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List of music hall songs
Music hall songs were sung in the
music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company,
Francis, Day and Hunter , published between forty and fifty songs a month.
Examples
They number in their tens of thousands and include the following:
"
After the Ball " (
Charles K. Harris )
"The Army of Today's All Right"
"
Any Old Iron " (music by
Charles Collins ; lyrics by Terry Sheppard) sung by
Harry Champion .
"
Boiled Beef and Carrots " (Charles Collins and
Fred Murray ) sung by Harry Champion.
"
The Boy I Love is up in the Gallery " (
George Ware ) sung by
Nelly Power and
Marie Lloyd .
"
Burlington Bertie from Bow " (
William Hargreaves ) sung by
Ella Shields .
"
Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow " (
Joseph Tabrar ) sung by
Vesta Victoria .
"
Daisy Bell " (
Harry Dacre ) sung by
Katie Lawrence .
"
Don't Dilly Dally on the Way " (Charles Collins and
Fred W. Leigh ) sung by Marie Lloyd.
"
Down at the Old Bull and Bush " (music by
Harry von Tilzer ; lyrics by
Andrew B. Sterling ) sung by
Florrie Forde .
"
Goodbye, Dolly Gray " (Paul Barnes; Will. D. Cobb) sung by
George Lashwood .
"
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? " (
C.W. Murphy and Will Letters) sung by Florrie Ford.
"
Hello, Hello, Who's Your Lady Friend? " (music by
Harry Fragson ; lyrics by
Worton David and
Bert Lee ) sung by
Mark Sheridan .
"Hold Your Hand Out, Naughty Boy" (C.W. Murphy and Will Letters) sung by Florrie Ford.
"
I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am " (1911)
[1] (
Fred Murray and Bert Weston) sung by Harry Champion.
"The Honeysuckle and the Bee"
"
I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside " sung by various people including
Mark Sheridan and Florrie Forde.
"I Live in Trafalgar Square" (C.W. Murphy) sung by
Morny Cash .
"If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" (music by George Le Brunn; lyrics by
Edgar Bateman ) sung by
Gus Elen .
"
If You Want to Know the Time, Ask a Policeman " (Edward Rogers and Augustus Durandeau) sung by
James Fawn .
"It's a Bit of a Ruin That Cromwell Knocked About a Bit" (Harry Bedford; Terry Sullivan) sung by Marie Lloyd.
"
It's a Long Way to Tipperary " (1914)
[2] (
Jack Judge and Harry Williams) sung by Florrie Forde.
"
Knees Up Mother Brown " a song, published in 1938, by which time it had already been known for some years.
"
Let's All Go Down the Strand " (
Harry Castling and
C.W. Murphy ) sung by
Charles R. Whittle .
"
Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner " (
Hubert Gregg )
"
Nellie Dean " (
Henry W. Armstrong ) sung by
Gertie Gitana .
"
Oh! It's a lovely war " sung by Ella Shields.
"
Oh! Mr Porter " (music by George Le Brunn; lyrics by Thomas Le Brunn) sung by Marie Lloyd.
"
Proper Cup of Coffee "
"She Was A Sweet Little Dicky Bird"
"
Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) ", performed by
Hetty King
"
Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay " (Harry J. Sayers) sung by
Lottie Collins .
"
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo " (Fred Gilbert) sung by
Charles Coborn .
"To Be There" (1886) (written by C.A. Page ; composed by J. Iliffe.) sung by
Sam Torr .
"
Waiting At The Church "
[3] (
Henry E. Pether ;
Fred W. Leigh ) sung by Vesta Victoria.
"
We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line " by
Jimmy Kennedy was first published in 1939
"
When Father Papered the Parlour " (Weston and Barnes) sung by
Billy Williams .
"
Where Did You Get That Hat? " (James Rolmaz) sung by
J.C Heffron .
"Your Baby Has Gone Down The Plughole" (also known as "A Mother's Lament" and "The Angels' Reply") (writer unknown), later covered by
Cream
Bawdy examples
Many of the following burlesque songs, which were written before the
First World War , continue to be sung today in certain British
Rugby Football clubs.
References
Peter Gammond (1973) Your Own, Your Very Own!: A Music Hall Scrapbook . London: Ian Allan,
ISBN
9780711004306
Notes