All The Silver From The Silvery Moon

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams, 1911; manuscript of lyrics (two drafts) in Billy Williams Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

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Recordings

Billy Williams recorded at least five versions of this song: ca. December 1911 for Homophon; 3 January 1912 for Zonophone; 12 January 1912 for Favorite; ca. March 1912 for Columbia; and ca. April 1912 for Edison Amberol. Reissues appeared on several other labels.¹

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Note

1  For comprehensive discographies of recordings by Billy Williams, see Brian Rust,
     British Music Hall on Record (Harrow, UK: Gramophone, 1979); and Frank
     Andrews and Ernie Bayly, Billy Williams’ Records: A Study in Discography
     (Bournemouth, UK: Talking Machine Review, 1982). For a collection of recordings of
     all the Billy Williams songs, see J.P. Myerscough, Billy Williams: All the Songs
     [8-CD set and accompanying notes] (Lowestoft, UK: Music Hall Masters, 2001).