The Two Bobs were an American vaudeville duo who performed successfully in British music halls, and recorded, in the early twentieth century.
After a journalist misinterpreted a passing comment as meaning that they were about to travel to England, and published it as fact, they decided to do that, and found work at Charles Morton's Tivoli Theatre in London.
[1] From 1912, the Two Bobs recorded in Britain for the Columbia Phonograph Company, and introduced such American songs as "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Casey Jones", and "Waiting for the Robert E.
They also wrote with English songwriters Bert Lee and R. P. Weston, and found success with "When Paderewski Plays" (1916)[3] and with "Paddy McGinty's Goat", a song which they recorded and which was popularised in the 1960s by singer Val Doonican.
[4][5] Adams married the French-born violinist and entertainer Odette Myrtil in 1917, and returned to the U.S.; they later divorced.