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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think the jolly or nonsensical stuff has endured more than the emo stuff, which was a big part of music hall fare - but was in the hypersentimental death-of-little-nell style the Victorians dug and which has aged poorly on the whole. (Check "She Was Poor But She Was Honest")

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

but don't forget a LOT of that CD (and music hall) is nod-and-wink about teh sechs -- there's a gracie fields which totally mocks "poor but honest" tho i can't recall it at the moment

thisd can get a bit wearing also, but it's it's less annoying the the mimsy prurience of so much indie, emo etc

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

they should revive "the good old days" and have all the ten-dollar words be critical theoryspeak! and the hipsters all go OOH!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

hahaha excellent this gives me an excuse to use my immanuel kant and the categorical imperatives bandname for the forces of EVIL PROFIT!!!

"the good old days"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Sachs) is the guy who declaimed the 10-dollar words (sadly not dressed as per the pic): he introduced the (pastiche) acts in very orotund and absurd manner

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There's also a lot of it which was realism-in-comic-guise about alcoholism, bad partners, poverty etc. (Or so my book on MH informed me! Marie Lloyd did a lot of this as well as the salty naughty stuff)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

that's what i mean tho, it's that sort of gritty realism-disguised-in-jaunt that things like everyone's least favourite band ever SFG are attempting to reproduce. we're in the throes of poss. depression-related dystopian music hall revival y/y?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

not if the audience dresses up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radio_Times_28th_October_1967.jpg)!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

oh lawd i can just see that being the new hipster THANG.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

O how soon we have forgotten DAVID DEVANT AND HIS SPIRIT WIFE!

[oddnumbereven.livejournal.com]

Just FYI: "Mimsy Prurience" is my new emo anti-heroine alter-ego.