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Thread #59463 Message #3177370
Posted By: GUEST,Jeanette Alexander
27-Jun-11 - 05:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Lily of Laguna (Leslie Stuart)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Lily of Laguna (Leslie Stuart)
I have the wors and music for Lily of Laguna in a book "Sixty Old Time Variety Songs, which I bought for 10/- (ten old shillings to the youngsters) at Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd in Charing Cross Road WC2 back in the early 50's. It's a super book - much battered and taped now, but I wouldn't part with it for all the tea in China.
We made excellent use of it in the British Amateur Theatre Society in Stavanger (Norway) when I lived there, especially when we introduced the local and ex-pat community to Old Time Music Hall and I never tire of wathcing our efforts on a rather (now) fuzzy video recording.
I love it! Sadly, "they don't write 'em like that any more".