Popular dramatic baritone specialising in songs of war
Born: Melbourne Australia 1868
Died: Penniless in Los Angeles 26th June 1910
Wife: Beanie Gallety Serio Comic
Son: Colin
London Debut: The Metropolitan Edgware Road 5th August 1901 also The Empire Leicester Square.
Best-known songs:
Good Bye Dolly Gray
Bluebell
Pansy Faces
The song you can hear in the demo is “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” written by Arthur J. Lamb (music) and Harry Von Tilzer in 1890 USA. Von Tilzer said of the song “It was the key that opened the door of wealth and fame for me”
Marie Lloyd“The Queen of Comedy”
Marie Lloyd is probably the best known Music Hall artiste in the world
Born: Matilda Alice Victoria Wood at Hoxton, London 12th February 1870
Died: Golders Green, London 7th October 1922
Married: Three times:
Percy Courtney 1887: divorced 1905
Alex Hurley: cockney comedian 1906 to 1913 (he died)
Bernard Dillon: jockey 1914
Daughter: Marie Lloyd Jnr
Debut as Bella Delmare as The Eagle Tavern 9th May 1885.
As Marie Lloyd 22nd June 1895 at The Falstaff, and Seabright Music Halls. Last performance The Edmonton Empire 4th October 1922
Top Songs:
The Boy in the Gallery (her first hit)
A Little of What you Fancy
When I Take My Morning Promenade
(over 200 songs in her repertoire)
Toured U.S.A., Australia and South Africa
The song you hear now is
“
The Coster Girl in Paris
”
by Fred Lea and Orlando Powell 1907. Powell was, for a time, her accompanist.
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