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Posted By: Steve Gardham
08-Jun-10 - 09:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: A Motto for Every Man (Harry Clifton)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Motto for Every Man (Harry Clifton)
Extra detail from the original sheet music.
Cover
"A MOTTO FOR EVERY MAN"
PUT YOUR SHOULDER TO THE WHEEL
SEIO-COMIC SONG, ALSO SUNG BY FRED FRENCH
WRITTEN AND SUNG BY
MR. HARRY CLIFTON.
AT HIS POPULAR CONCERTS
IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
London, Hopwood & Crew, 42 New Bond St.
Ent. Sta. Hall.
BW Litho of HC with thumbs tucked in trouser pockets, smartly dressed in suit and waistcoat, beige background in oval border. No signature to litho but published by H Davison, 22 , Brooks Mews, New Bond Street.

Inside
"A MOTTO FOR EVERY MAN."
SERIO-COMIC SONG
Written by HARRY CLIFTON.      ARRANGED BY M HOBSON.
Serial number H & C 944

OLIS dates it at 1866
Claimed composed by Charles Coote Junior.
Litho is by Maguire
I have 3 copies, one without cover.
OLIS references: Harding R682
                  Mus. 5c. c.3(4)
Levy 129.106
Printed on broadsides by Fortey of London, Forth of Hull, Sanderson of Edinburgh, and Glasgow Poet's Box (dated 1867)