Champagne Charlie (song)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Champagne Charlie" song – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

"Champagne Charlie" is a

. It was one of Leybourne's most famous songs and he would later be nicknamed Champagne Charlie.

Leybourne's rival Alfred Vance introduced a number called "Cliquot", starting a fierce competition between the two men.

Enthusiasm for the song was increased with its use in November 1866 in the new "Operatic Burlesque" called "The Latest Edition of Black-Eyed Susan", or "The Little Bill that was Taken Up". The song was sung by the crowd at the public execution of Michael Barrett in 1868, the last public execution in Great Britain.^[1]

It later featured in the play

but with the refrain "Champagne Ivy is my name."

A substantially revised version of "Champagne Charlie" was recorded in 1932 by the American

album of the same name

in 1978.

The melody of the original song was adapted by The Salvation Army for their hymn, "Bless His Name He Sets Me Free".

References

External links

• Derek B. Scott sings "Champagne Charlie" (1867) recorded about 1985
• Sheet music on IMSLP