Tom Bowling; Frank Bowling
Tom Bowling is a song written towards the end of the C18 by Charles Dibdin. Dibdin was a succesful (but not always financially) singer, composer and popular dramatist. Tom Bowlingis his most famous, and long lasting, song. In modern times it has been given an arrangement by Benjamin Britten. It is, of course, Britten and Peter Pears that have produced the benchmark recording of the arrangement.
