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Have You Heard John James O'Hara, sung by Jack Charman (1887-1953)
YouTube video published by Paul Harrison on 27.02.2014.

Have You Heard John James O'Hara? - Mr. Jack Charman - Comic
Vintage 78rpm Gramophone Record: John Bull Record, No. 11651.

National Library of Australia: Have you heard John James O'Hara
Music (1 score ([5] p.) written by Worton David ; composed by C.W. Murphy. Published Melbourne: Allan &​ Co., [between 1901 and 1920].

Clarence Wainwright Murphy (1875–1913)
Clarence Wainwright Murphy, also known as Charles William Murphy was a prolific British composer of music hall and musical theatre tunes ... His works include (with Worton David) Have You Heard John James O'Hara? – 1911.

Florrie Forde - John James O'Hara (1911)
Florrie Forde (16 August 1875 -- 18 April 1940), born Flora May Augusta Flannagan, was an Australian popular singer and entertainer. She was one of the greatest stars of the early 20th century music hall.

Florrie Forde - John James O'Hara, 1911
Florrie Forde (August 16, 1875 – April 18, 1940), born Flora May Augusta Flannagan, was an Australian popular singer and entertainer. She was one of the greatest stars of the early 20th century music hall. Forde was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. She was the sixth of the eight children of Lott Flannagan and Phoebe, who also had two children from a prior marriage. At the age of sixteen, she ran away from home to appear on the Sydney music hall stage, adopting the surname of her stepfather. At the age of 21, in 1897, she left for London, and on August Bank Holiday 1897, she made her first appearances in London at three music halls – the South London Palace, the Pavilion and the Oxford – in the course of one evening. She became an immediate star, making the first of her many sound recordings in 1903 and making 700 individual recordings by 1936 ... .

EMGColonel: Florrie Forde - John James O'Hara
John James O'Hara Sung by Florrie Forde, Zonophone Record 633 (published 12.01.2016).

 

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