There Must Be Something Nice
  About The Isle Of Man

 

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams, 1913; manuscript (fragment) of lyrics in Billy Williams Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

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Columbia 2227-BRegal G6650-A

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded six versions of this song: ca. March 1913 for Edison Blue Amberol, ca. March-April 1913 for Favorite, ca. June 1913 for Homophon, ca. June 1913 for Pathé, and 1913 recordings of uncertain dates for both Columbia-Rena and Jumbo. 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).