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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[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!

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

The dance was condemned by the Nazis for being animalistic and Jewish!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

laughing policemen is perhaps -- VERY strictly speaking -- not musical hall: it evolved out of "the laughing song", a (very early) novelty cylinder hit (berliner or edison, possibly both) in the US before migrating onto the stage: the writer was a former slave,george washington johnson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Johnson)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

music hall is all cheekily pro-sex, punk is TOTALLY ANTI

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

ahh. so punk is music hall that couldn't get laid?