuck to the floor, you have never seen such a family so stuck up before! |
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23 Dec 08 - 11:06 AM (#2522989) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Rasener And your point for the thread cudder? |
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23 Dec 08 - 11:48 AM (#2523042) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: cudder wondered when this wa written does anyone know? |
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23 Dec 08 - 11:52 AM (#2523045) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Musket A music hall song written (or at least performed) by Harry Champion many years ago. William Crump (1866 – January 14, 1942), better known by the stage name Harry Champion, was a famous British music hall composer and star. Born in Shoreditch, London, he first appeared in a music hall at the age of 15, at the Queens Hall, Poplar. In 1888 he changed his stage name from Will Conray, and with a wide repertoire of songs, many of them sung at breakneck speed and often about the joys of food, he became one of music hall's most successful artists. His songs became some of the most famous Cockney songs Harry Champion continued working into his seventies. In January 1942 he died at Tottenham, aged 76, where he had lived for more than thirty years. He is buried in East Finchley Cemetery. |
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23 Dec 08 - 11:55 AM (#2523048) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Dave Ruch The great singer David Jones did a wonderful version of this song just last month, at the family concert that was held in the middle of the Eisteddfod Festival in NY. |
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23 Dec 08 - 12:03 PM (#2523052) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: cudder To Ian Mather, thank you - how do you know such detail so quick - very impressed. |
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23 Dec 08 - 12:07 PM (#2523057) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Musket Oh, go on then... I knew it was Harry Champion. (Cosmotheka used to sing it.) I then went on Wikipedia to get more details, and just cut & paste like any half decent plagiariser. |
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23 Dec 08 - 12:12 PM (#2523062) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Dan Schatz I always thought that Father papered the parlour. "When Father papered the parlour you couldn't see Pa forpaste. Dabbin' it here, dabbin' it there - paste and paper everywhere! Mother was stuck to the ceiling, the children stuck to the floor. I never knew a bloomin' family so stuck up before!" The rest of the song only makes sense if it's paste. The Digital Tradition has a slightly different version than I know. |
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23 Dec 08 - 12:16 PM (#2523067) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Rasener Just spoke with Dave Sealey this afternoon ex Cosmotheka. Wish I had known that, I would have asked him about it. |
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19 Sep 09 - 12:15 PM (#2726654) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: GUEST,Keith Harris This song just came into my head so i looked it up and here it is my kids 2 and 4 years old love it now! lol |
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19 Sep 09 - 02:03 PM (#2726722) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: MGM·Lion Boiled Beef & Carrots; Any Old Iron; A Little Bit Of Cucumber — just some more of Harry Champion's v famous songs... |
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19 Sep 09 - 02:39 PM (#2726740) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Paul Davenport First song I remember learning, at my Grandma's knee. This was my bit at family singing gatherings (you didn't sing other peoples stuff). I was certainly as young as three perhaps even less. |
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19 Sep 09 - 05:49 PM (#2726902) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Dave Roberts Billy Cotton and His Band were still doing this, and many other Music Hall songs, on prime time Saturday night TV as late as the 1960s. |
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20 Sep 09 - 09:36 AM (#2727264) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: GUEST,Clive Pownceby Yes, it was the Cotton band's Alan Breeze, whose speciality this song was. |
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21 Sep 09 - 04:50 AM (#2727852) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Billy Weeks Sorry to spoil the consensus, but it wasn't a Harry Champion song, though I can see how the confusion might arise. Billy Williams was the singer and he made it hugely popular, recording it God knows how many times in the first decade of the twentieth century (look at music hall reissue sites - eg Tony Barker's - to find several versions on CD). And, yes, he was papering the parlour, not painting it. |
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21 Sep 09 - 02:35 PM (#2728192) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: BB Written by Barnes & Weston, according to Kilgarriff. Barbara |
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21 Sep 09 - 02:44 PM (#2728201) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Dan Schatz Does anyone know if this song is still under copyright? Dan |
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21 Sep 09 - 02:58 PM (#2728215) Subject: RE: when father painted the parlour From: Songbob "Does anyone know if this song is still under copyright?" Only if Disney Corp. owns it. Bob |