information requested regarding the UK Music Hall performer and
composer JOHN READ, active 1880s, please.

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 08 May 2005 09:41 PDT

If the person you're looking for is the one mentioned by scriptor, I
have found a list of songs in his repetoire, and another list (which
partially overlaps the first list) of songs he composed along with
year of composition.  Would links to this information be sufficient?

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Clarification of Question by birdy_edwards-ga on 08 May 2005 12:55 PDT

Yes, thank you, that information would be OK. birdy_edwards-ga

Hi birdy_edwards,

The links to the repertoire and composition lists are here:

"Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song 1860-1920," by
Michael Kilgarriff [searched inside the book for: "john read"
"grandmother's chair" -- results at pages 320, 508]
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0198166575/ref=A9/103-5233896-7451031?keywords="john%20read"%20"grandmother's%20chair"&v=search-inside

You can view the pages if you sign into an Amazon.com account (which
you can set up for free if you haven't already registered).

There's a bit more information if you try the following search:

"Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song 1860-1920," by
Michael Kilgarriff [search inside the book for: john read]
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0198166575/ref=A9/103-5233896-7451031?keywords="john%20read"%20"grandmother's%20chair"&v=search-inside

- justaskscott


Search terms used on A9 (http://a9.com):

"john read" "grandmother's chair"

good response, both in time and content. thanks

Could John Read ("musician", born approx. 1855 or 1856) be the
composer in question?

In 1881 and in 1891 he was living in London.

Or is it rather John Read (born 1839, died 1920), an Englishman who
wrote and performed many songs between 1873 and 1904?
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=367723776

Scriptor

Second one, I think. Many thanks, birdy_edwards-ga