That's What The Winkle Told The Whale

Album: Music Hall Classics (1911)
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  • "That's What The Winkle Told The Whale" is in 6/8 time, was written by W.H. Wallis, and sung by George Brooks. The sheet music retailed for 2 shillings from Francis Day & Hunter of London, who published it in 1911, and according to which "This song may be sung in public without Fee or License, except at Theatres and Music Halls, which Rights are reserved."

    It remains to be seen why anyone should have wanted to sing this song in public, or to pay two shillings for the sheet music when an advertisement in the London Times the same year offered State Express cigarettes "hand made of the finest old matured Virginia tobacco" at one shilling and thrupence for a packet of 25! >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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