[78-L] Fairies (serious question!) [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

Lawyer in the family -- apparently not.    I've heard the Cathy Berberrian and it's a scream --anybody have it could burn me a copy, pretty please?!

Mike in Plovdiv






















--- On Sun, 7/8/12, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: [78-L] Fairies (serious question!)
To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
Date: Sunday, July 8, 2012, 4:02 AM

All right, sniggering all done? Good. Let's begin.

THERE ARE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR GARDEN..classic ditty rendered by 
Beatrice Lillie, originally on Gramophone Shop GV 1002; composer credit is 
LEHMANN (Liza, as I recall).

FAIRIES..rendered by Lovena Gilbert, in the 1929 "Cheerio" album, Roycroft 179; 
composer credit is WISE.

Same lyric, different melody. So we look up the words and discover a poem 
titled FAIRIES by Rose Fyleman (1877-1957). Exactly the same words. Seems 
Fyleman wrote the poem in 1917 and was a well known author, so wouldn't you 
think she'd have rated a lyricist credit somewhere along the line? Wasn't there 
a lawyer in the family?

dl

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