Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey, composed 1912 — London: Francis,
Day & Hunter, 1913.
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Listen
to a 1912
recording
for Edison Blue Amberol
by Billy Williams
Recording source:
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara, http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
Recordings
Billy Williams recorded five versions of this song: 26 July 1912 for
Zonophone, ca. August 1912 for Columbia, ca. September 1912 for Edison
Blue Amberol, ca. September 1912 for Pathé, and ca. November 1912
for Homophon. 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).