Blame It On To Poor Old Father

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey, 1913; manuscript of music and lyrics in Billy Williams Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

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Recordings

Billy Williams recorded four versions of this song: 25 August 1913 for Zonophone; ca. September-October 1913 for Pathé; ca. October 1913 for Edison Blue Amberol; and ca. October-November 1913 for Jumbo. 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).