Sing Me An Irish Song

Billy Williams & Fred Godfrey; Harry Carlton also a co-author, according to Godfrey letter assigning rights to Billy Williams dated Jan. 31, 1911 — London: Francis, Day & Hunter, 1911.

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Recordings

Billy Williams recorded two versions of this song: 3 February 1911 for Zonophone, and ca. March 1911 for Homophon. Reissues appeared on several other labels.¹

J. Thorby (Clarion 557, 1911) [cylinder]

Ada Jones (Operaphone 1019) [vertical cut disc] — same song?

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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).