Many A Time - Sheet music art - Arthur West, Harry Freeman - Framed Print - 16"H x 12"W

Many A Time - Sheet music art - Arthur West, Harry Freeman - Framed Print - 16"H x 12"W

Many A Time, sheet music art - Written and composed by Arthur West, sung by Harry Freeman

Harry Freeman was an English music hall performer of the Victorian era and early twentieth century, and the first King Rat of the showbusiness charity the Grand Order of Water Rats.

His first public appearance was aged 19 in 1877 at the Imperial Theatre in Walsall. This was such a success that he received bookings at all the main music halls in the Midlands.  Freeman became a popular entertainer in the music halls of London and the provinces, but he never gained the fame or success in these that he held in his native Birmingham.

Freeman was one of the 231 figures depicted in Walter Lambert's 'Popularity', a vast painting depicting the music hall stars of the early 1900s.

Harry Freeman died in 1922 and was buried in St Mary's Church, Handsworth in his native Birmingham