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  • | genre = [[w:Music hall|Music hall]] ...; 11 November 1873 – 17 November 1952) was an English [[w:music hall|music hall]] and theatre performer, and later radio comedian, who is best known for hi
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  • | occupation = {{hlist||Entertainer|music hall performer|comedian|actor}} ...ll|music hall]] comedians they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and this led to a successful recording career and roles in fil
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  • ...enderson''' (20 March 1891 &ndash; 15 October 1958) was an English [[music hall]] comedian, singer and [[character actor]]. ...013|title= The Hendersons: their success and heartache|url= |journal=Music Hall Studies |volume= |issue=12 |pages=495–506 |doi= |access-date=}}</ref>
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  • | genre = [[Comedy music]] ...k|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin
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  • "'''Any Old Iron'''" is a [[w:United Kingdom|British]] [[w:music hall|music hall]] [[w:song|song]] written by [[w:Charles Collins (songwriter)|Charles Colli [[Category:1911 songs]]
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  • (opening music) * Song: [[ISIRTA songs|"The Ferret Song"]]
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  • ...k|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin ..."The Hebrew Vocal Raconteur".<ref name=archive/> He combined sentimental songs such as "My Yiddish Momme" and "Let Bygones Be Bygones", with [[Jewish humo
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  • * [[w:Stuart Hall (television presenter)|Stuart Hall]] as himself (the presenter of ''It's a Knockout'') ...es (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie.
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  • ...ing to [[ragtime]] music. The following year they performed at [[Knowsley Hall]] near [[Liverpool]] in a private command performance for [[King George V]] ...His father and grandfather, both named Henry Newbold, both worked as music hall comedians, dancers, and as [[slackwire]] walkers, and both used the name He
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  • ...Derek B. Scott, ''Sounds of the metropolis: the nineteenth-century popular music revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna'', Publisher: Oxford Univ ...the University of Leeds, Prof Derek B Scott,<ref>"[http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/ds/ Prof Derek B Scott]", Professor of Critical Musicology, Leeds Uni
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  • Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie. * [[w:Stuart Hall (presenter)|Stuart Hall]]
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  • * Skit: Medley of Songs in Music Hall style * Song: [[ISIRTA songs|"Wonderful Noises"]]
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  • Written by [[The Goodies]], with songs and music by Bill Oddie. ..., called Miss Housewife of the Year, on Friday night at the [[Royal Albert Hall]]. Tim enters the contest, but Graeme forbids him to go to the pageant bec
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  • ...ick's Night. Once the conversation is over, Del heads off to the community hall to tell Rodney. ...at this time next year, they will be millionaires, only to walk out of the hall and then laughing at how poor the band are.
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  • | occupation = Music hall and vaudeville entertainer, comedian, television and film actor | known_for = [[Music hall]] comedy [[double act]]
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  • ...d for his [[w:Camp (style)|camp]] performances in the [[w:music hall|music hall]]s and in cabaret.<ref name="Callow"/> Byng made a large number of recordin ...rmany with his elder brother, who owned a lace factory there. Byng studied music and [[w:German language|German]], but following the trade of his brother he
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  • | occupation = Comedian, Theatre impresario of [[music hall]] ...Karno''', was an English [[theatre]] [[impresario]] of the British [[music hall]].<ref name=up/> As a comedian of [[slapstick]] he is credited with popular
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  • | music = [[Harry Robertson (musician)|Harry Robinson]] == Songs ==
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  • ...fter leaving school, he left home to pursue a career in [[music hall|music hall]]. He gained a job with a family troupe called the ''Musical Cliftons'', an ...of ''Old Mother Riley in Paris'' as part of his national theatre and music hall tour. Lucan died, aged 68, at the Tivoli Theatre, [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull
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  • ...John Bennett, and his performing partner, Robert Martell, formed a [[music hall]] [[slapstick]] comedy duo. Billy Bennett trained as an acrobat but was in ...d performed others written for him by [[T. W. Connor]]. He also performed songs, many written for him by [[Bert Lee]] and [[R. P. Weston]], such as "She Wa
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