Jessie Broughton

She made her stage debut at the Apollo Theatre in London in 1903 and soon appeared in Véronique, Havana and A Waltz Dream in the West End.

In 1910, she married, and with her husband she performed in London and toured Britain and abroad in variety and music hall, and made recordings, until the 1930s.

[2] Her first role there was in the musical The Girl from Kays in 1903, subsequently appearing at the same theatre in Madame Sherry.

[4][9] Broughton made dozens of records mostly of the sacred or light classical type[10] for the following labels: Scala, Coliseum, Favorite and Homochord.

[4] She was one of the first (in c.1915) to record the song "The Sunshine of Your Smile" which had been written in 1912 by Leonard Cooke and Lilian Ray and which was covered more recently in 1980 by the singer Mike Berry.