User:Richard J Myers

Hello and thanks for reading my page.

I live in the Midlands (England). I was originally trained in the Sciences before moving on to study and work in IT. Outside these areas my interests and hobbies lie almost entirely in musical subjects. I am a sometime amateur cellist and in the mid 90's took a three-year part-time course in harmony, counterpoint and musical composition at Birkbeck, University of London. For the past two years or so I have been working locally in the IT department at Keele University.

Recently, I started to collect old recordings (78 rpm) and have found that there are many artists who must have been household names in their day but of whom we know very little about their lives now. I set out to remedy this, starting with the Ernest Pike page. The complete list of pages which I have been wholly or mostly responsible for can be seen below:

Singers (classical and variety)

 * Ernest Pike – Tenor singer of opera and popular songs in the Edwardian era and WWI.
 * Stanley Kirkby – Baritone singer of popular songs in the Edwardian era and up to 1930s
 * Kennerley Rumford – Early 20th century baritone and husband of Clara Butt.
 * Jessie Broughton – Contralto singer and actress.
 * Philip Ritte – Tenor singer.
 * William Paull – Baritone singer who suffered a fatal accident whilst on tour.

Cellists

 * William Henry Squire – Cellist and composer. (completely rewritten with references)
 * Cedric Sharpe – Cellist and composer.
 * Edward Howell – Cellist and teacher of W. H. Squire.
 * Julius Goltermann – German cellist and music professor.

Music hall singers

 * Victoria Monks – Music-hall singer

Songs

 * I Hear You Calling Me – Popular song from 1908
 * Roses of Picardy – Popular song from 1916
 * The Sunshine of Your Smile – Popular song from 1913
 * The Galloping Major (song) – Popular song from 1906
 * Your King and Country Want You – First World War recruitment song from 1914
 * Your King and Country Need You (Pelham) – First World War recruitment song from 1914
 * Your King and Country Need You (Trevor) – First World War recruitment song from 1914

Record labels

 * Coliseum Records – British record label.
 * Scala Records – British record label.

Theatrical productions

 * The Cherry Girl – An Edwardian musical comedy from 1903
 * Roses of Picardy (musical)

Theatres and music halls

 * The Metropolitan Theatre & The Metropolitan Music Hall – A music hall in the Edgware Road London – now demolished.

Miscellaneous

 * George W. Byng – Theatre conductor, composer and musical arranger.
 * Herbert Sharpe – Pianist and founding member of the Royal College of Music
 * Charles Buthod – French luthier