Song Collection (page 20)

Street music: A street singer, 1857
A passing child shows charity to an old street singer, placing money in his hat in appreciation for his music. Date: 1857

Street music: a ballad singer
The ballad singer. " He is your only performer that requires not many entreaties for a song; for he will chant, without asking, to a street cur or a parish post."

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

Montenegrin soldiers singing warsongs
Montenegrin soldiers singing war songs outdoors, by the light of the moon

Street music: Paris balladeer
Two fashionably dressed young women laugh at a ballad singer as he sings in a Paris street. Perhaps he is singing a comic song. Date: 1912

Drawing of Erato, Muse of Song and Poetry
A drawing of Erato, the Muse of Lyric Song and Poetry in Greek mythology, from a statue in the British Museum. By Ellen Philadelphia Smyth (1828-1881), an aunt of Robert Baden Powell. circa 1850s

Programme for Bon Ton at the Trocadero
Programme cover for Charles B. Cochrans Bon Ton, song and dance show, at the Torcadero Grill Room, London (August 1925- February 1926) 1925

First public outing of newly wed Princess Margaret
One of the first public outings for Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon (Anthony Armstrong Jones) following their marriage in May 1960

The Song of the Siren
Two beautiful sirens sing their entrancing songs from their seats on some perilous rocks - their magic and beauty luring sailors to a terrible end... Date: 1932

Pierre Dupont Photo
PIERRE DUPONT French popular singer whose famous song is I have two great cows in my cowshed, photographed in 1865. Date: CIRCA 1865

Rhapsody, by Brunelleschi
Lovely illustration showing an 18th century couple, the man in cloak and mask, listening to the birdsong of a small bird that has been released from its cage. 1927

Community singing
The man who sang the words of the wrong verse. Date: 1928

Stop your tickling, Jock
A courting couple in evening dress. A small copy of the Venus de Milo statue stands on a table at the side, and a potted palm behind them

BONE-YARD MELODIES
Four puppies dressed as humans, singing Bone-yard Melodies together. Date: early 1930s

Fledgling Song Thrush
A fledgling Song Thrush. Date: 1960s

Singing Surfer
Singers are not softies : Our cameraman caught Gay just as he was flat-diving into the surf and called him a song- and-surf man. Gay is a true athlete, muscular and lean. 1940s

Illustration, The Little London Girl
Illustration, Childs Song, showing two little girls sitting in front of a garden gate. 1885

Illustration with music, A Song of a Doll

Androgynous Banquets
Scene depicting the Final Song and the Union of Brothers and Sisters chain. Date: 1890s

Songs for a highwayman
Three songs sung by highwaymen: Hurrah for the Road, I ll ask the Sylph who round thee flies and Waving Greenwood Tree. All upbeat and merry, revelling in their life of crime. Date: 1845

Do you ever hear the fairies? You can hear them if you will, singing little songs of dream, when all the house is still. 20th century

Music at home - singing, 1880s
Two ladies inspect something new-the sheet music to the latest song to sing together. Date: 1880s

Music at home, 1876
They struck up a part song of a wild, pathetic character, with a long drawn out refrain in a minor key." A group of senior people gather round the piano and sing a sad song. 1876

The village glee singers. Two men enjoy a good sing, whilst a third has a nap at the table. Date: 18th century

Singing round the piano, c. 1946
A group of women, possibly actresses or chorus girls, gather around a piano in what looks like a rehearsal room to sing their hearts out. c.1946

Music at home - Childrens Christmas Carol
A woman seated on a couch plays the guitar whilst two little girls sing Christmas carols from a music book. Some holly and mistletoe in a vase complete the festive scene. 1885

Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song by Billy Gould
Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song with words and music by Billy Gould. Sheet music cover, with a photograph of President Woodrow Wilson at the centre, a soldier on the left and a sailor on the right

Music at home - family round the piano, 1866
A mother and five children sing together round the piano, 1866. 1866

American Scouts around a camp fire
A group of eight American Boy Scouts sit around a camp fire next to their tent at night. They stare intently at one of their group as he raises his arms speaking or singing. circa 1950s

Standing at the Workhouse Gate - song cover
The front cover to the sheet music for Standing at the Workhouse Gate - a sentimental about a destitute mother and her children on the brink of entering the workhouse

Mondays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Wednesdays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Thursdays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Saturdays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Tommy Tucker song
The music and words (correct version) to the song of Little Tom (Tommy) Tucker, who had to sing for his supper. Date: 1931

The fairies will have gathered in the forest very soon (Fairy Song). 1920s

D Carleton-Smythe. Sing a song of sixpence
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie... 20th century

Anon 2. Sing a song of sixpence

SUMER IS ICUMEN IN
Song for four tenor voices, probably written by John of Fornsete, of Reading Abbey, England : the complexity of the writing is remarkable, puzzling music historians. Date: 13th century

Open air theatre, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
A night-time production of The Desert Song at the open air theatre in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The full cast of the Scarborough Amateur Operatic Society appears to be on stage

Daddy Wouldnt Buy Me
" DADDY WOULDN T BUY ME A BOW-WOW" (" A pretty song for pretty children" ) sung by Miss Vesta Victoria. Date: 1892

Edward Terry / Continong
EDWARD TERRY with Nellie Farren and Kate Vaughan, performing a popular song. Date: 1844 - 1912

Heinrich Frauenlob, German poet
Heinrich Frauenlob (sometimes known as Henry of Meissen), Middle High German poet, seen here entertaining a group of people in a courtly setting. Date: between 1250/1260 - 1318

Britannia and Eve Christmas cover 1936
Front cover illustration featuring two female choristers, singing Christmas carols without even having to look at the words

The Soldiers Toast
A smiling soldier in armour, sitting at a table, entitled The Soldiers Toast, with a quotation from Shakespeares Othello, And let the cannikin clink, clink

Music cover for See Me Dance the Polka, based on George Grossmiths popular song, arranged by Edward Solomon (1855-1895). George Grossmith (1847-1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor

Music cover for I Want To Be A Bloomer! Sung by Miss Rebecca Isaacs, words by Henry Abrahams, music by W H Montgomery. A young lady is depicted

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