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Adding local short description: "British songwriter (1886–1969)", overriding Wikidata description "British musician"

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'''Ralph Thomas Butler''' (12 October 1886 – 8 April 1969)<ref name=toledo>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MQkkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rgEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5476,526852 | title=Ralph Butler | newspaper=Toledo Blade | date=April 9, 1969 | accessdate=February 3, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.dbopm.com/link/index/4401/1326 DBOPM: Ralph Butler] gives a birth year of 1887.</ref> was a British songwriter, responsible for the lyrics of many popular songs of the 1930s and later, mostly with comic or novelty elements.

He was active as a songwriter from the late 1920s until the mid-1950s. Among his most famous songs were "All By Yourself In The Moonlight" (1929), published under the [[pseudonym]] Jay Wallis, which reportedly sold over a million copies;<ref name=toledo/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dbopm.com/link/index/4201/1326|title=dbopm :: the database of popular music :: Songs written or co-written by Ralph Butler.|website=Dbopm.com|accessdate=16 July 2020}}</ref> "Let’s Sing The Cuddly Song" (written with Julian Wright, 1929); "[[The Sun Has Got His Hat On]]" (1932), "[[Run, Rabbit, Run]]" (1939), and "Hey! Little Hen" (1941), all co-written with [[Noel Gay]]; "Let's All Go To The Music Hall" (1934), written with Harry Tilsley and [[Lawrence Wright (composer)|Lawrence Wright]]; "There's A Lovely Lake In London" (1935), with [[Tolchard Evans]] and [[Stanley Damerell]]; "[[Horsey Horsey]]" (1938), with [[Paddy Roberts (songwriter)|Paddy Roberts]]; "Come And Have A Drink At The Victory Arms" (1941), with Tolchard Evans;<ref name=godfrey>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fredgodfreysongs.ca/Collaborators/ralph_butler.htm|title=Ralph Butler|website=Fredgodfreysongs.ca|accessdate=16 July 2020}}</ref> and "[[Nellie the Elephant]]" (1956), written with Peter Hart. Another song, also co-written with Noel Gay, "[[We Don't Know Where We're Going (1944 song)|We Don't Know Where We're Going]]" (1944), was used to great effect during war scenes in the movie ''[[Overlord (1975 film)|Overlord]]''.

He died in 1969 in a [[London]] hospital, at the age of 82.<ref name=toledo/>

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imported>Peter NYC: Adding local short description: "British songwriter (1886–1969)", overriding Wikidata description "British musician"