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Here's an upgrade on my earlier videos of this very rare and definitive record. Videoed this time on my Numark modern record deck using a. Samsung 10 inch tablet on a static tripod.
Grays Elegy Poem by Thomas Gray Recitation by Ion Swinley Pt 2 of 2 Very rare 78 rpm shellac record
Here's an upgrade on my earlier videos of this very rare and definitive record. Videoed this time on my Numark modern record deck using a. Samsung 10 inch tablet on a static tripod.
Grays Elegy Poem by Thomas Gray Recitation by Ion Swinley Pt 2 of 2 Very rare 78 rpm shellac record
![Laughters Song Sung By Alice Moxon - Organ Grinders Song No 2 Sung By Stuart Robertson Rare 78 Rpm
Heres Laughters Song Sung By Alice Moxon - Organ Grinders Song No 2 Sung By Stuart Robertson Rare 78 Rpm
Baritone Stuart Robertson was born on March 5, 1901 in London, England. He was also an actor, known for Bitter Sweet (1933), As You Like It (1936) and Queen of Destiny (1938). He was married to Alice Moxon. He died on December 26, 1958 in Elstree, England. He was the brother of actress Anna Neagle.
Alice Moxon was a renowned soprano, particularly associated with the works of. Gilbert and Sullivan, in the 1920s and 30s. She was born Alice S Moxon, the daughter of. William Henry Moxon and his wife Alice.she was married to the Baritone Stuart Robertson.
The Starlight Express is a childrens play by Violet Pearn,[1] based on the imaginative novel A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood, with songs and incidental music written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1915.
The Starlight Express was produced by Lena Ashwell at the Kingsway Theatre in London, as one of her high-quality wartime entertainments. The production was announced in The Times, mentioning that the small orchestra pit of the theatre would be enlarged to accommodate a full orchestra.[5] It opened on 29 December 1915. The premiere was to have been the conducted by the composer, but because Lady Elgar had suffered concussion a few days before as the result of a traffic accident, he stayed at home with her, and the conductor was the young Julius Harrison.[6] It ran for only one month, closing on 29 January 1916 Laughters Song Sung By Alice Moxon - Organ Grinders Song No 2 Sung By Stuart Robertson Rare 78 Rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Je3YtgBr2sk/mqdefault.jpg)
![Show Me The Way To Go Home Sung By Arthur Raymond 78 rpm
Heres Show Me The Way To Go Home Sung By Arthur Raymond from a 78 rpm shellac record released in 1925.
Show Me the Way to Go Home is a popular song written in 1925 by the English songwriting team Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, using the pseudonym Irving King. The song is said to have been written on a train journey from London by Campbell and Connelly. They were tired from the traveling and had a few alcoholic drinks during the journey, hence the lyrics. The song is in common use in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and North America.
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Publication Edit
The music and lyrics were written in 1925 by Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly. They self-published the sheet music and it became their first big success, selling 2 million copies and providing the financial basis of their publishing firm, Campbell, Connelly & Co.[1] Campbell and Connelly published the sheet music and recorded the song under the pseudonym Irving King.[2]
The song was recorded by several artists in the 1920s. The first recordings, in 1925, were by Hal Swains New Princes Toronto Band – a group of Canadian musicians working in London – and by American-born male impersonator Ella Shields, in both cases for the Columbia label in London.[3] Other recordings were made by radio personalities The Happiness Boys,[2] Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra,[2] and the California Ramblers.[4] Throughout the twentieth into the twenty-first century it has been recorded by numerous artists.
Lyrics Edit
Show me the way to go home,
Im tired and I want to go to bed,
Cos I had a little drink about an hour ago,
And its gone right to me head,
No matter where I roam,
On land or sea or foam,
You will always hear me singing this song,
Show me the way to go home. Show Me The Way To Go Home Sung By Arthur Raymond 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JeSmzgAiNLg/mqdefault.jpg)


![Cornwall - The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.
Heres Cornwall - The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.
The British Drama League was established in 1919 to promote amateur and professional theatre in England, with a head office based at Fitzroy Square, London. It was founded by Geoffrey Whitworth. Its work included pursuing the creation of the National Theatre, offering library and research services, founded the journal Drama in 1919, and encouraging the introduction of drama into the national curriculum.[1] Its name was changed to the British Theatre Association in 1972.[2] The Association was disbanded in 1990, due to financial pressures. Play scripts held in its archive are now in the possession of the Theatre Museum, London Cornwall - The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JwLo7TCaIgc/mqdefault.jpg)
![This England - A Coronation Toast 1 of 2 Traditional English Medley Debroy Somers Band 78 rpm
HeresThis England - A Coronation Toast 1 of 2 Traditional English Medley Debroy Somers Band from a 78 rpm shellac record
Debroy Somers (born William Henry Somers, 11 April 1890[1] in Dublin[2] – 16 May 1952 in London)[3] was a British twentieth-century big band bandleader.[4]
He had trained as a musician at the Duke of Yorks Royal Military School in Chelsea,[5] and continued his studies in Dublin under Signor Michele Esposito at The Royal Irish Academy of Music in 1904.[6] At the age of 15 he joined the 2nd Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment as a boy bandsman before retiring in 1913.[7] He rejoined his old regiment in 1916 retiring as a sergeant musician in 1918; being demobilised in Wiltshire.[8]
His period of celebrity stretched from the 1920s to the 1940s.[6] He appeared in numerous films, including Second Choice, Stars on Parade and Aunt Sally,[9] and founded the Savoy Orpheans. On 15 June 1925, Somers conducted the first British performance of George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue from the Savoy Hotel with the Orpheans, alongside the Savoy Havana Band and Gershwin himself on piano. The performance was broadcast live by the BBC.[10]
His ensemble, the Debroy Somers Band, was also known as the Midnight Minstrels.[11] In 1930, they covered Amy, Wonderful Amy, a song about Amy Johnson.[12] Before the war Somers was a regular broadcaster on Radio Luxembourg, acting as musical director for several regular shows, including the childrens show Ovaltineys and Shipmates Ashore for the Merchant Navy.[13] In 1943 he returned to Londons West End to direct the hit show The Lisbon Story at the Hippodrome.[14] He was also director for Tom Arnold and Robert Nesbitts production of Latin Quarter at the London Casino in 1949.[15] His last production was as musical director for George Formbys Zip Goes a Million at the Palace Theatre in 1951, but he collapsed and died during the run of the show in May 1952, aged 62.[14]
Somers married a widow Doddy Payne (nee Watts) on 9 September 1912 in Fulham, London;[16] she already had three children from her previous marriage.[8] The family home remained in Twickenham, Surrey for many years.[1] This England - A Coronation Toast 1 of 2 Traditional English Medley Debroy Somers Band 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jxh2qRrOyZA/mqdefault.jpg)




![The Red Flag Sung by Mr Rufus John AKA John Goss Baritone Socialist Song 1926 Rare 78 rpm
Heres The Red Flag Sung .by Mr Rufus John AKA John Goss Baritone singing this Socialist Song recorded in 1926 from this rare 78 rpm shellac record.
Lansburys Labour Weekly
In 1912, George Lansbury, Labour MP and later Party leader, was one of the leading lights in the formation of the Daily Herald. After the paper was taken over by the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress,
The Recordings
Due to declining sales in 1926, Lansburys Labour Weekly decided to market a series of commercial left-wing gramophone records banned by record companies and in December released recording no.6 The March of the Workers and A Talk by George Lansbury, in a series of Labour gramophone records. These records were labelled at the newspapers offices due to the desire to remain anonymous of the record companies who originally produced them. This makeshift production often led to mistakes and many readers often found they had received The Red Flag rather than A Talk by George Lansbury.
In 1927, the paper carried advertisments from Independent Labour Party bookshops for these Labour records. They were 10 inch double sided and priced 3s each (postage 6d), although the whole set could be purchased in a fine red case for £3.1s. Record No.1 was The Red Flag and The International and record number 6 included the original speech by Lansbury. Other records in the series included talks by Ramsey MacDonald, James Maxton and A.J.Cook, along with socialist songs sung by Rufus John and others.
George Lansbury, a Labour M.P. in the early 20th century, founded the magazine of this name in 1925. It survived independently until 1928 when it was merged with the Labour Partys own official newspaper. During this time, he arranged to have six different records produced. Due to the controversial political nature of the records, they had to be produced anonymously with plain white labels, then Lansburys people pasted on the label as seen here. The records were recorded by British Homophone (acoustically) and pressed by Pathe UK.
Jim Connell (27 March 1852 – February 1929) was an Irish political activist of the late 19th century and early 20th century, best known as the writer of the anthem The Red Flag in December 1889.
John Goss (1894-1953) was an Englishman by birth, but for most of his later years, he made Vancouver his home. In the 1920s and ’30s, Goss toured in the U.K., the U.S. and Canada as a recital singer, gradually building a reputation as a world-class baritone.
Goss was also political. As early as 1941, he spoke out at the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations, urging amateur musicians to “organize to avoid this ‘sweated labor’ by various well-meaning organizations which offer artists nothing more than a cup of tea in return for their services” (11 July 1941 Lethbridge Herald).
Starting in 1944, he co-founded and later became president of a new organization called the Labor Arts Guild. The Guild was intended to promote interest in the arts among labour and interest in labour’s struggle among artists. A number of the members of the first executive of the Guild were members of the Labour-Progressive Party.
In 1949, Goss was evicted from the U.S. while in New York at a peace conference. The FBI made noises about Goss being a Communist sympathizer. He returned to Vancouver where he was under the impression that he had a job with the BCIMD faculty. Wrong. The BCIMD, together with many others in the city were not interested in a ‘Communist’ joining the staff of the Theatre Under the Stars group. There was no written contract between the board and Goss, and the Board made it clear that he could forget about working with BCIMD.
Goss left Vancouver for England the following year, with his reputation in tatters. He died there in 1953. Keir Hardies newspaper The Labour Leader, and was secretary of the Workingmens Legal Aid Society during the last 20 years of his life
Although Lenin dismissed the Independent Labour Party as bourgeois, he later awarded Connell the Red Star Medal in 1922.[3]
John Goss (1894-1953) was an Englishman by birth, but for most of his later years, he made Vancouver his home. In the 1920s and ’30s, Goss toured in the U.K., the U.S. and Canada as a recital singer, gradually building a reputation as a world-class baritone. The Red Flag Sung by Mr Rufus John AKA John Goss Baritone Socialist Song 1926 Rare 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LG_k7NANRO0/mqdefault.jpg)