We’re All Waiting For A Girl

Listen to a clip of a 1910 recording by Jack Charman.

Fred Murray & Fred Godfrey; Stanley Mullen sheet music credits Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey — London: Francis, Day & Hunter; Melbourne: Stanley Mullen, Allan & Co., 1910; title in Godfrey letter assigning rights to Billy Williams dated Nov. 23, 1909.

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Recordings

Billy Williams recorded four versions of this song: 4 March 1909 for Homophon, ca. October 1909 for Edison Standard Cylinder, ca. March 1910 for Pathé, and a 1909 recording for Zonophone of uncertain date. Reissues appeared on several other labels.¹

Jack Charman (Grammavox E-27; Popular P-157); as “Fred Vernon” (Bell Disc 141; Columbia-Rena 1262, 1910)

Will Terry as “Billy Milton” (Jumbo 443, 1910)

Fred Murray (Little Champion 3022); [or Harry Fay as “Fred Vernon”?] (Bell Disc 176)

Charles Denton (Clarion 370, 1910) [cylinder]

The King’s Military Band, in “1912 Panto Hits” (Columbia-Rena 1783, 1912)

Harry Fay, in “Billy Williams Songs Memories, Part 2” (Regal Zonophone MR-1047, 1932)

Morris & Cowley, in 7-LP set “Palace Of Varieties — Old Time Music Hall” (BBC CN-1426, 1976 reissue of recordings made 1952–58)

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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).