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Have a Good Time with Joe Williams

1961 studio album by Joe Williams

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ139855684 ↗
Source-derived summary

Have a Good Time with Joe Williams is a studio album recorded by Joe Williams, produced by Teddy Reig, and arranged by Ernie Wilkins and his orchestra. It was released on Roulette Records on October 16, 1961. Have a Good Time with Joe Williams was released as a compilation album, paired with Together, another album recorded by Williams and released in 2001.

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The public source identifies “Have a Good Time with Joe Williams” as 1961 studio album by Joe Williams. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Have, Good and Time.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Have, Good and Time providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q139855684. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1961 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Have a Good Time with Joe Williams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.