Nat M. Wills "If A Table At Rector's Could Talk" on Victor 17461 (September 22, 1913)
Song from “Follies of 1913”
Composer is Raymond Hubbell
Lyrics by Will D. Cobb
Rector's was a popular Times Square restaurant in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
The idea of the song is that the tables could reveal some interesting gossip if tables could talk
Nat Wills was born Louis McGrath Wills in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on July 11, 1873.
Wills' family moved to Washington, D.C. when he was a child and he and began stage work there,
Wills was famous for giving a comic talk called "No News."
