SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
| "[T’'S.4 LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY," strongly _associated. with the First World War, came out of a bet. It was produced two years before the war started. Jack Judge and Harry Williams were the joint authors. Once when Judge, a music-ha!l singer, was appearing at the Stalybridge Theatre, Lancashire, there was an argument about how long it took to compose a catchy song. Jack took up a wager, called at the "local," borrowed pencil and paper and got to work. That night "It’s a Long Way to Tipperary" was sung at the Stalybridge Theatre; and later it became a marching song for .a nation. Its theme, of course, was a sentimental story of an Itishman’s visit to London. It had a tuneful melody, but it was most likely the line "Goodbye, Piccadilly; Farewell, Leicester Square,’ that appealed to. the troops, who probably cared little how far it was to Tipperary. a |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 25
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154SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 25
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