Let’s Go Where All The Crowd Goes

 

 

Let's Go Where All The Crowd GoesFred 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.

 

 

Columbia-Rena 1645-B Regal G6005-B
Phoenix 042-B Kalliope 6160

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).