| Ref No | MWT/MUS/1/0688 |
| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Title | Whether you like it or not |
| Name of creator | Lilburn, Charles, performer |
| Date | ©1897 USA |
| Extent | 1 sheet music |
| Description | Sheet music for piano and voice titled, “I haven't been so happy for a long, long time!” appearing as one folio sheet (4 pages total – inner folio absent). The performer is depicted on the cover, dressed in scruffy clothes with two fingers of each hand in waistcoat pockets. Inset images show a man receiving a haircut from a barber while a policeman looks on and workmen removing furniture from a house under the direction of a fat man wearing a top-hat and pointing with a cain. Lyrics to two choruses are depicted, EG. Whether you like it or not – whether you like it or not, they’re grabbing your carpets, pictures and chairs, pitching ‘em into a van downstairs, And the landlord lingers round the spot, whether you, whether you, whether you, whether you, whether you like it or not.’ |
| Notes | Back cover presents a list of "Howard & Co.'s Newest and Most Popular Comic Songs, post free, half-price. |
| Outer folio is torn along full length of the spine. |
| Subject | Musical Theatre |
| Musical Theatre |
| Music Hall |
| Social commentary |
| Songs |
| PhysicalDescription | 250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper |
| Related Person | Castling, Harry, d. 1933, composer and lyricist |
| Lilburn, Charles, performer |
| Related Organisation | Howard & Co. London, publisher |
| W. B. Gray & Co., New York, publisher |
| Related Place | London |
| Category | Sheet music |
| Access conditions | This material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk). |
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| Level | Item |