Tom Foy

AMy Girl's promised to marry me
BCourting

Label: Zonophone
Catalogue number: 578
Genre: Music Hall
Condition: Good+
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #20429

Tom Foy, a Yorkshire dialect comedian popular on the halls, performs two comic monologues, 'My Girl's Promised to Marry Me' and 'Courting', on an early Zonophone disc with a low catalogue number pointing to the pre-First World War era.

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