£20,000 FOR SONG
'I ONLY 20 MINUTES' WORK. ! A receiving order has been made i . against Mr. J. A. B. C. Tyrie, better • ■ known as Jimmy Campbell, song writer I ■ and publisher, according to the London i Gazette. He filed his own petition. , ' Fifteen years ago. when he was 23. 1 Mr. Campbell set up business with Mr : Reg. Connelly, a young Londoner, as i music publishers. They had a little room of)' the Charing Cross Road and : eno song to publish, which they had written in collaboration. It was "Show me the Way to go Home." it sold 750,000 copies in six months. nearly 2.000,000 altogether. It netted | £20,000 in a few months, though the j original draft took its young composer 20 minutes. Since then the partnership produced “The More we are Together." "Goodnight. Sweetheart." and other hits.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 9
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140£20,000 FOR SONG Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 9
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