Oh, For Another Day At Margate

 

 

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams — London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1912; manuscript of lyrics in Billy Williams Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

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Regal G6645-ARecordings

Billy Williams recorded six versions of this song: 21 August 1912 for Zonophone, ca. November 1912 for Homophon, ca. December 1912 for Favorite, ca. January-February 1913 for Columbia-Rena, ca. June 1913 for Pathé, and a 1913 recording of uncertain date for Jumbo. Reissues appeared on a number of other labels, including the 1914 Regal release of the Columbia-Rena recording shown here.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).