Billy Murray - She Sells Sea Shells 1909

Victor 16429 - Billy Murray - She Sells Sea Shells 1909 - (The Beauty Spot) Lyrics by Harry Gifford , Terry Sullivan.
William Thomas "Billy" Murray (May 25, 1877 -- August 17, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century. While he received star billing in Vaudeville, he was best known for his prolific work in the recording studio, making records for almost every record label of the era.

[@josephstalin5992]

I’m honestly sad not many people watch billy. He’s my favorite singer of all time! But of course, many opinions have changed with many different genres of music, and more modern genres are pop, rap, (etc) Tbh, this guy is epic.

[@saintjerome23]

thanks joey

[@thephantomoftheparadise5666]

I'm more of an Al Jolson fan myself.

[@charleswunderman8956]

Terrific song. Very difficult to sing it - have tried. Forget it. Have the British version by music hall artiste Wilkie Bard. Bravo to Billy, as always. Thanks so much for this!

[@angenib8842]

I was looking almost everywhere around for finding this song... finally I found it here... Thanks sooo much for the upload!!! 👍🏽❤️👍🏽
I've just had a letter to say I'm engaged to appear in the Pantomime!
The part I'm to play is the principal boy, so I'm in for a beautiful time!
The Panto's Dick Whittington, I'm Dirty Dick, the fellow who once rode to York
The manager said I must get a good song, about which the public will talk!
I've commissioned some authors to write me a song
A very fine chorus they sent me along!
She sells seashells on the seashore
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure!
For if she sells seashells on the seashore
Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells!
The seashells she sells are a terrible sell, and the song is a sell, also!
The authors both say it will go very big, but I fear I am all that will go!
I've suffered from lockjaw and sick-jaw as well, in trying this chorus to sing
It's making me lisp, but I shay to myshelf the shong's shure to go with a shwing!
I'm dreaming of seashells when I am in bed
I only wish she would sell matches instead!
She sells seashells on the seashore
The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure!
For if she sells seashells on the seashore
Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells!

[@jayrat808]

This was old but I like

[@shawmcgowan6872]

Good stuff

[@agnaldomestrado1351]

SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS ON THE SHORE BUT THE PRICE OF THOSE SHELLS WILL FALL DUE TO THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND THE PRICE OF THOSE SHELLS WILL FALL

[@mi1416]

She sells seashells on a seashore
But the value of these shells will fall
Due to the laws of supply and demand
No one wants to buy shells 'cause there's loads on the sand
Step 1: you must create a sense of scarcity
Shells will sell much better if the people think they're rare, you see
Bare with me, take as many shells as you can find and hide 'em on an island stockpile 'em high
until they're rarer than a diamond
Step 2: you gotta make the people think that they want 'em
Really want 'em, really fuckin want 'em
Hit 'em like Bronson
Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment If you haven't got a shell then you're just a fucking waste man
Three: it's monopoly, invest inside some property, start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly
""Shells must sell"", that will be your new philosophy
Swallow all your morals they're a poor man's quality
Four: expand, expand, expand, clear forest, make land, fresh blood on hand
Five: why just shells? Why limit your self? She sells seashells, sell oil as well!
Six: guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds, sell rocks, sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock
Seven: press on the gas, take your foot off the brakes, Run to be the president of the United States
Eight: big smile mate, big wave that's great Now the truth is overrated, tell lies out the gate
Nine: Polarize the people, controversy is the game
It don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name
Ten: the world is yours, step out on a stage to a round of applause You're a liar, a cheat, a devil, a whore
And you sell seashells on the seashore

[@ryko1478]

But the value of these shells Will fall

[@SunGodAtomes]

Yes

[@Jitzau]

I was born in the wrong generation.

[@TheGreenThunder1607]

You're not

[@nobody_gtk]

only 1890's kids will remember this

[@GavinGardner2004]

I was too! I wanted to buy all of Billy’s records, but I can’t because they don’t sell them anymore and only three percent are on eBay. I really wanted to see London After Midnight, Nineteen hundred and Twenty-seven, and Gold Diggers of Broadway, Nineteen hundred and Twenty-nine. I wanted to be born in like Eighteen hundred and Eighty-seven to Nineteen hundred and One, and die no where later than Nineteen hundred and Seventy-nine. Being born in Twenty hundred and Four is awful!

[@SmD-ff5xd]

W​here there's a will, there's a way:) These are compressed Mp3s, but you can simply download them and convert them to whatever file format you like. I am 100% certain that with the effort you could get all Billy Murray recordings on the internet pressed in vinyl. It would take a bit of money and effort but totally doable

[@SmD-ff5xd]

Excuse my poor grammar, it is late and I have been drinking

[@axeldevahl295]

n

[@agnaldomestrado1351]

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[@SmD-ff5xd]

i

[@SmD-ff5xd]

no, don't do it