Song Collection (page 18)

The Bailiffs Daughter of Islington. A traditional song. Date: 1902

Boys in khaki, boys in blue, WW1
Boys in khaki, boys in blue : words and music with military and naval scenes - flags of all the Allies with portraits of the Tsar, King Albert I

Patriotism at the Halls, WW1
Sketches by Tony Sarg showing performers at various London shows singing patriotic songs shortly after the outbreak of the First World War

Lass of Richmond Hill, scene from a traditional song. Date: 1902

Its a long, long way to Tipperary, song of the British
British soldiers singing the popular song, Its a long way to Tipperary, as they march through a French village to the front in World War One, 1914. 1914

Composers and publishers of Tipperary, WW1
The makers of " Its a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" - Harry Williams, part-composer and author; Mr Bert Feldman, the publisher and Jack Judge

Paul A. Rubens, composer
Paul Alfred Rubens (1875 - 1917), English composer who wrote some of the most popular musicals of the Edwardian era. During the First World War, he wrote the patriotic song

Sportsmens Battalion having a sing-song, WW1
Some members of the Sportsmen Battalion having a sing around a piano. Most of the soldiers pictured are county cricketers but there is also C R Little, the Canadian baseball player

Phyllis Dare and Evie Greene singing recruiting songs, WW1
A page from The Tatler featuring the actresses and music hall entertainers, Phyllis Dare and Evie Greene (inset) who were singing the recruiting song, Your King and Country Want You

A Sing-Song within the Firing Line
Sketches drawn by a sergeant with the B.E.F. of an evenings entertainment at the Front, showing various talents on display from an opera singer giving a recital

Scenes from a play, Tommy Atkins, at the Lyceum Theatre
Scenes from a play entitled Tommy Atkins, at the Lyceum Theatre, London. It was no doubt put into production to help encourage recruitment in the early days of the First World War

US Radio Star Tom Breneman as The Mad Hatter
Tom Breneman as The Mad Hatter. Radio Star Tom Breneman (1901-1948) was the popular presenter of the show Breakfast in Hollywood

Oranges and Lemons
How many miles to Barneybright? Three score there are, and more. Shall we get there by candlelight? Oh! yes, and long before

Yes, we have no bananas! by George Studdy
Yes, we have no bananas! Bonzo sits on a street corner with an empty basket in his mouth, while a man runs away with a bunch of bananas

Sheet music cover, Your King & Country Want You, a Womans Recruiting Song, dedicated by special permission to Her Majesty the Queen

Sheet music cover, Money is the Root of All Evil (Take It Away, Take It Away, Take It Away), with words and music by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer, as performed in the revue High Time

Sheet music cover, Don t Ever Walk in the Shadows, with words and music by Art Noel and Clem Bernard. Showing a young couple walking along arm in arm. Date: 1942

Sheet music cover, I ve Heard That Song Before, with words and music by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. From the film Youth on Parade, starring John Hubbard, Ruth Terry, Martha O Driscoll, Tom Brown

Nursery Rhymes -- Men of Gotham, bakers shop
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- Three Wise Men of Gotham went to sea in a bowl, and if the bowl had been stronger, my song would have been longer

Nursery Rhymes -- Robin Redbreast
Nursery Rhymes -- The Wedding of Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren. Three guests (above), and Robin with his best man, the Bullfinch (below). Date: early 20th century

Pastime With Good Company
This picture shows a Christmas scene at Henry VIIIs table as the boars head is carried in and The Kings Ballad (Pastime With Good Company) is sung. The song was composed by Henry VIII himself

Sheet music cover, Love Like a Star Dear Shall Shine on our Way. A comic duet sung nightly by Miss Lottie Venne (1852-1928) and M Marius, in Alfred Lees burlesque, The Lying Dutchman

Sheet music cover, Just a Little Fond Affection, with words and music by Elton Box, Sonny Cox and Lewis Ilda. Showing a couple close together inside a heart framework

Sheet music cover, Let By-Gones Be By-Gones, with words and music by Joseph George Gilbert. With a portrait of Issy Bonn (Benjamin Levin, 1903-1977), British-Jewish actor, singer and comedian

Piano practicing song
A mother supervises her daughter as she practices the piano. A Practicing song by Laura E. Richards accompanies the picture. Date: 1892

Henry Russell
HENRY RUSSELL - song-writer who studied with Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, wrote The old armchair and Woodman, spare that tree ! Date: 1812 - 1900

Home Sweet home - 2
The interior of the home of writer John Howard Payne, whose song Home, sweet home featured in an operetta. Date: 1823

Home Sweet home - 1
The exterior of the home of writer John Howard Payne, whose song Home, sweet home featured in an operetta. Date: 1823

Charles Morris
CHARLES MORRIS Soldier and song writer. Date: 1745 - 1838

Christmas Carol O Listen to our Simple Song
Christmas Carol - O Listen to our Simple Song. McCloy, Samuel 1831 - 1904

WW2 - Popular songs of the Allies - Patriotic card
WW2 - Popular songs of the Allies - British, American and French. All came to the fore as patriotic military songs during WW1 and were revived during the Second World War. Date: circa 1943

Its a long way to Tipperary - A Mouse heads up a ladys leg, who is standing on a chair in obvious terror! Date: circa 1915

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Oh What a Beautiful Morning
Oh What a Beautiful Morning! A young girl joins a songbird in a refrain, maintaining an entirely positive mood in a time of war Date: circa 1942

Personification of Hope - Turns a Moan into a song
Hope makes the careworn heart grow strong - And turns a moan into a song. Date: circa 1910s

Swedish Folksong and inset portrait of King Gustav VI Adolf (1882-1973) - reigned 1950-1973 (became Crown Prince in 1907). Date: circa 1897

Library of Congress Mural - Miltons Comus
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Miltons Comus. Listening to the ladys song. Date: 1920

Early 20th century actor in the role of a Cavalier
" Heres a Health unto his Majesty." Early 20th century actor in the role of a Cavalier. " Heres a Health unto His Majesty" is an English patriotic song (or glee)

A duet - two singers in full flow at a concert. Date: 1895

Ragged Street singers - looking decidedly worse for wear
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a pair of ragged street singers singing about fair and stormy weather - the perfect illustrative template for their undoubtedly

Cockney Coster Woman - caricature by Phil May
" Shes just about the neatest, sweetest and prettiest Donah in the whole wide world" - lyrics to a Coster song by Albert Chevalier - caricature by Phil May Date: 1892

Popular song Goodbye Dolly
A woman in despair over her drowning soldier husband who whilst rowing broke an oar and fell into the water. Realising his fate he bids fond farewell to his wife, Dolly

Three young black boys singing
Blackville Seranade - one of a series of postcards depicting black American country music - here, three young American black boys sing accompanied by a homemade banjo sat around a stile

Frederic Mistral (18301914) - French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Felibrige

Turdus philomelos, song thrush egg
The egg of a song thrush (Turdus philomelos)

Melospiza melodia, song sparrow
Plate 25 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Singing carols in the snow Date: c. 1920

Silhouette of birds singing on branch Date: c. 1930

The King admires his blackbird pie
Sing a song of six pence, a pocket full of rye, four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie c. 1910

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