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Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams; British Library credits Godfrey, Williams
& Alfred Glover; EMI credits Godfrey & Glover; Harry Carlton also
a co-author, according to an assignment letter dated Jan. 31, 1911 —
London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1911.
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Recordings
Billy Williams recorded six versions of this song: 21 April 1911 for
Zonophone; ca. April 1911 for Columbia; ca. April1911 for Homophon;
ca. April 1911 for Pathé; ca. April 1911 for
Edison Amberol; and ca. October 1911 for Jumbo. Reissues appeared on several
other labels.1
Jack Charman, acc. by the Dacapo London Orchestra (Dacapo 299, 1911?;
John Bull 11643, 1911?) __________________
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).
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