Elsie Bambridge
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Elsie Bambridge was the second daughter of British writer Rudyard Kipling. She was the only one of the Kiplings' three children to survive beyond early adulthood.
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"On the Road to Mandalay" is a song by Oley Speaks with text by Rudyard Kipling.
Elsie Bambridge
…news in the U.K. and America in 1958 when she protected her father’s integrity as his executor by prohibiting a recording by Frank Sinatra of the song “On the Road to Mandalay”, based on her father’s poem “Mandalay”, from being issued in the United Kingdom. She disapproved of the many liberties Sinatra took with the text. In…
Sheet music of "On the Road to Mandalay", 1907
First sheet of Oley Speaks's setting of "On the Road to Mandalay", 1907