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While his best-known song (though first performed by Fred Barnes) [5] was "On Mother Kelly's Doorstep", this was never recorded commercially, but private recordings were made and subsequently released on commercial compilations, [6] including one recorded as late as January 1969, shortly before his death.
In 1968 his version of "On Mother Kelly's Doorstep" reached number 33 in the UK singles chart; La Rue later adopted the song as his theme tune. [ 4 ] He had a starring role in the film Our Miss Fred in 1972, and also appeared in Every Day's a Holiday , The Frankie Howerd Show , Twiggs , Decidedly Dusty , Entertainment Express , Blackpool ...
George Alexander Stevens (1875–19 April 1954) was an English songwriter and musical show director. In more than 60 years of songwriting he had more than 2000 songs published under the names "G. Alex Stevens", 'Geo A Stevens' and "George A. Stevens".
Barbara Windsor - "On Mother Kelly's Doorstep" Sid James - "Put On a Happy Face" Stanley Unwin - "Classicold Musee" Bernard Cribbins - "The Hole in the Ground" (UK #9 in 1962) Kenneth Williams (as Rambling Syd Rumpo) - "Green Grow My Nadgers Oh!" Wilfrid Brambell - "Secondhand" Kenneth Williams - "Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage" Jim Dale ...
Frederick Jester Barnes (31 May 1885 – 23 October 1938) was an English music hall singer known for his signature song, "The Black Sheep of the Family", which he first performed in 1907. Although popular on stage, Barnes became infamous for his erratic private life and was often named in frequent controversies reported by the press.
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The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...