Yes, I am interested in music-hall songs, and when I discovered that a lot of them have been posted on YouTube, I decided to embark on a project of transcribing as many as I can.

I have a list of music-hall singers, and I am tackling them one at a time. The first one I did was Harry Champion. Altogether, around 60 of his songs have been transcribed and posted at Mudcat—that includes those posted by other people, not only me (although I did most of them). I think he recorded around 120 songs.

When I finished with him (as far as I could) I summarized what I had done here: Music-hall songs sung by Harry Champion.

The next one I tried was Albert Chevalier. Possibly a bad choice—I found only 3 songs by him.

Next I tried Gracie Fields. Her repertoire was really immense. It might not be quite correct to classify her as a music-hall performer; she started out in music-halls, but gained most of her fame in the era of radio. Around 50 of her songs have been posted so far. Not all of her songs were funny—far from it. I'm only doing the funny ones. I'm not finished yet, so I haven't done a summary, but I plan to. In the meantime, you can find most of them by setting your filter to "Fields" (without quotation marks) and looking back about one month. That will miss a few, because a few songs had such long titles that I couldn't squeeze in her name.

Do you have a favorite music-hall performer?