Harry Lauder - wikipedia Harry Lauder Lauder in 1909 Sir Henry Lauder ( / ˈlɔːdər / ; 4 August 1870 -- 26 February 1950 ) was a Scottish singer and comedian popular in both music hall and vaudevillian theatre traditions ; he achieved international success. He was described by Sir Winston Churchill as `` Scotland 's greatest ever ambassador ''. He became a familiar worldwide figure promoting images like the kilt and the cromach ( walking stick ) to huge acclaim, especially in America. Other songs followed, including `` Roamin ' in the Gloamin '', `` A Wee Deoch - an - Doris '', `` The End of the Road '' and, a particularly big hit for him, `` I Love a Lassie ''. By 1911 Lauder had become the highest - paid performer in the world, and was the first British artist to sell a million records ; by 1928 he had sold double that. He raised vast amounts of money for the war effort during the First World War, for which he was knighted in 1919. He went into semi-retirement in the mid-1930s, but briefly emerged to entertain troops in the Second World War. By the late 1940s he was suffering from long periods of ill - health and died in Scotland in 1950. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Marriage and early career 1.3 Career peak years ; 1900 -- 1920 1.4 Australia 1.5 South Africa 1.6 First World War 1.7 Later years 2 His works 3 Recordings 4 Portraits 5 Death 6 Posthumous 7 Selected filmography 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links Biography Early life Lauder was born on 4 August 1870 in his maternal grandfather 's house in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest of seven children. His father, John Lauder, was the grandson of George Lauder of Inverleith Mains & the St Bernard 's Well estate, Edinburgh, descendants of the feudal barons the Lauders of the Bass ; and his mother, Isabella Urquhart Macleod née McLennan, was born in Arbroath to a family from the Black Isle. Lauder 's father moved to Newbold, Derbyshire, in early 1882 to take up a job designing porcelain, but died on 20 April from pneumonia. Isabella, left with little more than John 's life insurance proceeds of £ 15, she and the children moved to be with her family in Arbroath. To finance his education beyond age 11, Harry worked part time at a flax mill. He made his first public appearance, singing, at a variety concert at Oddfellows ' Hall in Arbroath when he was 13 years old, winning first prize for the night ( a watch ! ). In 1884 the family went to Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, to live with Isabella 's brother, Alexander, who found Harry employment at Eddlewood Colliery at ten shillings per week ; he kept this job for a decade. Marriage and early career On 19 June 1891 Lauder married Ann, daughter of James Vallance, a colliery manager in Hamilton. Lauder often sang to the miners in Hamilton, who encouraged him to perform in local music halls. While singing in nearby Larkhall, he received 5 shillings -- the first time he was paid for singing. He received further engagements including a weekly `` go - as - you please '' night held by Mrs. Christina Baylis at her Scotia Music Hall / Metropole Theatre in Glasgow. She advised him to gain experience by touring music halls around the country with a concert party, which he did. The tour allowed him to quit the coal mines and become a professional singer. Lauder concentrated his repertoire on comedic routines and songs of Scotland and Ireland. By 1894 he had turned professional and performed local characterisations at small, Scottish and northern English music halls, but had ceased the repertoire by 1900. In March of that year, Lauder travelled to London and reduced the heavy dialect of his act which according to a biographer, Dave Russell, `` handicapped Scottish performers in the metropolis ''. He was an immediate success at the Charing Cross Music Hall and the London Pavilion, venues at which the theatrical paper The Era thought he generated `` ( a ) great furore '' among his audiences with three of his self - composed songs. He was initiated a Freemason on 28 January 1897 in Lodge Dramatic, No. 571, and remained an active Freemason for the rest of his life. Career peak years ; 1900 -- 1920 Pre -- WW1 toy bus with Lauder advert In 1905 Lauder 's success in leading the Howard & Wyndham pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, for which he wrote I Love a Lassie, made him a national star, and he obtained contracts with Sir Edward Moss and others. Lauder then made a switch from music hall to variety theatre and undertook a tour of America in 1907. The following year, he performed a private show before Edward VII at Sandringham, and in 1911, he again toured the United States where he commanded $1,000 a night. In 1912, he was top of the bill at Britain 's first ever Royal Command Performance, in front of King George V, organised by Alfred Butt. Lauder undertook world tours extensively during his forty - year career, including 22 trips to the United States -- for which he had his own railway train, the Harry Lauder Special, and made several trips to Australia, where his brother John had emigrated. Lauder was, at one time, the highest - paid performer in the world, making the equivalent of £ 12,700 a night plus expenses. He was paid £ 1125 for an engagement at the Glasgow Pavilion Theatre in 1913 and was later considered by the press to earn one of the highest weekly salaries by a theatrical performer during the pre-war period. In January 1914 he embarked on a tour that included the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Australia Possibly Lauder 's strongest connexions were with Australia. Both Lauder, his wife and son, brother Matt and his wife, were all in Australia when The Great War broke out. Their brother John had already emigrated, about 1906, to Kurri Kurri ( and, later, Newcastle ), New South Wales, and Matt 's eldest son John would also emigrate there in 1920. Lauder wrote that `` every time I return to Australia I am filled with genuine enthusiasm... it is one of the very greatest countries in the world. '' Lauder was next in Australia ( with his wife and her mother ) in 1919, arriving at Sydney on 1 March on board the Oceanic Steamship Company 's liner S.S. Ventura, from San Francisco, and he was in situ at the Hotel Australia when he was formally notified that he was to be knighted upon his return to Britain. His next visit was in 1923 when his brother John was on hand in Sydney, with their nephew John ( Matt 's son ), to welcome Lauder, his wife and her brother Tom Vallance, after a four - year absence from Australia. He visited and stayed with his brother John in Newcastle on several occasions, two well - known visits being in 1925, when he gave several performances at Newcastle 's Victoria Theatre for three weeks commencing on 8 August, and again in 1929 arriving in Newcastle for a brief visit on 25 July. Lauder departed Sydney for the USA on board the liner SS Ventura on Saturday 27 July 1929, a ship he was familiar with. In 1934 - 5, his brother John spent 10 months with him in Scotland. South Africa Sir Harry Lauder 's 1925 reception in South Africa has never been equalled in that country. En - route to Australia, he and his wife arrived in Cape Town at Easter. Over twenty thousand people had lined the streets for hours beforehand and it was reported that every policeman in the city plus mounted police were required to keep order. All traffic came to a standstill. He played for two weeks at the Opera House to packed audiences every night, figures `` which staggered the management ''. He moved on to Johannesburg where his reception was equally amazing, described by a reporter who said `` never, as long as I live, shall I forget it ! '' First World War 46 Longley Road, Tooting, London blue plaque The First World War broke out while Lauder was visiting Australia. During the First World War Lauder promoted recruitment into the services and starred in many concerts for troops at home and on the western front : he led successful charity fundraising efforts, organised a recruitment tour of music halls, and entertained troops in France with a piano. Through his efforts in organising concerts and fundraising appeals he established the charity, the Harry Lauder Million Pound Fund, for maimed Scottish soldiers and sailors to help servicemen return to health and civilian life, and for these many services he was knighted in May 1919. Campaigning for the war effort, in 1915 he wrote `` I know that I am voicing the sentiment of thousands and thousands of people when I say that we must retaliate in every possible way regardless of cost. If these German savages want savagery, let them have it ''. His only son John, who had been educated at the City of London School followed by a degree from Jesus College, Cambridge University, became a Captain in the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was killed in action on 28 December 1916 at Pozières. Nonetheless, with his wife 's encouragement Lauder returned to the stage three days after learning of John 's death. He wrote the song `` The End of the Road '' ( published as a collaboration with the American William Dillon, 1924 ) in the wake of John 's death, and built a monument for him in the private Lauder cemetery in Glenbranter. ( John Lauder was buried in the war cemetery at Ovillers, France ). Winston Churchill wrote that Lauder, ``... by his inspiring songs and valiant life, rendered measureless service to the Scottish race and to the British Empire. '' Later years Lauder Ha ', 1967 Lady Lauder died on 31 July 1927, at 54, a week after an operation. She was buried next to John 's memorial in the private Lauder cemetery on his 14,000 acre Glenbranter estate in Argyll, where her parents would later join her. Lauder 's niece, Margaret ( 1900 -- 1966 ), subsequently became his secretary and companion until his death. After the First World War, Lauder continued to tour the variety theatre circuits ; his last tour was in North America in 1932. He made plans for a new house at Strathaven, to be built over the site and ruin of an old manor, called Lauder Ha '. He was semi-retired in the mid-1930s, until his final retirement was announced in 1935. He briefly emerged from retirement to entertain troops during the war and make wireless broadcasts with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Lauder 's understanding of life, its pathos and joys, earned him his popularity. Beniamino Gigli commended his singing voice and clarity. Lauder usually performed in full Highland regalia -- kilt, sporran, tam o ' shanter, and twisted walking stick -- and sung Scottish - themed songs, including Roamin ' in the Gloamin '. His works Lauder wrote most of his own songs, favourites of which were Roamin ' In The Gloamin ', I Love a Lassie, A Wee Deoch - an - Doris, and The End of the Road, which is used by Birmingham City Football Club as their club anthem. He starred in three British films : Huntingtower ( 1927 ), Auld Lang Syne ( 1929 ) and The End of the Road ( 1936 ). He also appeared in a test film for the Photokinema sound - on - disc process in 1921. This film is part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive collection ; however, the disc is missing. In 1914, Lauder appeared in 14 Selig Polyscope experimental short sound films. In 1907, he appeared in a short film singing `` I Love a Lassie '' for British Gaumont. The British Film Institute has several reels of what appears to be an unreleased film All for the Sake of Mary ( c. 1920 ) co-starring Effie Vallance and Harry Vallance. He wrote a number of books, which ran into several editions, including Harry Lauder at Home and on Tour ( 1912 ), A Minstrel in France ( 1918 ), Between You and Me ( 1919 ), Roamin ' in the Gloamin ' ( 1928 autobiography ), My Best Scotch Stories ( 1929 ), Wee Drappies ( 1931 ) and Ticklin ' Talks ( circa 1932 ). Recordings Lauder made his first recordings, resulting in nine selections, for the Gramophone & Typewriter company early in 1902. He continued to record for Gramophone until the middle of 1905, most recordings appearing on the Gramophone label, but others on Zonophone. He then recorded fourteen selections for Pathé Records June 1906. Two months later he was back at Gramophone, and performed for them in several sessions through 1908. That year he made several two and four - minute cylinders for Edison Records. Next year he recorded for Victor in New York. He continued to make some cylinders for Edison, but was primarily associated with His Master 's Voice and Victor. In 1910 Victor introduced a mid-priced purple - label series, the first twelve issues of which were by Lauder. In 1927 Victor promoted Lauder recordings to their Red Seal imprint, making him the only comedic performer to appear on the label primarily associated with operatic celebrities. Lauder is one of three artists shown on Victor 's black, purple, blue and red Seal records ( the others being Lucy Isabelle Marsh and Reinald Werrenrath ). His final recordings were made in 1940, but Lauder records were issued in the new format as current material when RCA Victor introduced the 45rpm record. Portraits Lauder is credited with giving the then 21 - year - old portrait artist Cowan Dobson his opening into society by commissioning him, in 1915, to paint his portrait. This was considered to be so outstanding that another commission came the following year, to paint his son Captain John Lauder, and again another commission in 1921 to paint Lauder 's wife, the latter portrait being after the style of John Singer Sargent. These three portaits remain with the family. The same year, Scottish artist James McBey painted another portrait of Lauder, today in the Glasgow Museums. In the tradition of the magazine Vanity Fair, there appeared numerous caricatures of Lauder. One is by Al Frueh ( 1880 -- 1968 ) in 1911 and published in 1913 in the New York World magazine, another by Henry Mayo Bateman, now in London 's National Gallery, and one of 1926 by Alick P.F. Ritchie, for Players Cigarettes, today in the London National Portrait Gallery ( ref : NPG D2675 ). Death Sir Harry Lauder 's Grave, Bent Cemetery, Hamilton Lauder leased the Glenbranter estate in Argyll to the Forestry Commission and spent his last years at Lauder Ha ( or Hall ), his Strathaven home, where he died on 26 February 1950, aged 79. His funeral was held at Cadzow church in Hamilton on 2 March. It was widely reported, notably by Pathé newsreels. One of the chief mourners was the Duke of Hamilton, a close family friend, who led the funeral procession through Hamilton, and read The Lesson. Wreaths were sent from Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Winston Churchill. Lauder was interred with his brother George and their mother in the family plot at Bent Cemetery in Hamilton. In 1932 he had placed the land at Strathaven where Lauder Hall would stand, and its park, in the name of his niece and secretary, Margaret Lauder to avoid high death duties should he die, as he wanted it preserved as the family seat and a museum to himself. This proved to be a wise move as although he left moveable estate of £ 358,971, the death duties on this amounted to £ 207,581. After personal bequests to family totalling £ 27,000 the residue went to Margaret Lauder. Posthumous Websites carry much of his material and the Harry Lauder Collection, amassed by entertainer Jimmy Logan, was bought for the nation and donated to the University of Glasgow. When the A199 Portobello bypass opened, it was named the Sir Harry Lauder Road. On 28 July 1987, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh hosted a luncheon at the Edinburgh City Chambers to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Lauder receiving the Freedom of the City. On 4 August 2001 Gregory Lauder - Frost opened the Sir Harry Lauder Memorial Garden at Portobello Town Hall. BBC 2 Scotland broadcast a documentary, Something About Harry, on 30 November 2005. On 29 September 2007, Lauder - Frost rededicated the Burslem Golf Course & Club at Stoke - on - Trent, which had been formally opened exactly a century before by Harry Lauder. In the 1990s, samples of recordings of Lauder were used on two tracks recorded by the Scottish folk / dance music artist Martyn Bennett. The Corkscrew Hazel ornamental cultivar of common hazel ( Corylus avellana ) is sometimes known as Harry Lauder 's Walking Stick, in reference to the crooked walking stick Lauder often carried. Selected filmography Huntingtower ( 1927 ) Auld Lang Syne ( 1929 ) The End of the Road ( 1936 ) References ^ Jump up to : Russell, Dave. `` Lauder, Sir Henry ( 1870 -- 1950 ) '', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, January 2011, accessed 27 April 2014 ( subscription required ) Jump up ^ `` Sir Harry Lauder : 1870 -- 1950 ''. University of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 15 May 2009. Jump up ^ `` Sir Harry Lauder ''. Time. 10 March 1930. Retrieved 14 August 2008. Jump up ^ Lauder - Frost, Gregory. `` Biographical Notes on Sir Harry Lauder ''. Electric Scotland. Retrieved 20 February 2011. Jump up ^ The Daily Examiner, Grafton, New South Wales, 1 December 1928, p. 8, citing Sir Harry himself. ^ Jump up to : `` Hall of Fame A-Z. Sir Harry Lauder ( 1870 - 1950 ) ''. National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Jump up ^ Wallace, 1988, p. 16. ^ Jump up to : `` The Ancestry of Sir Harry Lauder '' in The Scottish Genealogist, vol. liii, no. 2, Edinburgh, June 2006, pp. 74 -- 87. ISSN 0300 - 337X Jump up ^ Lauder, Sir Harry, Roamin ' in the Gloamin, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1927, p. 26. Jump up ^ Wallace, 1988, p. 18. Jump up ^ Strand Magazine, April 1909, `` My Reminiscences '' by Harry Lauder. Jump up ^ Wallace, 1988, p. 21. Jump up ^ `` Sir Harry Lauder : 1870 -- 1950 ''. Special Collections. University of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Jump up ^ Famous Scottish Freemasons. Published by the Grand Lodge of Scotland 2010. ISBN 978 - 0 - 9560933 - 8 - 7 Jump up ^ `` Music Hall Gala. Visit of the King to Palace Theatre ''. The Glasgow Herald. 1 August 1927. p. 11. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ Fleming, Craig ( 4 December 2012 ). `` Harry 's wages were cut... by royal command ! ''. Blackpool Gazette. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Harry Lauder, coming to a ringtone near you ''. The Sunday Times. 24 July 2005. Jump up ^ `` Harry Lauder 's Tour. Dates and Prospects. Interesting Interview ''. The Southland Times ( 17556 ). 21 January 1914. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Jump up ^ Lauder, Sir Harry, Roamin ' in the Gloamin ( autobiography ), London, 1928, p. 177 - 8. Jump up ^ The Herald, Melbourne, Victoria, 4 May 1914, p. 8. Jump up ^ Lauder, 1928, p. 29. Jump up ^ Lauder, 1928, p. 223. Jump up ^ Lauder, 1928, p. 221. Jump up ^ Newcastle Morning Herald 1 May 1919, p. 5. Jump up ^ Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 4 March 1923, p. 10. Jump up ^ Newcastle Morning Herald, 4th, and 13 August 1925, p. 6. Jump up ^ Newcastle Morning Herald 5 August 1925, p. 8. Jump up ^ https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-157694530/view Jump up ^ Newcastle Morning Herald, 23 July 1929, p. 8. Jump up ^ Newcastle Morning Herald 29 July 1929, p. 4. Jump up ^ Newcastle Morning Herald 5 March 1935, p. 6. Jump up ^ Warwick Daily News, Queensland, 3 August 1925, p. 3. Jump up ^ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/175720145?searchTerm=Matt%20Lauder%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits= ^ Jump up to : Brocklehurst, Steven ( 12 November 2014 ). `` World War One at Home : How Harry Lauder 's war tragedy spurred him on ''. BBC News. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ Scotland, National Archives of. `` NAS Catalogue - catalogue record ''. catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk. Jump up ^ The Scotsman newspaper, 19 Oct 1918. Jump up ^ Wallace, William, Harry Lauder in the Limelight, Lewes, Sussex, 1988, p. 49, ISBN 0 - 86332 - 312 - X Jump up ^ `` Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood ''. Edinburgh Gazette ( 13440 ). 2 May 1919. p. 1591. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Jump up ^ Wallace, 1988, p. 55. Jump up ^ `` Impassioned Address By Harry '', Arbroath Herald and Advertiser For The Montrose Burghs, 11 June 1915 -- via British Newspaper Archive, ( Subscription required ( help ) ) Jump up ^ `` Interesting Address from Harry Lauder ''. The McGill Daily. 26 November 1917. pp. 1 -- 2. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Jump up ^ Manchester, Reading Room. `` Casualty Details ''. www.cwgc.org. Jump up ^ Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War -- Volume III, p. 530 Jump up ^ `` Death of Lady Lauder ''. The Glasgow Herald. 1 August 1927. p. 11. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ Newcastle Morning Herald ( New South Wales ) 1 May 1919, p. 5. Jump up ^ `` Section and South elevation of Lauder Ha ', the `` proposed house at Strathaven for Sir Harry Lauder '' ``. Canmore. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ James Douglas ( 1909 ). Adventures in London. Cassell, limited. p. 158. It is a mistake to imagine that gloom is unpopular, and that pathos is unprofitable... I have no doubt that Martin Harvey and Harry Lauder work on the same nerve... The one makes you feel funnily un-comfortable, and the other makes you feel un-comfortably funny. Jump up ^ Albert David Mackie ( 1973 ). The Scotch comedians, from the music hall to television. Ramsay Head Press. p. 34. Lauder 's stage character -- the little man in the kilt with the Balmoral, Kilmarnock or Tam o ' Shanter bonnet, the long sporran, and the twisted walking - stick -- was largely the product of Victorian sentimentalisation of the Highlander Jump up ^ `` Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List ''. www.silentera.com. Jump up ^ `` SilentEra entry ''. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Jump up ^ `` All for the Sake of Mary ( 1920 ) ''. British Film Institute. Jump up ^ `` All for the Sake of Mary ( 1920 ) Collections ''. British Film Institute. Jump up ^ `` A Minstrel in France. By Harry Lauder. ( Melrose. 78. 6d. net. ) ''. The Spectator. 12 October 1918. p. 21. 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Jump up ^ `` Caricature and Cartoon in Twentieth - Century America : Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon ( Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress ) ''. www.loc.gov. Jump up ^ `` Sir Harry Lauder by Henry Mayo Bateman - National Galleries of Scotland ''. National Galleries of Scotland. Jump up ^ `` Sir Harry Lauder ''. London National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Death of Sir Harry Lauder. World Fame as Scots Singer ''. The Glasgow Herald. 27 February 1950. p. 4. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` From the archives. Sir Harry Lauder dies ''. The Guardian. 27 February 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Lauder cortege of 200 cars ''. The Glasgow Herald. 3 March 1950. p. 7. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ Hamilton Advertiser, 4 March 1950 Jump up ^ Gilchrist, Jim. `` Selected Originals - Funeral Of Sir Harry... ''. Pathé News. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ Wallace ( 1988 ), p. 93. 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Further Reading Great Scot ! : the life story of Sir Harry Lauder, legendary laird of the music hall. by Gordon Irving, London, 1968 ( ISBN 0 - 09 - 089070 - 1 ). Harry Lauder in the Limelight by William Wallace, Lewes, Sussex, 1988, ( ISBN 0 - 86332 - 312 - X ), which has a foreword and extensive notes by Sir Harry 's great - nephew, Gregory Lauder - Frost. The Sunday Times ( Scottish edition ), 24 July 2005, article : `` Harry Lauder, coming to a ringtone near you '', by David Stenhouse. The Ancestry of Sir Harry Lauder, in The Scottish Genealogist, Edinburgh, June 2006, Vol. 53, No. 2, ISSN 0300 - 337X A Minstrel in France, Hearst 's International Book Company, London, 1918, by Harry Lauder about the death of his son. Lauder - Frost, Gregory. `` Biographical Notes on Sir Harry Lauder ''. Retrieved 30 August 2007. Roamin ' in the Gloamin ( Autobiography ) by Sir Harry Lauder, ( London, 1928 ), reprinted without the photos, London, 1976, ( ISBN 0 - 7158 - 1176 - 2 ) `` The Theatre Royal : Entertaining A Nation '' by Graeme Smith, Glasgow, 2008 External links Media related to Harry Lauder at Wikimedia Commons Harry Lauder on IMDb Harry Lauder at BFI Database A Celebration of Sir Harry Lauder An Archive Of All Things Sir Harry Lauder Works by Harry Lauder at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Harry Lauder at Internet Archive Harry Lauder cylinder recordings, from the Darrell Baker Collection Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. Discography of Harry Lauder on Victor Records from the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings ( EDVR ) Scottish Theatre Archive, Glasgow THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHN LAUDER ( Ed Dixon ) WorldCat Identities BNE : XX1794908 BNF : cb139406954 ( data ) GND : 128559454 ISNI : 0000 0000 6302 1686 LCCN : n84022129 MusicBrainz : b51f17ae - 1405 - 46e0 - 95cb - b31252bb4355 NLA : 36190561 SNAC : w6db9063 VIAF : 44489442 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Lauder&oldid=865508964 '' Categories : 1870 births 1950 deaths Entertainments National Service Association personnel Knights Bachelor Singers awarded knighthoods Music hall performers People from Portobello, Edinburgh Scottish male film actors Scottish male singers Scottish male comedians Scottish songwriters Scottish writers Vaudeville performers Pioneer recording artists Disease - related deaths in Scotland Scottish Freemasons 20th - century Scottish male actors 20th - century Scottish singers 20th - century British comedians Victor Records artists Hidden categories : Pages containing links to subscription - only content CS1 : Julian -- Gregorian uncertainty CS1 maint : BOT : original - url status unknown EngvarB from August 2014 Use dmy dates from August 2014 Articles with specifically marked weasel - worded phrases from July 2018 Articles with Project Gutenberg links Articles with Internet Archive links Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Français Gàidhlig Bahasa Indonesia Scots Edit links This page was last edited on 24 October 2018, at 10 : 43 ( UTC ). 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Question: when was keep right on to the end of the road written
Answer: 1924