Eric Shackle: I've read that Wright Butler and Raymond Wallace were Australians. Can anyone please tell me more about them?

“Ever so goosey; comedy fox-trot, words and music by Wright Butler and Raymond Wallace, both of Great Britain; pf: acc., with ukulele arr. by Harry J. Stafford. [Staff and tonic sol-fa notations] © Apr. 2, 1929; 1 c. Apr, 13; E for. 3802; Campbell, Connelly & co., London. 7845”
[Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Musical Compositions, Vol.24, No.1, 1929]


“EVER SO GOOSEY; w & m Julian Wright, Ralph Butler & Huntley Trevor, uku-lele arr. Harry J. Stafford. © 2Apr29; EF3802. Mrs.H. Trevor (W); 27Apr56; R169029.”
[Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Renewal Reg. Music, Jan.-Jun, 1956]

“Ralph Thomas Butler (12 October 1886 – 8 April 1969) was a British songwriter, responsible for the lyrics of many popular songs of the 1930s and later, mostly with comic or novelty elements.” [wiki]

“Percy Huntley Trevor (born Percy William Favatt; 8 April 1881 – 17 April 1943) was an English songwriter. Generally known as Huntley Trevor, he sometimes published music under the pseudonyms Raymond Wallace, Chester Wallace, and Slade Williams” [wiki]


“Julian Wright was a prolific song composer his titles including You Are You, The Cricketers Song, Down The River With You, Everything Seems To Whisper, I Hold You In My Heart, I Know A Garden, Moonlight Nights, Old Man Cameron, Something Happened In My Heart, When Love Is All, When The Sun Bursts Thro’ and Whispering Voices, plus others jointly with collaborators All Hands On Deck and Gunga Din And His Lute with Carol Bourne and, from a film, Riding A Camel In The Desert with Harold Flynn and Ralph Barker.”
[Musicweb-British Light Music Composers]

And if anything by Julian Wright and/or Ann(e) Booth should turn up… Advice on Locating Songwriters