My Father Was Born In Killarney
  (Don’t Run Down The Irish)

Listen to a 1912 recording for Edison 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/

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams — Sydney: Dinsdales’, [1911]; presumably also published in the UK.

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Billy Williams has signed the Jumbo wax master of this Coliseum reissue.

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded three versions of this song: ca. October 1911 for Jumbo (reissued on Coliseum and other labels), ca. March 1912 for Edison, and ca. April 1912 for Favorite (reissued on Lyric and John Bull).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).