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!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

you'd recognise the tune of OBAB i think -- but the words are a bit unexpected!

"Come, come, come and make eyes at me
down at the Old Bull and Bush,
Laa la la la la

"Come, come, drink some port wine with me,
Down at the Old Bull and Bush,
Hear the little German Band [waht iz it YOUNG GODS?]
Laa la la la la la la

"Just let me hold your hand dear,
Do, do come and have a drink or two
down at the Old Bull and Bush.

"Do, do, come and have a drink or two
down at the Old Bull and Bush,
Bush, Bush!"

[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!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

'How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?'

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

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

[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)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Music Hall FAIL.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A lot of early chart-pop is in a kind of retro-halls style - "She Wears Red Feathers" et al. This is where wichita_lineman knows his onions: I may alert him to this thread actually.

[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).

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?

[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".

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Filthy barracks song, according to Wiki.

"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

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

ANY OLD IRON

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i know young gods are swiss but i saw them at the GEORGE ROBEY so it is an continuum (OI!)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hah more work needs to be done on the "music hall continuum"