<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (January 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" is a popular British music hall song . It was written in 1907 by John A. Glover - Kind and made famous by music hall singer Mark Sheridan who first recorded it in 1909 . It speaks of the singer's love for the seaside, and his wish to return there for his summer holidays each year . It was composed at a time when the yearly visits of the British working - class to the seaside were booming . </P> <P> It was, for a long time, used as a signature tune by Reginald Dixon MBE, who was the resident organist at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool between 1930 - 70 . </P>

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