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