466 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
466 records matching · page 3 of 10
A band plays a Harry Lauder memories medley in two parts on Britannic 0019.AI summary
Britannic it0019 Instrumental
A band plays Come to the Ball and Blue Danube on Britannic 0026.AI summary
Britannic it0026 Dance
An unnamed band recorded two pieces for Brunswick Records, the novelty title 'Ghost of the Mayor', described as a two-sided piece; the identity of the band and the nature of the music are unclear.AI summary
Britannic it610
A band plays I Want to Go Back to Michigan, with Along Came Ruth on the reverse, on Climax 488.AI summary
Climax 488 Dance
Band (artist unidentified) on Curry's 334, performing 'I Fell Head Over Heels in Love' and 'Shady Tree'. Curry's was a small British label, likely from the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Curry's 334 Dance
A band recording on Curry's Records, catalogue 91, performing 'Temptation Rag' and 'Epler's Whiskers', dance and ragtime material from the acoustic era or early 1920s.AI summary
Curry's 91 Instrumental
An unidentified band performing 'Powder Rag' and 'Silver Myrtles', dance-band numbers from the 1920s era. This Exo label pressing is from an obscure British marque.AI summary
Exo 317 Dance
A dance band recording on Guar Records, a minor British label, with titles 'All by myself' and 'Say it with Music'.AI summary
Guardsman 1179
A band performing 'Deedle Deedle Dum' and 'Sneak' on Guar, a small British label.AI summary
Guardsman 1276
An uncredited band on Guar (Guardian), a minor British label. The titles 'My Old Ramshackle Shack' and 'In a Tent' suggest light novelty or dance material, but without artist information identification is difficult.AI summary
Guardsman 1341
A band recorded 'Belle of New York' and an unlisted side B for Jumbo Records 1212, a small or short-lived British label of the early period.AI summary
Jumbo 1212 Orchestra
A band performs 'Elephant's Shuffle' and 'Everybody's Doing It' on Home 1206. Home was a minor British label of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Hom 1206 Dance
John Bull 11183 Voice
An unidentified band on JLCO 5044 — 'Queen of My Heart' and 'Estudiantina.' JLCO is a label untraced in standard references; the catalogue number gives no strong period indicator. 'Estudiantina' is a well-known Spanish-flavoured piece recorded by many bands from the 1890s onward. Without label identification this cannot be reliably valued.AI summary
JLCO 5044 Orchestra
A band recording of 'Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil' and 'Why Do You Cry Then' for HomH, catalogue 381, likely 1920s.AI summary
Hom H381 Dance
An unidentified band on HomH 426, a catalogue number indicating the rare 'Homophone' label. Neither the label nor the artist can be placed; the titles are standard dance-band material.AI summary
Hom H426 Dance
Band performing 'Homesick' and 'All My Life' on Melot 1269, an obscure British imprint.AI summary
Meloto 1269 Dance
A band recording on Melog, catalogue 17, performing the song 'If those lips could only speak' (credited to Earle) coupled with 'Boulanger'.AI summary
Melograph 17 Dance
An unnamed band performing dance numbers 'Roller Skating Girls' and 'Gaiety Waltz' on the Play label.AI summary
Play 102113 Dance
An uncredited band performing two German-language novelty or light entertainment numbers on Polyphon, a major European label; catalogue 30723 places this in the interwar period.AI summary
Polyphon 30723 Dance
A dance band performs two novelty numbers for Polyphon, a German label with British pressing — a scarce small-label issue.AI summary
Polyphon 5547 Dance
A band on Polyphon 9997 performing "The Policeman's Holiday" and "Grizzly Bear" — an acoustic or early electric dance recording from the 1920s. Unidentified performers.AI summary
Polyphon 9997 Dance
A band recording of two popular songs on the Popular (Pop) label, likely from the 1920s. The catalogue number and label suggest an early British or American pressing.AI summary
Popular 1207 Dance
An unnamed band performing 'The Turkey Trot' and 'The Bogie Walk' on Scala, a small British label, likely from the 1920s.AI summary
Scala 83 Dance
An unnamed band on Columbia 1025, performing 'Swing Song' and 'Ringelreihen'. Columbia 1025 is a very early catalogue number from the label's first years of operation.AI summary
Columbia 1025 Dance
An unidentified band performing two pieces from Gounod's opera Faust—the Soldiers' Chorus and a Waltz—on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia 1093 Orchestra
An unnamed band performing a medley march and 'Teddy Bears Picnic' on Columbia 1098, catalogue number suggesting an early 1920s British pressing.AI summary
Columbia 1098 Orchestra
An unnamed band performing a selection from Veronique (the operetta by Messager) on Columbia 25767.AI summary
Columbia 25767 Orchestra
A band performing 'Marche Militaire' and Chopin's 'Polonaise' for Curry's Records 120, a British label of obscure provenance. Curry's catalogue numbers and output are largely unrecorded.AI summary
Curry's 120 Orchestra
A dance band on 'Hit the Deck' selection (two parts), from Curry's 347. 'Hit the Deck' was a popular operetta of the 1920s; this is a medley or selections recording. Curry's was a small British label.AI summary
Curry's 347 Dance
An unidentified band recorded the '1812 Overture' Finale and 'Old Comrades' for Curry's, a minor British label, catalogue 88. Nothing is known of this label or the ensemble.AI summary
Curry's 88 Orchestra
An unidentified band performing 'Ram Sami' and 'Rio Nights' on Curry's label, credited only as an imprint name — possibly a retailer's house label or a very small specialist pressing.AI summary
Curry's 94
A band plays Sweetheart and Confidence on Actuelle 10490.AI summary
Actuelle 10490 Dance
An unidentified band recorded 'The Sun Has Got His Hat On' (Noel Gay's 1932 novelty hit) and 'Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane' for Dur, a minor British label.AI summary
Durium 27 Dance
A band plays Why Waste Your Tears and Night Shall Be Filled with Music on Durium 34. Durium records were thin resin-coated discs, not shellac.AI summary
Durium 34 Dance
An unnamed band recorded 'I do like to see a Game of Football' and 'Underneath the Arches' for Dur 36, an unidentified label. Both titles are British music-hall standards, suggesting an early-to-mid 1920s date.AI summary
Durium 36 Music Hall
Credited only to 'Band' on Dur 38, performing 'Three's a Crowd' and 'Sweethearts for ever'; Dur was an obscure British label and the lack of artist name is unusual.AI summary
Durium 38 Dance
Band performing 'How are you' and 'When they're on the Love Parade' on Dur 39, an obscure British label.AI summary
Durium 39 Dance
Band on Dur, a small British label, performing 'You Loving Me' and 'Little Yvonne'.AI summary
Durium 43 Dance
An uncredited band performs two light novelty numbers on Dur, a small or obscure British label, catalogue 44.AI summary
Durium 44 Dance
A band plays Yes Mr Brown/Leave a Little for Me and If You Would Learn to Live on Durium F1. Durium records were thin resin-coated discs, not shellac.AI summary
Durium F1 Dance
A band performs 'What More Can I Ask' and 'Brighter Than the Sun' on Durham Music 1 — catalogue number 1 of an entirely unidentified label. The combination of an unrecognised label and the opening catalogue number makes this impossible to assess without further identification; it may be a private or very limited pressing.AI summary
Durium M1 Dance
Band instrumental on DurM 4, a British label of uncertain provenance.AI summary
Durium M4 Orchestra
An unidentified band performing two pieces—'Pallida Signora' and 'Alcala'—on DurT, an obscure British label with a very low catalogue number.AI summary
Durium T40 Orchestra
An unnamed band performing 'Sally's Smile' and a fox trot arrangement of 'John Brown's Body' on Broadcast, a British budget label of the 1930s.AI summary
Broadcast Jr101 Dance
Broadcast Jr102 Dance
An unnamed band performing two novelty dance pieces on Broadcast: 'Sea Shanty Fox Trot' and 'Hawaiian Fox Trot'—examples of the instrumental dance-music filler of the 1920s.AI summary
Broadcast Jr105 Dance
A dance band recording of two period ballroom pieces on the Broadcast label, a cheap British marque of the early 1930s.AI summary
Broadcast Jr106 Dance