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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.
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]
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.
The song was adapted for a British music hall version called "Down at the Old Bull and Bush", written for Florrie Forde and made popular by her. [4] [a] Where the Wurzburger Flows was a beer garden hit for Von Tilzer in 1902. The tune was adapted for the political parody song "Down At The Old Watergate" during the Watergate scandal. [6]
Murphy also wrote several songs for Billy Williams, including "Put Me Amongst the Girls" (with Dan Lipton, 1908), as well as continuing to write for Florrie Forde songs including "Hold Your Hand Out, Naughty Boy" (with Worton David, 1913). [5] Murphy died in the night of 18/19 June 1913 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, at the age of 43. [1]
The Old Bull and Bush is a Grade II listed public house at North End near Hampstead Heath in London, which gave its name to the music hall song "Down at the old Bull and Bush", sung by Florrie Forde. It is located on North End Way. The Old Bull and Bush is managed by Mitchells and Butlers under the Premium Country Dining Group brand.