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The serio-comic song by Miss Florrie Ford, 'Yes, You Are,' proved a great attraction." [2] Another of her earliest vaudeville performances was in February 1892 at Polytechnic Music Hall in Pitt Street. [1] She toured widely in Australia over the next few years, performing as a soubrette, or in pantomimes as a "principal boy". [3] [4]
Murphy and Letters originally wrote the song for popular music hall performer Florrie Forde, as a follow-up to another Murphy song written for Forde, "Oh, Oh, Antonio", a success in 1908. Forde regularly performed on the Isle of Man, between England and Ireland, each summer, and "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?"
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.
Good-bye-ee!" is a popular song written and composed by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee. [1] Performed by music hall stars Florrie Forde, Daisy Wood, and Charles Whittle, it was a hit in 1917. [1] Weston and Lee got the idea for the song when they saw a group of factory girls calling out goodbye to soldiers marching to Victoria station. [1]
"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War, and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to "Blighty" - a slang term for Britain.
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Songs like "Old Folks at Home" (1851) [54] and "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" (James Bland, 1879]) [55] spread round the globe, taking with them the idiom and appurtenances of the minstrel song. Typically, a music hall song consists of a series of verses sung by the performer alone, and a repeated chorus which carries the principal melody, and in ...
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile" is the full name of a World War I marching song, published in 1915 in London. It was written by Welsh songwriter George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of "George Asaf", and set to music by his brother Felix Powell. [1] [2] The song is best remembered for its chorus. [3]