Tom Mellor (songwriter)
{{short description|English songwriter, 1880 - 1926}}
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Thomas William Mellor (25 May 1880 – July 1926{{cite web | url=https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/facts?_phcmd=u(%27https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/ | title=Ancestry Library Edition }}) was an English songwriter.
He was born in Lambeth, London. His first successful song was "I Wouldn’t Leave My Little Wooden Hut For You", written with Charles Collins in 1905, which launched the career of music hall star Daisy Dormer.
Other successful songs included "I Like Your Old French Bonnet" (with Harry Gifford and Alf J. Lawrance, 1906, performed by Harry Fay), "If I hadn't got a girl like you" (with Gifford and Lawrance, 1907, performed by Gordon Stretton),{{cite book |last1=Brocken |first1=Michael |last2=Daniels |first2=Jeff |title=Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer: A New Jazz Chronicle |date=2018 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-1498574464}}{{rp|141}} "My Indiana Queen" and "She's somebody's sweet heart" (both with Gifford, 1909, performed by Gordon Stretton), "There's a brown gal way down in Old Dahomey" (with Gifford, 1910, performed by Gordon Stretton),{{rp|141}} "It’s Nice To Have A Friend" (with Gifford, 1913, performed by Florrie Forde), "When It’s Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" (written with Gifford and Huntley Trevor, 1913), "We’re Irish And Proud Of It, Too" (written with Gifford and Fred Godfrey, 1914), "All the Boys in Khaki Get the Nice Girls" (with Gifford, 1915) and "Save Your Kisses Till The Boys Come Home" (with Gifford and Godfrey, 1915).[https://www.fredgodfreysongs.ca/Collaborators/tom_mellor.htm Tom Mellor (1880–1926), Fred Godfrey Songs]. Retrieved 8 September 2020[https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/117037/Mellor_Tom Tom Mellor, Discography of American Historical Recordings]. Retrieved 8 September 2020
Mellor served in the Royal Naval Air Service towards the end of the First World War.[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/60522/images/43343_631_0-00428?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.10049725.907674597.1597340284-56157554.1596277212&pId=169700 The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services; Class: ADM 188; Piece: 631] He died in Lambeth in 1926, aged 46.