Ref NoMWT/MUS/1/0586
CollectionMax Tyler Music Hall Collection
TitleBrighton
Name of creatorKnowles, R. G. (Richard George), 1858-1919, performer
Date1893
Extent1 sheet music
DescriptionSheet music for piano and voice titled, “Brighton” appearing as two folio sheets (8 pages total). The performer is depicted on the cover, in lithograph dressed in an overcoat and top-hat. There are three other scenes depicted, one of the sea front with sea and beach, populated by people and small boats, in the foreground and buildings behind, another of a barber shaving a customer with the caption; ‘In for a scrape. Oh, that razor’. And the third scene depicts two women and man sat at a table raising glasses. The words of the chorus are depicted, ‘To Brighton, to Brighton! Where they do such things, And they say such things, In Brighton! In Brighton! I’ll never go there anymore.’
NotesAdapted from Chas. H Hoyt, Percy Gaunt and Fred Gilbert's popular song "The Bowery". -- Front cover
Back cover has a list of "Francis, Day & Hunter's successful dance novelties."
Front cover has an illegible signature in pencil and is marked 'No. 13' in ink.
SubjectMusical Theatre
Music Hall
Comedy
Songs
PhysicalDescription250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper
Related PersonGaunt, Percy, composer
Gilbert, Fred, 1849-1903, composer
Knowles, R. G. (Richard George), 1858-1919, performer
Related OrganisationFrancis, Day & Hunter, London, publisher
H.G. Banks, lithographer.
T.B. Harms & Co, New York, publisher
Related PlaceLondon
CategorySheet music
Access conditionsThis 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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