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Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams — London: Frank Howard, 1914.
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In this one, Billy Williams says you can keep Melba, Caruso, Tetrazzini
— and Harry Champion, too! He’d rather hear his little kiddie
sing.
  
Recordings
Billy Williams recorded this delightful, fast-paced song twice: 1 May
1914 for Zonophone, and, in the last recording session of his life, in
early June 1914 for Favorite. Reissues appeared on several other labels.
The Zonophone release shown above is from 1933 still selling after
nearly two decades.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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