My Father Was Born In Killarney (Don’t Run Down The Irish)

		Billy Williams has signed the Jumbo wax master of this Coliseum reissue.	Listen to a 1912 recording for Edison by Billy Williams MP3 Recording source: Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
Letter dated 8 May 1911 from Fred Godfrey assigning the performing rights and a share of the publishing royalties of My Father Was Born In Killarney (and several other songs) to Billy Williams.

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams — Sydney: Dinsdales’, [1911]; presumably also published in the UK.

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Recordings

Billy Williams recorded three versions of this song: ca. October 1911 for Jumbo (reissued on Coliseum and other labels), ca. March 1912 for Edison, and ca. April 1912 for Favorite (reissued on Lyric and John Bull).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).