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Billy Merson

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Billy Merson (1879–1947) was an English music hall performer and songwriter. He began his career while working in a lace-making factory, and doing shows in the evenings. It took some time until he could make a living from his stage work. "For five or six years on the stage, I survived on a salary hardly enough to keep body and soul together", he said. In 1922, he starred in Whirled into Happiness. Songs he wrote include "The Photo of the Girl I Left Behind", "Desdemona" and (possibly his best known) "The Spaniard that Blighted My Life".

Top songs

  1. The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
  2. Medley: Signora/A Prairie Life For Me/On The Good Ship Yacki Hicki Doola
  3. Medley: Photo Of The Girl I Left Behind/The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
  4. The Photo Of The Girl I Left Behind Me
  5. The Night I Appeared As Macbeth
  6. Hard Boiled Herman
  7. Out On the Prairie
  8. They Can't Find Kelly
  9. Cabin in the Sky: Life's Full of Consequences
  10. Medley: Photo of the Girl I Left Behind / the Spaniard That Blighted My Life
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  1. Hard-Boiled Herman (Original 1925 London Cast)
  2. Cabin In the Sky: Saint Petunia
  3. The Singing Fool: The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
  4. Cabin in the Sky: Cabin in the Sky
  5. Cabin in the Sky: Ain't It the Truth
  6. Three Little Girls in Blue: Always the Lady
  7. Medley: Signora / a Prairie Life for Me / On the Good Ship Yacki Hicki Doola
  8. The gay cavalier
  9. 2-21 They Can't Find Kelly
  10. Photo of the Girl I Left Behind/The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
  11. A Prairie Life For Me
  12. Signora, A Prairie Life For Me, On The Good Ship Yacki Hicki Doola, Photo Of The Girl I Left Behind, The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
  13. Spaniard that Blighted My Wife
  14. Out On The Praire
  15. Senora
  16. If I catch Alfonso Tonight
  17. It's Going to Be A Serious Thing For England
  18. the Gondoller
  19. Don't Sing In Ragtime
  20. Signora/A Prairie Life For Me/On The Good Ship Yacki Hicki Doola
  21. I'm Going Away
  22. The Gladiator
  23. The Spaniard Who Blighted My Life
  24. Spaniard That Blighted My Life
  25. Billy Merson - medley
  26. Since Father retired
  27. Back To My Home In The Mountains
  28. I'm So Spiteful
  29. Good Ship Yacki-Hicki-Doo-La
  30. Music Hall - Billy Merson
  31. Madam Anita Peroxide
  32. take An Old Woman's Advice
  33. The Cavalier
  34. A Praire Life For Me
  35. Chines Tango Trot
  36. Opera De Merson
  37. The Yacht I've Not Got
  38. Hard-Boiled Herman - Original 1925 London Cast
  39. The Spaniard That Blighted My Life-Billy Merson 1911
  40. Medley Photo Of The Girl I Left Behindthe Spaniard That Blighted My Life
  41. The Photo Of The Girl I Left Behind
  42. Honeymoon Express: The Spaniard That Blighted My Life

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