A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sporle, Nathan

SPORLE, Nathan James, whose real name was Burnett, born 1812, a tenor singer with an agreeable voice, first appeared in public about 1832 at the Grecian Saloon. He afterwards became a dinner singer, but was best known as the composer of many pleasing songs and ballads, one of which—'In the days when we went gipsying'—was very popular. He died March 2, 1853.

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