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Ian (@sirsnapalot) |
George Alex Stevens (1875–1954) was a songwriter and musical show director. In more than 60 years of songwriting he had more than 2000 songs published under the names "G. Alex Stevens", 'Geo A Stevens' and "George A. Stevens". He was known as a writer of music hall songs.
For many years Stevens was a close friend of Charlie Chaplin's father in Kennington, London, composing songs for him. His first successful song was "The Huntsman", sung by Dan Leno at a Royal Command Performance before King Edward VII in 1901. His hits were sung by Marie Lloyd, Albert Chevalier, R.G. Knowles, Gracie Fields, Florrie Forde, and many others.
One of his best-known songs was "On Mother Kelly's Doorstep". Danny La Rue's 1968 version of the song reached number 33 in the UK singles chart; La Rue later adopted the song as his theme tune Kate Carney featured his "Mother I Love You" for more than 40 years. In later years he wrote "Chump Chop and Chips" for Gracie Fields, and Randolph Sutton sang his "When the Harvest Moon is Shining" on early TV, and comedian Reg Dixon revived his "I'm Shy Mary Ellen, I'm Shy".

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admin:
@sirsnapalot This is cool Ian. A new one for me but I like it and it has my name in it so that a bonus haha. Great job. Loved my listen ♥
Jul 12th 2020, 6:15 am Report
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Ian:
@admin this is a song dating back to a similar age as the last one used to be quite a favourite of Danny Leroux a female impersonator thank you so much for listening I and and your heart warming comment warming comment
Jul 12th 2020, 7:26 am Report
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Jay Dotson:
jay455Brilliant song and performance Ian much enjoyed my listen today
Jul 12th 2020, 8:36 am Report
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Bev:
@sirsnapalot This is a new one for me Ian. You did a fantastic job introducing it to me. Loved my listen this morning. ♥♫
Jul 13th 2020, 2:40 am Report
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Ian:
@bevb thank you so much for coming along to listen and for leaving a lovely compliment
Jul 13th 2020, 5:12 pm Report
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