Fred J. Barnes
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Frederick Johnson "F.J". Barnes[1] (8 January 1873 – 30 December 1917) was an English songwriter, who co-wrote numerous songs with R. P. Weston and Fred Godfrey.
Biography
He was born in Southwark, Central London. Between about 1906 and 1915, he worked with co-writer R. P. Weston, mainly on songs for the popular music hall performer Billy Williams.
Barnes and Weston co-wrote "Little Willie's Woodbines" (1908); "I've Got Rings On My Fingers" (1909); "When Father Papered the Parlour" (1910);[2][3] and "Hush Here Comes the Dream Man", recorded in 1911 by Florrie Forde,[4] parodied by First World War soldiers as "Hush Here Comes a Whizzbang", and sung in the Theatre Workshop production of Oh, What a Lovely War! in 1963. Barnes also worked alongside Fred Godfrey on songs such as "Jim’s A Funny Fellow When He’s Had A Few" (c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".1911)[4]
Barnes signed up for military service in the First World War, and joined the Essex Regiment. He died on 30 December 1917, from drowning after the torpedo attack on the troop carrier HMT Aragon, off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt.[5] He is buried at the Alexandria War Memorial Cemetery.[6][7]
Namesake
He is not to be confused with singer Frederick Jester Barnes (1885-1938) who as Fred Barnes, sang "You Can't Fool Around With The Women", composed by Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott.[4]
References
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- ↑ Some sources erroneously give his middle name as James.
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- ↑ Compositions by Fred Barnes, Database of Popular Music. Retrieved 16 January 2021
- ↑ a b c Fred J. Barnes, Fred Godfrey Songs. Retrieved 16 January 2021
- ↑ Essex Regiment, 7th Battalion, 300752, Military-Genealogy.com, comp. UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
- ↑ F J Barnes, Ancestry.com. UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012
- ↑ F J Barnes, Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 16 January 2021
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