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Music Hall Song Book: A Collection of 45 of the Best Songs from 1890-1920.
Music Hall Song Book A Collection of 45 of the Best Songs from 18901920 Author:Peter Gammond (Editor) The old music hall songs are now enormously popular again. Here are 45 of the very best from music hall's Golden Age, complete with words and music - and pictures of some of the famous personalities and the delightful original music covers. By a unique arrangement with the original publishers, David & Charles and Peter Gammond have been ... more »able to compile an unrivalled anthology of material.
Ask a P'liceman, The Old Bull and Bush, I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside, When Father Papered the Parlour, Roamin' in the Gloamin' ... these songs have passed down the generations and are loved by young people as well as old. From this attractive book they can be sung and played, read and browsed over.
Peter Gammond's introduction sets them in their context, giving a new slant on popular music-making with his background information on the composers and publishers of lat Victorian and Edwardian days.« less