Don’t Go Out With Him Tonight

 

 

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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Scala 699-AColumbia-Rena 1656Tower 224-BDacapo 299

 

 

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?)
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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).