27 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
27 records matching
Billy Williams, the Australian-born music hall singer, with Mrs. B and Sally O'Malley on Beka 41407/6.AI summary
Beka 41407/6 Music Hall
Cove and Thompson on Bek (a minor British label), singing 'The Mississippi Barbecue' and 'The Aba Daba Honeymoon', a novelty song that was popular in the 1920s. Bek pressings are uncommon.AI summary
Beka 36008/40 Music Hall
Cove and Thompson recorded 'The Mississippi Barbecue' and 'The Aba Daba Honeymoon', a novelty number, for the Bek label. Without further detail on the artists and this small or short-lived label, neither can be confidently identified.AI summary
Beka 36008/41 Music Hall
Ernest Shand was an Edwardian music-hall comedian and monologist. This Beka pressing, catalogue 9709, contains 'Short Stories' and 'Little Bo-Peep'. Beka was a Berlin-based label with extensive European and British distribution; Shand is a moderately documented music-hall name.AI summary
Beka 9709 Music Hall
Frank St Clair on Beka 9811, a small British label. Beka was an early imprint with limited distribution; St Clair is not documented in major discographies.AI summary
Beka 9811 Music Hall
Fred Daniels performing 'Playwright' and 'Runaway Motor Car' on Bek, an obscure British label of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Beka 40005/24 Music Hall
Fred Daniels performing 'Merriest Man alive' for Beka 9625.AI summary
Beka 9625 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the cockney music-hall star, sings 'Father Did Look Funny' and 'I See You've Got Your Old Brown Hat On' on Beka.AI summary
Beka 40046/48 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the cockney music-hall star, sings 'Funny Little Bobtail Coat' and 'Mr Knick Knock' on Beka.AI summary
Beka 40047/50 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the cockney music-hall star, sings 'I See You've Got Your Old Brown Hat On' and 'Mr Knick Knock' on Beka.AI summary
Beka 40048/50 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the cockney music-hall star, sings his 1909 hit 'Boiled Beef and Carrots' and 'You Don't Want to Keep On Showing It' on Beka.AI summary
Beka 40751/2 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the cockney music-hall star, sings 'Down Came the Blind' and 'Never Let Your Braces Dangle' on Beka.AI summary
Beka 40753/4 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the cockney music-hall star, sings 'Cover It Over Quick, Jemima' and 'Don't Do It Again, Matilda' on Beka, a German label that issued British recordings before the First World War.AI summary
Beka 41058/60 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the cockney music hall singer, with Ginger You're Balmy and Henry VIII on Beka 41059/61.AI summary
Beka 41059/61 Music Hall
Harry Ford is not a name that appears prominently in standard discographic references for the period. This disc on the Bek label — catalogue numbers suggesting an early Berlin-Beka pressing — contains two music-hall titles whose full sides are only partially legible in the catalogue entry. Bek/Beka was a significant early international pressing firm; an obscure artist on an early catalogue number warrants closer examination.AI summary
Beka 41274/5 Music Hall
Harry Ford performing 'Railway Porter' and 'Do You See' on the Bek label, catalogue 41276/9 — a companion to the companion disc id 18362 elsewhere in this collection, and the same disc catalogued as id 18362 in the first batch. This appears to be a third copy of that pressing; all copies should be compared for condition.AI summary
Beka 41276/9 Music Hall
J. and N. Charman, variety entertainers of the 1920s–1930s, recorded these novelty and comic duets for Beka, a British imprint. The artists are not well known from standard reference.AI summary
Beka 35132 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded 'I'm always doing something silly' and 'The Brown Cow' for Bek Records, catalogue 41105/8. Bek was a small British label of the late 1920s–early 1930s; Laurier is an unidentified artist.AI summary
Beka 41105/8 Music Hall
Little Tich, British music-hall comedian. Beka 41252/5 ('The Twenty Third' and 'King Ki-Ki') records his routines on a German label; scarce in the UK.AI summary
Beka 41252/5 Music Hall
Little Tich, British music-hall comedian. Beka 41254/6 ('Territorial' and 'Gas Inspector') records his routines on a German label; scarce in the UK.AI summary
Beka 41254/6 Music Hall
Little Tich (1859–1928) was a diminutive British music-hall comedian famous for his physical comedy routines. Beka 41257/80 ('Dentist' and 'Zookeeper') are acoustic recordings of his act and are scarce.AI summary
Beka 41257/80 Music Hall
Miss Riboet recorded 'Pokok Pisang' and 'Gelek Ishim' for Beka, the Deutsche Grammophon budget label; the Indonesian or Malay titles suggest she was a performer of colonial or world music from the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Beka 27742 Music Hall
The Tivoli Minstrels recorded 'Strolling Home with Eugenie' for Beka 9468. Minstrel and close-harmony vocal groups were common in the early 1900s; Beka was a German label with British pressings.AI summary
Beka 9468 Music Hall
Tom Temple on Beka, a low-cost British label active in the early 1900s. The novelty title suggests comic or music-hall material. Beka was a minor imprint with limited distribution, and records from this label rarely surface.AI summary
Beka 749 Music Hall
Whit Cunliffe performing 'Hello It's a Different Girl Again' on Beka catalogue 9826 — a one-sided pressing. Beka was a Berlin-based label with British distribution; a one-sided Cunliffe pressing on Beka is moderately uncommon compared to his double-sided Odeon or Columbia recordings.AI summary
Beka 9826 Music Hall
Whit Cunliffe, the Edwardian music-hall comedian, on Beka catalogue 9828 with 'If the World Were Ruled by Girls' and 'Girls, Girls, Girls'. Beka was a Berlin-based label with British distribution; Cunliffe sides on Beka are moderately uncommon compared to his major-label recordings.AI summary
Beka 9828 Music Hall
Wilkie Bard, the music-hall comedian, with 'All Change for Llanfairfechan' and 'The Doorkeeper at Frightley's' on Beka.AI summary
Beka 41166 Music Hall