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Harry Castling & Fred Godfrey; EMI also credits Billy Williams —
London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1908; manuscript of partial arrangement
(for conductor and 2nd violin) by W. Snell-Robinson in Billy Williams
Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.
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Evidently, Swedish girls had a reputation even back then! This was just the second song that Fred Godfrey wrote for Billy Williams.
Recordings
Billy Williams recorded three versions of this song: 6 August 1907 for
Homophon, ca. May 1908 for Zonophone, and ca. August 1908 for Edison Standard.
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).
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