Charles Coborn was a British music hall singer and comedian born in Stepney, east London.
He was born Charles Whitton McCallum, and adopted his stage name from Coborn Road, near Mile End. In a long career, Coborn was known largely for two comic songs: Two Lovely Black Eyes and The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Fred Gilbert, in 1892. The song was bought for £10, but the rights were finally sold for £600.
Coborn estimated that he had sung the latter song 250,000 times in the course of h...
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