Last update: December 2005 Included in these pages is material acquired since publication, also corrections to the original edition. Acknowledgements are due to Tony Barker for additional material.

ARTISTES' REPERTOIRES - H, I, J

HAGUE, CLARENCE	Gems From Shakespeare's Diadem
HAGUE, SAM	1828-1901
HALE, ROBERT	Delete: Everybody's Doing It Now  Dear Old Charlies (w. Ida CRISPI) King Of The Maniac Band Mixed Bathing (w. CRISPI) Mixed Gliding (w. CRISPI) Our Members (w. Farren SOUTAR)
HALEVY, LEON	1803-83
HALL, DICK	Only A Little Box Of Soldiers
HALL, E. M.	Eighteen-Pence
HALL, FRANK	Straight Tips
HALL, GEORGE	d. July(?) 1893
HALL, HARRY	Do You Remember? Girl At The Paper Shop, The
HALL, HENRY	1898-1989 Teddy Bear's Picnic (vocals: Val Rosing)
HALL, JOHN L.	Dido Dumb When The Pigs Begin To Fly!
HALL, WILLIAM D.	She Promised To Meet Me Here
HAMILTON, ARTHUR	Time Will Show
HAMILTON, KATIE	1841-83
HAMILTON, LOUISE	Take It Home And Give It To The Baby
HAMILTON, ROSE	Young Jack Shepherd sk.
HAMMOND, W. T.	Handsome Man Queen Victoria's Baby
HAMPTON, PETE	Moving Day
HANDLEY, TOMMMY	1893-1949 Mucking About The Garden (w. Leslie Sarony & Jack Payne's        band)
HANLAN, FRED	Dear Pals Of Mine
HANLON-LEES, THE	Orig. troupe (George, Thomas, William) est. 1847. Edward (1846-1931), Alfred (1844-87), William 1842-1923).  Richard F. Carroll (b1864) replaced Alfred and was with troupe 1880-4. Edward b.1891 son of `Little Bob' Hanlon.
HANSON, JOHNNY	1843-1907 Doctor, The sk.
HARCOURT, DAISY	Good Old London `Ria
HARCOURT, FRANK	Midland Guard, The
HARCOURT, MABEL	Wedding Bells or Take Him Away
HARDING(S), NELLIE	Dinah
HARE, ERNEST	Chinatown My Chinatown
HARE, MAUD	Daisy Darling
HARLENE, LILLIE	I'll Be Your Butterfly Stars Are Always Shining, The
HARLEY, KATE	I'm A Young Girl From The Country
HARLEY, VIOLET	1868-03 Just As It Ought To Be
HARLAN, BYRON G.	1861-1936
HARPER, EDMUND R.	Clar De Kitchen Sich A Gittin' Upstairs
HARRIGAN & HART	Mulligan Guard Sweet Louisa
HARRIS, ALICE	London Day By Day
HARRIS, FRED D.	1843-1911 My Grandfathers's Clock (parody) My Old Black 'Ag' Our Favourite Jocke Whatyoumaycallit
HARRIS, LIZZIE	Bonnie Dundee
HARRIS, L. W.	Don't Run After The Girl Ellaline
HARRISON, CLIFFORD	Ave Maria recitation He'd Forgotten It Undergrad, The
HARRISON, W.	Little Hero, The Musical Ride, The Oh, Ever
HAROLD, LILY	Boys In Blue, The Fatal Day
HART, WILLIAM	1861-1905
HARTLEY, G. J.	Box Of Candles, A
HARTLEY, JENNIE	Jimmy Johnson (Go Home)
HARVEY, ALICE	1865-1908 Boating Say You Love Me Nellie
HARVEY, CHARLES	Plain Little Irish Girl, A Rosie Raised A Rose
HARVEY, FRANK	d.29 Mar 1903
HARVEY, FRED	Me Money Making Business
HARVEY, WILLIAM	d.23 Mar 1907
HASLEM, BERT	Sons Of Britain
HAST, WALTER	see LENNIE & HAST
HASTINGS, ANNIE	1845-91
HASTINGS, FLORRIE	Don't Give The Show Away Boys Don't It Take It Out Of Yer He's A Diamond In The Rough
HASTINGS, HARRY	I Didn't See It Not Till Afterwards
HASTO, GWENNIE	Gold Won't Buy A Girl What Is The Use Of Locking The Cage After The Bird Has Flown?
HATTERSLEY, WILL	Here's To Ould Erin
HATTON, W.	Beautiful Girls Under A Cloud
HAWTHORNE, LIL	My Ellaline That's Your Cactus Over There Willow Pattern Plate, The
HAYDN, MAUDE HAYDON, ETHEL	Electric Light, The 1879-1954
HAYES, J. MILTON	delete: Yukon Trail
HAYNES, JENNIE	d.13 Aug 1904 He's Always Hanging Round Our Door
HAYNES, MICHAEL	1854-80
HAYNES, POLLY & PEGGY	Bells Shall Ring, The Erin, Our Country Good Old Uncle Benjamin
HAYWARD, E. E.	Roley-Poley Ride, The or All The Fun Of The Fair
HAYWARD, HETTY    (HAYWOOD?)	Boys Of England Little Gussie
HAZEL, AGNES	m. Michael NOLAN.  See Daisy TAYLOR. Baby's Eyes Boys Will be Boys Little Bo-Peep There's A Girl In The World For Us All
HEATH, ROSEE	b. c1867?  spent her life in and out of Colney Hatch lunatic asylum
HEDGES BROS & JACOBSON	I'd Like To Go Up In An Airship Pucker Up Your Lips, Miss Lindy
HELD, ANNA	Oh! That Yankiana Rag Sadie Strolling Along The Beach
HELDER, RUBY	1890-1938
HELENE, EILY	Walking Home With Angeline
HELSB(E)Y , JAMES	Cannibal Nigger, The A + L&C c1891 Poor Auntie A + L&C c1891
HEMSLEY, HARRY	d. 8 Apr 1951
HENDERSON, DICK	Why Don't My Dreams Come True?
HENDERSON, ROY	1899-2000
HENDERSON & STANLEY  QUARTETTE, THE	Another Little Coon In Town
HENGLER, WALTER	Rafferty's Cycle Race
HENNEQUIN, F. C.	all recitations Alphonse Cheerful Charlie Conscientious Alf `Erbert, A.B. Little Wise Sam Na Poo Pincher, D.C.M.
HENRY, Mr & Mrs	Happy Pair Of Souls, A
HENRY, ROLAND	It's Werry 'Ard
HERBERT, FRED	You're Too Old At Forty
HERBERT, HARRY	It Only Shows How Silly You Can Be
HERBERT, NELLIE	Back To The Fold Like A Dear Little Lamb My Sister Saragh She's Not So Simple Now
HERMAN, PHIL	For The Sake Of An Old Rag Doll
HERSEE, HENRY	1819-96
HEWITT, W. H.	Half A Crown For Two And Six Mahone From Donoughbadhu My Pretty Deutcher Sweet Annie In Kildare Tart Eyed Nell Up To Date
HEYL, RUBY	Bells Of St Mary's, The When The Great Red Dawn Is Shining
HEYWOOD, FLORRIE	Don't Think Very Much Of You Gaiety Girl, The Oh, The Language Me Again
HEYWOOD, PATTI	Masher And The Maid, The
HICKS, Sir SEYMOUR*	d. 1949
HIGH, H. E.	He's Retired From The Business Little American Clock She Couldn't Find Moses Sheeney Undertaker, The
HIGHAM, SAM	There'll Come A Time
HILDEBRANDT & ORMONDE	fl1860s-70s Hildebrandt d. c1870
HILL, CARMEN	d.17 Apr 1952
HILL, HAMILTON	1868-1910 Before I Say Goodbye, Love Boys' Brigade, The Pansy Faces
HILL, LILY	dr. of Bob & Jenny Leonard
HILL, WALTER	d.21 Jun 1879
HILL, W. J.	Woman
HILLIER, JAMES	Cook's Excursion or The Cook's Excursionist or She Played Tink-A-Tink
HILTON, ROBERT	1839-1913 Diver, The
HIMES, E. L.	Sailor's Beacon, The possible L&C?
HINDELL, GUS	His Majesty The King My Last Shilling
HINTON, BESSIE	At Night Female Bricky, The Picture For A Frame, A
HITE, MABEL	Because I'm Married Now I'm On My Way To Reno Walking Delegate, The
HOBBS, BILLY	You've Only Got To Say What I Say
HOBSON, MAUD	billed as The English Lillian Russell. niece of John Hollingshead
HOLLAND, FANNY	1848-1931 Jewel, The (w. Mrs GERMAN REED) Le Bon Tong Would You Know That Maiden Fair?
HOLLAND, JACK	Message From Mars (May?), A see Albert Perry
HOLLANDER, ALICE	You Are My Irish Lily
HOLT, CLARANCE	1826-1903 declaimed Dickens and Shakespeare scenes and characters under such titles as All The World's A Stage, Shadows Of The Past, Shakespeare At Home
HOLT, FRED	Oh, For A Roly-Poly
HONEY, GEORGE	Get Your Living Pictures
HONRI, PERCY	I Wonder Do They Miss Me?
HOOEY, WILLIAM (US)	Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo, The
HOPE, PETER	Hail Caledonia
HORNBY, KATE	k.a. PHILLIPS, HARRIETT 1848-73
HOWARD, FRANK	A + L&C When The Robins Cest Again
HOWARD, JOSEPH E.	Just Behind The Times Soldier's Story, A (w. EMERSON)
HOWARD, LIZZIE	Fireman, Save My Child rish Colleen, The Old Ones At Home, The Sweethearts
HOWARD, MAY	fl1880s Is There A Letter For Me?
HOWARD, WALTER	b. 1847 Laughing Nigger, The My Day Out Oh, Why Was I Born So Old That's Where The Laugh Comes In
HOWE, J. B.	1829-1908 Alonzo The Brave
HOWE, ROBERT	Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold
HUBBARD, CLARA	all recitations Blind England's Emblem Out At Mons Ploughboy, The
HUBBARD, MILLIE	Sweetest Thing In Frocks, The
HUDDLESTONE, JOHN R.	Everybody's Doing It Now
HUDSFIELD, G.	Beautiful Girls
HUDSON, OLGA & ELGAR &      ELI	Winifred 1891-1940
HUGHES, ANNIE	fl c.1910 Nell Gwynn sk.
HUGHES, DAISY	d.4 Aug 1893 aged 26 (suicide) I'm The Principal Boy
HUGHES, EVELYN	All For Dolly mon.
HUGHES, FRED	1842-83
HUGHES, GORDON	Maggie Marney
HUMPHRIES, GRIFFITH	Bazaar And The Fancy Fair, The Mingle Your Eyebrows With Mine, Love
HUNT, MINNIE	In Dreamland
HUNT, RALPH	d. 8 Aug 1900 (w. Moore & Burgess)
HUNTER, G. W.	b. 1850/1
HUNTER, HARRY	Nobody Knows And Nobody Cares
HUNTER, J. D.	How It's Altered Since I Was A Boy
HUNTLEY, BINA	And He Said 'My Dear Maid, Will You Marry Me?'
HURLEY, ALEC	Agitator, The 'Arriet's Father's Reply Beg Pardon My Mistake Can't Make Up My Mind Champion Kidder, The Cockney's Travels, The Come Along, My Little Liza Coster Flower Girl, The Costermonger, The Few Short Years Ago For My 'Arriet Is Beautiful Forward, Forward He's Taking A Mean Advantage Of My Generosity Ignorant I Shouldn't Be Any Happier If I Did It Ain't No Lie I Very Much Doubt It Mary Had A Little Lamb Money Well Laid Out My Old Barrow Old Firm, The My Own Back My Pal Bill Old Firm, The Phantom Jockey, The Pretty Polly Symptoms Of Man That's When You Do A Grin There's A Greedy Man What Do You  Want To Knock Your Wife About For? When To Do A Laugh You Don't Know How I Miss Him Now He's Gone You Must Be Drunk
HURLEY, ALFRED	Same Old Way, The
HUTCHINSON FAMILY	Shepherd's Cottage, The (Abby) Spider And The Fly, The (Abby)
HYDE, FLORENCE	Amateur Bill Of Fare, An Up-To-Date Bazaar, An
HYDE, MARION	Can't They Trick The Men?
HYDE, WILL	Why Can't A Coon Wed A Young White Girl?
HYLTON, MILLIE	m. (1) H. J. Didcott 1891 (2) Harry E. Clulow Sim (in 1894) by whom one dr. - the actress Millie Sim. Any Little Thing Like That French Little Innocent Girl Music Of The Drum, The Right Up To Date Shy Little Coster Girl There Are Two Sides To Every Question
IDLE, DAN	All Through Picking Up A Pin Always On The Borrow Broken Down Masher, The Dan's Garden Party
IND, EDWARD	Appeared at Argyle Birkenhead w/c 1 Oct 1900  One, Two, Three, Four, Five Pretty Little Maid From School, The
INGRAM, FRED	d.11 Feb 1916
INNES, IRIS	Maria Of Turnham Green
INTERNATIONAL NOVELTY  ORCHESTRA	US-based ad hoc studio band fl 1920s Colonel Bogey Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
INTERNATIONAL NOVELTY QUARTET	studio UK-based ad hoc band fl 1920s Down South Glow-Worm, The Grasshopper's Dance Teddy Bear's Picnic, The Whistling Rufus
IRIS, LILY	Darling Ladies Girl Like You, A
IRVING, ETHEL	cousin of EUNICE VANCE; m. Gilbert Porteous d. Sep 1928 Call, The (w. SYDNEY VALENTINE)
IRVING, FRED	d. 20 Jan 1942 I Am A Dandy Nigger
IRWIN, MAY	first woman to be kissed on cinema screen (1896) by stage partner John C. Rice with whom she was appearing on Broadway in The Widow Jones. Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-Wow
ISAACS, REBECCA	I Want To Be A Bloomer
IZON, ADA	For The Honour Of Old England
JACKS, HARRY	I'm Going Never Intend Sailor's Life
JACKSON, HARRY	All Of 'M Doing The Same
JACKSON, NELSON	dates should be: 1870-1951
JACKSON, W. F.	1833-96 claimed to be an original Christy Minstrel
JACOBI, ROSALIE	Swallow And The Exile, The
JACOBS, JACQUES	How'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm?
JACOBSEN, HILDA	Somebody Cares For Me
JAMES, DAISY	How Did He Know I Was Going To Bump? If You Want To Get On In Revue I Want To Be In Dixie Popsy Wopsy
JAMES, JOHN	1873?-1906? Always Contented Man Of Activity, The Polly Of Putney And Poor Joey Green
JAMES, KATIE	1854-1913 Nora, I Adore Her Oh, Samuel!
JEFFREYS, ELLIS	1872-1943 Maiden Up-To-Date, The
JEFFS, MINNIE	Costers At Chicago, The Daddy Would Not Buy Me A Masher
JEROME, SISTERS	From Berlin To Leicester Square
JESSON, SAM	Ha Ha, He He, Ho Ho
JOHNS, JENNIE	Middy In The King's Navee, A There's A Girl In Ton-y-pandy
JOHNSON, GEORGE	Whistling Coon, The
JOHNSON, JAMES	My Little Lost Quadroon
JOHNSON, WILL	I'm Going To See Run And Fetch A P'liceman
JOHNSON, WINIFRED	Move On Story Of Coon And Melon Vine, The
JOHNSTON, Miss R.	De Nigger Crinoline
JOHNSTONE, KEIMO	Good Old English Girls
JOLE, (?) FRED	Making Money In The Army
JOLLY, HESTER	Also Very Naughty Do What I Have Told You My Soldier Boy
JONES, BOY	Houp-La!
JONES, IRVING	Possumala Dance or My Honey
JONES, PAUL	She Made Up Her Mind
JONES, TOM	David Evans
JOY, JENNIE	I Don't Think I'll Wed A Japanese Young Man
JUDGE, WILL	I Didn't Want To Do It
JUDIC, ANNA	Letter Song (La Perichole)
JULIAN, W. P.	Ambition or What We All Want To Be Browns Ruralising, The
JULLIAN, CARRIE	fl 1860s-70s. duets w. GEORGE FREDERICKS

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