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  • ...y Champion|Harry Champion]] sang it as part of his act, and recorded it in 1911. [[Category:1911 songs]]
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  • | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1911|12|27}} | death_date ={{Death date and age|df=yes|2006|10|18|1911|12|27}}
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  • ...of one of his 1957 albums containing recordings of his old "concert party" songs commented, "what a fine voice he has and how well he can use it – diction |''Gobbledegook Songs'' (1957)
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  • | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|05|28|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|03|15|1911|05|28|df=yes}}
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  • Frankau worked as a chorus boy at [[Daly's Theatre]] in London in 1911 and joined the army in 1914 to fight in the Great War.<ref>{{Cite web|url=h ...|via=rateyourmusic.com}}</ref> Despite, or because of, this flavour in his songs, Frankau sold over 100,000 records in 1932. In 1934, Frankau began a comedy
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  • ...]]'' (1907), ''[[Our Miss Gibbs]]'' (1909), ''[[Peggy (musical)|Peggy]]'' (1911), ''[[The Sunshine Girl]]'' (1912) and ''[[The Girl on the Film]]'' (1913). Grossmith was known for "speaking" songs and for his easy comic grace on stage.<ref name=obit>Obituary in ''The Time
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  • <!-- Cicely-courtneidge-mousmé-1911.jpg Courtneidge in ''The Mousmé'', 1911--> ...[Florence Smithson]].<ref>''The Mousmé'', ''[[The Play Pictorial]]'', July 1911, p. 40</ref>
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  • ...and Wales'', Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.</ref> He was educated at the [[Emanuel School]] (Wandsworth), and at Clift ...''Funny Face'', 1928.<ref name="Suskin">Suskin, Steven. ''Show Tunes: the songs, shows and careers of Broadway's major composers'', Oxford University Press
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  • ...y 1896 his assignment book records that he was buying and collecting comic songs and securing the singing rights. He was billed as J.H. Booth until 1897, wh ...s normal stage patter.{{sfn|Smart|Bothway Howard|2011|p=31}} Some of those songs, such as "Playing the Game out West" and "Since I Parted my Hair in the Mid
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  • | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|07|10|df=y}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|01|08|1911|07|10|df=y}}
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