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Will F. Denny "Up Came Johnny With His Camera" (Edison cylinder 7111) LYRICS HERE

Will F. Denny sings "Up Came Johnny with his Camera" on Edison Gold Moulded Record 7111. Words are by Albert Hall and Felix McGlennon. Music is by Orlando Powell. The song was published in 1896 and was popular in England. Piano accompaniment by Frank P. Banta. Johnny Briggs was an artful youth, the pride of ma and pa. So much a pet they lately bought for him a camera. He took it out and rambled round when--oh, the artful dog. He saw a lot of romping girls were playing at leapfrog. Up came Johnny with his camera and took the blessed lot. Up came Johnny with his camera, and oh what a nice snapshot. And now he's got the photograph, and the girls both near and far have sworn that they will make away with Johnny and his camera. Johnny rambled down a country lane and gave his hat a twist as he saw coming down the road a lady bicyclist. But all at once there was a smash--the lady in the dust, and just as she discovered her pneumatic tire was bust. Oh... Johnny went to the football match--the ladies' football team. And for a while the game was smooth as any pleasant dream Until there was a scrimmage when the blue team fouled the brown, And all the girls got mixed about--some of them upside down. Johnny rambled by the seaside -- t'was a quiet little spot. Some ladies there were bathing for the weather it was so hot. But when they came back on shore, Oh Lord how they did screech. Some tramp had stolen all their clothes but left one towel each... I think of Will F. Denny as the Billy Murray of the recording industry at the century's turn--that is, before Murray himself became a regular in East Coast recording studios by late 1903. Denny, like Murray, was prolific, upbeat, adroit, interesting. Will F. Denny was born around 1860. He was a native of Boston. The tenor performed on vaudeville stages and recorded prolifically in the first decade of the commercial recording industry, specializing in comic numbers. He began recording in 1890. An article titled "Famous Record-Makers and Their Work" in the December 1891 issue of The Phonogram states, "Mr. W.F. Denny, who has been employed by the New England Phonograph Company for over a year, early developed a talent for popular music, and appeared first as a public singer at the Academy of Music, where he sang with great success the then popular song 'The Pretty Red Rose.'" An 1899 catalog of cylinders duplicates an agreement dated May 1, 1898, indicating that Denny, along with more than a dozen others who signed the agreement, was exclusive to Columbia. The arrangement lasted a year. He made over two dozen Berliners. On at least two discs, 0124 and 0129, he signs his name as "Will F. Denney" (note extra "e"). He cut a handful of titles in July and August of 1897. Nearly two years passed before he returned on May 2, 1899, evidently soon after his exclusive arrangement with Columbia ended. He was one of the last singers to make Berliner discs in America. Within weeks of his last session, the company was essentially forced by an injunction to cease production. Denny recorded 24 takes for Victor on September 11, 1901. It was his only Victor session. Ten titles were covered, each one recorded for a seven-inch disc and a ten-inch disc. He worked most often for Columbia in his final years (his last record for the company was "You'll Have to Get Off and Walk," issued in July 1907). He made Zon-o-phone discs in this period, and his last records were Zon-o-phone discs. A Zon-o-phone catalog dated May 10, 1901, lists five titles sung by Denny. For Zon-o-phone he made one of the earliest records of "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" (5934). His last Zon-o-phone was "All the Girls Look Good to Me" (1048), issued in July 1908. He worked in vaudeville and died in Seattle while touring the Pantages Circuit. The October 10, 1908, issue of Variety reports, "Denny's illness began September 22, when he suffered a sudden seizure in his dressing room at Pantages Theater, Seattle. He was immediately rushed to Providence Hospital in that city, but paralysis seemed to have developed, and although he soon recovered consciousness, death followed..." He died on October 2, 1908, and is buried in Philadelphia. Will F. Denny "Up Came Johnny With His Camera" (Edison cylinder 7111) LYRICS ARE HERE