Music Hall Songs That People Still Know (And Even Sing!)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"It's A Long Way To Tipperary"
"Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside" (<-- surely the most famous)
"Where Did You Get That Hat?"

...what else?

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Down at the Old Bull and Bush"
"I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"
"My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)"

(haha these are also taken straight from the wiki list)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Rumbled!

I have 0 idea how Down At The Old Bull And Bush goes.

I sing "Here Comes The Galloping Major" to Lytton sometimes!

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

Doing the Lambeth Walk (< proto Oi)
The Laughing Policeman
If You Want to Know the Time, Ask a Policeman (why so many songs about the filth?)
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles?
The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery (Marie Lloyd?)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Lambeth Walk was what got me thinking about this (re Poptimism's exciting new location) but it's actually pretty late isn't it, and from a musical? (Wiki sez - 1937, Me And My Girl)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ah but digging a little further suggests the DANCE was a music hall smash - performed by a guy who originally styled himself NIPPER LANE no less!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

music hall= natural ancestor to punk? (hence songs re: filth, drinkin'n'carousin')

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

'How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?'

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

that's a chart-pop smash, not music hall at all!

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

For some reason I have an mp3 of the enjoyable but completely unfathomable "Do Shrimps Make Good Mothers?" on my hard drive, by the Two Gilberts, which you can find here:
http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/musichll/musich.html

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I believe knees up mother brown makes an appearance whenever you find yourself near a piano that goes "plunk"... is that full on music hall though?

(I am pretty sure my knowledge of these will come entirely from BROWNIE CAMP).

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

We performed a Musical Hall school show when I was a genuine nipper, aged 11. Not only did I perform "If You Want to Know The Time", I also recited, from memory, the Stanley Holloway monologue about Albert going to the Tower of London "to gaze upon Ann Boleyn's ghost".

from the CD "glory of the music hall"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

1. Cheeky Chappie
2. It's The First Time I've Done That
3. Get Me To The Church On Time
4. Leaning On A Lamp Post
5. The Biggest Aspidistra In The World
6. Me & My Tune
7. Der Fuehrer's Face
8. The Laughing Policeman
9. She Was Poor But She Was Honest
10. Joe Ramsbotton Buys A Piano
11. Doris, The Goddess Of The Wind
12. Run Rabbit Run
13. The Home Guard
14. A Surrealist Alphabet <--- hang on!?
15. Just A Wee Deoch & Doris
16. The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo Charles Coborn 2:46 17. The Yodelling Goldfish
18. The Bee Song
19. Everything Stops For Tea
20. It's My Mother's Birthday Today
21. Convict 99
22. The Wives Of Commercial Travellers
23. Nymphs & Shepherds
24. Ain't It Grand To Be Blooming Well Dead?

Re: from the CD &quot;glory of the music hall&quot;

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

VICTIM OF A SQUIRE'S WHIM!!!!

Also can't believe I forgot "Daisy Bell" ("...give me your answer do": not only had this survived to my playground days, so had a filthy version)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(some of these may be stand-up routines rather than songs)

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Does 'Do Your Ears Hang Low' count?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Filthy barracks song, according to Wiki.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

ANY OLD IRON

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Also, does My Old Man's A Dustman count?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

OI DUNNO ANY OF THESE OI BE AN YUNGUN.

srsly tho what, technically was music hall? things wot people played in music halls or something more specific'n'sinister?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

oh my christ i just looked at the list and this is the sort of thing that spawned rubbish chart indie. ISN'T IT. i bet scouting for girls would FVCKIN LOVE IT. woez!

meta

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

this is the first poptimists post to get over 50 comments in over a month, the last being "frank and xhuxk ask about weird european music" on Jan 13 (pazz and jop got 49 comments)

Re: meta

[oddnumbereven.livejournal.com]

"Music hall" = the new "slagging off indie"?

[celentari.livejournal.com]

I don't think 'Lily The Pink' is music hall, is it? I like it, anyway.

#We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the pink, the pink, the pink
The saviour of
The human RA-HEY-HACE

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no it was made famous by THE SCAFFOLD in the 60s -- based on an extant folk song about lydia pinkham the iconic tonic concocter, though they added topical in-jokes

[wholepint.livejournal.com]

I always lurk and never post here... but I'm going to have to say 'Your Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole'

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/y/yourbabyhasgonedowntheplughole.shtml

(although I think the only person who may have sung it would have been my mum)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I always want to sing this one when it's my son's bathtime, but I don't want to terrify him!

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

My father sings the first few lines of I Don't Want To Join The Army to my niece (age 1 1/2), and then improvises in place of the filthy bits.

[oddnumbereven.livejournal.com]

I suppose "Friggin' in the Rigging' does not compute? I daren't google that bad boy.

P.S. I read bits of this post earlier today and it cheered my up, I bounced down the street with a full-on musical hall revue in my head.

[koganbot]

"Anne Boleyn" a.k.a. "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" (would sing it as a youngster owing to the Kingston Trio's version).