1,092 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Garde Républicaine Band, the famous French military band, on Corona 338. 'Les Lanciers Blancs' (The White Lancers) is a French quadrille and march repertoire piece, typical of concert-band recordings.AI summary
Corona 338 Orchestra
Garde Republiciane Band on Scala 11 with 'Under the Double Eagle' and 'Gold & Silver' — military and light-orchestral march numbers.AI summary
Scala 11 Orchestra
The Garde Republicaine Band on Scala 7, performing 'Little Duke' and 'Mill in the Forest'. The Garde Republicaine is a French military band; this is an early Scala-label pressing, a small British imprint.AI summary
Scala 7 Orchestra
A selection from Puccini's 'La bohème' played by Georges Haeck's orchestra on Dominion, a short-lived British label of the late 1920s.AI summary
Dominion A161 Orchestra
Geraldo, the Portuguese bandleader who led one of Britain's most popular orchestras, performing two light numbers on Parlophone.AI summary
Parlophone F2113 Orchestra
Geraldo, a renowned British light-orchestra conductor and pianist, performing 'One Day When We Were Young' and 'I'm in Love with Vienna' on His Master's Voice BD5449.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5449 Orchestra
Geraldo, a British bandleader and composer, leading his orchestra on his own composition 'To Mother with Love' for HMV in the late 1930s or 1940s.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5473 Orchestra
Geraldo was a celebrated British bandleader and pianist; this Parlophone side features two light orchestral pieces from his extensive catalogue.AI summary
Parlophone F1954 Orchestra
Geraldo and his orchestra performing standards on Parlophone; Geraldo was a successful British bandleader and pianist of the 1930s–1950s, popular on BBC radio.AI summary
Parlophone F2217 Orchestra
Geraldo and his orchestra performing two numbers from the 1940 Disney film Pinocchio on Columbia. Geraldo was a prominent British dance-band and orchestra leader; this is a standard commercial release from a major label during the swing era.AI summary
Columbia FB2397 Orchestra
Airs from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, parts 1 and 2, on Edison 80251, a re-creation.AI summary
Edison 80251(Re-creation) Orchestra
Glenn Miller's famous wartime hit 'That Old Black Magic' and 'At Last', pressed by His Master's Voice under licence from the American Brunswick original. Miller's swing orchestra recordings are among the most collected of all big-band era discs.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5811 Orchestra
Glenn Miller's big band on HMV, featuring two novelty-era dance standards; a UK pressing from the wartime or immediate postwar period.AI summary
His Master's Voice B10662 Orchestra
Glenn Miller's big band recorded 'I'll Never Smile Again' with Tex Beneke vocal, one of the most commercially successful records of the wartime era; this is an HMV UK pressing of the period.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD1216 Orchestra
Glenn Miller, the most popular big-band leader of the swing era, recorded Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" for His Master's Voice on an MH (Music Hall) series pressing.AI summary
His Master's Voice MH183 Orchestra
Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded 'Blue orchids' and 'Baby me' for Victor A1157 in the late 1930s.AI summary
Victor A1157 Orchestra
Glenn Miller on His Master's Voice with the orchestral standards 'American Patrol' and 'Moonlight Serenade'. Miller was an American bandleader whose big-band swing recordings of 1938-42 achieved enormous popularity both in the US and Britain, though most of his HMV pressings are post-war reissues of earlier American recordings.AI summary
His Master's Voice EG7465 Orchestra
Glenn Miller, the celebrated American bandleader of the 1930s–1940s, recorded 'Georgia on My Mind' and 'Jersey Bounce' for HMV (B10235) in the late 1930s. The first is a jazz standard; the second became one of his most famous compositions. HMV pressings of Miller are common.AI summary
His Master's Voice B10235 Orchestra
Glen Miller on His Master's Voice BD5929, performing 'A Million Dreams Ago' and 'Starlit Hour'. Miller was the most popular big-band leader of the 1930s-40s; these are commercial ballad performances from his repertoire.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5929 Orchestra
Glenn Miller, the American swing bandleader, on His Master's Voice EA3383 with 'It happened in Hawaii' and 'Everything I love' — an early recording from before his famous 1939–1942 orchestra.AI summary
His Master's Voice EA3383 Orchestra
Glenn Miller's orchestra performs 'Moonlight Serenade' and 'Sunrise Serenade' on the American Bluebird label, two of the bandleader's signature arrangements from his peak years in the early 1940s.AI summary
Bluebird 10214 Orchestra
Glenn Miller's orchestra, one of the most recorded and popular ensembles of the 1940s, recorded these two sides for His Master's Voice; Moon Love is a sentimental ballad and Sold American is a novelty number.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5854 Orchestra
Glenn Miller and his orchestra performing 'Peg o' My Heart' and 'Moonlight Bay' on Brunswick 03807. Miller was a major bandleader and this is a commercially issued studio recording.AI summary
Brunswick 03807 Orchestra
Glenn Miller, the leader of the most commercially successful big-band orchestra of the 1940s, recorded "Rainbow Rhapsody" and "It Must Be Jelly" for His Master's Voice. Miller's orchestra defined the "Miller sound" that became ubiquitous in wartime popular music.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5847 Orchestra
Glenn Miller and his orchestra were the most commercially successful big-band ensemble of the 1940s; this His Master's Voice 78 couples two concert-hall arrangements recorded during or shortly after World War II.AI summary
His Master's Voice Bb11029-B Orchestra
The Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded these two swing standards for HMV. Miller's band was one of the most popular American dance orchestras of the 1940s, though this particular title pairing and pressing require verification.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5698 Orchestra
Glenn Miller Band, one of the most popular American orchestras of the swing era, recorded 'Glen Island Special' and 'Pagan Love Song' for His Master's Voice BD5839, likely 1939–40.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5839 Orchestra
Gluskin (likely Alexander Gluskin, a Russian-born conductor) recorded 'Sweet Music' and 'Don't Ever Leave Me' for Columbia. The Columbia FB series places this in the mid-to-late 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1085 Orchestra
Gottlieb's Orchestra recorded two operetta waltzes from popular Continental light operas: 'Count of Luxembourg' and 'Chocolate Soldier'. These His Master's Voice pressings preserve light orchestral arrangements typical of the early 1900s.AI summary
His Master's Voice C181 Orchestra
Odeon R20108 Orchestra
Greening Band performing operetta numbers on Regal in the early 1930s.AI summary
Regal 8832 Orchestra
The Grenadier Guards, the famous British ceremonial military band, recorded the 'Peer Gynt Suite' arranged for military band for Odeon. 'Morning' and 'Asa's Death' are the familiar Grieg movements; this is a standard Odeon military-band recording.AI summary
Odeon 66301 Orchestra
BritishSoundRecordingAssoc itishLegion Orchestra
Guido Gialdini performs two orchestral waltz selections on Operaphone 2552: "Titania" and the "Waltz from The Waltz Dream," likely from the 1920s. Operaphone was a small British label and the conductor is otherwise untraced.AI summary
Opera 2552 Orchestra
Guy Lombardo and his orchestra performing 'Corn Silk' and 'Taking a Chance on Love' on Brunswick 03187. Lombardo was the leading exponent of the sweet-jazz 'Lombardo sound' and remains one of the most recorded bandleaders of all time.AI summary
Brunswick 03187 Orchestra
Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians were the most commercially successful orchestra of the 1930s–50s, known for their refined 'sweetest music this side of heaven' style. This Decca F-series side pairs 'What's the reason' and 'Down by the river', typical of their polished dance-band approach.AI summary
Decca F5484 Orchestra
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, the hugely successful 'sweetest music this side of heaven' orchestra, on Brunswick; this is a popular hit from their peak 1930s era.AI summary
Brunswick RL323 Orchestra
H Hall Band performing light orchestral material on Columbia's FB series, a budget line of the 1930s-40s.AI summary
Columbia FB1039 Orchestra
The Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, recorded Albéniz's 'España' for His Master's Voice. Barbirolli was one of the greatest British conductors of the 20th century, and his recordings with the Hallé are highly regarded. This DB-series 78 preserves a classic orchestral reading from the 1930s–40s electrical era.AI summary
His Master's Voice DB21615 Orchestra
Haring for Cameo, performing 'Nightingale' and Lanin's 'Waitin' Around'. Haring is unrecognised; Cameo was a small American label rarely found in British collections.AI summary
Cameo 568 Orchestra
The Harmony Hussars orchestra under D. Holbrook, performing two novelty pieces—'Powder & Puff Overture' and 'Striking Matches Rhapsodies'—on the ACE label.AI summary
ACE Orchestra
Harry Trevor recorded these two traditional English dance tunes for Polyphon, a German label with UK pressing during the early 1900s. Polyphon records are early and uncommon survivors in British collections.AI summary
Polyphon 10511 Orchestra
Henry King and his orchestra were a popular British dance band; these Columbia recordings from the late 1920s were mass-produced for the UK market and remain common today.AI summary
Winner W83 Orchestra
The Henry King orchestra performs 'When I Grow Too Old to Dream' and 'Night Is Young' on Columbia, the American bandleader's recordings from the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 2998D Orchestra
Henry King and his Orchestra on Decca, catalogue F3910. King was an American bandleader of moderate fame in the 1930s–40s; his recordings were commercial but he is now largely forgotten.AI summary
Decca F3910 Orchestra
Herman Finck conducting what appears to be a medley or selections from the musical *Battling Butler* on Columbia 920, an early British label number from around 1924–1925.AI summary
Columbia 920 Orchestra
Hibernia orchestra's 'Mystic Beauty' and 'The Gaby Glide' on Hib 87. Hibernia was a small British label, likely of the 1920s or early 1930s; nothing is known of this ensemble's wider recording career.AI summary
Hibernia 87 Orchestra
His Majesty's Theatre Orchestra performing two pieces from the musical *Joseph and His Brethren* — a prelude and a bacchanalian dance — on GramA, an obscure British label.AI summary
GramA 144 Orchestra