I Keep On Toddling Along

 

 

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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Columbia A2035-BRegal G6007HMV-Victor 120082-B

 

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).