Here We Are Again!

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey — London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1911.

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Listen to a 1911 recording by Billy Williams for Columbia, reissued around 1920 on the budget Regal label.

Recordings

This was one of Billy Williams’ most successful songs, and he recorded at least seven different versions of it: ca. January 1911 for Columbia, 3 February 1911 for Zonophone, ca. March 1911 for Homophon, ca. March 1911 for Edison Standard, ca. April 1911 for Pathé, ca. June 1911 for Favorite, and ca. December 1911 for Beka Grand. Reissues appeared on a large number of other labels — the Canadian Starr-Gennett release pictured here was a catalogue offering from as late as 1925.¹

Reginald Foort, organ, in “Good Old Songs Medley,
Part 2” (Gramophone BD-774, 1939)

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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).