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Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams; some record labels credit Williams,
Godfrey, Paul Pelham & Herbert S. Rule or Pelham & Rule alone;
EMI credits Godfrey alone, 1911; title in Godfrey letter assigning rights
to Billy Williams dated December 19, 1913, Billy Williams Collection,
National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.
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Recordings
Billy Williams recorded five versions of this song: ca. December 1911
for Homophon, 12 January 1912 for Favorite, 26 January 1912 for Zonophone,
ca. March 1912 for Columbia, and ca. April 1912 for Edison 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).
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