Imprint Names: March, R. and Co.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1877 and 1884
Imprint: [R. March &] Co., St. James's Walk, Clerkenwell, London
Notes: Two sheets forming a songbook. With advertisements.
Series Identifier: R. March & Co.'s Sole Right Edition 117
Title: The signalman on the line
First Line: When the train is swiftly speeding on the metals tho' [sic] the night
Authors: Daly, Brian , Andrews, Bond
Performers: Celli, Frank H., 1841-1904
Themes: Railways
Title: One of the boys
First Line: There's a jolly little crew that I know
Authors: Maurice, George, d. 1903
Performers: Deane, Charles
Themes: Drinking
Title: Round and round
First Line: Have you never had the feeling when you started out at night
Authors: Castling, Harry , Venton, F.W., d. 1918
Performers: Hurley, Alec, 1863-1913 , Leighton, Harry
Themes: Drinking
Title: The society actor
First Line: I'm the fellow of whom you've all read
Authors: Atkins, Norton , McGlennon, Felix
Performers: Costello, Tom, 1863-1945
Themes: Social status , Clothing , Debt
Title: The night I played Richard the Third
First Line: I always had a fancy to come out upon the stage
Performers: Harvey, Fred, 1856-1895
Themes: Theaters
Title: The beat of the drum
First Line: Will you gang with me, my lassie?
Performers: Maybrick, Michael, 1844-1913
Title: Up in the gallery on a Saturday night
First Line: I am a boy that enjoys myself
Attributation: Written & sung by Frederick Williams, Manager, Deacon's Music Hall
Authors: Williams, Frederick, d. 1916
Performers: Williams, Frederick, d. 1916
Themes: Theaters
Title: The old bachelor
First Line: They say that human nature finds relief in matrimony
Performers: Atkins, Will
Themes: Bachelors , Marriage - men
Title: Skating at Olympia
First Line: I thought a little skating would be healthy
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Themes: Amusements
Title: Rainbow in de sky
First Line: Pretty little girl in a bran new suit
Authors: Dacre, Harry
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: The dandy coloured coon
First Line: Now I'm a gallous nigger when I'm round about the town
Authors: Morton, Richard , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Stratton, Eugene, 1861-1918
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: The oft told tale
First Line: A woodman sang beside a brook
Title: Old pals
First Line: The happiest hour in a man's career
Authors: Boden, Harry
Performers: Anderson, Harry
Title: When the children are asleep
First Line: Ere the night has ended day
Performers: de Fonblanque, Madame
Title: Sarah, Sarah. Or A donkey cart built for two
First Line: I've got such a nice young man
Authors: Bedford, Harry
Performers: Carney, Kate, 1868-1950
Themes: Entertainments
Title: Our boys across the sea
First Line: There is a land of beauty, a land of mighty power
Authors: West, Arthur, 1864-1894
Performers: Sullivan, Rose, 1863-1895
Subjects: Ireland
Title: Remembered or forgotten
First Line: I feel my heart with hope and gladness beating
Title: Yes, you are!
First Line: The men of to-day have some odd little ways
Authors: West, Arthur, 1864-1894
Performers: Valmore, Jenny
Themes: Men
Title: Rose in her Sunday clothes
First Line: What is the flow'r of an Englishman's heart
Authors: Hall, Albert, 1864-1907 , Murphy, C.W., 1875-1913
Performers: Valmore, Jenny
Title: Bold Robin Hood
First Line: Bold Robin Hood, was a forester good
Subjects: Robin Hood (legendary character)
Title: The vindow man
First Line: You'll guess my line of pizness by the things upon my back
Authors: Wilmott, Charles , Pether, H.E.
Performers: Rich, J.C.
Themes: Jews , Immigrants - Great Britain
Title: Pretty girl rather
First Line: One day, while strolling through the street
Authors: McGlennon, Felix
Performers: Rowley, J.W., 1847-1925
Themes: Prostitution
Title: Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!
First Line: My song is quite a novelty
Performers: Travers, Hyram
Title: Pretty pond lilies
First Line: Whilst waiting in the lane for you, darling
Title: When summer comes again
First Line: There was once a young maiden of tender grace
Authors: Thornton, James, 1861-1938
Performers: Thornton, Bonnie, 1873-1920
Title: Various topics (old & new)
First Line: Not quite one hundred years ago
Performers: Hunter, G.W.
Themes: Salvation Army
Title: The giddy little girl said \"No.\"
First Line: I'll tell you a tale of a giddy little girl
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865 , Powell, Orlando
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: Here's to Private Tommy Atkins
First Line: You can fetch him from the \"Grapes\" or \"Barley Mow\"
Authors: St. Clair, F.V.
Title: Looking for a coon like me
First Line: Say, hab you seen a yaller gal
Authors: Harrington, John Patrick, b. 1865 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Wentworth, Bessie, 1874-1901
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: One who is life to me
First Line: What means that thrill of newly waken'd gladness
Authors: Sims, George Robert, 1847-1922 , Pettitt, Henry, 1848-1893
Performers: St. John, Florence, 1854-1912
Title: Oh! take me there
First Line: I'm told there is a blissful spot
Authors: Ellis, A.E. , Durandeau, Augustus E., d. 1893
Performers: Dempsey, W.P. , Stevens, Charles E., d. 1910
Title: You men you think you're tricky
First Line: When boys and girls meet they think they are in love
Performers: Cavendish, Nellie
Themes: Marriage - gender roles
Title: Nellie and May, sisters were they
First Line: I will tell to you a story which the shades of life will show
Authors: Kelly, John T., 1855-1922
Title: The rowdy-dowdy boys
First Line: Girls, I'm a jolly old chappie
Authors: Conley, Tom , McGlennon, Felix
Themes: Amusements , Police
Title: Robin Hood up to date
First Line: Some people praise the good old days
Authors: Lennard, Horace, d. 1920 , Andrews, Bond
Performers: Chard, Kate, 1862-1942
Subjects: Robin Hood (legendary character)
Title: The miser
First Line: With greedy eyes the miser
Authors: Beverly, Gus
Performers: Rich, J.C.
Themes: Money
Title: Obadiah and Maria
First Line: Oh! I dreamed that I should meet my love to-day
Title: Oh, 'Ria! A cockney's love affair
First Line: It was in the doorway of a 'pub
Authors: Castling, Harry
Performers: Pearl, Arthur
Title: Mona
First Line: O, swift goes my boat like a bird on the billow
Authors: Weatherly, F.E. , Maybrick, Michael, 1844-1913
Title: On the same old spot once more
First Line: It's somewhat sweet I think to know
Performers: Anderson, Harry
Title: Push dem clouds away
First Line: If you want to git to Heaven on de nickel-plated road
Authors: Gaunt, Percy
Performers: Pryde, Peggy
Themes: Blackface minstrelsy
Title: Oh, Polly! Pretty little Polly!
First Line: Now, you talk about yer ladies -- female aristocratic swells
Authors: Castling, Harry , Venton, F.W., d. 1918
Performers: Hurley, Alec, 1863-1913
Title: Not the only one
First Line: I always make the best of thing
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Title: If the heart of a man
First Line: If the heart of a man is depressed with care
Title: You grasp the situation in a minute
First Line: Did you ever chance to meet with a coster in the street
Authors: Calvert, C.W. , Eaton, W.G.
Performers: Leamar, Alice, 1869-1950
Title: Oh, Flossie! Pretty little Flossie
First Line: Little sweetheart, up above me
Authors: Morton, Richard
Performers: Little Chip (Pseudonym)
Title: One who is life to me
First Line: What means that thrill of newly waken'd gladness
Authors: Sims, George Robert, 1847-1922 , Pettitt, Henry, 1848-1893
Performers: St. John, Florence, 1854-1912
Title: You'll have to name the day
First Line: Hold your whist, while I tell you what's happened to me
Authors: Adams, Harry , Harrison, J.M.
Performers: Sullivan, Rose, 1863-1895
Title: Oh! Mr. Porter
First Line: Lately I just spent a week with my old aunt Brown
Performers: Lloyd, Marie (Matilda Wood), 1870-1922
Themes: Railways
Title: Venice at Olympia
First Line: To Venice at Olympia I took my girl
Authors: Rogers, E.W., 1864-1913
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Themes: Amusements
Title: Real good boys
First Line: The days of my childhood, ah! well I remember
Authors: Robson, T.G.
Performers: Collins, Marie
Title: You and I, and all of us
First Line: Now, you, and I, and all of us
Authors: Rogers, E.W., 1864-1913
Performers: Munroe, Walter
Title: Our 'armonic club
First Line: On a Monday night when the blokes 'as finished work
Themes: Drinking
Title: Up go the fireworks
First Line: Upon the usual firework night
Authors: Pink, Wal, 1862-1922 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Combes, Arthur
Themes: Fireworks
Title: Oo-diddley-oo!
First Line: It's very, very hard when all that you can say
Authors: Starr, Harry
Performers: Rigby, Arthur W.
Title: You look after me
First Line: Two jolly pals made up their minds a party to attend
Authors: Connor, T.W.
Performers: Freeman, Harry
Themes: Drinking
Title: Saturday
First Line: There's one day a week when we feel a bit \"Gay,\"
Authors: Maurice, George, d. 1903
Performers: Champion, Harry, 1866-1942
Title: Riding on the District Railway
First Line: A maid came to London just for change
Authors: Morris, Alfred J., 1861-1905 , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Coleman, Bessie
Themes: Seduction , Countryman in London , London Underground
Title: Marguerite's lovers
First Line: I was once Queen of a beauty show
Authors: Atkins, Norton
Performers: Torr, Clara
Title: My old man
First Line: The time does swiftly flow
Authors: Morton, Richard , Le Brunn, George, 1863-1905
Performers: Lawrence, Katie
Themes: Family life
Title: Adieu, my lov'd harp
First Line: Adieu, mu lov'd harp, for no more shall the vale
Title: The Irish colleen
First Line: I went to a party consisting of four
Authors: Robey, W.C.
Performers: Howard, Lizzie, 1864-1901
Title: Kate Kearney
First Line: Oh, have you not heard of Kate Kearney
Title: Carrie Gray
First Line: An old fellow once at a cosy bar stood
Authors: Darnley, Herbert , Atkins, Norton
Performers: McCarthy, D.J.
Themes: Letter-writing , Courtship - difference in social status
Title: At the mid hour of night
First Line: At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly
Title: Shepherds, I have lost my love
First Line: Shepherds, I have lost my love
