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

[David Lennick]

I knew someone had done it, like Joan Morris..forgot about Cathy. Yes, Ms 
Fyleman gets a "text" credit on the Berbarian lp. I mean for a Jewish girl not 
to have a lawyer in the family (maybe it was "Snoops")..

dl

On 7/8/2012 2:01 AM, Mike Harkin wrote:
> 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