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Russell James
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This is Russell's fun site. Russell is the author of some 20 books, fiction and non-fiction, serious and more quirky. You can follow me on Twitter at either @getRussellJames or at @ProsperoBooks or check my blog at russelljamesbooks.wordpress.com/
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Fall In and Follow Me
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sung by Harry Fay - to an additional accompaniment of First World War postcards!
Here Comes the Fellow with the Eye Glass
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A forgotten gem of the Edwardian Music Hall, as recorded by Frank Fox
Jolly Old Christmas
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A look at how Christmas used to be, back in the 1920s & 30s. Lots of Christmas cards - and my favourite Christmas record!
You Can't Get Many Pimples on a Pound of Pickled Pork
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A great - daft - song from the days of Music Hall and acoustic recording.
Yip-i-Addy! sung by George Grossmith
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A wonderfully infectious song from a century ago - with pictures to match.
Baa Lambs - sung by Ella Shields
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What did Ladies of the Night think of their prospective clients?
I Lift up my Finger and I say Tweet Tweet
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A great comedy number from Gracie Fields's less well-known sister.
She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage
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sung by the wonderful Florrie Forde - and accompanied by equally great pictures!
Here We Are Again
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Billy Williams singing in his inimitable way (though he recorded at least 4 different versions of this!). See some of his other records while you watch.
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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Frances Langford delivers a sweet 1939 version
Brought back such a memory of my Dad singing this and teaching me the words . Thank you 😊
Thank you for posting this. Crazy the songs you learn as a child, that stay with you all your life.
But did you ever dare to share it with today's generation?
@@russelljames5238 I'd love to, but they already know the word 'booooring!' and how to use it to great effect
I'm sing this to my canary and he sings back.
somewhere around here I have this sung by Miss Patricola~
It's a real irony that so many war songs are so happy .... I guess they had to be.
Well, soldiers going into the war, at least on the British/American side were extremely excited thinking the war would be their “right of passage” and an “adventure” so most songs are upbeat and happy tunes
@@CommonwealthCreations2287The German side too, if you read "All Quiet On The Western Front."
I sang this in an old time musical hall about 40 years ago - I seem to remember a faster tempo for the verse but the chorus is identical. Great curtain raiser of a song !
What a beautiful voice, also a great orchestra and recording tone considering the age. Thank-you !
Brilliant, it's a shame that there are no recordings I have found of him singing G&S
+James Baker There surely must be. I think I'll start picking through my collection.
This is actually his son singing. G&S's Grossmith died in 1912. As you can see, it says "Jun." on the vinyl.
You're right. I was misled by the record having been made before 1912 - but as you say: "Junior". Still a damned fine rendering.
This song is included on a CD "Music from the Titanic" (completely unrelated to the 1998 film) on which is performed (by a theater vocal group and band) some of the actual playlist of the Titanic's band on the fateful voyage. However, that CD's version of "Fall In and Follow Me" is instrumental, featuring only trumpet and piano.
lindsey lefrois Though I like the brisk, open-air feel of this version. (Recorded on an acoustic horn, of course.)
Russell James It's very good, and nice to hear the lyrics, though probably any decent treatment of this song would be a treat for the ears. (I'm currently doing a lot of reading on that period.)
3 minutes of your time - and you too can be a soldier!
Discover this lost classic of the Music Hall - and enjoy the cartoons and pictures!
If you'd like to see Betty in action, try this lovely piece of film: Betty Fields (1930)
Congratulations. As I say, yours is a well-researched and useful site. (I'd had Betty's record for decades without being certain who she was; initially I'd wondered whether the record had been made by Gracie using a pseudonym - not an unknown practice at the time.)
Yes, of course we knew, because it's from our website you have pinched Betty's pictures from. A credit would have been nice www.graciefields.org
I assume you mean this one: graciefields.org/wordpress/betty-fields-stansfield/ Happy to acknowledge that 3 of the pics did indeed come from there. (That's a useful site, if it is yours.)
Russell James Yes, we're a team of two building the website and have spent years researching Gracie and her family. These photos came from descendants of Gracie's relatives and as such are very personal and rare.