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Thread #46678   Message #694329
Posted By: Kenny B (inactive)
20-Apr-02 - 10:32 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: British music hall songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: British musichall songs
If you are interested in music hall songs Roy Hudd's "Those Were the Music Hall Days" is a good buy. and from the Society of St George site
Click here
The following is available plus a variety of English folk material

COCKNEY KINGS OF MUSIC HALL
CD-SDL 413 (CD)/CSDL 413 (MC) 78 mins
The major stars of the London Music Hall stage from 1899 to 1931 from the original recordings. 25 songs including Gus Elen If It Wasn't For The 'ouses In Between, Down the Road. Harry Champion Any Old Iron?, Boiled Beef and Carrots, I'm Getting Ready for My Mother-in-Law. Albert Chevalier The Future Mrs. 'awkins, Right As Ninepence. Dan Leno The May-Day Fireman. Sam Mayo I've Only Come Down For The Day. Charles Coborn Should Husbands Work? Nat Travers Won't Yer Buy Some Beer? Harry Bedford The Germans Are Coming, So They Say. Fred Earle Meat! Meat! Tom Woottwell Wait A Minute. Fred Lay The Penny Whistler. Harry Ford The Day That I Became A Millionaire. Ernie Mayne And The Fog Grew Thicker and Thicker. Duncan & Godfrey The Coster's Christening. George Brooks And His Day's Work Was Done. Charles Austin I've Only Been Married A Week. Rich & Rich The King of Karactacus. Herbert Darnley My Next Door Neighbour's Garden and more. "Some really choice stuff here… period humour on eternal themes." – Daily Telegraph.

THE GOLDEN YEARS OF MUSIC HALL
CD-SDL 380 (CD)/CSDL 380 (MC) 77 mins
Favourite songs sung by the original artists. 23 original recordings including My Old Dutch, I'm Henery the Eighth, Burlington Bertie, Old Bull & Bush, Nellie Dean, I'm Shy Mary Ellen, I Belong to Glasgow, A Little of What You Fancy, Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Albert Chevalier, Gus Elen, Marie Lloyd, Florrie Forde, Dan Leno, Little Tich, Harry Champion, Mark Sheridan, Vesta Victoria, Jack Pleasants, Harry Fragson, Vesta Tilley, George Robey, Clarice Mayne, Ella Shields, George Formby Snr., Harry Lauder, Gertie Gitana. "A thoroughly enthralling 77 minutes… the yardstick by which all future such compilations will be measured." – Folk Roots.