Ivor Novello Songs
Lyricist in brackets, unless otherwise indicated
*Indicates publication
 
1910
The Spring of the Year* (Novello)
 
1911
Little One* (Bailey)
Slumber Tree* (Bailey)
 
1912
Blue Eyes* (Bailey)
If * (Teschemaker)
In the Clouds* Two Step
Lament* (Douthitt)
The Little Damozel* (Teschemaker)
Our Help in Ages Past* (Watts)
Up There* (Teschemaker)
 
1913
The Haven of Memory* (Thomas)
Hindu Lullaby* (Teschemaker)
Not Really* (Novell o)
The Valley* (Teschemaker)
Why Hurry, Little River?* (Scott)
 
1914
Bravo Bristol* (Weatherly)
Carnival Time* (Novello)
Gamin*, Piano Solo
The King of Love* (Baker)
Lagoon*, Piano Solo
Megan* (Weatherly)
Soldiering* (Weatherly)
The Valley of Rainbows*, Set of Songs (Weatherly)
1.The Valley of Rainbows
2. Feiyen
3.Crimson Leaves
4.Moon of the Cherry Garden
Till The Boys Come Home* (Keep The Home Fires Burning) (Lena Guilbert Ford)
 
1915
From Distant Lands*, Set of Syrian Songs (Lockton)
1. Son of the Mountain
2. The Pool of Solan
3. Gold from Ophir
4. Song of Exile
5. Kama of the Sea
Laddie In Khaki* (Novello)
When the Great Day Comes* (Teschemaker)
Just a Jack or Tommy* (Huggins)
Radiance of Your Eyes* (Novello)
 
1916
The Garden of England* (Grey)
Theodore and Co
Presented by Grossmith & Laurillard at the Gaiety,
September 14th.
Book by H. M. Harwood and George Grossmith, from the French of P. Gavault.
Music by Jerome Kern and Ivor Novello.
Additional music by Philip Braham, Melville Gideon and Paul A. Rubens.
Lyrics by Adrian Ross and Clifford Grey.
Cast: George Grossmith**, Leslie Henson, Peggy Kurton,
Adrah Fair, Davy Burnaby, Gladys Humphrey, Jameson
Thomas, Madge Saunders, Julia James, Fred Leslie.
Numbers by Novello:
Isn't There a Crowd Everywhere? (Ross & Grey)
What a Duke Should Be* (Grey)
I'll Make Myseff at Home (Ross)
The Candy Girls (Ross)
You'd Better Not Wait for Him (Grey)
He's Going to Call on Baby Grand (Ross)
We Are Theodore and Co (Ross)
My Friend John* (Grey)
Valse Saracenne
Every Little Girl Can Teach Me Something New* (Ross)
Any Old Where* (Grey)
Walk a Little (Ross)
Lazy Dancing Man (Grey)
Welcome Home (Grey)
See-Saw, a Revue
Presented by Andre Charlot at the Comedy, December 14th.
Book by Arthur E. Eliot, Herbert Sargent and Arthur Weigall.
Lyrics by A. B. Mills, Arthur Weigall and others.
Music by Philip 13raham, Ivor Novello, Harold Montague and others.
Cast: Ruby Miller,, Phyllis Monkman, Winnie Melville, Doris
Barrington, Billy Danvers, Percy Carr, Norman Bowyer,
Jimmie Leslie, Jack Hulbert.
Numbers by Novello:
Risk It* (Mills)
On the Tiles*--Dance
Rude Questions* (Mills and Weigall)
Dream Boat* (Novello)
*George Grossmith joined up shortly after the opening night and was replaced by Austin Melford.
1917
Arlette, a Musical Comedy
Presented by Grossmith & Laurillard at the Shaftesbury,September 6th.
Book by Claude Ronald and L. Buvet, tr. by Jos6 Levy.
Adaptation by Austen Hurgon and George Arthurs.
Lyrics by Adrian Ross and Clifford Grey.
Music by Jane Vieu, Guy le Feuvre and Ivor Novello.
Cast: Winifred Barnes, Joseph Coyne, Stanley Lupino, Adrah
Fair, Mary Robson, Leonard Mackay, Madge Melbourne,
Johnnie Fields, Blanche Stocker, A. G. Poulton.
Numbers by Novello:
Hail, All Hail* (Grey)
On the Staff* (Grey)
A Man of Forty*(Grey)
Cousinly Love* (Grey)
Didn't Know the Way To* (Grey)
Just a Memory* (Grey)
The People's King* (Grey)
 
191 8
Tabs, a Revue
Presented by Andre Charlot at the Vaudeville, May 15th.
Book and Lyrics by Ronald Jeans.
Additional lyrics by Douglas Furber, Adrian Ross, Walter Donaldson, Hugh E. Wright.
Music by Ivor Novello.
Additional music by Guy le Feuvre, Bob Adams, Muriel Lillie, Herman Darewski,
Walter Donaldson, Pat Thayer.
Cast: Beatrice Lillie, Odette Myrtil, Ethel Baird, Vera Lennox,
Guy le Feuvre, Vivian Foster, Hal Bert,
Margaret Campbell, Walter Williams.
Numbers by Novello:
Mr Pau-Puk-Keewis* (Jeans)
Feed the Brute (Jeans)
Think Again* (Jeans)
When I Said Goodbye to You* (Jeans)
Something Doing Over the Way* (Jeans)
I Hate to Give Trouble* (Jeans)
Goblin Golliwog Trees* (Jeans)
Have You Ever Noticed? (Jeans) Come Out, Little Boy (Jeans)
Lost* (Jeans)
Any Little Thing* (Anything I Can Do for You) (Burnaby and Jeans)
Sung by Phyllis Monkman and Jack Buchanan in Andre
Charlot's Tails Up at the Comedy.
Mother, Teach Me How to Live* (Furber)
The Bridge Across the Stream* (McManus)
 
1919
Make Him Forget He's Ever Been Away* (Jeans and Novello)
Who's Hooper?, a Musical Comedy
Presented by Alfred Butt at the Adelphi, September 13th.
Book by Fred Thompson, based on In Chancery by A. W. Pinero.
Lyrics by Cliffor Grey.
Music by Howard Talbot and Ivor Novello.
Cast: W. H. Berry, Robert Michaelis, Marjorie Gordon, Cicely Debenham, Paul Plunket, Edward Rigby, Arthur Wellesley, Madeline Seymour, Violet Blythe, Fred Winn.
Numbers by Novello:
My London Town*
There's an Angel Watching Over Me*
Wonderful Love*
Wedding Jazz*
When No-one's Looking*
Come, Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl*
A Ladies'Man*
If You Were King in Babylon* (Novello)
Who's Hooper?*
The Garden of My Dreams*
Each Day in Passing*
 
1920
A Southern Maid, an Operetta
Presented by George Edwardes at Daly's, May 1 5th.
Book by Dion Clayton Calthrop and Harry Graham.
Lyrics by Harry Graham.
Additional lyrics by Adrian Ross and Douglas Furber.
Music by Harold Fraser-Simpson.
Additional music by Ivor Novello.
Cast: Jos6 Collins, Bertram Wallis, Jessie Fraser, Therese
Mills, Jean Stirling, Dorothy Monkman, Lionel Victor.
Numbers by Novello:
Every Bit of Loving in the World*(Furber)
I Want the Sun and the Moon (Furber)
Thoughts of You (Grey and Novello)
 
1921
The Golden Moth, a Musical Play
Presented by Thomas F. Dawe and Austen Hurgon at the Adelphi, October 5th.
Book by Fred Thompson and P. G. Wodehouse.
Lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Adrian Ross.
Music by Ivor Novello.
Cast: W. H. Berry, Robert Michaelis, Thorpe Bates, Cicely Debenham, Nancie Lovat, Pitt Chatham, Fred Maguire, Bobbie Comber,
Marjorie Mars, Beryl Harrison.
Numbers:
We've Had a Busy Day (Wodehouse)
Fairy Prince* (Wodehouse)
Romance is Calling* (Wodehouse)
Lonely Soldier* (Wodehouse)Round the Corner (Ross)
Dartmoor Days* (Wodehouse and Ross)
Dear Eyes that Shine* (Wodehouse)
My Girl* (Wodehouse)
Nuts in May* (Wodehouse)
If I Ever Lost You* (Wodehouse)
Song of Welcome (Ross)
At the Servants'Ball (Ross)
The Island of Never-Mind-Where*(Ross)
Give Me a Thought Now and Then* (Wodehouse)
 
Bless You* (Furber)
A to Z, a Revue
Presented by Andre Chariot at the Prince of Wales, October 1st.
Book by Ronald Jeans, Dion Titheradge and Helen Trix.
Lyrics by Ronald Jeans, Dion Titheradge, Collie Knox. Music by Ivor Novello, Philip Braham.
Cast: Jack Buchanan, Gertrude Lawrence, the Trix Sisters, Teddie Gerard, Marcel de Haes, Herbert Mundin, Elizabeth Pollock, lsabelita Ruiz, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Frederick Ross, Douglas Furber, Phyllis Haye.
Numbers by Novello.
Think of All the Fun You're Missing* (Titheradge)
My Kind of Boy* (Titheradge)
And Her Mother Came Too* (Titheradge)
The Oldest Game in the World* (Jeans)
Night May Have its Sadness* (Knox)
Rough Stuff* (Jeans, Knox)
I've Never Been Kept Waiting* (Jeans)
I Hate That Tune* (Titheradge)
There Are Times (Knox)
A to Z (Titheradge)
When I'm Dressed in Blue* (Jeans)
I Don't Believe a Word of It (Titheradge)
Chez Patou (Titheradge)
Tears (Knox)
 
1922
Dusky Nipper (Travers)
Sung by Binnie Hale in The Dippers at the Criterion.
 
1924
Puppets, a Revue
Presented by Andre Charlot at the Vaudeville, January 2nd.
Book and Lyrics by Dion Titheradge.
Additional material by Ronald Jeans and others.
Music by Ivor Novello.
Cast: Stanley Lupino, Binnie Hale, Arthur Chesney, Connie
Emerald, Paul England, Neta Underwood, Frank Lawton,
Rex Caldwell, Fay Cole, Josephine Dent.
Numbers:
And That's Not All* (Titheradge)
April's Lady* (Titheradge)
What Do You Mean?* (Titheradge)
Same Old Moon*(Titheradge)
Raggedy Doll* (Titheradge)
Penelope* (Jeans)
Barbary* (Titheradge)
Old Acquaintance Blues* (Titheradge)
She Needs Another Now* (Titheradge)
Our Nell, a Musical Play
Presented by Robert Evett at the Gaiety, April 16th.
Book by Louis N. Parker and Reginald Arkell.
Lyrics by Harry Graham and Reginald Arkell.
Music by H. Fraser-Simpson and Ivor Novello.
Cast: Jos6 Collins, Arthur Wontner, Robert Michaelis, Muriel
Pope, Miles Malleson, Faith Bevan, Walter Passmore.
Numbers by Novello:
Our England *(Arkel I)
The Kingdom I'll Build for You* (Arkell)
The Land of Might-Have-Been* ('Edward Moore')
The Rat Step-Dance
Featured in The Rat.
 
1925
Quality Street* (Jeans)
Baby Blues* (Jeans)
Featured in Charlot's 1925 Revue.
First Up* (Wimperis)
Featured in Still Dancing at the London Pavilion.
 
1926
Odile* (Lily of Montmartre) (Novello)
for the film of TheRat.
 
1929
Give Me Back My Heart* (NovelIo)
Featured in Symphony in Two Flats.
The House That Jack Built, a Revue
Presented by Jack Hulbert and Paul Murray at the Adelphi, November 8th.
Book by Ronald Jeans and Douglas Furber.
Lyrics by Donovan Parsons and Douglas Furber.
Music by Ivor Novello, Vivian Ellis, Arthur Shwartz, Sydney Baynes.
Cast: Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Helen Burnell,
Bobbie Comber, Vera Sherburn, Irene Russell, Ivor
McLaren, Robert Naylor, Lawrence Green.
Numbers by Novello:
The House We'd Build*(Parsons)
At the Circus* (Parsons)
Teardrops from Her Eyes* (Parsons)
The Dowager Fairy Queen* (Furber)
The Thought Never Entered My Head* (Parsons)
Playing the Game (Parsons)
Ever So* (Parsons)
There Must Be Something on My Mind *(Parsons)
 
1930
Who Shall Say That Heaven* (Nichols)
Featured in Cochran's 1930 Revue at the London Pavilion.
 
1933
Hold on to Love* (Novello)
Sung by Gertrude Lawrence in This Inconstancy at
Wyndhams.
Lend Me a Dream* (Novello)
Featured in The Sunshine Sisters at the Queen's.
 
1935
Forest Echoes* (Novello)
Keep The Peace Fires Burning* (Clara Novello Davies)
1936
When Love Awakens* (Hassall)
1937
We're One Big Family* (Pyrke)
1939
We'll Remember* (Knox)
1944
Clear the Road to Glory (Novello)
March for the Liberation of Europe.
1950
Among the Hills of Wales* (Evans)
1951
Pray For Me*(Hassall)
 

Source:

Sandy Wilson, Ivor, Michael Joseph 1975.

 

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