Florrie Forde - Is Everybody Happy Here (1905)
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2024-03-04
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I am a happy sort of girl, you see--
No matter where I go.
Happy and free my friends must be
When I am about, you know.
I have a song that will cheer you up.
The chorus don't you miss.
The music is so very simple and
The words they go like this:
Is everybody happy here?
Is everybody happy here?
If you are, it won't take long
To learn the chorus of this song.
Be happy when you are alive.
You're a long time dead, I fear.
Now, then, let me hear you sing--
Is everybody happy here!
The Australian singer Florrie Forde was born on August 16, 1875.
Her name at birth was Flora May Augusta Flannagan,
She was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.
This music hall artist was born on August 16, 1875, in Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Florrie and some of her siblings were put into a convent for a time.
She ran away from there with her sister Nan, seeking shelter with an aunt in Sydney.
According to a later report, she was an under housemaid at Government House.
By age sixteen, she was on the Sydney music hall stage.
Florrie Forde first appeared at the Polytechnic Music Hall, in the Imperial Arcade, Pitt Street, in February 1892.
In 1893, at age 18, she married Walter Emanuel Bew, a 31-year-old water police constable from England.
In 1897, she made her first appearances in London at three music halls—the South London Palace, the Pavilion and the Oxford.
In 1905 she married Laurence Barnett (d.1934), an art dealer. They made their home at Shoreham, Sussex.
She appeared in a royal command performance in 1912 and in World War I was at the height of her fame.
During the 1920s she helped to establish the duo of Chesney Allen and Bud Winthrop, bringing them together in a show she called Flo and Co.
She died of a cerebral haemorrhage on April 18, 1940 (weeks before the Battle of Britain), at Aberdeen, Scotland.
Many songs are associated with Forde. They include "Down At The Old Bull And Bush," "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty," and "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" (popularized by Nora Bayes in America).
Florrie Forde "Is Everybody Happy Here?" Edison Record 13789 (1905) London, British music hall song
No matter where I go.
Happy and free my friends must be
When I am about, you know.
I have a song that will cheer you up.
The chorus don't you miss.
The music is so very simple and
The words they go like this:
Is everybody happy here?
Is everybody happy here?
If you are, it won't take long
To learn the chorus of this song.
Be happy when you are alive.
You're a long time dead, I fear.
Now, then, let me hear you sing--
Is everybody happy here!
The Australian singer Florrie Forde was born on August 16, 1875.
Her name at birth was Flora May Augusta Flannagan,
She was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.
This music hall artist was born on August 16, 1875, in Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Florrie and some of her siblings were put into a convent for a time.
She ran away from there with her sister Nan, seeking shelter with an aunt in Sydney.
According to a later report, she was an under housemaid at Government House.
By age sixteen, she was on the Sydney music hall stage.
Florrie Forde first appeared at the Polytechnic Music Hall, in the Imperial Arcade, Pitt Street, in February 1892.
In 1893, at age 18, she married Walter Emanuel Bew, a 31-year-old water police constable from England.
In 1897, she made her first appearances in London at three music halls—the South London Palace, the Pavilion and the Oxford.
In 1905 she married Laurence Barnett (d.1934), an art dealer. They made their home at Shoreham, Sussex.
She appeared in a royal command performance in 1912 and in World War I was at the height of her fame.
During the 1920s she helped to establish the duo of Chesney Allen and Bud Winthrop, bringing them together in a show she called Flo and Co.
She died of a cerebral haemorrhage on April 18, 1940 (weeks before the Battle of Britain), at Aberdeen, Scotland.
Many songs are associated with Forde. They include "Down At The Old Bull And Bush," "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty," and "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" (popularized by Nora Bayes in America).
Florrie Forde "Is Everybody Happy Here?" Edison Record 13789 (1905) London, British music hall song
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