Soap And Water

 

 

Soap And Water (Australian)
Cinch 5036-A Apex 406-A

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Hilbury & Fred Godfrey — Melbourne: Dinsdales’, 1909 [Andrews and Bayly 1982 erroneously credit Charles Collins]; title included in Godfrey letter assigning rights to Billy Williams dated February 28, 1909.

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Recordings

Billy Williams recorded three versions of this song: 7 January 1911 for Zonophone, ca. March 1911 for Homophon, and ca. April 1911 for Edison Amberol. Reissues appeared on several other labels. The Canadian Apex reissue from the mid-1920s shown here has incorrect composing credits.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).