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Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams, 1913; manuscript of partial lyrics
(scribbled on the back of a sheet of Williams & Godfrey stationery)
in the Billy Williams Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.
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Recordings
Billy Williams recorded four versions of this song: ca. January-February
1913 for Columbia, ca. June 1913 for Homophon, ca. September-October 1913
for Pathé, and ca. October 1913 for Edison Blue Amberol. Reissues
appeared on several other labels.
(For comprehensive discographies of Billy Williams recordings, see Rust
1979; Andrews and Bayly 1982; for a collection of recordings of all the Billy Williams songs, see Myerscough 2001.)
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