[2] He was christened as Leslie Legge Tate Frye at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham, on 5 May 1898.
He recorded novelty songs, such as "He Played his Ukulele as the Ship Went Down",[5][6] including several with Jack Hylton and his Orchestra.
His 1929 song "Jollity Farm" and his 1930 “Hunting Tigers Out in ‘Indiah’” were recorded by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on their 1967 album Gorilla.
In 1983, Sarony appeared as one of the many elderly insurance clerks in The Crimson Permanent Assurance segment of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
[citation needed] "Bunkey-doodle-I-doh" was the B-side of "Jollity Farm" by the International Novelty Orchestra on Zonophone 5513 (pressing no.