Our Little Kiddie Sings The Best Song Of All

Fred Godfrey & Billy Williams — London: Frank Howard, 1914.

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In this one, Billy Williams says you can keep Melba, Caruso, Tetrazzini — and Harry Champion, too! He’d rather hear his little kiddie sing.

Recordings

Billy Williams recorded this delightful, fast-paced song twice: 1 May 1914 for Zonophone, and, in the last recording session of his life, in early June 1914 for Favorite. Reissues appeared on several other labels. The Zonophone release shown above is from 1933 — still selling after nearly two decades.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).