878 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Charles Penrose, the comedian of 'The Laughing Policeman', with 'I Tried to Keep from Laughing' and 'He'd a Funny Little Way with Him' on the Pilgrim label.AI summary
Pilgrim 5536 Comic
Charles Penrose on Polyphon 5537, performing comic speciality songs. Penrose was a British comic singer known for novelty and dialect pieces from the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Polyphon 5537 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British baritone and comic entertainer, recorded 'Laughing Family' and 'I Tried to Keep from Laughing' for Victor Records. Penrose was famous for his laughing trick and novelty vocal effects.AI summary
Victor C6 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and recording artist, recorded for Columbia in the 1920s. Penrose was a popular character comic, though he remains less famous than his contemporaries.AI summary
Columbia 3902 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'The Laughing Curate' and 'The Laughing Major' for Columbia, catalogue 4117, in the early 1920s. Penrose's 'laughing' novelties, recorded in various comic characters, remain among the most distinctive British comedy records of the acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia 4117 Comic
Charles Penrose, famous for his novelty 'laughing' recordings, performed 'Laughing Railway Porter' and 'Laughteritis' for Columbia, catalogue DB302. His comic vocal records remain novelties of enduring appeal.AI summary
Columbia DB302 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'Laughing Through' for Columbia, catalogue DB1010, in the early 1930s. Another of Penrose's celebrated laughing novelties, continuing the character-based comic records that made him a recording institution.AI summary
Columbia DB1010 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comic performer, recorded 'Let's Have a Jolly Good Laugh' and 'Laughter and the Old Bassoon' on Columbia DB2602. Penrose was known for his comic monologues and novelty vocal recordings.AI summary
Columbia DB2602 Comic
Charles Penrose's 'The Laughing Policeman', a comedy novelty that became one of the most famous and frequently recorded comic songs of the early twentieth century, captured here on a Columbia pressing from the late acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia FB1184 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'Laughing Vamp' and 'Pernickety Pete' for Decca F3115. Penrose was a British comedy vocalist known for novelty and comic songs.AI summary
Decca F3115 Comic
Charles Penrose was a British comedian and recording artist famous for his novelty recordings, particularly 'The Laughing Policeman'. This Winner 3600 side records him performing children's material, typical of his comedy style. Penrose's recordings remain popular with collectors of British music-hall and comic novelty material.AI summary
Winner 3600 Comic
Charles Penrose on Winner 3739, performing 'Story of Dick Whittington and his Cat' (parts 1 and 2). Penrose was a celebrated British music-hall comedian and singer, extremely prolific on record.AI summary
Winner 3739 Comic
Charles Penrose was a British comedian known for novelty and music-hall recordings. 'Dr Whackem's Academy' part 1 and 2 was recorded for Winner, a British label. Penrose's most famous recording was 'The Laughing Policeman', a novelty hit.AI summary
Winner 4345 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British entertainer famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded 'Laughing Policeman's Party' and 'Laughing Policeman's Baby' for Columbia's electrical DB series, sequels to his signature piece.AI summary
Columbia DB305 Comic
Charles Penrose's signature novelty recording, 'The Laughing Policeman', one of the most famous British comedy recordings of the 1920s–30s; this is the Columbia DB 605 pressing.AI summary
Columbia DB605 Comic
Charles Penrose, the comedian of 'The Laughing Policeman', with 'The Laughing Sailor' and 'The Laughing Jazz-Mad Drummer' on Duophone.AI summary
Duophone M146 Comic
Charles Penrose, the comedian best remembered for 'The Laughing Policeman', with 'Dismal Desmond' and 'Laugh and You'll Never Grow Old' on Duophone.AI summary
Duophone UB2008 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British comic vocalist, on Decca F2226. Penrose was known for his 'Laughing Policeman' novelty number and similar comic vocal effects; this disc appears to feature similar material.AI summary
Decca F2226 Comic
Charles Penrose performs 'Laughing Saxophone' on an unidentified test pressing on 'StTEST'. Penrose was a British comedian and entertainer famous for his novelty song 'The Laughing Policeman'. This appears to be a test or special pressing rather than a commercial release.AI summary
StTEST TEST Comic
Charles Penrose performing 'Laughing Band' and 'Laughing Scot' on Piccadilly, a cheap British budget label of the 1930s. These are further variations of Penrose's popular laughing routine.AI summary
Piccadilly 230 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and recording artist best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', performing 'Jack and the Beanstalk' on Winner 3738.AI summary
Winner 3738 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British character comedian famous for his laughing songs, performing 'How the Family laughs' and 'The Mirthful Curate' on Winner. These are variations on Penrose's signature laughing-novelty routine.AI summary
Winner 3699 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British character comedian and musical-hall entertainer famous for his laughing songs, performing 'The Laughing Widow' and 'The Laughing Monk' on Winner. Penrose recorded many variations of his signature laughing routine.AI summary
Winner 4084 Comic
Charles Penrose was a British singer best known for 'Laughing Policeman', a novelty recording that became iconic. 'Laughing PC Brown' on Fairy label (Fairy 357) is a variant or related novelty number from this period, early twentieth century.AI summary
Fairy 357 Comic
Charles Penrose and Company, British comedians of the 1920s, recorded the novelty hit 'Laughing Policeman' alongside 'Laughing Trombone' on Broadcast 505. The 'Laughing Policeman' became one of the most popular comedy records of its era.AI summary
Broadcast 505 Comic
Charles Penrose & Co, credited here with 'Laughing Clara & the comic Cornet' and 'Laughs & Yodels' on Broadcast, a minor British label active in the late 1920s and early 1930s.AI summary
Broadcast 533 Comic
Charles Penrose & Co performing a two-part comic narrative, 'Careless Peter visits the Land of Topsy Turvy', on His Master's Voice B3974. Penrose was a prolific British comic singer and entertainer of the early 20th century.AI summary
His Master's Voice B3974 Comic
Charles Penrose and Company on Decca, a British comedy piece with two parts titled 'Sweepstake Luck'.AI summary
Decca F2954 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall comedian best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded this Parlophone TEST pressing with whimsical titles 'Wilful William' and a Christmas carol with choir; the TEST catalogue prefix indicates this is an experimental or test pressing, extremely scarce.AI summary
Parlophone TEST Comic
Charles Penrose and company in Dr. Kanem's Kollege, a two-sided comic sketch, on Dominion A218.AI summary
Dominion A218 Comic
Charles Penrose, known as Uncle Sambo, performing nursery songs on the Nursery label — a specialist children's imprint.AI summary
Nursery I Comic
Charles Penrose, known as Uncle Sambo, performing 'Nursery Laughs' and 'Little Miss Muffet' on the Nursery Label — comic numbers from a performer of the early 20th-century variety stage.AI summary
Nursery L Comic
Charles Penrose, the 'Laughing Policeman', on Regal 7816, performing his signature novelty recording 'The Laughing Policeman' and 'You've Got to Laugh'. Penrose's laughing policeman routine was a popular music-hall and recording act of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Regal 7816 Comic
Charles Penrose and Whitlock with Two of the Old Brigade and Two Old Sports Join the Mustard Club on Duophone M148.AI summary
Duophone M148 Comic
Charles Vernon performing 'Fireman's Wedding', a two-part comic or novelty piece, on Regal, a major British label.AI summary
Regal 7897 Comic
Charles Vernon, a British character comedian and monologuist, recorded for Regal in the 1920s–30s. This two-part comic sketch was characteristic of his recording work.AI summary
Regal 7897 Comic
Charlie Higgins performing two comic novelty numbers on Rex, a minor British label of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Rex 8012 Comic
Charlie Higgins performing two comic songs on Rex, the budget Decca subsidiary, including a novelty number about fatherhood at an advanced age.AI summary
Rex 8065 Comic
Charlie Higgins on 'Where the Violets are Blue-oo', recorded for Rex 8012. Rex was a cheap British label of the early 1930s; Higgins was a minor comic singer whose recordings are obscure.AI summary
Rex 8012 Comic
Charlie Higgins on 'Where the Violets are Blue-oo', recorded for Rex 8012. Rex was a cheap British label of the early 1930s; Higgins was a minor comic singer whose recordings are obscure.AI summary
Rex 8012 Comic
Rex 8361 Comic
Chick Endor, the American vaudeville and recording artist, on His Master's Voice: 'Singin' in the Bathtub' and 'Lady Luck', two novelty numbers from the late 1920s reflecting the popular comic vaudeville style.AI summary
His Master's Voice B3359 Comic
Clapham & Dwyer, a British comedy duo, performing on Columbia DB243. They were known for spoken-word comedy routines in the music-hall tradition.AI summary
Columbia DB243 Comic
Clapham & Dwyer, the British comic duo, on Broadcast Records with their sketch 'A Spot of Bother'.AI summary
Broadcast 139 Comic
Clapham & Dwyer were a famous British comedy duo of the early 20th century, best known for their 'Arguments' sketches, which became a staple of music halls and recordings. This Parlophone pressing of their most celebrated routine is likely from the 1930s or early 1940s.AI summary
Parlophone E5948 Comic
Clapham & Dwyer in another spoken-word comedy routine on Columbia DB338. Their recordings for major labels document the British music-hall comic tradition of the early twentieth century.AI summary
Columbia DB338 Comic
Clapham & Dwyer were a British comic duo; this Columbia side credits them across two parts of a 'Fairy Tales' sketch.AI summary
Columbia FB1176 Comic
Clapham & Dwyer, performing a comic sketch titled 'Buying a House' on Columbia, a major British label. This is a continuation sketch split across two sides of the record.AI summary
Columbia DB338 Comic