I’ll Have To Ask My Mother If She’ll Let Me

 

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey, 1914.

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Columbia A2035-A Columbia 2929-B HMV-Victor 120712-B Regal G6783-B Zonophone T1380-A
       
A 1933 reissue of a
1914 Zonophone
release — still in
demand after nearly 20 years!

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded three versions of this popular number: 1 May 1914 for Zonophone, ca. May 1914 for Favorite, and ca. May-June 1914 for Columbia. 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).