Life
1903-1984; [?-?]; [prop. Jimmy Kennedy]; b. Omagh, Co. Tyrone; raised
in Portstewart, Co. Londonderry; d. TCD; author of The Teddy Bears Picnic’,
‘Red Sails in the Sunset’, ‘South of the Border’.
‘Love is Like a Violin’, and ‘The Hokey Cokey’; he
is commemorated in Stewart Parker’s play Spokesong (1975), based
on his music. DUB
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Notes
South of the Border, words by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carrr; Maurice-Peter
Music Co. Ltd.; copyright held by EMI Pub. Ltd; cited in Patrick McCabe,
Emerald Germs of Ireland (Picador 2001), Acknowledgements.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)