Inspiration at the Hairdresser's
F the six hundred’ songs written and composed by Charles Dibdin we have an anecdote about one that "came to him" while sitting in a hairdresser’s chair. A man and his little son once called on Dibdin and found him in a
cloud of powder, being prepared by a hairdresser for his evening appearance. As they talked, Dibdin remarked that he wanted a subject for a new song. While various suggestions were discussed, the once
familiar jar of a ladder on lamp iron outside was heard, "The Lamplighter!" exclaimed Dibdin, "a good notion," and he forthwith began humming and fingering on his knee, When he was released by the hairdresser, Dibdin stepped to the piano and played and sang the long-famous song with that title. — ("More Than One String to Their Bows,’ 2YA, March 15.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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139Inspiration at the Hairdresser's New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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