| Ref No | MWT/MUS/1/0338 |
| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Title | Whoa! The Gee Gees. |
| Name of creator | Deane, Charles, performer |
| Date | 1898 |
| Extent | 1 sheet music |
| Description | Sheet music for piano and voice, titled "Whoa! The Gee Gees.", appearing as one bifold folio sheet and two sheets (8 pages total). The front cover depicts Charles Deane in a blue suit and a white hat, smoking a cigarette and holding binoculars, and wearing a binocular bag around his shoulder. He is stood in front of a horse-racing fence, and behind that is a score/results board. There is an illustration in the top left within an illustration of a horse shoe, of four jockeys riding horses in a race. Below this is a tin of "Knacker's World Famed Potted Beef." To the bottom right is an illustration of an old horse pulling a carriage, subtitled "And this piece of animated cat's-meat used to carry my hard earned bobs!" |
| Notes | There is some discolouration around the edges of the pages |
| The back page includes a list of Francis, Day & Hunter's Newest Comic Songs, priced at two shillings each |
| Subject | Musical Theatre |
| Music Hall |
| Comedy |
| Songs |
| PhysicalDescription | 360 x 259 mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper |
| Related Person | Castling, Harry, writer and composer |
| Banks, H. G., illustrator |
| Related Organisation | Francis, Day & Hunter, publisher |
| T. B. Harms & Co., publisher |
| Related Place | London |
| New York |
| 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). |
| Copyright | Material within the archive may remain within copyright under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Special Collections & Archives staff will assist where possible in helping trace copyright holders, but it is ultimately the responsibility of users to obtain the permission of the copyright holder for reproduction of copyright material for uses other than research or private study. |
| Level | Item |