George ‘Honey Boy’ Evans (1870-1915) was a Welsh music hall performer, songwriter and producer who toured the United States with a minstrel show he bought called the Honey Boy Minstrels.
Evans’s best-known contribution to the Great American Songbook was ‘In the Good Old Summer Time,’ written with lyricist Ren Shields in 1902. The number was featured in the Edwardian-set musical The Florodora Girl, and was later the title song of In the Good Old Summertime.
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