21,668 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Billy Williams was a prolific British music-hall and comic singer of the Edwardian era; Zonophone 1380 carries two of his novelty numbers, 'I Shall Have to Ask my Mother if She'll Let Me' and 'When Mother Backed the Winner of the Derby'.AI summary
Zonophone 1380 Music Hall
Billy Williams performing music hall comedy songs 'Since Father joined the Territorials' and 'Little Willies Woodbines' on Cinch 5034, a small British label.AI summary
Cinch 5034 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a British music hall and comic singer, recorded 'Little Wooden Hut' and 'Come into the Garden John' for Cinch, a budget British label of the late 1920s.AI summary
Cinch 5035 Music Hall
Billy Williams for Cinch, a cheap British label, performing 'In the Land Where There Are No Girls' and 'Soap & Water'. The artist is unrecognised.AI summary
Cinch 5036 Voice
Billy Williams recorded two comic Irish songs for Cinch 5040 in the early 1920s. Cinch was a short-lived, minor British label. No further information is available on this artist or recording.AI summary
Cinch 5040 Music Hall
Billy Williams on Cinch with two music-hall comic songs: 'Land where the Women wear the Trousers' and 'John put your Trousers on', both exploiting the cheeky title humour common to British variety.AI summary
Cinch 5042 Music Hall
Billy Williams on Cinch catalogue 5043, a comic or novelty music hall number. Cinch was a British budget label active in the 1920s-30s.AI summary
Cinch 5043 Music Hall
Billy Williams performing two comic numbers on Cinch, a short-lived British label: 'I'll meet you one dark Night' and 'Daylight Bill'.AI summary
Cinch 5045 Comic
Billy Williams was a singer active in the early 1920s. This Cinch pressing is one of several Williams discs in the collection; Cinch was a cheap British marque of the period.AI summary
Cinch 5046 Voice
Billy Williams on Cinch, early 1920s, with repertoire including a piece in period-offensive language typical of that era.AI summary
Cinch 5048 Voice
Billy Williams was a singer active in the early 1920s. This Cinch pressing is one of several Williams discs in the collection; Cinch was a cheap British marque of the period.AI summary
Cinch 5049 Voice
Billy Williams, a British music-hall singer, recorded 'When Father Tried to Kill the Cockadoodle Doo' and 'If the World Belonged to Me' for Cinch, a budget British label of the late 1920s.AI summary
Cinch 5050 Music Hall
Billy Williams, credited to Cinch Records 5052, a marginal British label of the 1920s–30s, performing 'I don't care' and 'Let's all go mad.' Cinch was a cheap marque with limited output.AI summary
Cinch 5052 Voice
Billy Williams performing 'My Lass from Glasgow Toon' and 'Take Me Back to USA' on Cinch, a British budget label — a Scottish novelty or emigrant-themed side, likely from the 1920s or 1930s.AI summary
Cinch 5053 Voice
Billy Williams, a British music-hall and comic singer, recorded 'A Lover Up in Scotland' and 'Postcards' for Cinch, a budget British label of the late 1920s.AI summary
Cinch 5108 Music Hall
Billy Williams recorded 'Chanticler' and 'You're the One' for Cinch, a small British label. Little is known of this artist or the label's history.AI summary
Cinch 5112 Music Hall
Cinch 5114 Music Hall
Billy Williams was a singer active in the early 1920s. This Cinch pressing is one of several Williams discs in the collection; Cinch was a cheap British marque of the period.AI summary
Cinch 5132 Voice
Billy Williams singing on Cinch, a small British label of the early 1920s.AI summary
Cinch 5134 Voice
Billy Williams was a singer active in the early 1920s. This Cinch pressing is one of several Williams discs in the collection; Cinch was a cheap British marque of the period.AI summary
Cinch 5155 Voice
Billy Williams recorded 'I Wish I Were a Lady's Man' and 'Take Me Down Piccadilly' (credited to Harry Fay) for Cinch, catalogue 5189, a small British budget label.AI summary
Cinch 5189 Music Hall
Billy Williams performs 'When Father papered the Parlour' and 'When Mother backed the Winner of the Derby' on Regal 6860. Both are British music-hall novelty songs with domestic humour. Billy Williams was a prolific Irish-British recording artist of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Regal 6860 Music Hall
Billy Williams recorded 'That's a Jolly Good Song' and a piece credited to H. Fay for Zonophone, a budget label. Williams was an English comedian and singer of the Edwardian era and 1920s, and his recordings represent early 20th-century British popular song.AI summary
Zonophone 283 Music Hall
Billy Williams was a prominent British singer and actor who had a successful recording and stage career from the 1890s through the 1920s. This Zonophone recording of novelty songs dates from the early 1900s era.AI summary
Zonophone 406 Music Hall
Billy Williams was a British singer and music-hall performer active in the early 1900s. This Winner pressing of two novelty or comic songs is a product of the early acoustic recording era.AI summary
Winner 2484 Music Hall
Billy Williams was an American singer of the 1920s–1930s; this Beka side pairs two novelty numbers typical of the era.AI summary
Beka 41406 Voice
Billy Williams performing novelty comedy numbers 'Tickle me, Timothy' and 'Little Willie's Woodbines' on Columbia. This appears to be a British pressing of a music-hall comedy act, not the later American R&B singer of the same name.AI summary
Columbia is469 Music Hall
Billy Williams on Dacap Records with 'Meet You One Dark Night' and 'Save a Little One for Me'—likely a vocalist or novelty recording on a small British label.AI summary
Dacapo 452 Voice
Billy Williams, a ballad singer of the early electric era, recorded two songs for Pelic, an obscure British label.AI summary
Pelican 56 Voice
Phoenix 041 Music Hall
Billy Williams on Regal performing 'Molly McIntyre' and 'It's Mine When You've Done with It', popular and novelty songs.AI summary
Regal 6644 Voice
Billy Williams, a British music-hall comic, recorded 'Little Willie Woodbines' and 'Since Father Joined the Territorials' on Twin Records, a small British label. These are character comic songs of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Twin 175 Music Hall
Billy Williams recorded 'A Lover Up in Scotland' and 'Post Cards' for Twin Records—popular ballads by an untraced vocalist on a minor British label.AI summary
Twin 2131 Voice
Billy Williams performing "Are We All Here?" and "Squeeze Her Ebenezer" on Zonophone, a budget British label active through the 1920s-30s.AI summary
Zonophone 1012 Music Hall
Billy Williams performing 'I shall have to ask my Mother if she'll let me' and 'When Mother backed the Winner of the Derby' on Zonophone 1380. A novelty singer on the Zonophone label, which was one of the earliest British recording marques.AI summary
Zonophone 1380 Music Hall
Billy Williams performs 'Postcards' and 'Put a Bit of Powder on It, Father' on this Pathé record, catalogue 78048, likely from the 1920s.AI summary
Pathé 78048 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a performer on Pathé, recorded 'Save a little one for me' and 'Serves you right'.AI summary
Pathé 78049 Voice
Billy Williams, the British music-hall star, performing 'Father papered the Parlour' and 'I'm the Man that buried Flanagan' for Pathé 79059.AI summary
Pathé 79059 Music Hall
Pathé 79693 Music Hall
Pathé 93016 Music Hall
Billy Williams recorded these two light comedic or novelty songs for Columbia's IS series, a budget British label series. 'When Mother Backed the...', '[part of title cut off]' and 'Our Little Kiddie Sings the Best Song of All' suggest sentimental or family-themed novelty material from the 1920s-1930s.AI summary
Columbia is682 Voice
Billy Williams on Home 6994, performing 'I've found Kelly' and Jack White's 'I do like to be beside the seaside'. Home was a budget British label; Williams was a music-hall entertainer.AI summary
Hom 6994 Music Hall
Billy Williams, the Australian-born music hall singer, with Don't Go Out with Him Tonight and Billy's Wild Woodbines on Ariel 691.AI summary
Ariel 691 Music Hall
Billy Williams (1878-1915), the Australian-born music hall singer, with Father Papered the Parlour and Here We Are Again on Ariel 692.AI summary
Ariel 692 Music Hall
Billy Williams (1878-1915), the Australian-born music hall singer, with Kangaroo Hop and My Father Was Born in Killarney on Ariel 779.AI summary
Ariel 779 Music Hall
Billy Williams, the Australian-born music hall singer, with Serves You Right and Save a Little One for Me on Ariel 1886.AI summary
Ariel 1886 Music Hall
Billy Williams, the Australian-born music hall singer, with I'm Out for the Day Today and I Shall Have to Ask My Mother on Ariel 2147.AI summary
Ariel 2147 Music Hall
Billy Williams, the Australian-born music hall star, with I Wish I Were Back in Lancashire and Since Father Joined the Territorials on Ariel 533.AI summary
Ariel 533 Music Hall