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english music hall songs - Websites

19 Jan 03 - 06:53 PM (#870152)
Subject: english music hall songs
From: GUEST,bear

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

(click here to search for musichall)


(click here to search for music hall).


19 Jan 03 - 08:00 PM (#870181)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Bat Goddess

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


19 Jan 03 - 08:15 PM (#870188)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: masato sakurai

Other sites:

MUSIC HALL PERFORMERS [with recordings]

Sounds of the Music Hall: A Discography


19 Jan 03 - 08:23 PM (#870189)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: masato sakurai

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


20 Jan 03 - 12:54 AM (#870300)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Joan from Wigan

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


20 Jan 03 - 03:58 AM (#870342)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Mr Happy

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

good luck,

mr h


20 Jan 03 - 04:28 AM (#870348)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Little Robyn

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


20 Jan 03 - 10:22 AM (#870537)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Compton

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


20 Jan 03 - 02:19 PM (#870726)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BOY I LOVE IS UP IN THE GALLERY (Ware
From: Willa

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.


20 Jan 03 - 02:23 PM (#870729)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Willa

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


20 Jan 03 - 02:29 PM (#870733)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Herga Kitty

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.


20 Jan 03 - 05:21 PM (#870859)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: John Routledge

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


21 Jan 03 - 01:37 AM (#871149)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Joan from Wigan

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


21 Jan 03 - 08:03 AM (#871336)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Steve Parkes

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


22 Jan 03 - 08:51 AM (#872115)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Joan from Wigan

I too would be interested, depending on the location.

Joan


22 Jan 03 - 09:26 AM (#872146)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: GUEST,Bystander

'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


22 Mar 04 - 12:38 PM (#1143075)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: GUEST,Steve

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


23 Mar 04 - 05:27 AM (#1143618)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Dave Bryant

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.


23 Mar 04 - 02:45 PM (#1144094)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs
From: Cats

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.


14 Jan 10 - 04:14 PM (#2812021)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs - Websites
From: Joe Offer

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

and you'll find others above. Any others?

-Joe-


15 Jan 10 - 12:25 AM (#2812348)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs - Websites
From: MGM·Lion

===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


14 Jul 20 - 08:43 PM (#4064191)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs - Websites
From: YorkshireYankee

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..."


15 Jul 20 - 06:06 PM (#4064337)
Subject: RE: english music hall songs - Websites
From: Bainbo

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