POPULAR SONGS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20953, 4 November 1939, Page 15 (Supplement)

POPULAR SONGS

COMPOSED IN SYDNEY "I PASSED BY YOUR WINDOW” To have composed a song which proved a best seller is an achievement: but to find that song parodied 22 years after its publication is a distinction. And this is what has happened to Mrs George Morgan, who arrived in Sydney recently. When she left England people were all putting their own words, inspired by the London black-outs, to her world-famous composition, “I Passed By Your Window,” she says. Mrs Morgan composes under the name of May Brahe, and the song in question was written in 1917. Others of the 300 which have been published are: “Bless This House,” “To a Miniature,” and “The Piper From Over the Way.” She feels that her latest work, “A Prayer for Peace,” in view of the war situation, has failed in its purpose. New Musical Comedy Recently Mrs Morgan has been working on a musical comedy with a Spanish setting, full of rhumbas and tangoes. She likes writing frivolous music, she says, as she finds it easy to do. The composer, who is an Australian, for the past 30 years has lived abroad. She has brought her youngest son, Harold Morgan, with her, and was met by Mr Douglas Brahe, another son, who lives in Sydney. A third son, Mr Alec Brahe, lives in Melbourne, and a daughter with the attractive name of Marita is a painter in Eqgland.