SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
BRITISH ballad writers once had a reputation for being able to turn out a song at the drop of a hint. The late Fred E. Weatherley, for example, wrote more than 3000. Some of the songs sung soulfully in the drawing-room a few years ago had curious origins. The famous line in Edward Teschemaker’s Until-"‘No Rose in Al! the World Until You Came’came to its author in most presaic circumstances. Teschemaker favoured an Italian restaurant where he liked nothing better than fish roes on toast as a savoury. When once the waiter announced that roes were "off," the Italian proprietor hurried up to the table, and said, "Ah, sir, but I kept some for you. There were no roes for anybody im al] the world until you came."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 25
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132SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 25
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