[78-L] Fairies (serious question!)

[David Lennick]

Correct re GSV, fifty lashes with a wet needle..ooh, that felt good.

Not sniggering.

dl

On 7/8/2012 8:01 AM, simmonssomer wrote:
> That was GSV 1002, and am not sniggering. Heh heh.
>
> Al Simmons
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78L"<78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 12:02 AM
> Subject: [78-L] Fairies (serious question!)
>
>
>> 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
>>