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He originated and popularised many songs, sketches and monologues in his music hall acts and made both sound [2] and visual [3] recordings of some of his work shortly before he died. Although brief, Leno's recording period (1901–1903) produced around thirty recordings on one-sided shellac discs using the early acoustic recording process. [ 2 ]
Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.
He mainly recorded songs from musicals and revues, and he recited many monologues on various subjects. [1] Most prominent among his recordings (aside from his participation in recordings of My Fair Lady ) are those of three series of monologues that he made at intervals throughout his career.
Songs like "Old Folks at Home" (1851) [58] and "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" (James Bland, 1879]) [59] spread round the globe, taking with them the idiom and appurtenances of the minstrel song. Typically, a music hall song consists of a series of verses sung by the performer alone, and a repeated chorus which carries the principal melody, and in ...
"My Word, You Do Look Queer" is a comic monologue written by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston. It was first performed and recorded in 1922 by English entertainer Ernest Hastings , [ 1 ] and revived by Stanley Holloway who recorded it in 1938 and again in 1959.
The outfit helped Robey become instantly recognisable on the London music hall circuit. [2] He next made a start at building his repertoire and bought the rights to comic songs and monologues by several well-established music hall writers, including Sax Rohmer and Bennett Scott. For his routines, Robey developed a characteristic delivery ...
Dan Leno in the 1880s. George Wild Galvin (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904), better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during the late Victorian era.
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