Since Poor Father Joined The Territorials

 

 

EMI database credits Will Hyde & Fred Godfrey; other sources credit Will Hyde, ? Heath & Billy Williams, 1909.

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Zonophone Twin 1683-BHomophon 657-BRecordings

Billy Williams recorded four versions of this song: 4 March 1909 for Homophon, 27 July 1909 for Zonophone, ca. October 1909 for Edison Standard Cylinder, and ca. March 1910 for Pathé. 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).