english music hall songs - Websites

Subject: english music hall songs
From: GUEST,bear
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 06:53 PM

hello all! I'm very interested in learning some english music hall songs to sing at my local folk club gatherings. A bit of achange from irish tunes a suppose. can anyone help with some sites where i can download midis of such tunes as - daisybell, 2 lovely black eyes and Young men taken in and donne for. etc

Thanks to all

bear

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Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 08:00 PM

John Roberts and Tony Barrand have recorded a couple of lovely CDs (originally LPs) and Elsa Lanchester did an LP in the '70s ( I think) that has such lovely songs as "When a Lady Has a Veranda" etc. I

t's too late now to pull these out of the my personal database.

There are websites as well such as Music Hall

Linn

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: masato sakurai
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 08:15 PM

Other sites:

MUSIC HALL PERFORMERS [with recordings]

Sounds of the Music Hall: A Discography

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: masato sakurai
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 08:23 PM

Midi files for "Daisy, Daisy" & "Two Lovely Black Eyes" are HERE.

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 12:54 AM

Could I be cheeky and put my request on this thread please? I have been asked to find music scores for two music hall songs: 'The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery'/'The Boy In The Gallery' (composer George Ware, sung by Nellie Power and Marie Lloyd}, and another one sung by Marie Lloyd, possibly titled 'On Monday I Wed a Scotsman'. All I've been able to find on the net is the chorus of the first song. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Joan

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 03:58 AM

another good source of music hall songs is at http://www.monologues.co.uk/

good luck,

mr h

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Little Robyn
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 04:28 AM

I remember 'The boy I love....'
Miss Piggy sang it to Kermit on the Muppet Show many years ago. It was lovely!

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Compton
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 10:22 AM

You will do well to listen to any CDs about by the late, great duo "Cosmotheka"...there has been nothing lately to replace them!

Subject: Lyr Add: THE BOY I LOVE IS UP IN THE GALLERY (Ware
From: Willa
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 02:19 PM

The boy I love is up in the gallery. George Ware

I'm a young girl and have just come over,
Over from the country where they do things big;
And among the boys I've got a lover,
And since I've got a lover, well I don't care a fig.
Ch
The boy I love is up in the gallery.
The boy I love is looking now at me.
There he is, can't you see?
Waving his handkerchief,
As merry as a robin that sings on a tree.

The boy that I love, they call him a cobbler,
But he's not a cobbler, allow me to state;
For Johnny is a tradesman, and he works in the Boro',
Where they sole and heel them while you wait.

Ch

Now if I were a duchess and had a lot of money,
I'd give it to the boy that's going to marry me.
But I haven't got a penny so we'll live on love and kisses,
And be just as happy as the birds on the tree.

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Willa
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 02:23 PM

Joan
I do have the dots and will post them when I have time if you need them.

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 02:29 PM

Because most people just sing the choruses, it's easy not to notice that some of the verses in Music Hall songs have really tricky chromatic tunes.

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: John Routledge
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 05:21 PM

Seems like sufficient material to start a Music Hall Song Club :0)

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 01:37 AM

Willa, many thanks for the words, and, yes, I do need the dots, or rather my friend does. He's helping out with a music hall show and needs the dots for these two songs for the pianist. Your help would be very much appreciated.

Joan

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 08:03 AM

Dave Sealey of Cosmotheka is still alive and well, and still performing I believe; although I don't know who with and what at since his "Hundred years of songs" thing.

If anyone's formiong a club, put my name down! I did my bit (and more) in the Great Revival in the early 70s, and it doesn't take much to start me off.

Steve

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:51 AM

I too would be interested, depending on the location.

Joan

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: GUEST,Bystander
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:26 AM

'Hundred Years Of Song' thing is still going- Walthamstow club tomorrow I believe. Dave Sealy is solo at Royal Oak, Lewes, Sussex very soon- www.users.globalnet.co.uk/tinvic

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: GUEST,Steve
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 12:38 PM

I recall the other song, I think the title is make a man of any one of you - is in print in the songbook for Oh What A Lovely War, but it was definately in Marie Lloyd's repertoire.

The book is in print, and I got my copy from Chappells in London

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 05:27 AM

The other obvious person to talk to is John Foreman - I've got cantact details if anyone wants to PM me.

The second song definitely sounds like "I'll make a man of any one of you".   Linda managed to get a Marie Lloyd song book out of our local library - it had both of the songs you mention in it - complete with music and accompaniment. If you want some of the more comic of her songs, there's alway "A bit of a ruin that Cromwell knocked about a bit" and of course "My Old Man said follow the van" - which in the original has a different penultimate line to the chorus for each verse.

Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Cats
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 02:45 PM

For info on the Music Hall you could try Steve Jordan or John and Peter who used to run Crediton Folk Festival. Both have a huge store of knowledge...and of course Roy Hudd who possibly knows more about the music hall than any living soul as he has made it his life's work.

Subject: RE: english music hall songs - Websites
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 04:14 PM

999 sent me this link:
http://www.trasksdad.com/MusicHall/MusicHall.html

and you'll find others above. Any others?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: english music hall songs - Websites
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:25 AM

===and of course Roy Hudd who possibly knows more about the music hall than any living soul as he has made it his life's work. ===

Also same applies to John Foreman (aka The Broadsheet King: he is still experimenting with song-card printing &c), with whom I am still in touch - spoke to him a few months ago. He made a fine vinyl record many years ago called The 'Ouses In Between; probably not still available, but could perhaps be tracked down [sorry; my copy not for sale!]. I have his current address; I am sure he wouldn't mind my passing it on to an interested person. PM me if interested.

Michael Grosvenor Myer

Subject: RE: english music hall songs - Websites
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 08:43 PM

Here's a link that hasn't been mentioned yet:

FOLK SONG AND MUSIC HALL: The intersection of folk and music hall...

It's the creation of John Baxter:

"This site features a collection of Songs sung in the Music Halls, the stories of those songs and the people who sang them, and how these songs relate to traditional music of the British Isles. I hope it will encourage people to sing the songs, so where possible I include videos and links to sheet music .

"It also has my blog about the social history of Music Hall. I hope to comment on various ways in which it relates to the social history of folksong. I am mostly bringing together information found by others – though I occasionally delve in Victorian newspapers..."

Subject: RE: english music hall songs - Websites
From: Bainbo
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 06:06 PM

Thanks, YorkshireYankee. The site looks interesting, and the start of a deep rabbit hole to disappear into.
I couldn’t make your link work, however. Let’s see if this one does: Folk Song And Music Hall