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Who Were You with Last Night

Sheet Music
ca. 1912 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The popular music-hall star Mark Sheridan, born in Durham in 1864 to Irish-Scottish parents, had three big hits on the music-hall stage - I Do Like to Be Beside the Sea-side (1909), Who Were You With Last Night? (1912) and Here We Are! Here We Are! Here We Are Again! (1914 ) but he wrote Who Were You With Last Night? with Fred Godfrey. He committed suicide in 1918 after the musical Gay Paree he financed, performed in and put on at Glasgow's Coliseum Theatre was slated by the critics.


Object details

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Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Sheet Music
  • Sheet Music
TitleWho Were You with Last Night (published title)
Materials and techniques
Chromolithograph, ink on paper
Brief description
Music sheet for Who Were You With Last Night?, written and composed by Fred Godfrey and Mark Sheridan, and sung by Mark Sheridan (1864-1918). Feldman's 6d Edition no.494, illustrated with a cartoon of Mark Sheridan by 'F'. Published by Bert Feldman & Co., 1912
Physical description
Music sheet for Who Were You with Last Night featuring a caricature of Mark Sheridan.
Dimensions
  • Front cover height: 36.4cm (approx)
  • Front cover width: 26cm
Credit line
Gabrielle Enthoven Collection
Subject depicted
Summary
The popular music-hall star Mark Sheridan, born in Durham in 1864 to Irish-Scottish parents, had three big hits on the music-hall stage - I Do Like to Be Beside the Sea-side (1909), Who Were You With Last Night? (1912) and Here We Are! Here We Are! Here We Are Again! (1914 ) but he wrote Who Were You With Last Night? with Fred Godfrey. He committed suicide in 1918 after the musical Gay Paree he financed, performed in and put on at Glasgow's Coliseum Theatre was slated by the critics.
Collection
Accession number
S.92-2014

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Record createdNovember 15, 2013
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