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Revision as of 09:16, 3 April 2009
Harry Champion | |
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| Born | William Crump |
| Other names | Will Conray (to 1888) |
William Crump (1866 – January 14, 1942), better known by the stage name Harry Champion, was a famous British music hall composer and star. Born in Shoreditch, London, he first appeared in a music hall at the age of 15, at the Queens Hall, Poplar.[1] In 1888 he changed his stage name from Will Conray, and with a wide repertoire of songs, many of them sung at breakneck speed and often about the joys of food,[2] he became one of music hall's most successful artists. His songs became some of the most famous Cockney songs.[3]
Harry Champion continued working into his seventies. In January 1942 he died at Tottenham, aged 76, where he had lived for more than thirty years. He is buried in East Finchley Cemetery.[4]
Songs
- A Little Bit Of Cucumber (1915)[5]
- Any Old Iron
- End of my Old Cigar
- Cover it Over Quick
- Old Red Lion
- Best that Money Can Buy
- Boiled Beef and Carrots
- Cockney Bill of London Town
- I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am (1910) (signature tune/song)[6]
- I Want Meat
- My Old Iron Cross (1915)[7]
- My Wife's Sister's Pussy-Cat
- It's Cold Without My Trousers
- I'm proud of my old bald head
- I shan't mend your waistcoat any more
- Beaver (Here comes old Beaver)
- In my old white spats (For Pauline Munro)
- What a Mouth
References
- ^ The Artists of the Music Hall accessed 24 Oct 2007
- ^ Harry Champion Biography (The English Music Hall) accessed 24 Oct 2007
- ^ Harry Champion: Music Hall star accessed 24 Oct 2007
- ^ Music Hall burials (Arthur Lloyd) accessed 29 Oct 2007
- ^ http://firstworldwar.com/audio/Harry%20Champion%20-%20A%20Little%20Bit%20Of%20Cucumber.mp3
- ^ http://www.archive.org/download/HarryChampion/HarryChampion-ImHeneryTheEighth.mp3
- ^ http://firstworldwar.com/audio/Harry%20Champion%20-%20My%20Old%20Iron%20Cross.mp3