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First sheet of Oley Speaks's setting of "On the Road to Mandalay", 1907. Kipling's text was adapted by Oley Speaks [20] for what became his best-known song "On the Road to Mandalay", which was popularized by Peter Dawson. [21] Speaks sets the poem to music in 4 4 time, marked Alla Marcia; the key is B ♭, with the refrain in major and the ...
Oley Speaks set to music a portion of Kipling's poem Mandalay, 1890, [2] from Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, published in 1892 and 1896. The song comprises three verses of Kipling's poem: the first, second and sixth. The text of the song is a first-person description by a British soldier in 19th-century Burma, who has returned to Britain.
The Road to Mandalay can refer to: "Mandalay" (poem), of 1890 by Rudyard Kipling, whose chorus begins "On the road to Mandalay" "On the Road to Mandalay" (song), a 1907 musical setting by Oley Speaks of the Kipling poem; The Road to Mandalay, a 1917 novel by Bithia Mary Croker; The Road to Mandalay, a 1926 film directed by Tod Browning
Oley Speaks (June 28, 1874 – August 7, 1948) was an American composer and songwriter. [1] His compositions include many religious songs, as well as his best-known success, "On the Road to Mandalay", which takes its lyrics from the poem "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling.
She was in the news in the U.K. and America in 1958 when she protected her father’s integrity as his executor by prohibiting a recording by Frank Sinatra of the song “On the Road to Mandalay”, based on her father’s poem “Mandalay”, from being issued in the United Kingdom. She disapproved of the many liberties Sinatra took with the text.
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