Michael Head (1900-1976) was a British composer pianist and baritone. He studied Piano Organ and composition at the Royal Academy of Music where he later became Professor of Piano - a post he held for nearly fifty years. He wrote over 120 songs most of which he performed himself while he also maintained a successful career as an accompanist. Money O! was first performed in 1928 and first published in 1929. It is the sixth and last in a song cycle entitled Songs Of The Countryside a collection of settings of poems by William Henry Davies. It has been arranged in G minor for solo Voice with Piano accompaniment.
