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Sing Us One of the Old Songs

A Guide to Popular Song, 1860-1920

Michael Kilgarriff

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English
Oxford University Press
01 November 1998
Michael Kilgarriff's compilation of some 20,000 popular song titles, 1860-1920, provides for the first time in one volume answers to the questions which excite Music Hall and popular song enthusiasts more than anything in life: who wrote what and when, and who sang it?

The criteria for a song's inclusion are popularity, topicality, and significance in the career of its singer. Also included are titles still remembered and performed, for it is at today's Music Hall performers and producers that these checklists are primarily aimed. The non-active enthusiast and the casual enquirer will also find much of value herein, if only because the information offered is not readily available elsewhere. Many specialist libraries and collections are not open to the public. The importance of Sing Us One of the Old Songs is to bring much previously inaccessible material within general reach.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   198th
Dimensions:   Height: 243mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 51mm
Weight:   1.452kg
ISBN:   9780198166573
ISBN 10:   0198166575
Pages:   864
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface Acknowledgements Principal Popular Song Publishers Abbreviations Core Song-List Artistes' Repertoires Lyricists and Composers Date-List Show Songs Sources & Bibliography Index of Song and Sketch Titles

Michael Kilgarriff is an actor, musician, writer. He performs regularly as Music Hall Chairman of the Players' Theatre, London; he has worked for BBC television and radio in a variety of roles (both as actor and writer) and has also appeared in both pantomimes and more serious stage work.

Reviews for Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song, 1860-1920

of use for Music Hall performers and producers who want to know who wrote what and when and who sang it./Plays and Players Applause Dec 98/Jan99 `With Sing Us One of the Old Songs, the Oxford University Press have made a useful addition to their range of reference works on popular music... it is interesting to note the range and sheer number of songs in many artistes' repertoires... Considering the immensity of the task in producing this work, it is likely to remain the only one of its kind for a considerable length of time, and it provides a valuable tool for the researcher and historian.' Graeme Cruickshank, Theatre Notebook Vol.54 No.2 `A marvellous resource for those wishing to document popular songs in the repertoires of traditional singers... packed with a wealth of information. Many songs which one had taken to be purely traditional can be traced to their source... this is the sort of reference book which is hard to put down, since one pleasing discovery constantly leads to another... a bountiful treasure house which will be plundered far into the next millenium.' Roy Palmer, ED & S


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