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Fred
Godfrey & Billy Williams — London: Francis, Day & Hunter,
1911; Harry Carlton also co-author, according to letter assigning rights
to Billy Williams dated Jan. 31, 1911.
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Godfrey and Williams borrow a theme from Offenbach for this
song celebrating the coronation of King George V.
Recordings
Billy Williams recorded five versions of this song: 11 March 1911
for Zonophone, ca. March 1911 for Edison Standard Cylinder, ca. March
1911 for Homophon, ca. April 1911 for Columbia-Rena, , and ca. April 1911
for Pathé. Reissues appeared on several other labels.1
Billy Melville (Kalliope 6160, ca. 1911)
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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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