I Never Heard Father Laugh So Much Before ( Billy Williams 1913 ) HMV 101L Gramophone. 

The Music Hall performer Billy Williams (The Man In The Velvet Suit) was one of the first artistes to sell thousands of cylinders & discs in the early days of sound recording. Here he is singing “I Never Heard Father Laugh So Much Before”, recorded on the Phoenix record label in 1913 & playing here one of my HMV 101 portable gramophones.