I’ll Lend You My Best Girl

 

 

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey; Percy Edgar also seems to be a co-writer, according to an assignment letter signed by him dated 20 March 1911 — London: Bert Feldman, 1910.

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Columbia-Rena 1566-APhoenix 038-ACinch 5038

 

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded four versions of this song: 3 February 1911 for Zonophone Twin, ca. January 1911 for Columbia-Rena, ca. March 1911 for Homophon, and 12 January 1912 for Favorite. 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).