The song ‘Lambeth Walk’ is from which musical?
The Lambeth Walk The Lambeth Walk "The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical "Me and My Girl" (with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay). The song takes its name from a local street, Lambeth Walk, once notable for its street market and working class culture in Lambeth, an area of London. The tune gave its name to a Cockney dance made popular in 1937 by Lupino Lane. The story line of "Me and My Girl" concerns a Cockney barrow boy who inherits an earldom but almost loses his Lambeth girlfriend. It
The Lambeth Walk was turned into a 1939 film "The Lambeth Walk" which starred Lane. The choreography from the musical, in which the song was a show-stopping Cockney-inspired extravaganza, inspired a popular walking dance, performed in a jaunty strutting style. Lane explained the origin of the dance as follows: "I got the idea from my personal experience and from having worked among cockneys. I'm a cockney born and bred myself. The Lambeth Walk is just an exaggerated idea of how the cockney struts." When the stage show had been running for a few months, C.L. Heimann, managing director of the Locarno Dance Halls,