| Reviews |
| - 'the general soundness and sobriety of his scholarship seem beyond dispute. He cites an impressive array of sources, and, even more importantly, he draws on a lifetime's experience.../ For the specialists and Old Time activists whom he sees as his primary audience, his book will be invaluable./ John Gross, TLS, 05/02/99.' -
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| Description | | - Covers over 20,000 popular songs between 1860 and 1920
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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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Readership: Amateur dramatic societies, collectors of music hall song sheets, libraries, drama schools, university drama departments, and theatre enthusiasts generally..
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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
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| Authors, editors,
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Compiled by Michael Kilgarriff
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limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations,
and month of publication, was as accurate as
possible at the time the catalogue was compiled.
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