SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
[RE ballad "Sally in Our Alley" came out of a chance incident in the life of Henry Carey, who was born in London in 1690 and died in 1743. There used to be a fair near the Church of St. Mary’s, Moorfields, London, and Carey once visited it. He noticed how a Cockney youth paid fond attention to a girl whose name, Carey overheard, was Sally. When he got home Carey wrote out first the words and then the tune of "Sally in Our Alley.’ One or two of the composer's priggish friends sniggered at his lowly subject, but the song’ became immensely popular. (According to Percy Scholes in "The Oxford Companion to Music" the song was "replaced in 1790 by a traditional English tune, ‘What Though I Am a Country Lass,’ which is the tune we now know.")
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 25
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143SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 25
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