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Champagne Charlie (song)

May 6, 2023Eric CorbettMusic hall

Best-known of the songs sung by the music hall artist George Leybourne (1842–1884).

My Word, You Do Look Queer

Dec 17, 2022Eric CorbettMusic hall

Comic monologue by Bert Lee and R. P. Weston, first performed by Ernest Hastings in 1922 and revived by Stanley Holloway in 1938.

Music Hall War

Oct 17, 2020Eric CorbettMusic hall

1907 dispute between music hall employees, stage artistes and London theatre proprietors over pay and working conditions.

Herbert Campbell

Sep 24, 2020Eric CorbettActor, Comedian, English, Male, Music hall, Pantomime

English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era.

Mark Sheridan

Sep 18, 2020Eric CorbettComedian, English, Male, Music hall, Singer

English music-hall comedian and singer, whose recording popularised the song “I do like to be beside the Seaside”.

Vesta Tilley

Jun 26, 2020Eric CorbettEnglish, Female, Music hall, Singer

Vesta Tilley (1864–1952) was a popular English music hall performer and one of the most famous male impersonators of her era.

Vesta Victoria

Apr 23, 2020Eric CorbettEnglish, Female, Music hall, Singer

English music-hall singer and comedian.

Harry Liston

Nov 30, 2019Eric CorbettActor, Comedian, English, Music hall

English comedian and actor.

A Little Bit of Cucumber

Nov 29, 2019Eric CorbettMusic hall

Comedic music hall-song first performed by Harry Champion in 1915, about the types of food preferred by the cockney working classes.

Lion comique

Jun 6, 2018Eric CorbettMusic hall

Type of popular entertainer in the Victorian music halls, a parody of upper-class toffs or “swells” made popular by Alfred Vance and G. H. MacDermott, among others.