I’ll Lend You My Best Girl

 

 

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey — London: Bert Feldman, 1910.

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Columbia-Rena 1566-APhoenix 038-ACinch 5038

 

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded four versions of this song: 3 February 1911 for Zonophone Twin, ca. January 1911 for Columbia-Rena, ca. March 1911 for Homophon, and 12 January 1912 for Favorite. 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).