405 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Ella Retford, the popular Edwardian music-hall performer, on Columbia catalogue is305 — the 'is' prefix suggesting an international or specialist series — with 'You're Here and I'm Here' and 'Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?'. The unusual series prefix warrants checking.AI summary
Columbia is305 Music Hall
Ella Retford on Columbia is493 — 'You Made Me Love You' and 'You Wouldn't Know the Old Place Now' — is from the Columbia is sub-series, a slightly less common early variant. A companion coupling to Jumbo 1094 in this collection with the same titles; the is-series pressing is the more likely to be an earlier issue.AI summary
Columbia is493 Music Hall
Ella Retford on Columbia catalogue is788 — the 'is' prefix suggesting a specialist or international series — with 'We're All North Country Lads and Lasses' and 'I Was a Good Little Girl'. The unusual series prefix warrants checking, as with other 'is' Columbia discs in this collection.AI summary
Columbia is788 Music Hall
Ella Retford on Columbia catalogue is897 — the 'is' prefix suggesting a specialist or international series — with 'All the Boys in Khaki Get the Nice Girls' and 'Give My Love to Lancashire'. The unusual series prefix warrants checking; wartime content adds historical interest.AI summary
Columbia is897 Music Hall
Ella Shields, a British music-hall performer famous for her gender-bending novelty songs, on Columbia. Shields was a major recording star in the 1910s-1920s.AI summary
Columbia 3740 Music Hall
Ella Shields on Columbia 546 — 'Syncopated Walk' and 'Minstrel Parade.' Columbia catalogue number 546 is a very low number, placing this among the earliest Columbia pressings, likely from the early acoustic era before 1910. Shields is a collected music-hall name and a very low Columbia number adds rarity well above her standard issues.AI summary
Columbia 546 Music Hall
Ella Shields was an American-born male-impersonator who became a major star of the British music hall, most famous for 'Burlington Bertie from Bow.' Columbia 3007 — 'Oh What a Difference the Navy's Made to Me' and 'Smith Jones Robinson and Brown' — is a standard Columbia popular-series pressing. Shields is a collected music-hall name.AI summary
Columbia 3007 Music Hall
Ella Shields performs the music-hall standard 'Burlington Bertie from Bow' and 'Every Little While' on this early Columbia record, catalogue 629, an acoustic pressing from the 1900s.AI summary
Columbia 629 Music Hall
Ella Shields, a British music-hall star famous for 'Burlington Bertie from Bow', performing that iconic song and 'Every Little While' (with F. Howard) on Columbia 629. This is an acoustic recording from the early 1910s.AI summary
Columbia 629 Music Hall
Ella Shields, the British music-hall performer, on two numbers: King's Navee and Stick to London Town, on Columbia 788. An early recording from the acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia 788 Music Hall
Columbia 548 Music Hall
Ella Shields, a British music-hall performer of the early 20th century, recorded her signature song *Burlington Bertie from Bow* on Columbia, a major British label; a canonical music-hall recording.AI summary
Columbia 629 Music Hall
Ella Shields, the Canadian-born music-hall star famous above all for 'Burlington Bertie from Bow', performing 'I'm Not All There' and 'Why Did I Kiss That Girl?' on Columbia catalogue 996. A Columbia catalogue number as low as 996 is among the earlier pressings in the series; any Shields recording is of collector interest for her connection to 'Burlington Bertie'.AI summary
Columbia 996 Music Hall
Columbia 629 Music Hall
Ella Shields, a British music-hall star and singer of novelty and comic songs, recorded 'Jolly Good Fellows' and 'San Francisco' for Columbia; she was well known in Edwardian and interwar British variety.AI summary
Columbia 3740 Music Hall
Columbia 3646 Music Hall
Elsa Lanchester, later famous as a film actress, recorded these comic and novelty songs for Columbia. She was active in British music-hall and revue in the 1920s and 1930s before her Hollywood career.AI summary
Columbia 4125 Music Hall
Elsie & Doris Waters, a British comedy and singing duo popular on stage and radio, on Columbia, performing 'Making a Christmas Pudding' in two parts, festive comedy material.AI summary
Columbia FB1186 Music Hall
Elsie and Doris Waters—the famous British comedy duo known as Gert and Daisy—recorded this Columbia side, catalogue FB1559, with music-hall material from the 1940s–50s.AI summary
Columbia FB1559 Music Hall
Elsie and Doris Waters, the celebrated British comedy duo, performing two comic sketches on Columbia—'Gert & Daisy & the Tandem' and 'Huntin''. The Waters Sisters were major music-hall stars and their recordings remain popular.AI summary
Columbia FB1559 Music Hall
Eric Foster, a British performer, recorded regional Tyneside material for Columbia; 'Tyneside Territorials' and 'The Pitman' appear to be local-interest songs with limited appeal beyond the North East.AI summary
Columbia 1298 Music Hall
Eric Foster performs two Tyneside dialect comedy sketches — 'Jack and Geordie at the Smoking Concert' and 'Pitman and His Wife at the Seaside' — on Columbia 174, a very early Columbia number indicating one of the earliest British Columbia acoustic pressings. Tyneside comedy on an early Columbia with a sub-200 catalogue number is an unusual and historically interesting item.AI summary
Columbia 174 Music Hall
Ernest Butcher, a British comedian and music-hall performer, recorded these two novelty songs for Columbia, with titles suggesting comic Northern English monologues.AI summary
Columbia DB1520 Music Hall
Ernest Butcher performing two songs—the sentimental 'Peaceful Street' and the traditional drinking song 'Old and Mild' (credited to Regulars)—on Columbia's DB series from the late 1940s–early 1950s. Butcher was a music-hall and pantomime performer.AI summary
Columbia DB3207 Music Hall
Ernest Hastings performing novelty pieces on Columbia, including variations on 'The Vicar of Bray'. The artist Ernest Hastings is not a major-label recording star, and the specific pressing is not identified in standard discographies.AI summary
Columbia 2494 Music Hall
Ernest Hastings on Columbia Records with 'Exemptions are otherwise' and 'I've heard a Rumour'.AI summary
Columbia 2772 Music Hall
Ernest Shand, the Edwardian music-hall comedian and monologist, performing 'Lloyd Jarge' and 'Horatio' on Columbia catalogue 2336. Columbia pressings of Shand's work in the 2000-series are moderately common.AI summary
Columbia 2336 Music Hall
F Drummond, likely a British comedian or music-hall artist, performs 'That funny little Bob Tail Coat' and 'She's a Lassie from Lancashire' on Columbia, a D-series acoustic issue.AI summary
Columbia D151 Music Hall
F Lalor and E Wilson, with a Quintette, performing two novelty songs on Columbia — 'Still We Smile' and 'Ladies Day' — likely from the 1920s.AI summary
Columbia D1400 Music Hall
F. Mayne performs two novelty songs, 'Robin Redbreast' and 'Boiled Beef & Carrots', on Columbia British 1258 from the early 1910s. This is a very early catalogue number.AI summary
Columbia 1258 Music Hall
A compilation featuring Flanagan & Allen, D Somers and the Carlyle Cousins in 'Song Carnival' parts 1 and 2 on Columbia's DX (special) series, likely from the 1940s.AI summary
Columbia DX432 Music Hall
The Crazy Gang—Flanagan and Allen, Nervo and Knox, Naughton and Gold—were Britain's most celebrated comedy ensemble, and this Columbia two-part side from the 1930s captures their music-hall ensemble comedy in a specially recorded sketch.AI summary
Columbia DX890 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the British music-hall duo, recorded 'Underneath the Arches' and 'Hey Neighbour' for Columbia, their signature and popular songs from the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia CB2725 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen were a celebrated British comedy double act of the 1930s–50s; this Columbia recording captures their characteristic humour and timing on 'Splitting up'.AI summary
Columbia DB895 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen performing 'Can't We Meet Again' and 'Do You Recall' on Columbia DB1052. Flanagan and Allen were one of Britain's most popular comedy double acts of the 1930s–40s, best known for wartime morale songs.AI summary
Columbia DB1052 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, a popular British variety duo of the 1930s-1950s, performing 'Splitting Up' on Columbia DB895.AI summary
Columbia DB895 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the beloved British music-hall duo, on Columbia FB1131, 'Where the Arches Used to Be'; another of their numerous recordings for Columbia in the 1940s.AI summary
Columbia FB1131 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the celebrated British music-hall duo, recorded 'Digging 'Oi'les' for Columbia in the FB series; the pair were stars of stage and screen, and their Columbia recordings from the 1940s remain sought-after by collectors of British variety.AI summary
Columbia FB1226 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, one of Britain's most successful variety comedy duos, perform 'The New MP' on Columbia FB1241. The FB series (late 1930s) represents the peak of their recording career.AI summary
Columbia FB1241 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the British music-hall stars, on 'Ye BBC' for Columbia FB1407; another side from their extensive recording career in the 1940s.AI summary
Columbia FB1407 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, one of the most celebrated British comedy double acts of the 1930s–1940s, recorded 'How Do You Do Mister Right' and 'Music Maestro Please' for Columbia FB2046. The duo were prolific recording artists and major music-hall stars.AI summary
Columbia FB2046 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the celebrated British comedy duo, perform 'The Umbrella Man' on Columbia FB2143, a late-1930s recording from the peak of their recording output.AI summary
Columbia FB2143 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the celebrated British comedy-music duo, recorded 'Free isn't that the Way it ought to be' and 'Home Town' for Columbia, catalogue FB1781. Their records remain sought-after by enthusiasts of 1930s British variety.AI summary
Columbia FB1781 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen were one of the most celebrated British comedy double acts of the 1930s and 1940s, stars of wireless and music hall, known for their witty patter and novelty songs. This Columbia FB-series 78 captures their style, though the title 'Successes' suggests a medley or medleyed performance.AI summary
Columbia FB2628 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen on Columbia DB2857, performing 'The Galloping Major' and 'On the other Side of Town'. Flanagan and Allen were a celebrated British comic duo of the 1930s-40s, best known for wartime songs and variety entertainment.AI summary
Columbia DB2857 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the British comedy duo, recorded "Memories" (2 sides) for Columbia. Flanagan and Allen were hugely successful music hall comedians and entertainers of the 1920s-1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1558 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the celebrated British comedy-song duo, on Columbia FB2143, performing their characteristic fast-patter comedy songs.AI summary
Columbia FB2143 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the celebrated British comedy and music-hall duo, recorded 'Where the Arches used to be' and 'Life begins again' for Columbia under catalogue FB1131, likely from the mid-1930s onwards.AI summary
Columbia FB1131 Music Hall