Joseph Tabrar

[4] His 1892 song "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow" was originally written for Ada Reeve, but when Vesta Victoria heard it she immediately started to perform it, to great success.

[2] According to Peter Gammond: "There was hardly a music hall artist during his time who did not call upon 'Joe' for some material: this included, besides songs, monologues, duologues, sketches, short operettas, and many pantomime scripts...".

[2] The elder Joseph Tabrar continued to write songs, and teach songwriting skills, from his office until after the First World War.

[6] He made relatively little money from his songs and in 1899 described himself as "impecuniously embarrassed"; a benefit concert was held with such performers as Dan Leno, G. H. Chirgwin, and Florrie Forde.

Tabrar is buried in the former VABF memorial at Streatham Park Cemetery,[1] which has been restored by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.