I’ll Have To Ask My Mother If She’ll Let Me

 

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey, 1914.

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Columbia A2035-AColumbia 2929-BHMV-Victor 120712-BRegal G6783-B

 

Zonophone T1380-A
A 1933 reissue of a
1914 Zonophone
release — still in
demand after nearly 20 years!

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded three versions of this popular number: 1 May 1914 for Zonophone, ca. May 1914 for Favorite, and ca. May-June 1914 for Columbia. 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).