Harry Castling & Fred Godfrey — London: Francis, Day &
Hunter; Melbourne: Stanley Mullen, 1908.
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In the days before recording
formats were standardized, many different patents competed. This is an example of
a vertical cut, center-start pressing, whereby the needle
tracks the groove up and down (rather than side to side as became
normal
later on), and the groove spirals from the center to the
outside edge (rather than from the edge inward). |
A
Canadian reissue
from the
mid-1920s,
with incorrect
composing credits.
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Recordings
Billy Williams recorded six versions of this song: 16 April 1908 for Homophon,
April 1908 for Zonophone, ca. August 1908 for Edison Standard Cylinder,
ca. January 1909 for Jumbo, ca. August 1909 for Edison Bell, ca. September
1909 for Pathé. Reissues appeared on several other labels.1
Albert Marsh (Clarion 211, 1908) [cylinder]
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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).
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