2,704 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Jack MacGregor recorded spoken monologues honouring Harry Lauder, the Scottish music-hall legend, for Winner records. These are memory-act monologues of the kind popular in British variety in the 1920s and 1930s.AI summary
Winner 5193 Music Hall
Jack Morrison, a British music hall singer, performs 'He's a Ragpicker' and 'Pick of the Family' on Columbia. Morrison was active in the 1920s–30s and is now largely forgotten.AI summary
Columbia 2553 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants on Zonophone, catalogue 1606, performing comic songs 'It's been a nice Day today' and 'I must have my little Joke'. Pleasants appears to be a comedy vocalist on Zonophone in the late 1920s.AI summary
Zonophone 1606 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants on Zonophone 1846 performing two comic or music-hall numbers from the early 20th century. Pleasants was an English music-hall entertainer; the catalogue number suggests a recording from around 1910–1915.AI summary
Zonophone 1846 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants on Bell 352 — 'To Cheer Him Up' and 'I'm 21 Today.' Bell is a British label less commonly encountered than the major marques; Pleasants is a documented Edwardian music-hall comedian known for his gentle, bashful stage persona.AI summary
Bell 352 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'She's awfully Jealous of Me' and 'I Shall Get in such a row when Martha knows' for the Ar label, early 1900s.AI summary
Ariel 9302 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded two comic songs for Ar, an obscure British label.AI summary
Ariel 9303 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, the Lancashire comedian, with I Shall Get in Such a Row When Martha Knows and, by V. Henson, Paddlin' Madelin Home on Ariel 957.AI summary
Ariel 957 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, the popular Edwardian music-hall singer known for 'I'm Twenty-One Today', records that song and 'I'm Shy Mary Ellen' on the Apollo label, catalogue 124. Apollo was a small British label; Pleasants is a recognised music-hall name and his minor-label pressings are less common than his major-label equivalents.AI summary
Apollo 124 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, the Edwardian music-hall comedian, on the DipC label — possibly Diploma — catalogue 54, with 'I'm Shy Mary Ellen' (dated 1911) and 'To Cheer Him Up'. As with the companion DipC disc (id 3501) in this collection, the DipC label is not identified in standard references and warrants investigation.AI summary
Diploma C54 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, the Edwardian music-hall comedian, on the Emp label — possibly Empire, an obscure British imprint — catalogue 1521, with 'I'm 21 Today' and 'I'm Shy Mary Ellen' (dated 1911). The Emp label is not identified in standard references; a Pleasants pressing on this imprint warrants investigation.AI summary
Empire 1521 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, an Edwardian music-hall comedian and recording artist, on the Exo label — an obscure British imprint not identified in standard references — catalogue 142, with 'I'm Shy Mary Ellen' (dated 1911) and 'Save a Little One for Me' by Fay. The Exo label warrants identification before sale.AI summary
Exo 142 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants was a popular Edwardian music-hall comedian and singer known for his shy, bashful stage persona. This Homophone pressing (773) couples 'I Shall Sulk' with 'I'm Shy Mary Ellen' — titles perfectly in keeping with his stage character. Homophone was a minor British label; Pleasants is a documented music-hall name.AI summary
Hom 773 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, the Bradford comedian of 'I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy', with 'Liza Had Hold of My Hand' and 'I'm the Black Sheep of the Flock' on Velvet Face.AI summary
Velvet Face 1239 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants singing 'I've Got to Go Home Looking Well' and 'I Love Lizzie' on Zonophone 1768. Pleasants is not a known artist; the songs suggest music-hall repertoire.AI summary
Zonophone 1768 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'She makes me walk in Ragtime' and 'I want to be pally with everyone' for Zonophone, a subsidiary of the Gramophone Company active in the early 1900s.AI summary
Zonophone 1103 Music Hall
Zonophone 1119 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, a British entertainer, recorded for Zonophone; novelty or comic songs 'One Little Two Little' and 'I Didn't Want to Do It'.AI summary
Zonophone 1299 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, a British vocal entertainer, recorded for Zonophone; 'I'm Going Away to be a Soldier' and 'Cuckoo' represent popular song and novelty material from the acoustic or early electric era.AI summary
Zonophone 1418 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'At ten o'clock at night' and 'Why do they call me Archibald' for Zonophone, catalogue 1469. Pleasants was a music hall entertainer active in the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Zonophone 1469 Music Hall
Zonophone 1507 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, a British music hall comedian and character singer, recorded two comic songs on Zonophone in what is likely a later issue. Pleasants was a prolific recording artist of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Zonophone 1846 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'Where do Flies go in the Wintertime?' and 'John you're in the Way' for Zonophone, catalogue 1970. A comic vocalist, Pleasants made novelty recordings for Zonophone in the early twentieth century.AI summary
Zonophone 1970 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants performing two comic songs on Zonophone, catalogue 2197. Both titles suggest music-hall or vaudeville material from the early twentieth century.AI summary
Zonophone 2197 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants performs 'Long Years Ago' and 'My New Hat' on Zonophone. Pleasants was a minor British variety singer of the early 20th century, now largely forgotten.AI summary
Zonophone 1565 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'Meet me' and 'Drown your Sorrows when the Band plays' for Zonophone, catalogue 2245. Pleasants was a music hall entertainer active in the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Zonophone 2245 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded novelty and music-hall material for Zonophone in the early 1920s; these comic vocal numbers were typical of postwar British popular entertainment.AI summary
Zonophone 1970 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants with 'I Shall Get in Such a Row When Martha Knows' and V. Henson's 'Paddlin' Madeline Home' on Ar 957, an obscure British label.AI summary
Ariel 957 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded comic and novelty songs for Zonophone in the early 1920s; 'She Would' and 'They Can't Find Me' are likely music-hall or novelty material.AI summary
Zonophone 1788 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants performing novelty comedy numbers 'I'm a Dadda' and 'Norman the Mormon' on Zonophone. Pleasants is otherwise obscure; this appears to be a music-hall novelty recording from the early twentieth century.AI summary
Zonophone 1922 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'To Cheer Him Up' and 'I've Been Out in the Lifeboat' for Winner, a small British label. Nothing further is known of this artist or these recordings.AI summary
Winner 2169 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, the Edwardian music-hall comedian, performing 'Baby Face' and 'Mother's Baby Boy' on Winner catalogue 2271. Winner was a budget British label; Pleasants sides on Winner are among the commoner of his label appearances.AI summary
Winner 2271 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, the Edwardian music-hall singer known for 'I'm Twenty-One Today', records 'Give Me Another Small Port' and 'The Top Hat That My Grandad Used to Wear' on Winner 2365. Winner was the Woolworths budget label; even a recognised music-hall name on this marque carries only modest collector value.AI summary
Winner 2365 Music Hall
Jack Warner on Parlophone, performing 'Up and Down the Railway Lines' and 'My Brother in the Life Guards' — the British music-hall entertainer and comedian.AI summary
Parlophone F1577 Music Hall
Jack Warner, a British comedian and character actor (later the star of the TV series Dixon of Dock Green), recorded two music hall novelty pieces, "Up and Down the Railway Lines" and "Bunger Up of Rat 'Oles", for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia FB2504 Music Hall
Jack Warner, a British comedian and actor best known for the Dixon of Dock Green radio and television series, on Parlophone. These are comic character monologues in the British music-hall tradition.AI summary
Parlophone F1577 Music Hall
Jack Warner, the British comedian and actor, performing 'Victoire' and 'Frank and his Tank' on Columbia, catalogue FB2434.AI summary
Columbia FB2434 Music Hall
Jack Warner was a British comedian and character actor best known for his role in the post-war film and television series Dixon of Dock Green. This Columbia recording captures his earlier music-hall comic persona in two novelty numbers with suggestive titles, typical of his stage work of the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Columbia FB2504 Music Hall
Jackson on His Master's Voice performing novelty and traditional material from the acoustic era.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD129 Music Hall
James Hudson, a performer on J Bull (John Bull), a British label, performing music-hall or sentimental material on the theme of mining, a popular subject in British variety repertoire.AI summary
John Bull 41004 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded "There's a Cow in a Field Over There" and "Wait Till I've Finished My Orange" for Winner (3636), a British label known for comic and novelty material in the 1920s–1930s. Laurier was a minor music-hall comedian.AI summary
Winner 3636 Music Hall
Jay Laurier performing 'I'm Always Doing Something Silly' and 'A Southern Wedding' on the ArK label, catalogue 925. Laurier was a minor variety performer; ArK is an obscure British imprint.AI summary
Ariel K925 Music Hall
Jay Laurier, a popular British music-hall and revue comedian of the Edwardian and inter-war years, performs 'Sneezing' and 'Silly Billy Brown' on the Apollo label, catalogue 230. Apollo was a small British label; Laurier is a recognised variety name and minor-label pressings of comedy performers are often short-run.AI summary
Apollo 230 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded 'I'm always doing something silly' and 'The Brown Cow' for Bek Records, catalogue 41105/8. Bek was a small British label of the late 1920s–early 1930s; Laurier is an unidentified artist.AI summary
Beka 41105/8 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded for His Master's Voice; 'Hush a Bye' and 'A Stage Door Scene' are comic or music-hall songs typical of British entertainment of the 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1004 Music Hall
Jay Laurier, a British comedian and revue performer, singing the novelty songs 'I Do Like Nice Bright Lights at Night' and 'Treacly Puddin'' on His Master's Voice B1041.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1041 Music Hall
Jay Laurier, the popular British music-hall and revue comedian, performs 'I'm Always Doing Something Silly' and 'I Shall Sit in the Corner and Sulk' on the Scala label, catalogue 175. Scala was a small British label; Laurier on Scala is a minor-label pressing of a recognised variety name.AI summary
Scala 175 Music Hall
Jay Laurier was a British music hall singer and comedian, and 'The Spaniard that Blighted my life' is a classic comic song from the Edwardian era. This Scala pressing represents the later revival of this vintage repertoire on a small British label.AI summary
Scala 196 Music Hall