CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE IS MY NAME
Created on 13/12/2005Latest update on 16/11/2023
Artist: Victor Mixed Chorus
Author: Alfred Lee/George Leybourne
Label: Victor
Year: 1916
In medley Songs Of The Past No. 19.
Covers:
- 1917:
Robert Sterling [as Champagne Charley; from Norway; real name: Halfdan Meyer]
- 1931:
Jay Wilbur [British dance band leader in Old Timers Medley]
- 1932:
Blind Blake [for Paramount]
- 1944:
Tommy Trinder [title track musical film]
- 1978:
Leon Redbone [as Champagne Charlie]
No blues or ragtime originally but English Music Hall. Written by George Leybourne, who first performed it in 1867 at the Sun Music Hall in Knightsbridge and was nicknamed after his song. A big hit in the Canterbury Arms, a pub in the Lambeth Marches. That London harbor pub was run by wine sellers. They exported the song to America. Sometimes history is that simple.
