"About Nothing"" is a pun on the Elizabethan use of ""no-thing"" as slang for vagina. In the UK, starting in the 19th century, Victorian morality disallowed sexual innuendo in the theatre as being unpleasant, particularly for the ladies in the audience. In music hall songs, on the other hand, this kind of innuendo remained very popular. Marie Lloyd's song ""She Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas"" is an example of this. (Music hall in this context is to be compared with Variety, the one common, low-class and vulgar; the other demi-monde, worldly and sometimes chic.) In the 20th century there"
"Marie Lloyd Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (12 February 1870 – 7 October 1922), professionally known as Marie Lloyd ; was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress. She was best known for her performances of songs such as ""The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery"", ""My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)"" and ""Oh Mr Porter What Shall I Do"". She received both criticism and praise for her use of innuendo and double entendre during her performances, but enjoyed a long and prosperous career, during which she was affectionately called the ""Queen of the Music"
"- accompanied by Rowlf on piano, and with the audience joining in - in the UK spot of the Rich Little episode of ""The Muppet Show"". In 1980, the song was included in the television detective series ""Cribb"", in an episode titled ""Abracadaver"". 1996 British/French film ""Different for Girls"" has Rupert Graves singing a version of the song using the word ""girl"" and female pronouns. A 1999 episode of British sitcom ""Goodnight Sweetheart"" featured the song. Emma Amos played Marie Lloyd, singing the song in an episode titled ""The 'Ouses in Between."" The BBC's 2007 biographical drama ""Miss Marie Lloyd"""
"Temple of Varieties and the Middlesex Music Hall in Drury Lane. On 3 February 1886, she appeared at the prestigious Sebright Music Hall in Bethnal Green, where she met George Ware, a prolific composer of music hall songs. Ware became her agent and, after a few weeks, she began performing songs purchased from little-known composers. As her popularity grew, Ware suggested that she change her name. ""Marie"" was chosen for its ""posh"" and ""slightly French"" sound, and ""Lloyd"" was taken from an edition of ""Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper"". Lloyd established her new name on 22 June 1886, with an appearance at"
"disillusionment."" The impersonator Charles Austin paid tribute by saying ""I have lost an old pal, and the public has lost its principal stage favourite, one who can never be replaced."" Notes References Marie Lloyd Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (12 February 1870 – 7 October 1922), professionally known as Marie Lloyd ; was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress. She was best known for her performances of songs such as ""The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery"", ""My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)"" and ""Oh Mr Porter What Shall I Do"". She received both"
"and nibbling clicks, and features an ""unresolved, ominous tension"" that is atypical of her writing style. Most of the song's lyrics speak directly to incidents in Sarah Kane's 1998 dark-themed play ""Crave"", so much so that it was titled ""Crave"" up to the last minute. ""Sun in My Mouth"" is an adaptation of E.E. Cummings' poem ""I will wade out/Till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers"", with an emphasis on the vocal and accompaniment provided by a string orchestra, a harp, and soft electronica. The track's lyrics have been considered a ""startling allusion to masturbation"", positioned ""within the fantasy-like"
"Hall to a sold-out crowd. 2,700 tickets were sold in advance, a record at the time for the venue. Her popularity was unusual because she didn't have a current hit record. Her last record to reach the charts was ""Lover Man"" in 1945. Holiday sang 32 songs at the Carnegie concert by her count, including Cole Porter's ""Night and Day"" and her 1930s hit, ""Strange Fruit"". During the show, someone sent her a box of gardenias. ""My old trademark,"" Holiday said. ""I took them out of box and fastened them smack to the side of my head without even looking"
"perfectly matching the rhythmic subtlety of the texts. These are amongst her most beautiful pieces, the soft melodic and harmonic undulations in ""Ave Maris Stella"" (Star of the Sea) suggesting as so often in her music the swelling of the ever-present sea. Welsh-language settings include Saunders Lewis's carol ""Rhosyn Duw"", for SATB, piano and viola (1955), which she later incorporated into her large-scale choral work, ""Missa Cambrensis"" (1971). Her last completed works (1975) were settings of Kipling and Beddoes for the unusual combination of SATB, harp and two horns. The last music she wrote is actually in her Second Symphony,"
"37 items, such as ""The one shirt I have"" (item 58, page 164). The heading refers to the digging of holes for the planting of yams. ""Nothing more joyous can be imagined,"" writes Jekyll, ""than a good 'digging-sing' from twenty throats, with the pickers—so they call their pickaxes—falling in regular beat."" Digging sings included songs sung during many kinds of labour. A feature of several digging sings is the ""bobbin."" Jekyll explains, ""One man starts or 'raises' the tune and the others come in with the 'bobbin,' the short refrain..."" In the song ""Miss Nancy Ray"", for example, the bobbin"
"Fair Phyllis Fair Phyllis (also Fair Phyllis I saw, Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone) is an English madrigal by John Farmer. The music is polyphonic and was published in 1599. The madrigal contains four voices and uses occasional imitation. It also alternates between triple and duple beat subdivisions of the beat in different parts of the work. This is an English madrigal. Farmer uses clever word painting. For example, in the opening line ""Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone"", Farmer had only the soprano sing since she was all alone. In the next line ""Feeding her flock"
"of ""The Horse Whisperer"". In September 2008, while at her brother's estate in Scotland, Cumming, her husband, her brother, and her sister-in-law ate poisonous Cortinarius speciosissimus mushrooms, which had been misidentified as an edible species. Several of the group experienced kidney failure as a result. Cumming remained on kidney dialysis while seeking alternative medicine treatments until 2012 when she had a kidney transplant. Charlotte Gordon Cumming Charlotte Gordon Cumming (born 2 February 1958) is a Scottish contemporary singer-songwriter and music producer, daughter of a Scottish clan chief. She wrote the Sugababes hit ""Soul Sound"", nominated for MTV Best European Single"
"Kookaburra (song) ""Kookaburra"" (also known by its first line: ""Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree"") is a popular Australian nursery rhyme and round about the kookaburra. It was written by Marion Sinclair (9 October 1896 – 15 February 1988) in 1932. Marion Sinclair was a music teacher at Toorak College, a girls' school in Melbourne she had attended as a boarder. In 1920, she began working with the school's Girl Guides company. One Sunday morning in 1932, Sinclair had a sudden inspiration in church and dashed home to write down the words to ""Kookaburra"". In 1934 she entered the"
"of music hall mélange. According to music critic Robert Christgau, ""David Byrne's production suits songwriting that has advanced beyond the undernourishment of their breakaway debut."" The track ""Murder She Said"" is the theme from the four films in the British Miss Marple series from 1961-64 starring Margaret Rutherford. All songs written by Fun Boy Three unless noted. The version available from many download services, including iTunes, substitutes the 2:52 single mix of ""Our Lips Are Sealed"". The tracks were in a different order for the original U.S. vinyl release (B6V 41417): with: Thanks to: ""Rick Rogers, Jeanette Powell, Peter Barnes,"
"the narrator states that he saw a flower girl sitting in the rain, said hello, and took a lovely walk in the park until, when the rain stops and the sun breaks through, she disappears. However, the narrator still feels happy about the flower girl, and states the final words: ""Was she reality, or just a dream to me?"". The song was used in the Lloyd fantasy scene in the 1994 film ""Dumb and Dumber"". The Rain, the Park & Other Things ""The Rain, the Park & Other Things"" is a psychedelic pop song with music and lyrics co-written by"
"is very typical of the middle English period. As the song spread, it was adapted, modified and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays. The references to the traditional English fair, ""Scarborough Fair"" and the refrain ""parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme"" date to 19th century versions and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad ""Riddles Wisely Expounded"", (Child Ballad #1), which has a similar plot. A number of older versions refer to locations other than Scarborough Fair, including Wittingham Fair, Cape"
"which became one of her most popular songs. Privately, she suffered from bouts of ill-health and became alcohol-dependent, both of which imposed restrictions on her performing career by the 1920s. In 1922, she gave her final performance at the Alhambra Theatre, London, during which she became ill on stage. She died a few days later at the age of 52. Lloyd was born on 12 February 1870 in Hoxton, London. Her father, John Wood (1847–1940), was an artificial flower arranger and waiter; her mother, Matilda Mary Caroline ""née"" Archer (1849–1931), was a dressmaker and costume designer. Lloyd was the eldest"
"Wood (keyboards) and Garry Linsley (sax). to record new arrangements of a range of songs from the vast repertoire of traditional songs from the North East of England. A recording of “Liberty for the Sailors” written by John Stobbs is available on the CD “Tall Ships, Rivers and Sea” ref MWMCDSP68) – click here She is also in demand as a vocal teacher and coach. In her spare time she sings on soundtracks for National TV adverts”. In the theatre she has performed one-woman shows about the life of Alma Cogan and Lotte Lenya, and starred in a show written"
"of her success reached home, and the ""London Entr'acte"" reported that ""Miss Marie Lloyd made the biggest hit ever known at Koster and Bial's variety hall, New York."" Upon her return to London, Lloyd introduced ""Listen With the Right Ear"", which was an intended follow-up to ""Oh You Wink the Other Eye"". Shortly after her return, she sailed to France, to take up an engagement in Paris. Her biographer Daniel Farson thought that she received ""greater acclaim than any other English comedienne who had preceded her"". She changed the lyrics to some of her best-known songs for her French audience"
"uses ""billabongs"" instead of ""billabong"". Current variations of the third line of the first verse are ""And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong"" or ""And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled"". Another variation is that the third line of each chorus is kept unchanged from the first chorus, or is changed to the third line of the preceding verse. There is also the very popular so-called Queensland version that has a different chorus, one very similar to that used by Paterson: <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;"">Oh there once was a swagman camped in"
"the songs are played through on the piano they lack substance, and their true worth only emerges through a communicative performance. However, some songs such as Henry Lawes's ""The Lark"", William Lawes' ""Gather ye Rosebuds"", various songs by Thomas Brewer and Nicholas Lanier's ""The Marigold"" have found their way into singing anthologies. Much of this repertoire was recorded and performed by the ""Consort of Musicke"" under Antony Rooley. Cavalier song Cavalier song is a Jacobean and Carolinian genre of song, a later equivalent to Elizabethan lute song. Many of the surviving examples were part of a large scale lavish court"
"Later known as the Grecian Theatre, it was here that Marie Lloyd made her début at the age of 14 in 1884. It is still famous because of an English nursery rhyme, with the somewhat mysterious lyrics: Up and down the City RoadIn and out The EagleThat's the way the money goesPop goes the weasel. Another famous ""song and supper"" room of this period was Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms, 43 King Street, Covent Garden, established in the 1840s by W.H. Evans. This venue was also known as 'Evans Late Joys' – Joy being the name of the previous owner. Other song"
"include ""Lament for a Hanging Man"" by Mark Antony Turnage, ""Canciones"" by Simon Holt, ""Street Scene"" by Kurt Weill, ""L'Enfance du Christ"" by Berlioz and ""Beatrice Cenci"" by Berthold Goldschmidt. Her recital CD, ""In Flanders Fields"", is the first in a projected series focusing on Music and Conflict, and was the culmination of intensive research into the music and poetry of the First World War and the resulting Wigmore Hall recital with pianist Andrew Ball. Her television and video appearances include"" Rusalka, L'Enfant et les Sortileges, Salome, Greek"" and"" Baa Baa Black Sheep."" Fiona Kimm Fiona Kimm, a British mezzo-soprano,"
"The Murmaids The Murmaids were an American one-hit wonder all-female vocal trio composed of sisters Carol and Terry Fischer; and Sally Gordon from Los Angeles, California who, in January 1964 reached No. 3 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 with ""Popsicles and Icicles"". The Fischer sisters were 15 and 17 years old in 1963. Sally Gordon, also 17, was a friend and neighbor (another source says that all three were sisters). The Fischers' father was Carl Fischer, composer of standards such as Billie Holiday's ""You've Changed"" and ""We'll Be Together Again,"" sung by Frankie Laine. Carl Fischer was also Laine's"
"her in-laws’ she has to settle for things of lesser value while others enjoy the good life, a reminder of how she was pampered as a child but had to settle for a dreary married life. It emphasises her longing to visit her parental home where she knows she will be fussed over. In this song composer expresses the emotions of a woman giving reasons her beloved husband to visit her mother's place. 'Bedu', the fig, is one of the very abundant fruit available throughout four seasons, however the 'Kaphal' (wild red-coloured bayberry) is available only in the month of"
"while in America, the couple were allowed to stay until March 1914. Alice later stated that ""the indignity of the subsequent experience [while in custody] went to Marie's heart in a way she never survived. She could not bear to talk of that awful twenty-four hours."" Despite the problems, the tour was a success, and Lloyd performed to packed theatres throughout America. Her act featured the songs ""The Tiddly Wink"", ""I'd Like to Live in Paris All the Time (The Coster Girl in Paris)"", and ""The Aviator"". The numbers were popular, partly due to the Americanisation of each song's lyrics."
"by Alice Faye in the 1940 biographical musical film, ""Lillian Russell"". The song is also heard in the 1936 movie, ""San Francisco"". In the HBO series ""Carnivàle"", the second episode of the first season is titled ""After the Ball is Over,"" and a fragment is sung at the end of the episode. In the last scene of an episode of Season 10 of ""Murdoch Mysteries"", Dr. Julia Ogden plays the song on a gramophone as she removes for examination the brain of a serial killer on the autopsy table. <poem> A little maiden climbed an old man's knee, Begged for"
"Oui, Oui, Marie Oui, Oui, Marie is a 1918 song performed by Arthur Fields. The music was composed by Fred Fisher with lyrics written by Alfred Bryan and Joe McCarthy. It was published by McCarthy & Fisher Inc. The sheet music cover featured an illustration by Andre De Takacs. The song reached a peak position of No.2 on Top 100 US Songs of 1918. The cover art for the song featured a woman dressed in a cape with a feathered hat speaking to a soldier. The lyrics for ""Oui Oui, Marie"" center on a man named Johnny who falls in"
"is a variant of ""Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"", with which it shares a tune and closing line. Nuts are not gathered in England in May. The lyrics are probably a corruption of ""knots of may"", referring to the blossom of the common hawthorn. Another possible ""nut"" is the corm or tuber of ""Conopodium majus"", commonly called pignut, groundnut etc. and easily found in May when the plant flowers. These ""nuts"" were commonly gathered by children as they grow under the ground sparsely, so they were not a viable food source to be gathered in quantities by adults."
"in Ely Place, in the Holborn district of London.) This madrigal's words are: The song was first published in Gibbons's ""First Set of Madrigals and Motets of 5 parts"" (1612). (Gibbons dedicated this collection to Hatton.) Commenting on the musical form, Philip Ledger notes that ""in common with the lute-song, and unlike any true madrigal, it has two musical sections, the second one repeated, and new words are provided for this repeat"". Gibbons's last line has been taken as a comment on the demise of the English madrigal form or, more generally, on the loss of the late Elizabethan musical"
"Carols of All Seasons Carols of All Seasons is a 1959 studio album by American folk singer Jean Ritchie. It was recorded with two classical musicians, which is not unusual for the late 1950s. The sound anticipates the slightly baroque arrangements that Shirley Collins would later use on ""Anthems in Eden"". As well as some often heard carols, there are some rare ones (""Dame Get up and Bake Your Pies"") and four unique ones - carols that Jean had learned while she was a child in the Appalachian mountains. In particular ""Cherry Tree of Cumberland"" has a haunting quality. ""The"
"the war effort, touring hospitals and industrial institutions to help boost morale. In 1915, she performed her only wartime song ""Now You've Got Your Khaki On"", which became a favourite among front-line troops. Lloyd had a turbulent private life that was often the subject of press attention: she was married three times, divorced twice, and frequently found herself giving court testimony against two of her husbands who had physically abused her. In later life, she was still in demand at music halls and had a late success in 1919 with her performance of ""My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)"","
"Virginia Liston Virginia Liston (c. 1890 – June 1932) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer. She spent most of her career in black vaudeville. Liston recorded ""You Can Dip Your Bread in My Gravy, but You Can't Have None of My Chops"" and ""Just Take One Long Last Lingering Look."" She performed with her then-husband, Samuel H. Gray, billed as Liston and Liston. She also performed with Clarence Williams, singing with the Clarence Williams Blue Five on ""You've Got the Right Key, but the Wrong Keyhole"" and ""Early in the Morning"" and the Clarence Williams Washboard Band"
"created an enduring interest in the story of the ""Temeraire"" and several poems appeared in the decades following her breaking up. Gerald Massey wrote ""The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth"", Herman Melville produced ""The Temeraire"", and Henry Newbolt wrote ""The Fighting Temeraire"", with its closing lines Now the sunset's breezes shiver,<br>And she's fading down the river,<br>But in England's song forever,<br>She's the Fighting Temeraire. a. Sometimes referred to as the ""Dreadnought"" class. b. This ""Temeraire"" retained her French name after her capture, and served during the Seven Years' War, before being sold out of the service in 1784. c."