Stanley Kirkby

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Stanley Kirkby

voc, 1878-1949 GB, Manchester
Singer of Pop
A.k.a. Arthur Lovell Charles Lester (2) Chas Holland (2) Frank Carter (7) Frank Curtis (2) Frank Miller (12) Fred Maxwell (2) Leslie Milton (3) Murray Johnson (2) Walter Miller (7)

Stanley Kirkby (1878 – 30 October 1949) was an English baritone singer and variety artist of the early 20th century. Possessing a "pure baritone" voice and with "perfect diction," he was able to sing music from a wide range of genres. He sang ballads and popular songs of the Edwardian era, the First World War and the inter-War period. He sang mostly in music halls and variety theatres and was a popular recording artist.

Genres

Pop
Soundtrack
Classical

Popular Tracks

Somewhere In France, Dear Mother - 1915 on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

When We've Wound Up The Watch On The Rhine - 1915 on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

Somewhere In France, Dear Mother on The Music of World War I by Nora Bayes

When The Moon Shines Bright On Charlie Chaplain - 1915 recording on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

We Didn't Want To Fight, But By Jingo - Now We Do - 1914 on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

Till The Boys Come Home - 1915 on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

Tell My Daddy To Come Home Again - 1915 recording on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

When You Know You're Not Forgotten By The Girl You Can't Forget - 1916 recording on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

We Shall All Do The Goose Step - 1915 recording on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

There's A Land - 1914 recording on Oh! It's A Lovely War by Various Artists

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Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
Guilty / There's Not Another Girl Like Mary	Stanley Kirkby	1932	Album
Pretty Kitty Kelly / I'm The Last One Left On The Corner	Stanley Kirkby	1931	Album
Wonder Where You've Been, Nellie Dean? / In The Mountains Of The Pine	Stanley Kirkby	1931	Album
Somewhere In Old Wyoming / By All The Stars Above You	Stanley Kirkby	1931	Album
Would You Take Me Back Again? / If I Had My Time Over Again	Stanley Kirkby	1931	Album
Wedding Bells Are Ringing For Sally / Memories Of You	Stanley Kirkby	1931	Album
Little Sweetheart Of The Prairie / When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain	Stanley Kirkby	1931	Album
I'm Just Wearing Out My Heart For You / My Cradle Is The Desert	Stanley Kirkby	1931	Album
Broken-Hearted Sal / Singing A Vagabond Song	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
Lazy Lou'siana Moon / Ro-Ro-Rolling Along	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
The Ranger's Song / Sweetheart, We Need Each Other	Stanley Kirkby and Rene Valma	1930	Album
Melancholy / There Will Never Be Another Mary	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
When The Organ Played At Twilight / When I Passed The Old Church Door	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
Rio Rita / You're Always In My Arms	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
Dear Old Granny / To My Mammy	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
Your Mother And Mine / Just You, Just Me	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
The World's Greatest Sweetheart Is You / Tondeleyo	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
Dream Mother / Darling Old Mother O' Mine	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
Beside An Open Fireplace / My Fate Is In Your Hands	Stanley Kirkby	1930	Album
Just Plain Folk / When God Made That Mother For You	Stanley Kirkby	1929	Album
I'm Feathering A Nest / I'm Doing What I'm Doing For Love	Stanley Kirkby	1929	Album
Honey / I'll Get By	Stanley Kirkby	1929	Album
My Mother's Eyes / Weary River	Stanley Kirkby	1929	Album
That's You, Baby / Tell Me More About Love	Stanley Kirkby And Rita Bernard	1929	Album
You Were Meant For Me / The Broadway Melody	Stanley Kirkby	1929	Album
Just Like Darby & Joan / One Night In June	Stanley Kirkby & Florine Stanley / Chris Hall	1928	Album
Janette / Are You Lonesome Tonight ?	Stanley Kirkby	1928	Album
Hot Pot / For Old Times' Sake	Stanley Kirkby	1928	Album
Together / In The Woodshed	Stanley Kirkby	1928	Album
Ammoniated Tincture Of Quinine / Don't Do That To The Poor Puss Cat	Stanley Kirkby	1928	Album
By The Waterfall / What About Eggs?	Stanley Kirkby	1928	Album
Have You Any M-o-n-e-y? / Why Is The Bacon So Tough?	Stanley Kirkby	1928	Album
Deep In My Heart, Dear / The Prisoner's Song	Stanley Kirkby	1927	Album
Oh Charley, Take It Away / Round He Came	Stanley Kirkby	1926	Album
Cecilia / Who Loved You Best?	Stanley Kirkby	1926	Album
What'll I Do / Where The Lazy Daisies Grow	Stanley Kirkby	1924	Album
I Love You / In The Eyes Of The World You're Mine	Stanley Kirkby	1924	Album
I’ll Stand Beneath Your Window And Whistle / Granny’s Song At Twilight	Stanley Kirkby	1923	Album
Sally / Rainbow	Stanley Kirkby	1922	Album
And He'd Say "Oo La La, Wee Wee" / Oliver	Stanley Kirkby	1920	Album
The Kingdom Within Your Eyes / Somewhere In Brittany	Stanley Kirkby	1920	Album
When The Great Red Dawn Is Shining / On The Other Side OF The Black Cloud	Stanley Kirkby	1918	Album
Sergeant Brown / They All Look Alike In The Dark	Stanley Kirkby	1918	Album
When The Bells Of Peace Are Ringing / Sergeant Daddy VC	Stanley Kirkby	1918	Album
She Is The Daughter Of Mother Machree / Love Me For Love	Stanley Kirkby	1917	Album
Fares, Please / Zumerzet Fair	Stanley Kirkby & Harry Hudson	1917	Album
What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? / Good-Bye, Dixie	Stanley Kirkby And Harry Hudson	1917	Album
Where The Black-eyed Susans Grow / You'd Never Know That Old Home Town Of Mine	Stanley Kirkby And Harry Hudson	1917	Album
Something Seems Tingle Ingleing / Fancy You Fancying Me	Robert Carr / Stanley Kirkby	1917	Album
Three Hundred And Sixty-Five Days / Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty	Stanley Kirkby	1917	Album
Early In The Morning / Oh You Cuddlesome Girl	Stanley Kirkby & Harry Hudson	1917	Album
When You Hear That Raggy Refrain / When I See You Swinging	Stanley Kirkby, W. Stanton, Harry Cove / Jessie Broughton	1916	Album
Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit-Bag / The Monkey Parade	Stanley Kirkby / Harry Cove And Will Thompson	1916	Album
If You Were The Only Boy In The World And I Were The Only Girl / Another Little Drink Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm	Jessie Broughton And Stanley Kirkby / The Two Filberts	1916	Album
It's a Long, Long Way To My Home In Kentucky/Welcome, Honey, To Your Old Plantation Home	Stanley Kirkby	1916	Album
Just A Plain Silver Locket / There's A Long, Long Trail	Stanley Kirkby / Herbert Stuart & Billy Burton	1916	Album
The Trail That Leads To Home / There's A Long, Long Trail	Stanley Kirkby	1916	Album
If You Were The Only Girl In The World / Another Little Drink Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm	Lucy Grey And Stanley Kirkby / Edgar Trevor And Cecil Cooper	1916	Album
Kitty Lee / Till The Boys Come Home	Robert Carr / Stanley Kirkby	1915	Album
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling / 'Til The Boys Come Home	Stanley Kirkby	1915	Album
Chinatown, My Chinatown	Grace Kerns, J.B. Wells, Stanley Kirkby	1915	Album
Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold / When The Joy Bells Ring	Stanley Kirkby	1915	Album
You're Here And I'm Here / We've Been Married Just One Year	Stanley Kirkby	1915	Album
Murders	Stanley Kirkby	1915	Album
They Didn't Believe Me / They Had To Swim Back To The Shore	Stanley Kirkby / Ada Jones And Billy Watkins	1915	Album
A Mother's Farewell / Man O' War	Stanley Kirkby	1915	Album
Till The Boys Come Home / When Tommy Comes Marching Home	Stanley Kirkby / Harry Marlow	1915	Album
The Songs My Mother Sang / Hymns My Mother Used To Sing	Robert Carr / Stanley Kirkby	1914	Album
When The Convent Bell Is Ringing / Your Love Is Life To Me	Stanley Kirkby	1914	Album
It's A Long, Long Way To Tipperary / The Midnight Attack	Stanley Kirkby / Prince's Band	1914	Album
Your King And Country Need You / Boys In Khaki, Boys In Blue	Harrison Latimer / Stanley Kirkby	1914	Album
Hello, Hello Who's Your Lady Friend / It's A Long Way To Tipperary	Stanley Kirkby	1914	Album
It's A Long, Long Way To Tipperary / Old Comrades March	Stanley Kirkby / Columbia Band	1914	Album
It's A Long Way To Tipperary	Stanley Kirkby	1914	Single
Where Shall We Go To-Night? / It's A Long Way To Tipperary	Stanley Kirkby	1914	Album
Australia Will Be There / Some Hearts Will Be Joyful	Stanley Read / Stanley Kirkby	1914	Album
You Made Me Love You / I Want You All The While	Jack Charman / Stanley Kirkby	1913	Album
Take Me In Your Arms And Say You Love Me / The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine	Stanley Kirkby	1913	Album
Be British / 'Tis A Story That Shall Live For Ever	Stanley Kirkby	1913	Album
A Collier's Child / You Are My Sunbeam	Stanley Kirkby	1912	Album
Old Jim's Christmas Hymn / All People That On Earth Do Dwell	Wilfred Virgo And Stanley Kirkby / The Winchester Chorus	1912	Album
Ragtime Medley / The Buskers	Olly Oakley And Stanley Kirkby, V. Opferman	1912	Album
All Change For The Llanfairfechan / You've Got To Sing In Rag-Time	Harry Fay And Stanley Kirkby	1912	Album
Josh-ua / Maggie Ryan From Dublin Town	Stanley Kirkby	1912	Album
Everybody's Doing It / The Yama Yama Man	Jack Charman / Stanley Kirkby	1912	Album
Play Another Before You Go / We All Go The Same Way Home	Stanley Kirkby	1911	Album
The Letter Song / My Hero	Rosa Dallow, Stanley Kirkby	1911	Album
How Sweet The Name Of Jesus Sounds / For Ever With The Lord	Eleanor Jones Hudson, Ernest Pike, Stanley Kirkby	1910	Album
I Wonder If You Miss Me Sometimes / You Taught Me How To Love You	Stanley Kirkby / Jack Charman	1910	Album
Slievenamon / O'Donnell Abu	Stanley Kirkby		Album
At The Top Of The Hill / Blue Bird	Stanley Kirkby		Album
'Tis A Faded Picture / Don't Go Down In The Mine, Dad	Stanley Kirkby		Album
My Wild Irish Rose / A Little Bit Of Heaven	Stanley Kirkby		Album
I Don't Mind Leaving The Dear Homeland / Don't Go Down In The Mine, Dad	Stanley Kirkby		Album
It's A Long Way To Tipperary / Beautiful Girl	Stanley Kirkby		Album
That's What God Made Mothers For / Don't You Remember The Time	Stanley Kirkby		Album
The Bells Of St. Mary's / With You Beside Me	Stanley Kirkby		Album
A Sergeant Of The Line	Stanley Kirkby		Album
What Is The Meaning Of Mother?/ You Taught Me How To Love You, Now Teach Me To Forget	Stanley Kirkby		Album

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