James Hook

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Life

Born: June 3, 1746

Died: c. 1827

Biography
James Hook was organist successively at Marylebone Gardens and at Vauxhall Gardens, for over half a century in all, performing concertos nightly and composing over two thousand songs, a number of which remain in use, such as the mock-Scotch 'Within a mile of Edinbro' Town' and the English 'Lass of Richmond Hill'. (Source: 'Oxford Companion to Music', 1938)

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