2,704 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Jay Laurier, the British comedian, with I'm Old... Mr Brown and I'm Always Doing Something Silly on Albion 1223.AI summary
Albion 1223 Music Hall
Jay Laurier performing two music-hall novelty songs on the Hom label: 'Sticks and Stones' and 'I do like a s'nice s'mince s'pie'. Hom was a cheap British imprint of the 1930s.AI summary
Hom 4618 Music Hall
Jay Laurier, a British comedy vocalist and character singer, on His Master's Voice B983, with novelty songs 'Bread Bread Bread' and 'Why is Cecil selling Sea Shells'.AI summary
His Master's Voice B983 Music Hall
Jay Laurier performs 'Our Heroic Family' and 'In the Valley of Daisies and Buttercups' on Winner, a minor British label of the 1920s–30s. Both titles suggest sentimental or comic verse.AI summary
Winner 3492 Music Hall
Jay Laurier, the music-hall comedian, with 'They All Think the World of Me', backed by 'The Spaniard That Blighted My Life', on The Stars label.AI summary
The Stars 120 Music Hall
Jay Laurier, the music-hall comedian, with 'Sneezing', backed by 'Here We Are Again' by Williams, on Valkyrie.AI summary
Valkyrie 266 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded "He Cats and She Cats" and "One of the Light Weights" for Winner 3605. Winner was a British budget label active in the 1930s-1940s.AI summary
Winner 3605 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded 'Silly Billy Brown' and 'Get away You're kidding' for Winner, a budget British label of the 1920s–30s era.AI summary
Winner 2141 Music Hall
Winner 2181 Music Hall
Jay Laurier was a British music-hall performer of the 1920s-30s. This Winner recording captures two comic novelty songs typical of the label's output and the era's light entertainment.AI summary
Winner 2642 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded 'Every Fellow's Got to Take His Sweetheart' and 'Fat and Artful' on Winner 2662, a minor British label of the 1920s-30s. The artist is not widely documented.AI summary
Winner 2662 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded 'I want something to practice on' and 'Shall us? Let's' for Winner catalogue 2915, likely mid-1920s.AI summary
Winner 2915 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded 'What are little Girls made of' and 'Give me a little Blancmange' for Winner.AI summary
Winner 3340 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded two novelty or character songs—'He Cats and She Cats' and 'One of the Light Weights'—for Winner.AI summary
Winner 3605 Music Hall
Jay Laurier performing comic novelty songs 'Nine Inch Nails' and 'Get upon a Puff puff' on Winner, a budget British label.AI summary
Winner 4128 Music Hall
Jay Laurier recorded 'He Cats and She Cats' and 'One of the Light Weights' for Winner 3605, a British label.AI summary
Winner 3605 Music Hall
Jay Laurier and others in a selection from *Alice in Wonderland*, recorded for His Master's Voice C3457. The C-series cataloguing and theatrical title suggest a special or extended pressing, likely from the 1920s–30s theatrical revival period.AI summary
His Master's Voice C3457 Music Hall
JC Scatter, credited on Imperial Records, performing two regional or novelty songs, likely from the early 1930s.AI summary
Imperial 2148 Music Hall
J C Scatter performs 'The Orange Lass' on Zonophone 42866. The 42000-series Zonophone number is a Continental or export series rather than the standard British domestic series; Scatter was a Tyneside dialect comedian and this is a companion to his other pressings in this collection.AI summary
Zonophone 42866 Music Hall
J C Scatter performs two Tyneside dialect comic songs — 'Tyneside Soldier Song' and 'Tyneside Policeman' — on Imperial 2147. Scatter was a regional Tyneside comedian recording in the Edwardian or early acoustic era; Imperial was a British label that issued both licensed American material and domestic artists. Regional dialect comedy on minor British labels is often pressed in small quantities and seldom surfaces.AI summary
Imperial 2147 Music Hall
JC Scatter performs two comic or dialect songs on Imperial: 'Neighbours Below' and the north-country standard 'Keep Your Feet Still, Geordie Hinny.' Imperial was a modest British label active in the early decades of the twentieth century. The Geordie dialect song, originally associated with Joe Wilson, suggests a northern music-hall repertoire.AI summary
Imperial 2148 Music Hall
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961 — a third copy of this same pressing in this collection alongside IDs 18563 and 17109. One copy is worth retaining; the others are straightforward duplicates.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jen Latona recorded two Scots-flavoured comic songs on Zonophone 822: 'Maggie McLaren' and 'Keep on swinging me Charlie'.AI summary
Zonophone 822 Music Hall
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961 — a duplicate of the two other copies of this same pressing in this collection. One copy is worth keeping; the others are straightforward duplicates of a standard early acoustic Zonophone.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jen Latona performs 'Ragging the Baby to Sleep' and 'Yiddisher Luck and Irisha Love' on Zonophone 1009, an early acoustic pressing. The Yiddish-Irish topical coupling is an unusual period document; the Zonophone 1009 number places this in the early acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 1009 Music Hall
Jen Latona on Zonophone 1096 — 'Hark It Is the Thunderman' and 'Your Daddy Did the Same Thing 50 Years Ago.' Zonophone catalogue number 1096 is a very low number for the label, placing this among its earliest pressings, likely before 1905. Latona is not a widely traced name, but the early Zonophone series is actively collected.AI summary
Zonophone 1096 Music Hall
Jen Latona — a Scottish or Irish comic singer active in the Edwardian era — performs 'Rum Tum Tiddle' and 'Why Do You Keep Laughing at Me?' on Zonophone 896, a very early Zonophone pressing in the low-800s series. The 896 number places this among the earliest British Zonophone pressings, probably around 1904–1907.AI summary
Zonophone 896 Music Hall
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961, an early acoustic pressing. This is one of three copies of this same disc in the collection; the Zonophone 961 number places it in the early British acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jenny Howard, a British entertainer, recorded comic and novelty material for the Cr label, a small or short-lived imprint. The titles suggest music-hall humour of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Crown 292 Music Hall
Jenny Howard recorded two novelty numbers for Cr Records, an obscure or short-lived British label; very little is known of the artist or the imprint.AI summary
Crown 292 Music Hall
Jenny Howard recorded two comic novelty songs for Winner (5461) in the early 1930s. The artist is otherwise unidentified. Winner was a cheap British label, and such novelty items were mass-produced.AI summary
Winner 5461 Music Hall
Jim Dwyer recorded two Irish nationalist songs—'Father Murphy of Boolavogue' and 'The Foggy Dew'—for Decca in the 1940s–1950s.AI summary
Decca 12182 Music Hall
Jimmie O'Dea, Richard Hayward and Harry O'Donovan, Irish entertainers, performing Irish song material on Decca. O'Dea was a celebrated Irish comedian and actor; this recording captures an early Irish variety entertainment.AI summary
Decca F5127 Music Hall
Winner 5139 Music Hall
Jimmy Logan with Sailing Up the Clyde and You Can Come and See the Baby on Philips YB9505.AI summary
Philips YB9505 Music Hall
Jock Lorimer, a Scottish comedian and singer, in two comic Highland songs on Zonophone, the British budget label of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Zonophone 551 Music Hall
Zonophone 2-42061 Music Hall
Jock McCallum sings That's the Reason Noo I Wear a Kilt and Tobermory on Festival 7096.AI summary
Festival 7096 Music Hall
Jock McGraw, a Scottish comedian and male vocalist, recorded 'Breakfast in Bed on Sunday' and 'I Love a Lassie' (the latter a traditional Scottish song) for Imperial, catalogue 960, in the early 1920s.AI summary
Imperial 960 Music Hall
Jock Whiteford recorded 'London Toon' for Scala Records, a small British label. Whiteford is not well documented; the title suggests Scottish or music-hall repertoire.AI summary
Scala 426 Music Hall
Joe Elvin recorded 'Over the Sticks' and 'Running to Orders' for Zonophone; songs about horse racing, likely from the 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Zonophone 794 Music Hall
Joe Elvin performing 'Life's little troubles' and 'Sunny seaside' on Zonophone 730, likely a British music-hall or comic song recording from the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Zonophone 730 Music Hall
Joe Hayman, a popular music hall comedian of the early 1900s, performing his 'Cohen' character sketches on Zonophone 5239. Hayman was known for rapid-fire comic monologues in Jewish and Irish dialects, recorded extensively in the acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 5239 Music Hall
Joe Townson performing 'Salome' and 'A to Z' on Zonophone, a British imprint owned by the Gramophone Company; Zonophone catalogue 101 suggests a very early pressing, likely 1900–1905.AI summary
Zonophone 101 Music Hall
Music-hall novelty sides by John Henry on Regal (catalogue 8059), likely from the 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Regal 8059 Music Hall
John Henry is credited on this HMV recording of a novelty piece titled 'Blossom's Film Scenario', split across two parts—a format typical of music-hall or comic recordings of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B2384 Music Hall
John Lawson & Co. on 'Disraeli', recorded for Winner 2655. Winner was a cheap British budget label of the 1930s–40s; Lawson and his ensemble are obscure figures in light entertainment.AI summary
Winner 2655 Music Hall
John Tilley recorded 'Anti-Arson Squad' in two parts for Columbia. The title and catalogue number suggest a topical or novelty item from the 1930s–40s; Tilley is not documented.AI summary
Columbia DB1294 Music Hall