AIN’T IT NICE?
Performed by Daisy Dormer
Isn't love wonderful? girls, oh girls
When a boy says to you, “What nice curls
Let us take a ramble where the grass grows high.”
Then Cupid fires his arrow and you softly sigh.
Chorus: Ain't it nice when he offers you a poppy
Ain't it nice when he looks at you so sloppy?
Ain't it nice when you sit upon a stile?
And he says, 'I love you please don't smile' ain’t it nice
When a bee that's after honey
Tumbles down your back, and though you're most precise
When he puts his thumb and finger,
Down your back to catch the stinger
And you feel him kind of linger. Ain't it nice?
Ten o'clock! What a shock! Oh, it's late
Twenty past! home at last! at your gate
He stand till eleven, or perhaps ten past
Mother doesn't mind, she thinks you've clicked at last
Chorus: Ain't it nice when you're squeezing in the doorway
Ain't it nice though it's colder far than Norway?
Ain't it nice when he's never kissed before?
And he says, “Miss do I blow or draw?” Ain't it nice?
When Ma asks him in to supper
And you think he's used to champagne served on ice
You feel all your chances slipping
And the tablecloth you're gripping
Till he says, 'I like your dripping.' Ain't it nice?
Soon the bells, wedding bells, ring ding, dong
Man and wife, tied for life, good and strong
When the parson whispers, “Don't forget that we
Have our christenings every Sunday twelve till three.”
Chorus: Ain't it nice when the men all rush to kiss you
Ain't it nice when Ma cries and says she'll miss you?
Ain't it nice that old wedding toast that runs?
'May all your cares be little ones.' Ain’t it nice?
When they all go home and leave you
And you're thinking is this earth or paradise?
When he whispers, “You’re my own dear
We won't need a chaperone, dear
And, at last we're all alone dear.” Ain't it nice?
and other songs include
A Bicycle Made For Two,
After the Ball is Over,
When Will The Sun Shine For Me,
My Tennessee, Is That You Calling Me?
Grow, Little Mushroom Grow (1908);
You Were The First One To Teach Me To Love (1915);
I Do Like The Life, I Do! (1916);
You Gave Me A Rosary (1916);
Down Texas Way (1917);
Is That You Calling Me (1918);
Snow-Time In Switzerland
When You're A Long Way from Home,
Down In Virginia (1919).
I. I'm goin'- I'm goin'- I'm gone!
by Charles Collins; Harry Castling; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day and Hunter, ©1906.
2. Don't call on Friday
by Harry Castling; Daisy Dormer; Charles Collins
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1905.
3. Waiting for a girl
by Charles Collins; Daisy Dormer; A J Mills
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1908.
4. Take your greedy eyes off my little girl!
by Harry Castling; Daisy Dormer; Fred Godfrey
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1907.
5. I want a girl! : a shawnee serenade
by George Collins, composer.; Edgar Bateman; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1906.
6. When you live opposite to me
by C W Murphy; Daisy Dormer; Dan Lipton
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1911.
7. Has anyone seen a German band?
by Bennett Scott; Florrie Forde; A J Mills; Ella Retford; Florrie Gallimore; Daisy Dormer; Mina Brae
Publisher: London : Star music Pub. Co., ©1907.
8. I've been dreaming
I've been dreaming
by Charles Collins; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day and Hunter, ©1907.
9. You shan't come in my pretty cage
by Charles Collins; Fred W Leigh; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day and Hunter, ©1903.
10. I wish I lived next door to you!
by Harry Castling; C W Murphy; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day and Hunter, ©1909.
11. When I see you fishing
by Harry Castling; C W Murphy; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day and Hunter, ©1911.
12.
I can't help making eyes at a girl like you!
by Alfred Glover; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1912.
13.
I do like you, Susie, in your Sunday clothes! : Miss Daisy Dormer's great "bonnet" song
by C W Murphy; Worton David; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day and Hunter, ©1912.
14.
Old South Car'lina : You wonderful home!
by George A Stevens, composer.; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Whitehall Music Co., ©1919.
15. Underneath the Japanese moon
by W Gus Hansen; Gene Buck; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1914.
16. If ever I married again
by R P Weston; Bert Lee; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1920.
17. Mister Johnson, or, You told me to go
by Charles Collins; Daisy Dormer; Charles Ridgwell
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1907.
18. Buffalo
by Harry Castling; Daisy Dormer; Fred Godfrey
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1907.
19. Same girl on Sunday
by Alfred Glover; Marie Blythe, singer.; Mabel La Blanche; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : W. Paxton : Price & Reynolds, ©1906.
20. Polly from the G.P.O.
by R P Weston; Bert Lee; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1918.
21. Scoot
by Charles Collins; Tom Mellor; Amber Austa; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1907.
22. Don't go back to Carolina
by Tom Mellor; Alf J Lawrance; Harry Gifford; Daisy Dormer; G H Elliott
Publisher: London : Monte Carlo Pub. Co., ©1907.
23. Fares please! : the tram-conductor-girl by Bert Lee
by Bert Lee; Daisy Dormer
Publisher: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1917.
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Daisy's known Radio and TV Braodcasts
25 December
1937
21.00
MUSIC-HALL CAVALCADE
(stars of yesterday and today), with George Mozart, Marie Kendall, Charles Lee, DAISY DORMER, Tom Leamore, Lizzie Collins, Sable Fern - and Talbot O'Farrell, Walter Williams, Emile Boreo. Chairman :
George Benson. The Old Couple:
Una Venning and Fewlass Llewellyn. The Orchestra under Musical Director Hvam Greenbaum. Presentation by Harry Pringle
BBC Television
25 December
1937
21.00
MUSIC-HALL CAVALCADE
Stars of Yesterday and Today with George Mozart
Marie Kendall
Charles Lee
DAISY DORMER
Tom Leamore
Lizzie Collins
Sable Fern and Talbot O'Farrell
Walter Williams
Emile Boreo
Chairman: George Benson
The Old Couple: Una Venning and Fewlass Llewellyn
The Orchestra under
Musical Director Hyam Greenbaum
Presentation by Harry Pringle
Regional Programme Western
31 December
1937
15.35
MUSIC-HALL PARTY,
with Sam Mayo, DAISY DORMER, George Mozart, May More Duprez, Charles Lea, Tom Leamore. Chairman: George Benson. The BBC Television Orchestra, leader Boris Pecker, conductor Hyam Greenbaum. Presentation by Harry Pringle
BBC Television
14 November
1938
21.30
'THE MAN AND THE TUNE ’
The Man-Huntley Trevor
The tunes played and sung by Harry Evans
The fourth of a series in which the composers will be present in the studio.
Huntley Trevor started out in life as a bank clerk, and drifted into song-writing when he used to re-write songs for his own concert-party act. For a number of years he wrote for many of the biggest vaudeville stars, including Marie Lloyd, Little Tich, Whit Cunliffe, George Formby, senior, Jack Pleasants, G. S. Melvin, Peter Dawson, Cicely Courtneidge, Bobbie Comber, DAISY DORMER, and Ella Retford.
He cannot write a note of music ; when the idea of a tune is there his wife takes down the melody. He has published over 1,500 songs including many hits '.
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Daisy Dormer in London Pride, 1917, 'Another variety artist is going into the legitimate.
I hear that Daisy Dormer has been engaged by Gerald du Maurier to play the part of Cherry
[originally played by Mabel Russell, Wyndham's, London, 6 December 1912] in the touring company of London Pride.
(The Weekly Dispatch, London, Sunday, 19 August 1917)
Films;-
Music-Hall Cavalcade: Stars of Yesterday and Today (1937) (TV) [Actress]
City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935) [Actress .... Mrs. Deakin]
Potted Pantomimes (1914) [Actress]
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