There’s Life In The Old Dog Yet

 

 

There's Life In The Old Dog Yet manuscript
Manuscript, believed to be
in Fred Godfrey’s hand.
(Documentation Collection,
National Film and Sound Archive,
Canberra, Australia)

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey, 1914; manuscript of music and lyrics in Billy Williams Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

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Ironically, this title was one of the last that Billy Williams recorded before his untimely death.

 

Regal G6783-AHMV-Victor 120713-AZonophone T1392-A

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded two versions of this song: 1 May 1914 for Zonophone Twin (reissued on HMV-Victor [Canada] and in 1933 on Regal-Zonophone), and ca. May-June 1914 for Columbia (reissued on Regal).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).