Attributes | Values |
---|
type
| |
label
| |
sameAs
| |
name
| |
gender
| |
Subject
| - Knights Bachelor
- 1870 births
- 1950 deaths
- 20th-century Scottish male actors
- Disease-related deaths in Scotland
- Music hall performers
- People from Portobello, Edinburgh
- Pioneer recording artists
- Scottish Freemasons
- Scottish male film actors
- Scottish male singers
- Scottish songwriters
- Scottish writers
- Singers awarded knighthoods
- Vaudeville performers
|
dbo:abstract
| - Sir Henry %22Harry%22 Lauder (/ˈlɔːdər/; 4 August 1870 – 26 February 1950) was a Scottish music hall and vaudeville theatre singer and comedian. He was perhaps best known for his long-standing hit %22I Love a Lassie%22 and for his international success. He was described by Sir Winston Churchill as %22Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!%22 He became a familiar world-wide figure promoting images like the kilt and the cromach to huge acclaim, especially in America. Other songs followed, including %22Roamin' in the Gloamin%22, %22A Wee Deoch-an-Doris%22, and %22The End of the Road%22.By 1911, Lauder had become the highest-paid performer in the world, and was the first Scottish artist to sell a million records. He raised vast amounts of money for the war effort during World War I, for which he was subsequently knighted in 1919. He went into semi-retirement in the mid-1930s, but briefly emerged to entertain troops in World War II. By the late-1940s he was suffering from long periods of ill-health and died in Scotland in 1950.
|
discogs
| |
musicbrainz
| |
Musicbrainz GUID
| - b51f17ae-1405-46e0-95cb-b31252bb4355
|
universally unique identifier
| |
wikipedia
| |
schema:birthDate
| |
schema:deathDate
| |
wsb:allMusic_page
| |
wsb:amazon_page
| |
wsb:discogs_id
| |
wsb:iTunes_page
| |
wsb:location
| |
wsb:name_without_accent
| |
wsb:spotify_page
| |
wsb:wikia_page
| |
wsb:wikidata_page
| |
is mo:performer
of | |