Clarence Wainwright Murphy, also known as Charles William Murphy, C.W. Murphy and C. Murphy, (1875–1913) was a prolific British composer of music hall and musical theatre tunes, perhaps best known for the song "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" with lyrics by Will Letters (1908). In 1926, "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" was made into an animated short of the same title directed by Dave Fleischer, and in 1928 into a feature film directed by William Wyler. The song was also performed in the 1943 film Hello Frisco, Hello. With frequent collaborator Dan Lipton (1873–1935) he also wrote "My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl", mentioned by James Joyce in his novel Ulysses and also turned into a 1909 short sound film of the same name. Another song, "Little Yellow-bird", (aka "Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird") written with lyricist W. Hargreave, can be seen performed by Scottish comedian Charlie Naughton in the 1938 film Alf's Button Afloat and by Angela Lansbury in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray and again by Lansbury in the 1985 episode "Sing a Song of Murder" from her TV series Murder, She Wrote.
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Clara & Sarah – 1897
Baby Loo (How Can I Be Poor) – 1898
Hooligan's Canary – 1898
How Can I Be Poor? – 1898
How Can They Tell That Oi'm Oirish? – 1898
Kelly, the Car-man – 1898
Jane Magee – 1898
Everybody Loves You – 1900
Just the Same To-day – 1900
Mulligan's Motor-car – 1900
Just As Long As You Love Me – 1901
Dat Little Gal of Johnson's – 1902
I Did Feel Sorry – 1902
I Don't Want To Be A Honeysuckle – 1902
I Live in Trafalgar Square – 1902
If That Comes True – 1902
Mama's Little Sleepy-eyes! – 1902
Molly O'Malley – 1902
My Home is My Garden – 1902
The Coloured Millionaire – 1902
The Girl in the Panama – 1902
Hanging Mother's Picture on a Nail – 1903
The Giddy Little Isle of Man – 1903
Good-night, Little Girl – 1904
The Little Irish Postman – 1904
You Wish You Were A Girl – 1904
Welcome Home, Sailor Boy! – 1905
Betty, I'm Pining – 1906
Little Cloud with the Silv'ry Lining – 1907
My Chateau in Barcelona – 1907
The House, the Flat and the Bungalow – 1907
Alphonso, My Alphonso – 1909
Mum-mum-mum-Mary – 1909
Boss of the House – 1910
In Your Old Tam-O'-Shanter – 1910
The Kelly – 1910
O'Brien – 1911
Hogmanay – 1912
You Must Come Round on Saturday – 1912
We Must Have a Song about the Isle of Man – 1912
with ____ ALLEN
Let's All Go into the Ballroom – 1912
with WALT ALWYN
Kicking Up a Row Like That – 1900
with GEORGE ARTHURS
Making Up the Quarrel – 1904
Bashful! – 1906
Costumes, Gowns & Frocks – 1907
Fire! Fire! Fire! – 1907
Firelight – 1907
Get It Over! – 1907
Put Me Amongst the Girls – 1907
Don't Be Ridiculous, Nicholas! – 1908
I Could Get Along So Nicely With You – 1908
I'm Not Looking for a Beautiful Girl – 1908
I've Been Fishing for Pearls – 1908
with EDGAR BATEMAN
Mrs. Carter – 1900
The Garden Filled With Gold – 1904
Dear Little Shadow – 1905
It's Our Silver Wedding – 1907
with HARRY CASTLING
Let's All Go Down the Strand – 1904
Good-Night, Number One! – 1905
Hello, Little Girl! Who Are You? – 1905
It's the Best World We've Ever Seen – 1905
Little Glow-worm! – 1905
Bangalore – 1906
Barbados – 1906
Farewell, New York! – 1906
If Your Hair Were Not So Curly – 1906
Rowing To Hampton Court – 1907
I Would Still Love You – 1908
Meet Me, Jenny, When the Sun Goes Down – 1908
Pull Yourselves Together, Girls – 1909
The Girl in the Clogs and Shawl – 1909 [cited in E. M. Forster's novel _A Passage to India_]
The Singer Was Irish – 1910
Have a Banana! – 1910
I'm the Man That Buried Flanagan – 1911
We All Go the Same Way Home – 1911
with CHARLES COLLINS
Come and Hear Him Play His Oom-Tera-Ra – 1909
On the Same Place Every Time – 1910
with WORTON DAVID
Have You Heard John James O'Hara? – 1911
Follow The Footsteps in the Snow – 1912
They're All Single by the Seaside – 1911
Hold Your Hand Out You Naughty Boy – 1914
Keep Your Head Down, Fritzi Boy (We Saw You) – 1918
with CHARLES DEANE
All Have A Dinner With Me – 1893
with W. FARRELL
Irish As She's Spoken – 1893
with ALBERT HALL
Still His Whiskers Grew – no date
Maggie Marney – 1894
Oh Where is My Wandering Boy To-Night? – 1894
A Glorious Sprig of Shamrock for Your Coat – 1900
The Baby's Name – 1900
My Blind Norah – 1901
with W. HARGREAVES
Little Yellow-bird – 1903
with FRED W. LEIGH
Dominic McCue – 1906
Goo-Goo Land – 1908
with WILL LETTERS
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? – 1908
The Kelly Two-Step – 1909
Flanagan – 1910
Hi, Hi, Hi, Mr. McKie – 1911
with DAN LIPTON
Don't Tell the World Your Troubles – no date
If I Had A Girl As Nice As You – no date
The Ugly Duckling – 1904
Go Away Mr. Crocodile – 1904
Bombombay – 1905
Ain't Yer Gwin Ter Say 'How Do?' – 1906
As I Stand by the Old Church Door – 1906
It is the Scarecrow – 1906
Put Me Amongst The Girls – 1907
My Girl's A Yorkshire Girl – 1908
Oh, Oh Antonio – 1908
Take Me Back to the Isle of Man! – 1908
I Only Got Married To-Day – 1909
I'll Be Cross, Arabella – 1909
Plink Plonk, Or: The Skin of a Spanish Onion – 1909
We Don't Want More Daylight – 1909
I Shall Sulk – 1910
Shirts – 1910
The First Time That I've Been in Love – 1910
We'll Treat You like One of Our Own – 1910
No Wonder I Look Jolly – 1911
You Must All Do as I Do – 1912
Beautiful, Beautiful Bed – 1915
Bed, Wonderful Bed – 1915
with DAN LIPTON & Magini
I Wonder What It Feels Like To Be Poor – 1920
with DAN LIPTON & JOHN NEAT
She's A Lassie from Lancashire – 1907
with DAN LIPTON & HUGH OWEN
I've a Garden in Sweden – 1907
If You Were The Only Girl on Earth – 1908
with HUGH OWEN
Don't Throw Stones at Other People's Windows – 1907
with GEORGE A. STEPHENS
I'm the Best Pal I've Ever Had! – 1908
with R.P. WESTON & F.J. BARNES
I Don't Like Your Stovepipe Hat – 1907