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Lottie Collins (16 August 1865 – 1 May 1910) was an English singer and dancer, most famous for introducing the song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!" in England. ==Life== She was born Charlotte Louisa Collins in the East End of London in 1865.〔GRO Register of Births: September 1865 1c 424 St GEO East - Charlotte Louisa Collins〕 Her father was a woodworker and music hall entertainer.〔 She started out in music hall at the age of 11 or 12 in 1877 in a skipping rope dance act with her younger sisters, Eliza (Lizzie) and Mary Ann (Marie) as ''The Three Sisters Collins''.〔(Lottie Collins profile ), PeoplePlayUK Theatre website〕〔1881 census: RG11/1003 f.11 p. 16, at 29 York Street, Dover, Kent - Charlotte Collins aged 15 singer and dancer, with sisters Eliza (11) and Mary A. (9)〕 In 1886, Collins became a solo act in music hall. She also played in theatre, appearing the same year as Mariette in the Gaiety Theatre's burlesque, ''Monte Cristo Jr.''〔The Times, Wednesday, 29 Dec 1886; pg. 6 〕 She first toured America in 1889〔''New York Times'', 20 September 1892: '...she made her first appearance here at the Bijou Opera House 7 October 1889, as a member of the Howard Athenæum Company.'〕〔A theatre column in the New York paper ''The Evening World'', 5 October 1889, p.3 refers to her forthcoming appearance at the Bijou with the Boston Howard Star Specialty Company. She is described as a "skirt dancer". George Thatcher, whose minstrel company later appeared in ''Tuxedo'', is a member of the same company.〕 with the Howard Atheneum Company, during which she accepted the proposal of Samuel P. Cooney〔"S.P. Cooney" is named as manager of the Howard Athenæum Company in the New York paper ''The Sun'', 23 January 1890.〕 whom she married in St. Louis.〔New York Times, 10 November 1898: "Lottie Collins Tries Suicide"〕 According to her obituary in the ''New York Times'' she and Cooney had three children.〔New York Times, 3 May 1910:'Lottie Collins Dead'〕 While touring in vaudeville in the United States she heard the song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!"〔According to a report in ''The New York Times'', the song was given to her husband and manager Samuel P. Cooney by theatrical impresario William Harris when Cooney arrived in America to manage a play for him. See ''The New York Times'', 10 November 1898: 'Lottie Collins Tries Suicide'〕 After she sang it at the Tivoli Music Hall in London in November 1891, it became her signature piece. She would sing the first verse demurely and then launch into the chorus and an uninhibited and exhausting skirt dance with high kicks (especially on the word "BOOM") that exposed her stockings held up by sparkling garters, and bare thighs. She sang the song at performances of the Gaiety Theatre's burlesque ''Cinder Ellen up-too-late'' beginning on 14 March 1892〔''The Times'', Saturday, 12 Mar 1892:'SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT of Miss LOTTIE COLLINS, the originator of the celebrated song Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay, which she will sing nightly on and after Monday next - GAIETY THEATRE'〕 and according to her obituary, at the height of the craze was performing it five times nightly at different venues in London.〔New York Times, 3 May 1910:'Lottie Collins Dead:...Lottie Collins found herself driving round to four music halls a night at a salary of $100 for each hall just to sing "Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay" with her rhythmic dance. In addition George Edwardes engaged her at $300 a week to give the song in one of the scenes of a musical comedy he was running at the Gaiety Theatre in the Strand. That made five performances nightly.'〕 She returned to America in September 1892 to perform "Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay" as an entr'acte at the Standard Theatre, New York, but received a bad review from the critic of the ''New York Times'', who described her as 'a mature woman', referred to her as 'Charlotte Collins' and mentioned she had been detained in quarantine when arriving 'on an infected ship'.〔''New York Times'', 20 September 1892: 'More London Gayety'〕 Another of Collins's dance sketches in the 1890s was ''The Little Widow'', and she also had a hit with the song ''Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-wow''.〔''New York Times'', 3 May 1910:'Lottie Collins Dead'〕 On 29 November 1897 she opened in New York again at the Garden Theatre, part of a triple bill with two short plays.〔''New York Times'', 28 November 1897:'...She has some new songs, including "The Little Widow", "The Girl on the Ran Dan Dan" and "A Leader of Society".'〕 She became an icon of the "Naughty Nineties" and her risqué style led to some criticism, against which she defended herself.〔''New York Times'', 17 July 1897:'Lottie Collins Gets £25 Damages'. The report, from London, refers to a successful legal action against the newspaper ''Society'' which 'had published an article accusing her of singing vulgar songs'.〕 A century later, her garters were sold by auction at Sotheby's.〔 In 1898 she apparently attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and neck with a penknife,〔 but her wounds were minor and she was discharged from hospital the same day.〔''The Times'', 10 November 1898, p.9〕 Her daughter by her first husband was the musical comedy star Jose Collins.〔( Jewish Virtual Library )〕 In 1902 she married her second husband, the composer-producer James W. Tate.〔GRO Register of Marriages: September 1902 7b 538 Nottingham - James William Tate = Charlotte Louise Cooney〕 She died on 1 May 1910〔Headstone, St Pancras and Islington Cemetery〕 at St Pancras of heart disease〔 and is buried at St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley, London.〔GRO Register of Deaths: June 1910 1b 7 PANCRAS - Charlotte Louisa Tate aged 43〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lottie Collins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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