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?

Comments

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)

"hark the herald angels sing/mrs simpson's pinched our king"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

don't have it to hand but iona and peter opie's "lore and language of school children" had a whole chapter on playground version of music-hall classics (closing the chapter with the comment that television was now beginning to supply the material, and some versions of "davey crockett")

i read this book a million times when i was a kid and weird bits of it remain in my head, like the phrase "clever little lottie collins sang 'ta ra ra boom de ay'" <--- i know NOTHING about lottie collins that isn't contained in this quotation

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha awesome, wiki on lottie collins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-ra-ra_Boom-de-ay) informs me that there is a character in gilbert and sullivan's most debordian-sounding show "utopia, incorporated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia,_Limited)" called TARARA THE PUBLIC EXPLODER after the song that lottie collins made famous!

Infamous Britpop moment

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

Blur leading the crowd in a singalong of Daisy Bell at Mile End.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

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