Why Do You Think I Look So Gay?

 

 

Gramophone advance copy Homophon 806
An advance copy
of the Zonophone
recording, this single-sided disc is titled
and signed in pencil
in Billy Williams’s
own handwriting,
and once belonged
to him.
  

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams;1 or Billy Williams & R.P. Weston,2 1910.;Some sources (such as Myerscough 2001) credit Andrews & Bayly (1982) credit Williams & R.P. Weston, 1910.

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Recordings

Billy Williams recorded five versions of this song: 18 February 1910 for Zonophone, ca. March 1910 for Homophon, ca. February 1911 for Pathé, ca. April 1911 for Edison Amberol, and ca. December 1911 for Beka Grand. Reissues appeared on several other labels.3

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Notes

1   According to J.P. Myerscough, Billy Williams: All the Songs [8-CD set
     and accompanying notes] (Lowestoft, UK: Music Hall Masters, 2001).
2   According to Andrews and Ernie Bayly, Billy Williams’ Records: A Study in
     Discography (Bournemouth, UK: Talking Machine Review, 1982).
3   For comprehensive discographies of recordings by Billy Williams, see Brian Rust,
     British Music Hall on Record (Harrow, UK: Gramophone, 1979); and Andrews and
     Bayly, Billy Williams’ Records. For a collection of recordings of all the Billy Williams
     songs, see Myerscough, Billy Williams.