She’s Coming Home Tonight

 

 

She's Coming Home Tonight
Image source:
National Library of Australia,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an21757731-s1-e-cd
An advance copy of
the Zonophone recording, this single-sided disc is titled and signed in pencil in Billy Williams’s own handwriting, and once belonged to him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Hilbury, Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams — Melbourne: Dinsdales’, 1910.

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Recordings

Billy Williams recorded two versions of this song: 18 February 1910 for Zonophone, and ca. March 1910 for Homophon. 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).