Lambeth-born Tom Mellor was the writer of Daisy Dormer’s I Wouldn’t Leave My Little Wooden
Hut For You (with Charles Collins, 1905); I Like Your Old French
Bonnet (with Alf J. Lawrance and Harry Gifford, 1906); and When
It’s Apple Blossom Time In Normandy (with Harry Gifford and
Huntley Trevor, 1913). Mellor teamed up with Fred Godfrey and Harry
Gifford to produce a large number of songs, especially during the Great
War until Godfrey’s conscription in 1917 broke up the collaboration. Their biggest hits were We’re Irish
And Proud Of It, Too (1914) and Save
Your Kisses Till The Boys Come Home (1915). All of the following songs
are by Mellor, Gifford, and Godfrey unless otherwise stated.
1909:
There Never Was A Girl Like You
1912:
Miss Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (Mellor and Godfrey); and The
Wedding Of Jeanie McKie (Come Along, You Heilan’ Lads) (Mellor,
Godfrey and Billy Williams; some sources credit Harry Gifford instead
of Mellor)
1913:
The Perambulator Promenade (Mellor and Godfrey)
1914:
An Entente Cordiale In La Belle France; Everybody’s
Happy Up In Liverpool; How’s Your Mother, And How’s
Your Dad? All Right, Thank You; Hurroo! Hurroo! Here We Are Again!;
I’m Off To Kelly’s Isle; It’s The Same Old
Tommy And The Same Old Jack! (with Alf. J. Lawrance); It’s
The Way They Have In The Navy; I’ve Been Out With Johnny Walker; I’ve Got A Lad In Yorkshire
(Yorkshire Belongs To Me); Johnny O’Morgan, On His Little
Mouth Organ, Playing “Home Sweet Home”; Little Miss
Waltz Time Is Coming Home; My Little Red Cross Girl (I Shall Wear
The Rosary That You Gave To Me); They All Play The Same Old Game;
We All Want To Do The Same As Father; When I Hear Those Bells
Of Brittany; and Your Smiles Are The Sunshine (Your Tears Are The
Rain)
1915:
Hullo! Hullo! Hullo! (You’re Carrying On); I’ve Seen Beautiful Pictures; Mister Sergeant
Michael Donoghue; Tommy Boy!; Tommy’s Learning French; and The
Wee Little House That You Live In (Is The Best Little Place Of All)
1916:
I Do Like The Life, I Do! (Mellor and Godfrey); If She Has An
Irish Way With Her (Shure Her Heart’s All Right); It’s
A Wonderful Great Big Love That’s Calling Me Back To You (Mellor
and Godfrey); It’s Going To Be A Night, That Night (Mellor
and Godfrey); The Ladder Of Roses (Mellor and Godfrey); Put
On Your Little Wooden Shoes (Mellor and Godfrey); Raining (Drops
Of Love For You And Me) (Mellor and Godfrey); Send The Boys A Little
Snapshot (Of The Ones They’ve Left Behind); Spain, My Sunny
Spain (Mellor and Godfrey); and You’re Some Tram-Conductor
Girl (Mellor and Godfrey)
Date unknown:
Americana; Hullo Little Girl, How Do; I Want To Roller-Skate,
Johnny (with T.W. Thurban); Somebody Wants Me; When Im With You (1913?); and When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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