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In 1762 was published, in quarto, undated, 'A Catalogue of the Original Paintings, Busts, and Carved Figures, &c. &c., now Exhibiting by the Society of Sign-painters, at the Large Room, the upper end of Bow Street, Covent Garden, nearly opposite the Playhouse.'
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Kean's Head tavern, in Russell Court, Drury Lane, and about 1830 had a shop of some kind or other in Museum Street, Bloomsbury. Hudson was one of those professional song-writers and vocalists who used to be engaged to sing at such supper-rooms and theatrical houses as Offley's, in Henrietta Street (north-west end), Covent Garden; the
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Coal Hole, in the Strand; and the
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Cider Cellars, Maiden Lane. Sitting among the company, Hudson used to get up at the call of the chairman and
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one of his lively and really witty songs. The platform belongs to
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Evans's and a later period. Hudson was at his best long after Captain Morris's day, and at the time when Moore's melodies were popular. Many of the melodies Hudson parodied very happily, and with considerable tact and taste. Many of Hudson's songs, such as
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Jack Robinson (infinitely funnier than most of Dibdin's), became coined into catch-words and street sayings of the day.
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Before you could say Jack Robinson is a phrase, still current, derived from this highly droll song. The verse in which Jack Robinson's
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Says the lady, says she, 'I've changed my state.' 'Why, you don't mean,' says Jack, 'that you've got a mate? You know you promised me.' Says she, 'I couldn't wait, For no tidings could I gain of you, Jack Robinson. And somebody one day came to me and said That somebody else had somewhere read, In some newspaper, that you was somewhere dead.'-- 'I've not been dead at all,' says Jack Robinson.
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The Spider and the Fly, is still often sung; and
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Going to Coronation is by no means forgotten in Yorkshire.
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There was a Man in the West Countrie figures in most current collections of songs. Hudson particularly excelled in stage-Irishman songs, which were then popular; and some of these, particularly one that ends with the refrain,
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My brogue and my blarney and bothering ways, have real humour in them. Many of these Irish songs were written for and sung by the late Mr. Fitzwilliam, the comedian, as others of Hudson's songs were by Mr. Rayner. Collectors of comic ditties will not readily forget
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Walker, the Twopenny Postman, or
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The Dogs'-meat Man