On Her Pic-Pic-Piccolo

 

 

Piccolo manuscript
Manuscript of lyrics,
believed to be
in Fred Godfrey’s hand.
(Documentation Collection,
National Film and Sound Archive,
Canberra, Australia)

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams, composed 1912 — London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1914.

 

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Zonophone Twin 1030-BRecordings

Billy Williams recorded three versions of this delightful song: 18 October 1912 for Zonophone, ca. November 1912 for Homophon, and ca. March 1913 for Edison Blue Amberol. Reissues appeared on a couple of other labels, including the Australian Rexophone.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).