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  • "'''The Ballad of Eskimo Nell'''" ([[Roud Folk Song Index|Roud]] 10124) is a bawdy rhymed poem or song that recounts the t ...ngsofsourdough0000serv/page/57 }}</ref> As with all traditional poems and songs, there is variation between the texts. It was geographically widespread by
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  • ...-Brown'''; 27 December 1911{{spaced ndash}}18 October 2006) was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played co ...o Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire in 1942, though it was the Canadian conductor Sir [[Ernest MacMillan]] who really set her on her international
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  • ...composing and arranging largely to the influence and encouragement of the Canadian [[w:light music|light music]] composer [[w:Robert Farnon|Robert Farnon]]. M ...name=":4" /> best known for pieces such as the jaunty "Rotten Row" and "A Canadian in Mayfair", the latter dedicated to [[w:Robert Farnon|Robert Farnon]].<ref
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  • ...rs]] - ''[[The Best Of Sellers]]'' (1958). The album and its follow-up ''[[Songs for Swingin' Sellers]]'' (1959) were critical and commercial successes in t ...mplained about [[Pete Best]]'s drumming, and Martin thought their original songs were simply not good enough.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=90}} Martin asked the indivi
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  • ...ition, he wrote the lyric to saxophonist/composer Duncan Lamont's "English Folk Song," heard on jazz singer [[Tina May]]'s 2021 album, ''52nd Street (and O ..., a daughter Romany, is suspected to have been born at the same time, to a Canadian journalist named Roberta Watt. His last wife was Shelagh Sinclair, to whom
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  • ...dio comedy series ''[[The Goon Show]]'', featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among ...io album in 1958 called ''[[The Best of Sellers]]''; a collection of comic songs and sketches, among them [[Balham - Gateway to the South]], where Sellers p
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