Merseyside Mirth Makers - Charlie Higgins

Charlie Higgins

 

Charlie Higgins was born in Liverpool and was a popular recording comedian from the early to mid-1930s and was a master of facial expressions when he played the part of someone who is down in their luck. However he disappeared from the national consciousness once he stopped recording.

On Broadcast  Records

His first record was recorded in 1930 and he became one of the most popular comedians featured on record during the early 1930s. Although his records sold well at the time, some of the originals are now very hard to find, but all of Charlie Higgins' most popular song numbers are featured an 'All Poshed Up' CD. His humour is full of vigour and travels well up to the present time, and can be thoroughly recommended as giving a good feel for popular comedy in the 1930s.There is little information about him today either on the Internet or in Music Hall history books but it is believed he started his career in the theatre during the 1920s. Despite lack of modern recognition there is no doubt he was a very successful recording comedian in the early 1930s and once performed at an All Star Non Stop Variety Show in 1934. 

In the 1930s he released at least a score of records, mostly on the Broadcast label and the last few on the Rex label, such as 'She's Leading Me Up The Garden'.

Although his records sold well at the time, some of the originals are now very hard to find but all of his popular songs, such as his first and most successful 'With Me Gloves In Me Hand And Me Hat On One Side.' and 'Down In The Fields Where The Buttercups All Grow' which he recorded on a 78 rpm record in 1931, plus his risque 1934 song 'All Poshed Up With Me Daises In Me Hand'.
Charlie Higgins died in Mill Hill, London in 1978.

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