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100 Songs and Scenas

A

A Christmas CarolA Life in the WestA Life on the Ocean WaveA Sober Spouse for MeA Song for the Man

C

Cheer Boys CheerCome Brothers Arouse

F

Far, Far Upon the Sea!

I

I Love the NightI Love, I Love the FreeI'm Afloat! I'm Afloat!

L

Land Ho!Let's Be Gay

M

Major McPherson Was a Very Nice ManMan the Life Boat!My Heart's in the HighlandsMy Mother's Bible

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Nature's Fine Old GentlemanNot Married Yet!

O

Oh! This Love!Old King TimeOld Night LampOur Native Song!Our Way Across the Mountains, Ho!

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ResignationRobin RuffRockaway

S

Some Love to Roam O'er the Dark Sea Foam

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The Chieftain's DaughterThe Corsair Boat GleeThe DismissedThe Dream of the RevellerThe Emigrant's FarewellThe Fine Old English GentlemanThe Fisher Boy Merrily LivesThe Gambler's WifeThe Heart That's TrueThe Indian HunterThe Ivy GreenThe KissThe Mad Girl's SongThe Main TruckThe Main, the Main, the Flowing MainThe ManiacThe Merry SpringThe Mother Who Hath a Child at SeaThe Newfoundland DogThe Old Arm ChairThe Old Farm GateThe Old School HouseThe Old SextonThe Old Water MillThe Pilgrim's Address to the DeityThe Rising SunThe Ship on FireThe Soldier's GraveThe Spider and the FlyThe Total S'ietyThe Wife's DreamThere's Room Enough for AllTraitor Spare That Flag

V

Visions of the Past

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Washingtons TombWe Have Been Friends TogetherWe Were Boys TogetherWill Nobody Marry Me?Wind of the Winter NightWoodman Spare That Tree!

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The Fine Old English Gentleman
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Henry Russell (24 December 1812 or 1813 – 8 December 1900) was an English pianist, baritone singer and composer, born into a distinguished Jewish family.
Russell's career began in 1836, when at the age of 22 he traveled to the US and, in three seasons, earned no less a sum than £10,000. He subsequently lost this by investing in the United States Bank, which collapsed.
Russell wrote the song "A Life on the Ocean Wave" and the tune to George Pope Morris's poem Woodman, Spare that Tree while living in the US from 1836 to 1841, before settling in London to produce musical extravaganzas until he retired in 1857. Many of his songs championed social causes like abolition, temperance, and reform of mental asylums.
Russell was born in Sheerness, Kent, a great-nephew of the British Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschel. He began his career as a child singer in Elliston's Children's Opera company. While playing the organ at the Presbyterian church in Rochester, New York he discovered that sacred music, played quickly, "makes the best kind of secular music". Old Hundredth, played very fast, became the music for "Get Out of de Way, Ol' Dan Tucker".
Russell's song "The Fine Old English Gentleman" 1831 was made fun of ten years later by Charles Dickens in his identically titled song.
In 1841, he returned to England and performed at the Hanover Square Rooms in London with instant success. Many of his songs were written to lyrics by Charles Mackay, including "There's a Good Time Coming", "Cheer, Boys, Cheer", and "To The West". The Hutchinson Family Singers were fans of Russell's work and performed several of his tunes, including "The Maniac" and "The Ship on Fire."
After retirement, he lived partly in France, partly in England. His first wife was Christian; his second wife was Jewish and their family (including their sons, conductor Sir Landon Ronald and impresario Henry Russell) were raised in the Jewish religion.
His portrait was painted by the British painter Walter Goodman and displayed in London at the Institute of Oil Painters in 1889 and at the Grafton Galleries in 1897. The Jewish Chronicle of 21 May that year describes the painting as depicting Russell hale and hearty with flowing beard. He died at 18 Howley Place, Maida Vale, on 8 December 1900, and his remains are interred in Kensal Green Cemetery.
A detailed biography, A Life on the Ocean Wave: The Story of Henry Russell by Andrew Lamb, was published by Fullers Wood Press in 2007.