11 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Gus Elen was one of Britain's greatest music-hall stars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his cockney character songs and his influence on British popular song; this Decca side captures him late in his career.AI summary
Decca 2721 Music Hall
Gus Elen, a celebrated British coster-song comedian, performing two signature monologues for Decca in the 1930s.AI summary
Decca F3097 Music Hall
Gus Elen, one of the greatest coster comedians of the Victorian and Edwardian music hall — whose 'Wait Till the Work Comes Round' and 'It's a Great Big Shame' defined the genre — appears here alongside George Robey performing 'Mormon's Song' on HMV B466. Elen is a major collected music-hall name, and a coupling with Robey on an early HMV pressing is doubly desirable.AI summary
His Master's Voice B466 Music Hall
Gus Elen, the great cockney coster singer, performs his own ''E Dunno Where 'E Are' and 'Mrs Carter' on Sterno, a British label of the early 1930s.AI summary
Sterno 788 Music Hall
Gus Elen, the cockney music hall star, with If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between and The Golden Dustman on Sterno 789.AI summary
Sterno 789 Music Hall
Gus Elen, the legendary Victorian and Edwardian music-hall star, performing two of his signature comic songs 'It's a Great Big Shame' and 'Arf a Pint of Ale' on Decca F2721, a reissue or late-era recording.AI summary
Decca F2721 Music Hall
Gus Elen, a legendary Cockney music-hall star of the Edwardian era, recorded for Decca: 'Nice Quiet Day' and 'Golden Dustman', both character songs in his tradition.AI summary
Decca F3252 Music Hall
Gus Elen was a famous British music-hall singer and comic. Ariel 2177 records 'Pretty Little Villa Down in Barking' and 'Don't Stop My Arf a Pint o' Beer'; a small early label.AI summary
Ariel 2177 Music Hall
Gus Elen, the great cockney character comedian and music-hall star of the Edwardian era, recorded his signature material for Regal; a collector's item of British variety history.AI summary
Regal MR2630 Music Hall
Gus Elen on His Master's Voice B466, a British music-hall comedian and character vocalist, with 'Wait Till the Work Comes Round' and a piece credited to George Robey.AI summary
His Master's Voice B466 Music Hall
Gus Elen, the great cockney coster singer of 'It's a Great Big Shame' and 'If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between', sings 'Wait Till the Work Comes Round' on a single-sided Gramophone Company disc.AI summary
Gramophone Company 3-2478 Music Hall