240 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Al Jolson, the most popular entertainer of the 1920s, records two Spanish-themed novelty songs: 'That Wonderful Kid from Madrid' and 'I'll See You in Cuba' (with Jack Kaufman), on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia A2898 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson, 'The World's Greatest Entertainer', performing 'In Sweet September' and 'Early in the Morning' (with Frank Crumit) on Columbia A2946, a popular song side from the 1920s.AI summary
Columbia A2946 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson, the legendary American entertainer, recorded 'Avalon' and 'Old Pal, Why Don't You Answer Me?' on Columbia's A-series, a mass-produced popular catalogue.AI summary
Columbia A2995 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson records 'Pullman Porters' Parade' and 'You Made Me Love You' on Columbia A1374, an American Columbia pressing from around 1913 — among Jolson's earliest and most collected recordings. 'You Made Me Love You' became one of his signature songs; the A-series Columbia dates this to the acoustic era. Jolson is one of the towering names of American popular entertainment and his early Columbia acoustic sides are keenly sought.AI summary
Columbia A1374 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson records 'When the Grown-Up Ladies Act as Babies' and 'Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers' on Columbia A1671, an American acoustic pressing from around 1914–15. Jolson's Columbia acoustic sides from the mid-1910s are among his most collected early recordings, and wartime comic songs of this type are period documents as well as entertainment.AI summary
Columbia A1671 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson records 'Yaaka Hoola Hickey Doola' and — with Chandler — 'You Can't Get Along With 'Em or Without 'Em' on Columbia A1956, an American acoustic pressing from around 1916. Jolson's mid-period Columbia acoustic sides are collected worldwide and this is a representative example of his wartime novelty output.AI summary
Columbia A1956 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson records 'Down Where the Swanee River Flows' and — with Harrison and Reed — 'They Made It Twice as Nice as Paradise' on Columbia A2007, an American acoustic pressing from around 1916. Jolson's mid-period Columbia acoustic sides are collected worldwide and this is a good example of his wartime popular output.AI summary
Columbia A2007 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson, the American entertainment superstar, recorded 'Ev'ry Little While' and 'Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag' on Columbia A2181, a UK pressing from the 1910s.AI summary
Columbia A2181 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson on Columbia A2478, recording 'I'm All Bound Round with the Mason Dixon Line' and the 'Darktown Strutters Ball' with Collins and Harlan.AI summary
Columbia A2478 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson on Columbia A2519, recording 'N Everything' and 'When You Play with the Heart of a Girl' (Trio).AI summary
Columbia A2519 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson, the most popular entertainer of the 1920s, records 'Wanta' and a duet with Frank Crumit on 'Jimbo Jambo' for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia A3812 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson on Columbia 2711, the famous vaudeville and film star performing 'Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula' and 'The Road to Home'. Jolson was one of the biggest entertainers of the 1920s-30s, and his recordings are widely collected.AI summary
Columbia 2711 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson was one of the biggest recording stars of the 1920s, and this Columbia coupling — probably from around 1919–1921 given the catalogue number — pairs a Jolson performance with a Murray side on the reverse. British Columbia pressings of Jolson at this period are standard catalogue material but reliable sellers; the Murray reverse adds modest interest. Most copies are not scarce but condition-sound examples fetch a few pounds from entertainer collectors.AI summary
Columbia 2957 Personalities (Prs)
Al Jolson with Guy Lombardo's orchestra on Columbia DB2613, performing 'April Showers' and 'Rock a bye your Baby'. Jolson was the dominant American popular singer and entertainer of the 1920s and early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB2613 Personalities (Prs)
Anna Neagle, the celebrated British actress and dancer, appears with T Jones on Columbia, singing 'Tonight' and '(Geraldo) I love you so'; the catalogue number DB1316 places this in the mid-1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB1316 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia DB1285 Personalities (Prs)
Arthur Askey, the British comedian and entertainer, sings 'Ta ever so' and 'Eat Drink and Be Merry' (with J Wilson) on this Columbia disc, typical of his comedy vocal work.AI summary
Columbia DB3047 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia DB903 Personalities (Prs)
Beatrice Lillie, the renowned British-Canadian revue star and comedienne, recorded 'I hate to give Trouble' (with M Campbell) and 'Maryland' for Columbia, catalogue L1257. Lillie was one of the great entertainers of the 1920s–30s stage and early cinema, and her records are collected by theatre and personality enthusiasts.AI summary
Columbia L1257 Personalities (Prs)
Beatrice Lillie, the great Canadian-born comic actress and revue star beloved on both sides of the Atlantic, performs 'Julia' and 'Shoot the Rabbit' on Columbia L1194, a 12-inch coupling. Lillie's Columbia recordings are collected by admirers of her extraordinary comic talent, and her 12-inch L-series pressings are less common than standard format.AI summary
Columbia L1194 Personalities (Prs)
Beatrice Lillie, the major British revue star, recorded 'I hate to give Trouble' (with M. Campbell) and 'Maryland' for Columbia L1257. Lillie's recordings are collectable, though British Columbia pressings are not particularly rare.AI summary
Columbia L1257 Personalities (Prs)
Beatrice Lillie, one of the most celebrated British musical-comedy and revue stars of the interwar period, performing 'A Striking Dip' and 'By the Camp Fire' on Columbia F1009. Lillie's Columbia recordings are collected by enthusiasts of interwar musical theatre and cabaret; F-series Columbia is a standard interwar pressing.AI summary
Columbia F1009 Personalities (Prs)
Benny Hill, the British comedian and entertainer, performing two comic novelty numbers on Columbia from the 1950s.AI summary
Columbia DB3731 Personalities (Prs)
Billy Bennett was a London-born comic monologist famous for his rapid-fire comic songs and character sketches, often with risqué or darkly comic themes. 'Don't Send My Boy to Prison' and 'She Was Poor but She Was Honest' are typical of his satirical style. This Columbia electrical record is from his peak recording period in the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia DB164 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia 4004 Personalities (Prs)
Binnie Hale, the British actress and musical theatre star, recorded 'The Toy Town Party' for Columbia. Hale was popular in stage revue and early sound films in the late 1920s–30s.AI summary
Columbia DB349 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia DB1849 Personalities (Prs)
Binnie Hale, a British musical-theatre and variety star of the 1920s and 1930s, recorded 'No No Nanette' and 'I've Confessed to the Breeze' with Beard for Columbia 3632. 'No No Nanette' was a Broadway hit; Hale was a major stage and recording artist.AI summary
Columbia 3632 Personalities (Prs)
Bobby Howes, a British musical theatre star of the 1920s–1930s, performing 'Please' and 'Let's Put Out the Lights' on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia DB1024 Personalities (Prs)
Bobby Howes (1895–1972) was a popular British actor, dancer and singer who starred in musical comedy and theatre; this Columbia DX side pairs two musical theatre duets recorded in the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DX459 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia DB3288/9 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams, a celebrated British actor and interpreter of dramatic monologues, recorded 'Murder in the Forest' and 'The Hero the Heroine & the Villain' for Columbia, catalogue 2645. These are dramatic readings or recitations typical of Williams' stage repertoire. Williams was a major figure in British theatrical recording and his discs are widely collected.AI summary
Columbia 2645 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams, a celebrated British character actor and monologist of the Music Hall era, on Columbia performing 'The Lounger' and 'The Yukon Trail' — spoken word pieces typical of his repertoire.AI summary
Columbia 2667 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams, a celebrated British actor, monologue artist and recording star, recorded two famous dramatic recitations (Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and Shakespeare's 'Henry V Speech before Harfleur') on Columbia. Williams' powerful dramatic interpretations were central to early British recording and remain important to collectors of spoken word and theatrical recordings.AI summary
Columbia 4013 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams was a celebrated British actor and reciter, renowned for his dramatic readings and monologues, particularly from Dickens. This Columbia DX554 (a two-part issue) of 'A Charles Dickens Christmas' is a landmark of his extensive recorded legacy of dramatic recitation from the inter-war era.AI summary
Columbia DX554 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams was a celebrated British actor and reciter of dramatic monologues; this Columbia disc features "Scrooge" in two parts, one of his most famous readings from Dickens.AI summary
Columbia 347 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams was a celebrated British actor and reciter specialising in dramatic monologues drawn from Dickens and other classic literature; this early Columbia pressing features two of his signature pieces, "Tony Weller" and "Bill Sykes".AI summary
Columbia 400 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams, a celebrated British character actor and music-hall entertainer, recorded 'Seaside Cries' and 'The Author' for Columbia, catalogue 2723. Both are character monologues typical of his repertoire.AI summary
Columbia 2723 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams, the celebrated British character actor and reciter, recorded 'Lounger' and 'Yukon Trail' for Columbia, catalogue 2667. Williams was famous for his dramatic monologues and character sketches.AI summary
Columbia 2667 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams, a celebrated British actor and monologist, performing dramatic readings from Dickens ('Death of Little Nell' and 'Sidney Carton's Farewell') on Columbia, a major British label. This represents Williams' work in the spoken dramatic genre for which he was famous.AI summary
Columbia 4836 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams, a celebrated British actor and reciter known for dramatic monologues, on Columbia 2560 performing 'Devil-May-Care' and 'Death of Uncle Tom'.AI summary
Columbia 2560 Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams, a celebrated British actor and reciter active from the 1890s through the 1930s, performing dramatic recitations "The Green Eye of the Yellow God" (a famous recitation poem by J. Milton Hayes) and "Caretaker" on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia 388R Personalities (Prs)
Bransby Williams was a celebrated British entertainer and actor known for his dramatic recitations and character monologues. These two pieces, 'The Bells' and 'The Portrait', are typical of the elocutionary spoken-word material that formed a major part of his recorded career. This is an early Columbia 78 from the acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia 408 Personalities (Prs)
Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert, major stars of British musical theatre, recorded 'Love's Reawakening' for Columbia 9294; the pair's theatrical recordings remain popular with collectors.AI summary
Columbia 9294 Personalities (Prs)
Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert, stars of British musical theatre and film, recorded 'The Schoolmaster and the Boy' for Columbia 9593; this theatrical couple were major names from the 1920s through the 1950s.AI summary
Columbia 9593 Personalities (Prs)
Carol Channing, the Broadway star, in 'Little Girl from Little Rock' and 'Sunshine' (with Y. Adair and E. Brotherson) on Columbia DB3331. Channing was famous for her roles in mid-century musicals.AI summary
Columbia DB3331 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia FB2472 Personalities (Prs)
Cicely Courtneidge (1893–1980) was a celebrated British musical comedy actress and singer, a star of the London stage and early British film. This Columbia DB-series pressing captures her from a musical or revue.AI summary
Columbia DB2805 Personalities (Prs)