Author talk:Frederick C. Perry

Sources

• "Pop Goes the Weasel. Written and performed by F. C. Perry. At Mr. Leigh's Scientific Exhibition High Holborn." [1]
• Author of "Song of the Perfect Cure": [2][3][4][5] &c
• Brief bio: [6]

—Beleg Tâl (talk) 21:02, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

@Beleg Tâl: First link is broken for me, and I cannot see the brief bio from my country, barely a snippet of the page. Can you do something else to make that available? Maybe paste a screenshot into phabricator and set its permissions to visible? — billinghurst sDrewth 11:18, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I've uploaded the first link as Pop Goes the Weasel (Perry, pub. Paul). Brief bio is as follows:

PERRY, Frederick C. With his son sang and conducted at the King's head, Knightsbridge, London, for five shillings a night; a writer of the following songs, The exhibition lodging house; I'd a splendid house in Concord crescent, music by William Wilson 1860; The perfect cure, Young love he plays some funny tricks, music by Jonathan Blewitt 1865; When these old clothes were new, eight years ago I looked a swell, music by Frederick French 1867; The charming young girl, In the arcade one evening, music by Thomas Fancourt 1868; Herr Von Clarinette's my name, music by T. Fancourt 1873; To keep the peace 1876.

Note.—He also wrote Daddy's Knock, a parody on The Postman's knock, We've taken Sebastopol in which Slap Bang occurs perhaps for the first time; The Guards of our land, written in honor of the return from Crimea, set to music by Mr. Tully at the King's head music hall.

—Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography, Volume II [7] (1897)

—Beleg Tâl (talk) 14:24, 10 January 2020 (UTC)