405 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Alice Delysia, the French actress and revue star who was a fixture of London musical theatre in the 1910s–20s, sings 'If You Could Care' with J Humphries, and H Coffin performs 'With a Hey and a Ho', on Columbia L1268, a 12-inch coupling. Delysia is a recognised name in British musical theatre collecting and her 12-inch Columbia L-series pressings are less common than standard 10-inch format.AI summary
Columbia L1268 Music Hall
Albert Whelan, a British entertainer and whistler popular in the 1910s-20s, performing novelty or descriptive pieces on Columbia's early numbered series.AI summary
Columbia 1518 Music Hall
Albert Whelan, a British actor and entertainer, performing 'Tiger Tim's Party' and 'The Butterfly' on Columbia—likely children's or novelty material.AI summary
Columbia FB2664 Music Hall
Alfred Lester, a celebrated British comic actor and music-hall performer, in a comedy duet with Violet Loraine on Columbia, with the title 'A Lady of a Thousand Charms', and a solo piece, 'Dear Old Shepherd's Bush', likely from the 1910s.AI summary
Columbia D1339 Music Hall
Alfred Lester, a British music-hall comedian, performing *Germs – Fun of the Fayre* and the catchphrase number *Ours is a Nice 'Ouse Ours Is* on Columbia. Lester was one of the most popular British comedians of the Edwardian era and 1910s.AI summary
Columbia 887 Music Hall
Columbia 544 Music Hall
Alfred Lester, a British comedian and music-hall performer, recorded these character monologues for Columbia. Lester was a popular Edwardian and early 20th-century entertainer.AI summary
Columbia 544 Music Hall
Alfred Lester, a music-hall comedian of the Edwardian era, in two comic routines on Columbia from the very early 1900s.AI summary
Columbia 887 Music Hall
Alfred Lester and Buena Bent, credited on Columbia 595, performing 'Longshoreman Bill'.AI summary
Columbia 595 Music Hall
Alice Delysia, the French revue star and London musical theatre actress, performs 'Aeroplane Walk' and 'Live for All You're Worth' on Columbia L1270, a 12-inch pressing. This disc appears to be catalogued twice in this collection (also as id 15081); one copy is the one to keep or sell.AI summary
Columbia L1270 Music Hall
Alice Delysia performs 'Aeroplane Walk' and 'Live for All You're Worth' on Columbia L1270, a duplicate of id 13439 in this collection. The two copies are identical pressings; one is the one to sell.AI summary
Columbia L1270 Music Hall
Anonymous performers of 'Soba Song' and 'Whatsa Malla' on Columbia (JL50), possibly world music or ethnic novelty material.AI summary
Columbia JL50 Music Hall
Arthur Leslie, a British comic entertainer, recorded 'The Whistling Maniac' and 'I want to sing in Opera' for Columbia, mixing music-hall humour with novelty vocals.AI summary
Columbia 1547 Music Hall
Arthur Marshall on Columbia DB1729, two spoken or comic monologues: 'The Botany Class' and 'Reading to the Children', characteristic of his revue and variety material from the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Columbia DB1729 Music Hall
Arthur Peel performing two novelty or music-hall numbers—"Since Poor Grandfather Died" and "Toodle-i-oodle-i-oo"—on Columbia 1326, an early acoustic issue.AI summary
Columbia 1326 Music Hall
Arthur Riscoe was a British entertainer and actor known for theatre and variety. 'Goodbye Sally' and 'Follow the white Line' were recorded for Columbia. Riscoe performed in music-hall and on the early British stage.AI summary
Columbia FB2323 Music Hall
B. Howes and S. Treble performing 'Mind how you go across the Road' and 'Music Master' on Columbia Records (DX-series). A duo performing music-hall novelty songs.AI summary
Columbia DX710 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, the British comedian and novelty singer famous for monologues and comic songs, recorded 'Family Secrets' and 'Devil-may-not-care' for Columbia Records, catalogue 4005. Bennett was a popular music-hall star and recording artist in the 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4005 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British comedian and character singer, recorded "The Green Fly on the little yellow Dog" and "Nell" for Columbia, typical of his novelty and comedy work.AI summary
Columbia 4004 Music Hall
Billy Bennett on Columbia 5719 with 'My Mother Doesn't Know I'm on the Stage' and 'Club Raid'. Bennett was a British comic entertainer and monologist popular in music hall and on radio in the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Columbia 5719 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British music hall comic and singer, performing two sentimental comic songs on Columbia: 'Don't send my Boy to Prison' and 'She was poor but she was honest'.AI summary
Columbia DB164 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British comic entertainer and monologist known for irreverent music-hall humour, performs two novelty pieces on Columbia DB658.AI summary
Columbia DB658 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British comic singer and music-hall entertainer famous for novelty and comic songs, recorded two pieces for Columbia: 'Domestic Blisters' and 'Real Guy'.AI summary
Columbia 9105 Music Hall
Billy Bennett on Columbia 9205 with 'Charge of the Tight Brigade' and 'No Power on Earth'. Bennett was a British music-hall comedian and vocalist, famous for comic monologues and novelty songs recorded in the 1920s and 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 9205 Music Hall
Billy Bennett on Columbia 9237, the British music-hall comic performing his character songs 'She's mine' and 'Napoleon', from the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 9237 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British music-hall comedian of the interwar years, recorded 'Tightest Man I Know' and 'Ogul Mogul' for Columbia 9296.AI summary
Columbia 9296 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, an English comic singer and character performer, singing novelty titles 'Charge of the Tight Brigade' and 'No Power on Earth' on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia 9205 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British comic singer and entertainer of the music hall tradition, performing humorous novelty songs on Columbia. Bennett was a popular variety performer whose recordings are now scarce.AI summary
Columbia DB658 Music Hall
Billy Bennett was a British comic vocalist and music-hall performer. 'Christmas Day in the Cook House' and 'Please Let Me Sleep on Your Doorstep Tonight' are novelty and comic songs typical of 1930s–40s British variety; this Columbia DB658 pressing is a comic-song recording.AI summary
Columbia DB658 Music Hall
Billy Merson was a popular British music-hall performer and comedian of the 1910s–1930s, known for comic songs and character work. 'Hard Boiled Herman' and 'Why shouldn't we?' (with Hardwicke) are recorded on Columbia 3640, a catalogue number consistent with the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 3640 Music Hall
Billy Merson, the music-hall comedian and songwriter best remembered for 'The Spaniard That Blighted My Life', records 'She'll Think of Her Soldier Boy' and 'Wallahpazink' on Columbia 1510. This early Columbia number suggests an acoustic-era pressing; Merson is a recognised and collected music-hall name.AI summary
Columbia 1510 Music Hall
Billy Merson, the music-hall comedian and songwriter, records 'I'm Setting the Village on Fire' and 'Not Exactly' on Columbia 1545. The early Columbia series number suggests an acoustic-era pressing; Merson is a collected music-hall name.AI summary
Columbia 1545 Music Hall
Billy Merson on Columbia 1579 — 'Fireman' and 'My Yacht' — is from the standard Columbia series, making this a more widely distributed pressing than his minor-label recordings elsewhere in this collection. Columbia 1579 is a mid-period acoustic issue; Merson on Columbia is collected but not scarce.AI summary
Columbia 1579 Music Hall
Billy Merson, the British music-hall comedian and early recording star, on two comic novelty numbers, I'm so spiteful and The Spaniard that blighted my Life, on Columbia 1757.AI summary
Columbia 1757 Music Hall
Billy Whitlock recorded 'Islander' and 'Jolly Coons' for Columbia IS113, likely early 1920s—an acoustic-era side on a rare catalogue series.AI summary
Columbia IS113 Music Hall
Billy Whitlock on Columbia IS-series with novelty music-hall material from the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia IS980 Music Hall
Billy Whitlock on Columbia's IS series, a cheap budget line, performing comic or novelty material.AI summary
Columbia IS981 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a British music-hall and comic singer, performing 'The Land Where the Women Wear the Trousers' and 'Bobbing About in the Briny', recorded for Columbia (catalogue IS1272).AI summary
Columbia is1272 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a British music hall and variety entertainer of the early 1900s, recorded these comic songs for Columbia. Williams was a performer of the Edwardian era, known for humorous character monologues and sentimental ballads.AI summary
Columbia is1304 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a prolific British music-hall singer and entertainer of the 1900s–1920s, performing comic numbers on Columbia, recorded in the acoustic era (catalogue is1327, an early series).AI summary
Columbia is1327 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a prolific British character singer and comedian, recorded two comic songs on Columbia, a major label. This is one of Williams's many recordings across multiple British labels and catalogue series.AI summary
Columbia is1329 Music Hall
Billy Williams performing novelty comedy numbers 'Tickle me, Timothy' and 'Little Willie's Woodbines' on Columbia. This appears to be a British pressing of a music-hall comedy act, not the later American R&B singer of the same name.AI summary
Columbia is469 Music Hall
Billy Williams, an early African-American song-and-dance artist and recording star, on Columbia with 'Father Papered the Parlour' and 'John Put Your Trousers On'; Williams was one of the earliest Black recording artists and his sides are historically important.AI summary
Columbia is1257 Music Hall
Billy Williams performing 'The Land Where the Women Wear the Trousers' and 'Bobbing About in the Briny' on Columbia IS 1272, a British pressing from the 1920s–1930s; Williams was a prolific British light entertainment singer and recording artist.AI summary
Columbia is1272 Music Hall
Columbia is1297 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a prolific British music-hall comedian, in two comic songs on Columbia, a major label where his work was frequently issued.AI summary
Columbia is1302 Music Hall
Billy Williams was a British performer active in the music-hall and comic-song tradition. 'Here We Are Again' and 'John Go and Put Your Trousers On' are recorded on Columbia IS 146, a catalogue number consistent with the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia is146 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a popular British singer of the early 20th century, performing two comic character songs: 'Father Papered the Parlour' and a gramophone-themed novelty number. Columbia issue IS259.AI summary
Columbia is259 Music Hall