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Thread #40916 Message #786097
Posted By: Joe Offer
17-Sep-02 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: Help: Old thread? - Writing of Tipperary(Caddick)
Subject: Songwriter - It's A Long, Long Way to Tipperary
In The Book of World-Famous Music (1965), James J. Fuld attributes "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" to Jack Judge and Harry Williams, Copyright 1912 by B. Feldman & Co. It was published in the U.S. and Canada by Chappell & Co.
Fuld says:
This song was written and published before World War I but became popular only during that war. According to one story*, the song was the sole work of Judge, but Williams had lent money to Judge, and Judge repaid the loan in this way. Judge was an English vaudeville actor who was born in 1878 and died in 1938. Williams was a fellow townsman and vaudeville trouper who died in 1930.
*New York Times, Oct 1, 1933, Magazine Section, Page 21
The Levy Sheet Music Site says the song was "written and composed by Jack Judge and Harry Williams."