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  Sonny Hirst   ["The Singing Newsboy"] Boy Soprano Soloist 
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Just a Silver-Haired Old Lady / Burnaby: The Hymn that I Sang as a Boy (Regal Zonophone MR.970 (10-inch), 78 RPM) August 1933
Featuring Sonny Hirst  
A: Just a Silver Haired Old Lady (not heard - "The Gramophone" Aug. 1933 says song by J. Henry & A. Ross, but no such song traced under these names; there is a song with this title publ. 1934 incipit: "I never craved for a mansion, or dreamt of riches untold" by Clay Gordon (fl. 1920s-1930s) & Albert Lemain)
B: The Hymn that I Sang as a Boy (incipit: I heard an organ playing in the church up on the hill.) (song, 1933: wds Sonny Miller - music John Burnaby)
Both rec. with accordeon [sic] accomp.

"Lovers of the lugubriously sentimental will find themselves well catered for on this record."
(Review in The Talking Machine and Wireless Trade News, London, Aug. 1933, p. 153.)
A budget-priced disc retailing at 1/6.
  Side A -   Just a Silver-Haired Old Lady  
  Side B -   The Hymn that I Sang as a Boy (Burnaby)  
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When its lamplightin' time in the valley (Broadcast 978, 78 RPM) August 1933
Featuring Sonny Hirst  
Few details known: probably the song (c.1933) by "The Vagabonds" (Goodman Herald, Upson Dean & Poulton Curt). Rec. here with Sandy Powell.
  Side A -   When its lamplightin' time in the valley  
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Gordon & Lemain: We're All Pally / (song) Till We Meet Again (Regal Zonophone (Green Label) MR.1053 (10-inch), 78 RPM) November 1933
Featuring Sonny Hirst  
A: We're All Pally (Down in our back alley) (song, 1933: wds & music Clay Gordon & Albert Lemain)
B: Till We Meet Again (not identified - there are various songs with this title)
Sonny Hirst (The Singing Newsboy) and His Gang with accordeon accomp.

"Sonny Hirst, with his shrill nasal little voice and Cockney accent is the Singing Newsboy to the life, and makes quite a jolly little entertainment of this record and to the novelty seeker I can commend it."
(Review by Hubert S. Ryan in The Talking Machine and Wireless Trade News, London, Nov. 1933, p. 270.)
Budget-priced disc retailing at 1/6.
  Side A -   We're All Pally (Down in our back alley)  
  Side B -   Till we meet again  
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Gordon & Lemain: Just a Tiny Golden Locket / Tilsley: My Mother's Favourite Song (Regal Zonophone MR.1153, 78 RPM) 1934
Featuring Sonny Hirst  
A: Just a Tiny Golden Locket (incipit: There are things a mother treasures more than anything on earth.) (song, 1933: wds & music Clay Gordon & Albert Lemain)
B: My Mother's Favourite Song (Waltz) (incipit: Songs of today are fine, in their way, but they've no appeal to me.) (song, 1933: wds Robert Hargreaves & Stanley J. Damerell - music Harry Tilsley (1897-1934))
Rec. with accordeon accomp.

Released about Jan. 1934.
  Side A -   Just a Tiny Golden Locket  
  Side B -   My Mother's Favourite Song  
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