June 3 - James Hook (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for June 3rd are here: Josephine Baker (2019), Jan Peerce (2020), Dakota Staton (2021), and Josephine Baker (2022)

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James Hook (3 June 1746 – 1827) was an English composer and organist. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Songs with a Hook

Much of Hook's music can be described as delightful and charming rather than pedantic and trite… – Apple music

Hook composed two thousand songs

To entertain the British throngs.

And even critics, often spiteful,

Thought that his success was rightful,

And declared his songs ”delightful,”

Not pedantic, dull, or triteful.

 

 

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