DIBDIN is chiefly remembered by his sea-songs, such as Tom Bowling. He was an actor and singer as well as a composer, and produced for the stage one work after another, of many of which he wrote both words and music.
Lionel and Clarissa, recently revived in London, contains both original tunes of Dibdih's and some he adapted from other sources.
THE air of Mozart is sung by the love-sick page Cherubino, who, though he is enamoured of the Countess, is flirting with her maid. He steals from her one of the Countess' ribbons, and placates the maid by giving her a song he has written about her mistress.

: Nonsense and Nursery Rhymes in Song and Story. The Old English Valentine (Edward German).

THE HUDDERSFIELD CONCERT PARTY : WINIFRED LIVERSIDGE (Soprano), ELSIE ROBERTSHAW (Contralto), ARTHUR McGAUVRAN (Tenor), FRANK MCGAUVRAN (Bass), LAWRENCE FULLER (Entertainer), DENNIS DRAKE
(Accompanist)