394 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Florrie Forde, a major British music-hall star and one of the most prolific recording artists of the early 20th century, recorded two of her signature songs on Zonophone 2118: 'Touch a Sailor for Luck' and 'Sailing on the Good Ship Friendship'. Forde was known for her patriotic and nautical numbers.AI summary
Zonophone 2118 Music Hall
Florrie Forde on Zonophone, this pressing of 'Roses and Radishes Pansies and Peas' and 'Love Me in the Lancashire Way' captures another of her music-hall songs.AI summary
Zonophone 2152 Music Hall
Florrie Forde on Zonophone 867: British music-hall comedy songs from the 1910s–20s era.AI summary
Zonophone 867 Music Hall
Florrie Forde, the celebrated British music-hall star, performing "Oh George, Tell Them to Stop the Flip Flap" on Zonophone, a budget British label of the early 1910s-1920s.AI summary
Zonophone 43168 Music Hall
Florrie Forde recorded for Zonophone; 'Mary's Ticket' and 'Come Into the Parlour Charlie' are early comic and novelty songs, likely from the acoustic era or shortly after.AI summary
Zonophone 142 Music Hall
Florrie Forde, the Australian-born music hall star of the Edwardian and Georgian eras, recorded these comic songs for Zonophone. Forde was a major recording artist in Britain from the 1900s through the 1920s, celebrated for her comic timing and strong soprano voice.AI summary
Zonophone 160 Music Hall
Florrie Forde, a celebrated British music-hall star, on 'Yip I Adee I Ay' and 'Girls of the Clogs and Shawl', issued on Zonophone (catalogue 174). Forde was one of Britain's most popular entertainers in the early 20th century.AI summary
Zonophone 174 Music Hall
Florrie Forde on Zonophone 34, a very early Zonophone pressing: British music-hall comedy and character song from the Edwardian era (c. 1900–1910).AI summary
Zonophone 34 Music Hall
Florrie Forde, the celebrated Australian music-hall singer who built her career in Britain, performing two songs on Zonophone (catalogue 77), from the early acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 77 Music Hall
Frank Leo on Zonophone 1553, performing 'Arry & Family at the Zoo' Parts 1 and 2, a comedy sketch in the British music-hall tradition with Cockney or working-class characters.AI summary
Zonophone 1553 Music Hall
Fred Elton recorded 'The funny little bunny Sonny had' and 'Should a Woman tell' for Zonophone, a secondary British label. Elton was a minor British music-hall singer of the 1900s-1910s.AI summary
Zonophone 1309 Music Hall
Zonophone 1322 Music Hall
G King performing novelty material on Zonophone, an early catalogue number suggesting the 1910s or very early 1920s.AI summary
Zonophone 45 Music Hall
George Daly on Zonophone 161, a small British label from the early 1930s, with a novelty side credited to Stanley Kirkby. Zonophone was an early acoustc label revived briefly in the 1930s.AI summary
Zonophone 161 Music Hall
George Formby, the Lancashire comedian and ukulele player who dominated British entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s, recorded prolifically for Zonophone in the early years of his fame.AI summary
Zonophone 1909 Music Hall
George Formby, the Edwardian British music-hall and banjo performer (father of George Formby Jr), on Zonophone 1707, performing novelty and comic songs. Formby senior was a major recording artist of the 1900s–20s.AI summary
Zonophone 1707 Music Hall
George Formby, the Lancashire ukulele player and music-hall comedian, recorded 'Kind Words never die' and 'I had no Mother to guide me' for Zonophone, catalogue 1831.AI summary
Zonophone 1831 Music Hall
George Formby, the Lancashire comedian and entertainer, recorded 'All of a Sudden it Struck Me' and 'I Had My Hand in My Pocket' for Zonophone, catalogue 1495. Formby was a major British music-hall comic and singer, best known for cheeky double-entendre novelty songs, and his 78s are widely collected.AI summary
Zonophone 1495 Music Hall
George Formby Sr recorded 'I'm a Sport' and 'They're All Good Lads' for Zonophone (1349). George Formby Sr was an English music hall comedian and entertainer, and the father of the more famous George Formby Jr; this is an early acoustic Zonophone recording.AI summary
Zonophone 1349 Music Hall
George Lashwood was a celebrated Victorian and Edwardian music-hall comedian and singer. This very early Zonophone pressing captures him in character numbers typical of his stage act.AI summary
Zonophone 162 Music Hall
George Lashwood, a celebrated British music hall and vaudeville performer known for his serio-comic songs, on Zonophone catalogue 214, performing 'One of the Girls' and 'Ship Ahoy'. Zonophone's low catalogue numbers place this in the very early acoustic era (circa 1906-1910).AI summary
Zonophone 214 Music Hall
George Lashwood, the popular Edwardian music-hall singer and 'Beau Brummell of the Halls', records 'Saturday-aturday' and 'Hang Out the Front Door Key' on Zonophone 39 — an extremely early Zonophone number, placing this among the very first pressings in the British Zonophone series, likely around 1900–1902. Lashwood is a collected name, and a catalogue number this low on Zonophone is a document of the earliest days of British disc recording.AI summary
Zonophone 39 Music Hall
George Lashwood, a leading British music-hall comedian and singer of the late Victorian and Edwardian era, performing 'Shall I Meet You on the Bois de Boulogne?' on Zonophone 42816.AI summary
Zonophone 42816 Music Hall
George Lashwood on Zonophone 543 — 'Twilight' and 'A Rainy Afternoon.' Catalogue number 543 is a companion to Zonophone 544 also in this collection and is equally low in the Zonophone series, placing this among the label's earliest pressings. Two consecutive very early Zonophone numbers by the same artist in one collection is a notable concentration.AI summary
Zonophone 543 Music Hall
George Lashwood was a popular Edwardian music-hall singer known for his smart, well-dressed stage persona and topical songs. Zonophone 544 — 'The Moonlight Promenade' and 'O Blow the Scenery on the Railway' — is a very low Zonophone catalogue number, placing this among the earliest pressings on that label. Lashwood on early Zonophone is a collected music-hall item.AI summary
Zonophone 544 Music Hall
George Lashwood, a prominent British music hall singer and entertainer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, recorded 'Send for a Policeman' for Zonophone. Lashwood was one of the most celebrated performers of the music hall era.AI summary
Zonophone 162 Music Hall
George Lashwood, a Victorian and Edwardian music hall star, performing 'One of the Girls' and 'Ship Ahoy' on Zonophone 214 — an early recording by a celebrated comedian and singer of the turn of the century.AI summary
Zonophone 214 Music Hall
George Lashwood, the popular Edwardian music-hall singer, records 'Saturday-aturday' and 'Hang Out the Front Door Key' on Zonophone 39 — a duplicate of the Zonophone 39 catalogued elsewhere in this collection. The same disc appears twice; Zonophone 39 is among the earliest British Zonophone pressings ever made and is a genuinely rare early acoustic document.AI summary
Zonophone 39 Music Hall
George Lashwood was an Edwardian music-hall performer celebrated for his elegant style and 'Champagne Charlie'-type material. Zonophone 58 is an exceptionally low catalogue number — among the earliest Zonophone pressings made in Britain, dating from around 1900–1902. Single-sided Zonophones at this number range are among the earliest surviving British disc records and are genuinely scarce; Lashwood is a recognised name and this is an early document of his recording career.AI summary
Zonophone 58 Music Hall
Gertie Gitana, a leading British music-hall star and recording artist of the early 1900s, performing two sentimental songs on Zonophone.AI summary
Zonophone 1198 Music Hall
Gertie Gitana, a prominent British music-hall star of the Edwardian and inter-war years, recorded for Zonophone; these are sentimental song numbers in the style that made her famous.AI summary
Zonophone 1198 Music Hall
Gertie Gitana, one of the most beloved figures of Edwardian music hall, sings 'You Made Me Love You' and 'My Little Persian Rose' (the latter by Payne) on Zonophone 1198. Gitana, famous for 'Nellie Dean', was a major star, and her Zonophone recordings are actively collected by music-hall enthusiasts.AI summary
Zonophone 1198 Music Hall
Gertie Gitana, the British music-hall and pantomime star of the Edwardian era, performs two songs for Zonophone: 'There's a Cottage in Ballymahone' and 'Violette'.AI summary
Zonophone 1432 Music Hall
Gertie Gitana, one of the most beloved Edwardian music-hall stars and the singer most associated with 'Nellie Dean', records 'Nobody Else But You' and 'My Dusky Princess' on Zonophone 1549. The 1549 Zonophone catalogue number places this in the early-to-mid acoustic period; Gitana's Zonophone recordings are actively collected by music-hall enthusiasts.AI summary
Zonophone 1549 Music Hall
Gertie Gitana on Zonophone 1432, performing 'There's a Cottage in Ballymahone' and 'My little Persian Rose'. Gitana was a popular British music-hall singer and actress of the early 20th century, specialising in sentimental ballads and comic songs.AI summary
Zonophone 1432 Music Hall
Gertie Gitana, one of Britain's best-known music-hall stars, recorded for Zonophone in the early 1900s; this disc preserves two of her sentimental numbers.AI summary
Zonophone 1549 Music Hall
Gertie Gitana was a British music hall singer and performer known for sentimental and patriotic songs; this Zonophone disc features two songs, "Nobody Else But You" and "My Dusky Princess".AI summary
Zonophone 1549 Music Hall
G. H. Elliott, the 'Chocolate-Coloured Coon', was a famous Edwardian music-hall performer; 'Ragtime Soldier Man' and 'Dixie Dan' on Zonophone, catalogue 984, represent his early recording catalogue.AI summary
Zonophone 984 Music Hall
G. H. Snazelle, a British music-hall artist, recorded two novelty comic pieces for Zonophone: 'A Whistling Yarn' and 'German on the Telephone', catalogue 1114.AI summary
Zonophone 1114 Music Hall
H Fay and S Kirkby performing 'You've Got to Sing in Ragtime' and 'All Change for Llanfairfechan' on Zonophone 767, from the early 1910s or 1920s.AI summary
Zonophone 767 Music Hall
Hamilton Hill recorded 'Dick my Soldier Boy' for Zonophone, a British marque with a long history from the 1890s onward; the artist and exact period are not immediately identifiable from the title alone.AI summary
Zonophone 42257 Music Hall
Hamilton Hill recorded 'My Irish Daisy' for Zonophone 42396, a mid-range catalogue number suggesting a 1920s-1930s pressing; the artist remains unidentified in standard sources.AI summary
Zonophone 42396 Music Hall
Harry Bluff and B. Whitlock in two comic sketches, 'Schmidt and the Special Constable' and 'Shipwrecked', on Zonophone 1619. British music-hall comedy of the early 1900s.AI summary
Zonophone 1619 Music Hall
Harry Bluff and B. Whitlock recorded two Billy sketches—'Billy at the Pictures' and 'Billy at the Play'—for Zonophone 1633. British music-hall comedy of the early 1900s, likely part of a named-character series.AI summary
Zonophone 1633 Music Hall
Harry Champion, Britain's greatest Edwardian music-hall comedian, recorded two more of his famous cockney comic songs for Zonophone: "Ginger You're Balmy" and "Never Let Your Braces Dangle". Zonophone was a major British label of the early 1910s, and Champion recordings survive across multiple labels.AI summary
Zonophone 317 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the prolific Edwardian music-hall star, performs two novelty songs for Zonophone: 'Robin Redbreast' and 'A natty little Patch behind'.AI summary
Zonophone 334 Music Hall
Harry Champion, the great Edwardian cockney comic, recorded prolifically for Zonophone in the 1900s–1910s; 'Henry VIII' and 'Let's have a Basin of Soup' are among his most famous numbers. This early Zonophone pressing (catalogue 413, likely 1904–1910) captures the vigour of the London halls at their peak.AI summary
Zonophone 413 Music Hall
Harry Champion performing 'Cover it over quick Jemima' and 'The old high Hat that I was married in' on Zonophone, catalogue 579. Another Zonophone pressing of the prolific cockney comic.AI summary
Zonophone 579 Music Hall