2,703 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Charles Penrose performing 'Adventures of 'Arry, Emmy & Joe' (Parts 1 & 2) on Columbia 4222, a mid-1920s British pressing. This is a comic character piece typical of Penrose's popular monologue repertoire.AI summary
Columbia 4222 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on Columbia 4224, performing 'Adventures of 'Arry, Emmy & Joe' (part 6). Penrose (1863–1952) was a celebrated British character comedian and singer; this extended sketch is one of his character comedy routines.AI summary
Columbia 4224 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a celebrated British comic baritone of the music-hall era, recorded 'Aladdin' in two parts for Imperial Records, a small British label active in the early 1900s.AI summary
Imperial 2353 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British comedian famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', on Regal performing 'My Mistake' and 'Merry Old Man'.AI summary
Regal 7326 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British comedian famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', on Regal performing 'Merry Irishman' and 'I'm 82 Tomorrow'.AI summary
Regal 7751 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the celebrated 'Laughing Policeman', on Regal 7824. Penrose's comic specialty was his infectious laugh, and this record preserves two sides in his comic-song vein.AI summary
Regal 7824 Music Hall
Charles Penrose was a British bass singer and music-hall entertainer famous for his comic vocal effects and sound effects recordings; 'The Laughing Policeman' and similar Decca sides featuring Penrose's virtuoso laughing and comic routines were perennial sellers.AI summary
Decca F2226 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British music hall comedian known for 'The Laughing Policeman', on Winner 3891. Penrose's novelty records remain common and are collected as curiosities of the period.AI summary
Winner 3891 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, British comic and novelty singer, recorded 'Giggling Curate' and 'Laughing Trombone' for Decca (F1578) in the 1930s-40s. Penrose was known for his humorous vocal effects and music hall comedy.AI summary
Decca F1578 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, 'I Tried to Keep from Laughing' and 'He'd a Funny Little Way with Him', on Polyphon 5536; Penrose was a British music-hall singer and comedian famous for the novelty recording 'The Laughing Policeman'.AI summary
Polyphon 5536 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on Winner 3717, with two comic songs featuring laughing and sound effects. Penrose was famous for 'Laughing Policeman', a music-hall novelty recording hit.AI summary
Winner 3717 Music Hall
Charles Penrose performs his famous novelty song 'Laughing Ploughboy' (with 'Laughing Johnnie') on Pathé. Penrose's laughing song was one of the most widely known comedy records of the early 20th century.AI summary
Pathé 93557 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with The Artful Verger and The Giddy Curate on Ariel 2182.AI summary
Ariel 2182 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with The Waif and the Wizard and Johnnie! Me and You on Ariel 4286.AI summary
Ariel 4286 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and entertainer, recorded 'The Bloke Wot's Left Behind' and 'Mindin' the 'Ole in the Road' for Jumbo 1247. These are comic or novelty numbers from the early 1920s.AI summary
Jumbo 1247 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with Seeing Each Other Home and When You're Blotto on Homochord H645.AI summary
Hom H645 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with That Awful Joke and I Think I Could Laugh All Day on Invicta 108.AI summary
Invicta 108 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on Kalliope 6173 with 'How We Laugh' and 'Seeing Each Other Home', British music-hall novelty recordings from the 1920s.AI summary
Kalliope 6173 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, known as 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded comic material for Opera Records, a small British label. This pressing captures his comic laughing sketches from the early period of his career. Opera was a minor imprint, making Penrose recordings on this label less common than his more widely-distributed sides.AI summary
Opera 121 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall and pantomime performer best known for his distinctive 'laughing song', recorded on the Polyphon label. 'The Laughing Family' and 'That awful Joke' are typical of his novelty repertoire.AI summary
Polyphon 5531 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on Pop 709 with 'I Couldn't Help Laughing' and 'A Nice Old Maid'. Penrose was a British music-hall comedian and vocalist, recorded in the 1920s and early 1930s, known for comic songs and novelty material.AI summary
Popular 709 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British music-hall entertainer, recorded two comedy sketches for Curry's label.AI summary
Curry's 31 Music Hall
Bell 271 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with The Squire's Xmas Party and Xmas Goose Club on Pilgrim 5685.AI summary
Pilgrim 5685 Music Hall
Charles Penrose recorded 'The Old Couple's Christmas Eve' and 'Good King Wenceslas' for Alb Records (1375). Penrose was a British music hall comedian and singer; Alb was a small British imprint.AI summary
Albion 1375 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British baritone and comic performer, recorded 'Gay Deceiver' and 'Merry Vicar' for Scala 1639. Penrose was famous for comic and novelty songs; Scala was a small British label.AI summary
Scala 1639 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with Oh Who Said So and Life in the East End of London on Stella C20.AI summary
Stella C20 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a popular British comic monologist, performed 'Doings of Dismal Desmond - Fairy Market' on Columbia 4584, a mid-1920s British pressing. Penrose's comic character pieces were popular and widely recorded.AI summary
Columbia 4584 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and recording artist famous for his comic recordings and character voices, recorded 'Laugh and you'll feel grand' and 'Let's laugh together Mike' on Columbia DB1021 in the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB1021 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall comedian famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded two comic novelties for Columbia: 'Our Albert's Accordion' and 'Jolly Coppers on Parade', catalogue DB1461.AI summary
Columbia DB1461 Music Hall
Charles Penrose was a British music-hall comedian best known for the novelty record 'The Laughing Policeman'; this HMV recording of 'Santa Claus Workshop' represents his comic song material from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1150 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British music-hall performer famous for his laugh, on Columbia DB-series with novelty numbers 'Laughing Love & the Old Trombone' and 'Laughing Wife & the Clarinet'.AI summary
Columbia DB266 Music Hall
Charles Penrose performs 'Laughing Policeman's Sweepstake' on Columbia DB493 from the late 1920s or early 1930s. Penrose was a popular music hall performer and comedian known for novelty comedy records.AI summary
Columbia DB493 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British comedian best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded 'Laughing stuttering Sam' and 'Happy Hikers' on Columbia in the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB856 Music Hall
Charles Penrose performing his most famous piece, 'The Laughing Policeman', on Columbia in the mid-1920s. Penrose made this novelty recitation a signature act, and it became one of the most popular recordings of the early electrical era.AI summary
Columbia DB881 Music Hall
Charles Penrose's second appearance, recorded for Columbia DB-series with his characteristic music-hall novelty material and laugh-song comedy from the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB949 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on His Master's Voice B2367, 'The Laughing Policeman' (catalogued here as 'Popular Jocular Dr Brown'); Penrose's laughing performance became a comic standard from the 1920s onwards.AI summary
His Master's Voice B2367 Music Hall
Charles Penrose performing two Scottish comic novelties, 'Laugh when Fu' the Noo'' and 'Laughing McPhee fra' Bonnie Dundee', on Regal 475, the famous laughing comedian in the Scottish dialect tradition.AI summary
Regal 475 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British comedian and music-hall performer best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', on Regal; this is a novelty or comic recording from the early 1930s.AI summary
Regal 723 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian whose Laughing Policeman became a national favourite, with Put Me in a Taxi and Laughing Brown from Camden Town on Duophone UB2007.AI summary
Duophone UB2007 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, best known as 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded comic material for Pathé. This 1920s-1930s pressing preserves his comic laughing sketches, which were hugely popular in music hall. Pathé was a major British label, and Penrose recordings exist in quantity, though individual titles vary.AI summary
Pathé 79960 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with Laughing Saxophone and Laughter, Love and Lingerie on Sterno 306.AI summary
Sterno 306 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with Laughing Yodeller and Discord and Laughter on Sterno 541.AI summary
Sterno 541 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, performs Laughing Trombone on Mayfair 2066.AI summary
Mayfair 2066 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with The Cigar Girl and, by B. Whitlock, Snowdrops on Meloto 1043.AI summary
Meloto 1043 Music Hall
Charles Penrose was a British music-hall comedian and vocalist; this Decca recording of 'Laughing Jazz Band' and 'You've Got to Laugh' captures his comic style, which was known for novelty effects and audience-participation humour.AI summary
Decca F1627 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, famous as 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded numerous novelty and comedy sides; this Decca pressing pairs two of his comedy routines ('Simpering Susie and a Sousaphone', 'Laughs and Liberties').AI summary
Decca F2463 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the celebrated British comedian known for his character voices and comic recordings, recorded 'Film Fun' and 'Pernickety Pete the Postman' for Decca F3115 in the late 1930s–early 1940s.AI summary
Decca F3115 Music Hall