- Harry Champion
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name = Harry Champion
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birthname = William Crump
birthdate = 1866
location =Shoreditch ,London
deathdate = January 1942 (age 76)
deathplace =Tottenham ,London
othername = Will Conray (to 1888)
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genre = singer, composer
spouse =William Crump (1866 –
January 14 ,1942 ), better known by the stage name Harry Champion, was a famous Britishmusic hall composer and star. Born inShoreditch ,London , he first appeared in a music hall at the age of 15, at the Queens Hall, Poplar. [ [http://www.musichallcds.com/music_hall_artists.htm "The Artists of the Music Hall"] accessed 24 Oct 2007] In 1888 he changed his stage name from Will Conray, and with a wide repertoire of songs, many of them sung at breakneck speed and often about the joys of food, [ [http://www.amaranthdesign.ca/musichall/past/champ.htm "Harry Champion Biography" (The English Music Hall)] accessed 24 Oct 2007] he became one of music hall's most successful artists. His songs became some of the most famousCockney songs. [ [http://www.geocities.com/summerhillroad2002/harry_champion.htm "Harry Champion: Music Hall star"] accessed 24 Oct 2007]Harry Champion continued working into his seventies. In January 1942 he died at
Tottenham , aged 76, where he had lived for more than thirty years. He is buried in East Finchley Cemetery. [ [http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Burials.htm "Music Hall burials" (Arthur Lloyd)] accessed 29 Oct 2007]ongs
* "A Little Bit Of Cucumber" (1915) [http://firstworldwar.com/audio/Harry%20Champion%20-%20A%20Little%20Bit%20Of%20Cucumber.mp3]
* "Any Old Iron"
* "End of my Old Cigar"
* "Cover it Over Quick"
* "Old Red Lion"
* "Best that Money Can Buy"
* "Boiled Beef and Carrots "
* "Cockney Bill of London Town"
* "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am " (1910) (signature tune/song) [http://www.archive.org/download/HarryChampion/HarryChampion-ImHeneryTheEighth.mp3]
* "I Want Meat"
* "My Old Iron Cross" (1915) [http://firstworldwar.com/audio/Harry%20Champion%20-%20My%20Old%20Iron%20Cross.mp3]
* "My Wife's Sister's Pussy-Cat"
* "It's Cold Without My Trousers"
* "I'm proud of my old bald head"
* "I shan't mend your waistcoat any more"
* "Beaver (Here comes old Beaver)"
* "In my old white spats" (For Pauline Munro)References
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NAME= Champion, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Crump, William
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Music hall, singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH=Shoreditch ,London
DATE OF DEATH= January 1942
PLACE OF DEATH=Tottenham
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