My Lass Frae Glasgie Toon

 

 

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams, 1911; manuscript of lyrics, with title as My Girl Fra Glasgie Toon, in Billy Williams Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

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Zonophone Twin 676-BJohn Bull B66-BStarr Gennett 4691-A

 

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded seven versions of this song: ca. August 1911 for Columbia, ca. August 1911 for Homophon, ca. August 1911 for Jumbo, 9 September 1911 for Zonophone, ca. September 1911 for Edison Amberol, ca. September-October 1911 for Pathé, and 12 January 1912 for Favorite. 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).