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3 unusual facts about Jack Judge


A Long, Long Way to Tipperary

It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary is a 1914 Australian silent film based on the song It's a Long Way to Tipperary by Jack Judge.

Jack Judge

Jack Judge (christened John, born 3 December 1872 in Oldbury, died 25 July 1938 in West Bromwich) was a British song-writer and music-hall entertainer best remembered for writing the song It's a Long Way to Tipperary, although Judge wrote and sung the song in 1915, John McCormack made the song famous rather than Judge.

In the same year he recorded Paddy Maloney's Aeroplane and Michael O'Leary, V.C., both about Irishmen helping the war effort.



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