2,703 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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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
Ella Shields, the British music-hall star, on 'Army' and 'Burlington Bertie from Bow', Decca F5228. 'Burlington Bertie from Bow' is a celebrated music-hall standard; Shields is best remembered for 'Burlington Bertie from Bow' and was a major British variety performer.AI summary
Decca F5228 Music Hall
Columbia 629 Music Hall
Ella Shields recorded 'Burlington Bertie' and 'Baa Lambs' for Regal Records 7037. Shields was a British music-hall star who made 'Burlington Bertie from Bow' one of the most famous cockney songs; 'Burlington Bertie' was her signature number and remains iconic.AI summary
Regal 7037 Music Hall
Ella Shields, a British music-hall star best known for her 1912 hit 'Burlington Bertie from Bow', performing on Regal with the characteristic comic-song material of her stage act.AI summary
Regal 7275 Music Hall
Ella Shields, the male-impersonator and music-hall star forever associated with 'Burlington Bertie from Bow', performs 'Don't Say Goodbye' and — with Gertie Gitana — 'Morning Star' on Regal 7323. Regal was a Woolworths budget label; even a collected music-hall name like Shields carries only modest value on this marque, though the Gitana coupling adds interest.AI summary
Regal 7323 Music Hall
Ella Shields, a celebrated American music-hall star, performs 'I'm Going Back Again to Yarrawonga' and 'Steward of the Ocean Liner' on this Regal record, catalogue 8138, from the late 1920s or 1930s.AI summary
Regal 8138 Music Hall
Ella Shields, the British music-hall star, performing two song-comedy numbers on Regal; further evidence of her extensive recording output during the early-to-mid 20th century.AI summary
Regal 8275 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
Ella Shields, the British music-hall entertainer famous for 'Burlington Bertie from Bow', on Regal G7037 performing that signature song and 'Baa Lambs'.AI summary
Regal G7037 Music Hall
The Elliotts on Winner 2608, likely a vocal family act or variety duo, with 'Kentucky Days' and 'You've got your Mother's big blue Eyes'.AI summary
Winner 2608 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 and Doris Waters, music hall comedians, on Parlophone. The Waters sisters were well-known British entertainers of the 1920s-30s, recorded frequently for variety material and comic songs.AI summary
Parlophone R1091 Music Hall
Elsie and Doris Waters, the famous British sister singing-and-comedy duo, recorded 'Cuckoo in the Nest' and 'Seaside Band' on Parlophone R1243, likely late 1920s or early 1930s. The Waters sisters were prolific entertainers and recording artists.AI summary
Parlophone R1243 Music Hall
Elsie and Doris Waters on Parlophone R667 with 'Washing Dishes with My Sweetie' and 'You're in Love'. The Waters sisters recorded widely for major labels including Parlophone; this is among their earlier recordings for the label.AI summary
Parlophone R667 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 performing 'Washing on the Siegfried Line' and 'Gert Daisy & the Blackout' on Decca F7281. Two British sisters recorded during the early World War II era when novelty songs about the war effort were highly popular.AI summary
Decca F7281 Music Hall
Elsie and Doris Waters on Decca F7503 with 'Won't We 'Ave a Party When It's Over' and 'Brother Jack a Message from Mum'. The Waters sisters were popular British musical-comedy entertainers and singers, especially in the 1930s and 1940s; they recorded widely and became best known for their novelty and comedy songs.AI summary
Decca F7503 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
Elsie and Doris Waters, British variety sisters, performing 'Food Talk' with Stanley Holloway on His Master's Voice JH series; music-hall and variety entertainment of the 1930s–1940s.AI summary
His Master's Voice JH30 Music Hall
Elsie Carlisle singing topical comic numbers 'Oh what a Surprise for the Duce' and 'When the Blackbird says Bye Bye' for Rex, a cheap British imprint of the 1930s.AI summary
Rex 9904 Music Hall
Eric Foster recorded 'Geordie's Toothache' and 'Policeman Geordie' for Alb (Albion), a small British imprint, probably in the mid-1920s. The titles suggest Geordie dialect comedy pieces typical of British music-hall tradition.AI summary
Albion 1405 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 recorded 'Geordie's Holiday' and 'Geordie's Motor Bike' for Scala Records (690), a British label of the 1920s–30s. The titles suggest comic material in the Geordie (northeastern English) dialect.AI summary
Scala 690 Music Hall
Eric Foster performing comic patter songs on Zonophone: 'Geordie & His Missus at the Skating Rink' and 'Geordie at the Dentist'. Foster was a British music-hall performer of the early 1900s, specialising in character sketches and comedy monologues.AI summary
Zonophone 677 Music Hall
Eric Foster recorded Geordie dialect comic songs 'Noo luk here Hinnie' and 'Geordie the Tram Conductor' for Pathé, the French-British label, catalogue 93459.AI summary
Pathé 93459 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
Eric Foster on Regal 6532 recorded 'Cullercoats Fishwife and the Census Man' and 'Pitman and the Doctor'; these titles suggest North Eastern English dialect comedy or folk-based novelty songs.AI summary
Regal 6532 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 was a British singer and composer of light vocal music. This early His Master's Voice recording of 'Come to the Fair' and 'I Love Someone in Somerset' is from the acoustic era (catalogue E200, indicating very early HMV pressing). These are sentimental character songs typical of the Edwardian music hall tradition.AI summary
His Master's Voice E200 Music Hall
Ernest Butcher was a British comedian and music-hall artist of the 1920s. This very early HMV E-series acoustic recording, numbered E7, captures two comic monologues: 'Cobblin' and 'Because I were shy', from the earliest days of commercial recording.AI summary
His Master's Voice E7 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 Crampton recorded 'Sedan Chair' on His Master's Voice, catalogue 4-2521. The artist and nature of the piece are not clearly established.AI summary
His Master's Voice 4-2521 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 Hastings recorded "My Word You Do Look Queer" and "Gerrard 64" for His Master's Voice C-series catalogue 1095. Hastings is not identified in general discographies; the second title suggests a topical or novelty recording.AI summary
His Master's Voice C1095 Music Hall
Ernest Hastings recorded 'It's the same thing every Night' and 'Drake is going to Sea' for Winner catalogue 3002, likely early-to-mid 1920s.AI summary
Winner 3002 Music Hall
Ernest Shand, the Edwardian music-hall comedian, on Zonophone catalogue 42263, with 'Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares'. Zonophone 42000-series pressings of Shand's work are moderately uncommon.AI summary
Zonophone 42263 Music Hall
Ernest Shand, the Edwardian music-hall comedian and monologist, on Pathé catalogue 92861, with 'Introductions' and 'I Went On My Way Rejoicing'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 92861 Music Hall
Ernest Shand, the Edwardian music-hall comedian and monologist, on Pathé catalogue 92863, with 'Husband's Strike' and 'We Really Had a Most Delightful Evening'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 92863 Music Hall
Ernest Shand, the Edwardian music-hall comedian and monologist, on Pathé catalogue 92864, with 'In America' and 'Nelson and Me'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 92864 Music Hall
Ernest Shand, the music-hall comedian who was also a composer for the guitar, with 'At the Seaside' and 'Oh, Isn't It Singular' on Ariel.AI summary
Ariel K113 Music Hall
Ernest Shand's The Husband's Strike and Daily Mirror Front Page on Ariel 9332.AI summary
Ariel 9332 Music Hall