Giving A Donkey A Strawberry

 

 

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey, 1913; manuscripts of music and lyrics (two drafts) and piano arrangement by Alfred Glover in Billy Williams Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

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Listen to a 1913 recording
by Billy Williams
for Edison Blue Amberol

Recording source:
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara, http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Columbia 2226-ARegal G6649-APathé 20189-A

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded five versions of this song: 25 March 1913 for Zonophone, ca. March-April 1913 for Columbia, ca. June 1913 for Pathé, ca. October-November 1913 for Jumbo, and ca. November 1913 for Edison Blue 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).