Wink The Other Eye

Album: Music Hall Classics (1895)
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  • "Wink The Other Eye" was Marie Lloyd's first big hit; written by composer George Le Brunn and lyricist W.T. Lytton, it was inspired by a chance remark by an unnamed individual in response to an exchange between Le Brunn and the lady herself on a Sunday night. She thought it would be a good title for a song, and according to Le Brunn, "I composed the melody that night, on Monday it was written, and on the Tuesday successfully produced."

    The sheet music was published in Howard & Co.'s First Comic Annual. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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