SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
";C BEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING," popular with British and American soldiers during the 1914-1918 war, was, as to the music, the work of the actor- playwright filmwright composer Ivor Novello. He wrote it at the request of his mother, the choral conductor Clara Novello Davies, who felt that "Tipperary" had "become tiresome through months of iteration." The verses are chiefly the work of an American woman, Mrs. Lena Guilbert Ford, to whom the composer supplied the tune with the first line of the words, leaving her to do the rest. It is reported that both words and music were _ turned out in half an hour, and that the song netted the composer £16,000.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 760, 12 February 1954, Page 15
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118SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 760, 12 February 1954, Page 15
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