A blast from many pasts

[dj]

Hi, Jeffrey:


I can't claim authorship. It's a 1916 Tin Pan Alley number by Fred Fischer and Grant Clarke. Clarke did the lyrics.


What I did was take a bunch of those old, largely forgotten numbers and worked them into a script that was taken from the archives of Canada's Marks Brothers (from my hometown), known in their day as 'Canada's Kings of Repertoire'. They toured Canada and the northern U.S. for more than 40 years and played to more than 8,000,000 people -- in the days of steam trains and horse-drawn carriages.


The show is called 'The Lure of the Lights' and you can see the script and score from the links on the Marks Brothers Melodrama page at my website playsfromdavidjacklin.ca. Along with about 35 of my works.