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| Name: | Steve Stevens |
| E-mail address: | dickie.bird@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | Many Thanks. An interesting site.
I am looking for a reletive of mine who was a Music Hall Variety Agent and Songwriter in the 1890s - 1920s. He was very friendly with people like Lansbury, (the MP and father of Angela) and I have been told that he also wrote a few music hall songs that proved 'popular' at the time.I am looking for any titles by this Charles Lester (NOT to be confused with the modern songwriter by the same name). ANY help would be gratefully received .. Regards Steve |
| Name: | Chris J |
| Comments: | These are a delight. I have enjoyed these songs greatly. Thank you |
| Name: | jean |
| E-mail address: | bailie_jean@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Absolutly a great site but unfortunatly couldn't find what I'm looking for. My mum used to sing a song and I think it was called (Where did you put my Hat)I've tried all over the place maybe you or someone else out there can help! |
| Name: | Arlingtonwoodsman |
| E-mail address: | Ottawa, Canada |
| Comments: | HI
I am back after about 15 years -- to take a look for 'Arry 'Arry 'Arry to perhaps share with a vision challenged friend. Good to see you site is still alive and well. Grateful |
| Name: | Lisa Renery |
| E-mail address: | lrenery@gmail.com |
| Comments: | 'ullo 'ullo! I cannot tell you how much joy stumbling across your site has given me! Many of the songs that my mum and I used to sing on long car rides!!
My parents were both born in London in 1923 in an age where people used to gather at one another's houses, the bathtub (in the kitchen) full of beer, having a good old knees up. Everyone had a special song that was theirs, even the kids, and they would sing them in the group. It sounded grand! Both my parents were in the service, my mother a WRN and my dad a navigator for the Pathfinder division. Both referred to the war as some of the best years of their lives -- yes, just like the film!! They moved to America in the '60s and - of course - brought all their tales and songs, all of which left me mesmerized and wishing I had lived then. Thank you again for this lovely resource! |
| Name: | Clive Thomas |
| E-mail address: | clive.v.thomas |
| Comments: | Disappointing website. Song sheets - yes. MP3's don't play |
| Name: | John Kelly |
| E-mail address: | rockinpaddy@btinternet.com |
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| Comments: | I remember singing The seaweed song as a young boy at school, i think my teacher wrote a few different verses, but your site has it on so I can prove it wasn't made up in my head. I love your site...thank you x |
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| E-mail address: | fords62@gmail.com |
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| Name: | Ruth |
| Homepage URL: | http://golding.wordpress.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for making the sheet music for Edwardian Music Hall songs available. They are huge fun. May I point out that I think there is a duplication of pages (3 & 4) in 'I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside'. :)
Oooh, please delete that previous comment. I didn't realise that my email address would be displayed publicly. |
| Name: | Ruth |
| E-mail address: | golding.ruth@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://golding.wordpress.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for making the sheet music for Edwardian Music Hall songs available. They are huge fun. May I point out that I think there is a duplication of pages (3 & 4) in 'I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside'. :) |
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| Name: | Reg |
| E-mail address: | reg.joy@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | What Song?
A long time ago my family used to sing these lyrics to a tune that was obviously popular in the music hall era, but what is it? Please help. "The old man bought some cheese it made the old girl sneeze The cat had a fit in the cellar they all had the same disease They chairs began to rock the tables did the same And the beautiful picture of mother walked out of its gilded frame If her eyes could only see..." |
| Name: | Des |
| E-mail address: | depsona@iinet.net.au |
| Name: | Louise oliver |
| E-mail address: | Louise.oliver@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello, and thank you for your fantastic site.
I have a couple of questions for you. I know the chorus of a song about a shopkeeper, it goes " somebody would shout out shop, somebody would shout out shop. Just as he was kissing her and making good, somebody would come in for a bundle of wood. Just as he was giving Mabel a squeeze, somebody would come in for a quarter of cheese, oh, gee, it made him feel all funny, he'd clean forget to take the money, back he'd go again, and try to cuddle his honey, but somebody would shout out shop." But I can't remember the verses. Do you by any chance? Also, I'm trying to find the lyrics of a song called The Artists Model, with the chorus, "oh, it's alright in the summertime, in the summertime it's lovely, while my old mans painting hard, I'm posing in the old back yard." I hope you can help me. Kind regards Louise Oliver |
| Name: | Rowley King |
| E-mail address: | bassmanboots@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I'm an Aussie barbershop singer and my grandpa was a Cockney. Our singing group has a Cockney music director and we have a segment in our shows at local retirement villages in which we sing the old music hall tunes. They are great fun and the old-timers get a lot of pleasure from them. |
| Name: | Errol |
| E-mail address: | beggs@vodamail.co.za |
| Comments: | this is a wonderful site! Thank you for your hard work! |
| Name: | julie vivienne |
| E-mail address: | julie.vivienne@sky.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.julieviviene.com |
| Comments: | I am a professional opera singer and pianist, but my first piano teacher was my grandad, a pub pianist from The Nag's Head in Islington. My first pieces were Roll out The Barrel, My Old man Said Foller the Van and Any Old Iron. I have always loved the songs from this era and can still hear him singing 'On Muva Kelly's Doorstep'.I have always been grateful to him for teaching me to play by ear and to love 'aving a sing song round the ol' johanna'.Thanks for this site. It's great. Yours, Julie Vivienne |
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| Name: | Norman Stone |
| E-mail address: | stonenorman15@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Some of these songs brought back memories of my childhood some seventy-five years ago when my mother (a cockney from London) would sing them to me. Thanks for making them available on the internet.
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| Name: | thomas heffernan |
| E-mail address: | theffernan47@gmail.com |
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| Name: | celiaclaridge |
| E-mail address: | celiaclaridgegb@aol.com |
| Comments: | I AM AN 84 YEAR OLD BRIT LIVING IN NORTH CAROLINA, OFTEN I FIND MYSELF HUMMING SNATCHES OF MANY OF THE SONGS, RECALLING THE GREAT FAMILY TIMES WE HAD WHEN ALL THE AUNTS AND UNCLES WERE TOGETHER, QUESTION....DO YOU HAVE ANY OR ALL ON CD's. MY DAUGHTER INTRODUCED ME TO THIS SITE THIS MORNING SHE RECALLS ME SINGING MANY OF THESE, ON A COLD BLEAK MORNING THE SONGS HAVE CHEERED ME UP. THANK YOU.
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| Name: | David Butcher |
| E-mail address: | david_butcher48@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | My Dad used to try and sing a music hall number "My brother Joe". The only trouble was he could never remember the words.
"Oh my brother Joe and I you know we are the heavenly twins" It was about bath night: "Mother got mixed, we got twixed and Joe got bathed again" Do you have any information? All good fun. |
| Name: | Shamira Rochford |
| E-mail address: | shamira@bellydancearabesque.com.au |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.bellydancearabesque.com.au |
| Comments: | I'm also looking for the lyrics to a song about a glass of champagne. I remember Fenella Fielding singing it on "The Good Old Days" back in the '70's. I think the refrain went.."all for a glass of champagne"
Does anyone have the lyrics? I'd love to see a copy of that show again too. Thanks, Shamira |
| Name: | John Smith |
| E-mail address: | johnsmith@strayduck.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for a super nostalgic hour. |
| Name: | LInda |
| E-mail address: | ltaylor764@hotmail.conm |
| Comments: | do you have the words for the song 'a boy and a maiden once stood on a path that led through a wood'
thank you |
| Name: | AnneB |
| E-mail address: | anneblackburn@stch.org.uk |
| Comments: | I have been trying for years to find a recording of The Hippopotamus Song which we had as children on a 78rpm. It wasn't the Flanders and Swan version but something which went:
The hip-hip-hip-opotamus He can do more than the lot of us. He can stay, so they say, Underneath the water for half a day. Oh the hip-hip-hip-opotamus, He's a clever fellow in his way, For the old hippopotamus Can beat the bally lot of us But he can't hip-hip-hooray. Sort of Ernie Mayne type voice but I cannot find it anywhere. Any ideas who I can ask and where I can look? Please? Thanks so much. AnneB |
| Name: | Patrick Hampson |
| E-mail address: | phampson@telus.net |
| Comments: | I've been intending to look for Music Hall songs and finally found yours. Great to listen to the songs; you are now on my Favorites list.
Cheers. |
| Name: | J Peasmould Gruntfuttock |
| E-mail address: | jpeasmouldgruntfuttock@hotmail.co.uk |
| Name: | John Jeffries |
| E-mail address: | judgejeffo@hotmail.co.uk |
| Comments: | I used to go to the folk clubs around Soho in the late sixties and I vaguely remember a song with the line "wiv me 'ands, wiv me mitts, wiv me maulers". Any clues? |
| Name: | Frederick Denny |
| E-mail address: | frederick.denny@tesco.net |
| Comments: | Hi Peter, just looking in |
| Name: | Alisande |
| E-mail address: | alisande@umich.edu |
| Comments: | Love the songs. How about "Saturday Night at the Rose and Crown"? |
| Name: | John M. Higgins |
| E-mail address: | jhiggins35@cfl.r.com |
| Name: | Lois |
| E-mail address: | prefernotto@yahoo.com |
| Comments: |
Wonderful how these songs spread over the whole of UK before tv - wireless, even! |
| Name: | topsy |
| E-mail address: | turveyd2shaw.ca |
| Comments: | what a hoot! i know every one of these great old songs - hey, what abaht "look at the 'orses, bloody grat plumes on. Ain't it grand to be bloomin'-well dead?" another verse has "look at the flowers, bloody great orchids', 'look at 'is missus, bloody new 'at on...' etc. wonderful stuff.
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| Name: | bill dennison |
| E-mail address: | williamdennison748@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | "Thank You,"
Not much about Today, and tomorrow looks like shades of doom, But how Glorious yesteryear was.............Please fetch back as many old beautiful tunes as possible. Bill Dennison |
| Name: | Roger Cheshire |
| E-mail address: | cheshire.roger1@googlemail.com |
| Comments: | Great site. I remember my Mum & Dad singing these songs at family get togethers and listening to some of them on the Good Old Days. So catchy!! They should never be forgotten but I can't see a TV programme nowdays playing these type of songs. What a shame. Whatabout 'Underneath the Arches' |
| Name: | Roger Cheshire |
| E-mail address: | cheshire.roger1@googlemail.com |
| Comments: | Great site. I remember my Mum & Dad singing these songs at family get togethers and listening to some of them on the Good Old Days. So catchy!! They should never be forgotten but I can't see a TV programme nowdays playing these type of songs. What a shame. Whatabout 'Underneath the Arches' |
| Name: | John hawes |
| E-mail address: | vol211@aol.com |
| Comments: | Although I never went to a music hall, I remember my Aunts and Uncles singing some of the old songs at family parties in Shoreditch in the East End of London. My Mother told me how exciting the halls were, although by the time she would have been there, they must have been long past their hey day.
Chas n Dave are great favourites of mine, and I have suffered for it because I listen to music I enjoy rather than music I dont like but which is "cool" to apparently like. John |
| Name: | Lisa York |
| E-mail address: | lisayork2@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.lisayork.net |
| Comments: | What a wonderful find your site is! I can't thank you enough for going to great lengths to preserve this music. I need many of these songs for a gig in the near future, and it's all here on your website! |
| Name: | Alan Moore |
| E-mail address: | Hoxtonboy@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | Great to see that some traditional music is being kept goig! I am only 53 but listened to all these songs as I grew up in the east end of london. Well done!!!!
Al |
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| Name: | Laine |
| E-mail address: | l.greenland@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | So enjoyed this site. My mother sings the following song and I wonder if anyone knows any more of it:
My old woman she's a terror in this town, She'll get you pinched for sixpence, get you hung for half a crown, I've seen faces that will stop watches,but hers will stop your breath and they put her in the piggery to frighten pigs to death! Chorus But shes my old woman Shes my old girl Shes my missus and shes my pal Shes a perfect lady with a style all her own See her dressed in her Sunday best Walking down the old Kent Road Hope someone can help out |
| Name: | Louise Herrity |
| Comments: | Thank you Pete, that has solved a family mystery.
Dad was thrilled, to see the sheet music and who'd composed it. I'll enjoy singing it again. And look forward to seeing it on your website We always sang it in a Brummie accent, not a German one!Some of were concerned about the racist undertones mentioned in the link but I think it was enjoyed for its tonguetwisting elements and exotic food. |
| Name: | Louise Herrity |
| Comments: | This song was taught by my great grandfather , Albert Edward Pugh , born 1869 , to his children Albert, Lavinia and Annie. Who in turn taught it to us. He enjoyed going to the music hall in Birmingham.
I sent an email to my father, aunt and sisters to check the words. We'd love to know who performed it, and if anyone else remembers it! Thank you Louise How did we do? Where did you find it on the net? I thought I'd looked! These are our remembered words: I must give up this business,now I've been in it much too long I can not get my sleep at night while in this restaurant My soles and heels are in a stew My calves are caving in A pair of trotters once a drift Are getting very thin My celery it ain't the cheese And I'm from Yorkshire ham And I don't think I've got sauce enough to treat this little lamb. Waiter ! waiter ! Hot potato, waiter! Now then waiter , Where's the lamb? (where's the lamb) When's the mutton coming? How's about the veal and ham? Fried sole French sole Bitter ale Oxtail New bread Calves head Look sharp, Cherry tart, That's the way they bring it to you every moment all day long. Hurry skurry flurry worry at the city restaurant. |
| Name: | Louise Herrity |
| E-mail address: | louiseherrity@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | A music hall song whose chorus started "Waiter, waiter, hot potato, waiter" was a favourite of our family, it was passed down from my great grandfather.We still think we know all the words.
Would you like them? Are we the only ones to remember them? The verse starts: "I must give up this business now I've been in it far too long.... |
| Name: | Flicky |
| E-mail address: | flicky.jess@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Absolutely fabulous! |
| Name: | Jon faux |
| E-mail address: | jon@faux.demon.co.uk |
| Comments: | Fabulous site. Thanks for posting these gems, many of which are still sung in the Golden Eagle at Marylebone Lane, W1 (Tuesday, Thursday and Friday). My grandpa who was a WWI vet used to sing "the night I fought Jack Johnson ... does anyone have these lyrics ?? |
| Name: | Melanie Muckell |
| E-mail address: | melanie.muckell1@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Brill |