240 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Columbia FB1597 Personalities (Prs)
P. Dare and G. Grossmith performing *Joan & Peter* on Columbia, a duet from the early 20th century. Grossmith was a member of the celebrated theatrical family, though details of this recording are not established.AI summary
Columbia MC13 Personalities (Prs)
Pat Kirkwood, a British actress and musical theatre star, on Columbia DB2400, performing medley/duet material with Vic Oliver, including 'I'll think it over / So Little Time' and 'Make mine allegro'.AI summary
Columbia DB2400 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia 3808 Personalities (Prs)
Percy Buck on Columbia D40103: a spoken-word educational recording on music appreciation, recorded in the electrical era (post-1925).AI summary
Columbia D40103 Personalities (Prs)
Ralph Lynn, the British comedian, in 'A gay young Dog' and 'Our Wedding Day' (with B Tomlin) for Columbia L1246.AI summary
Columbia L1246 Personalities (Prs)
Raymond Newell performing 'Birthday Record' and unlabelled material on Columbia DB1466, a recording sold as a personalisable novelty or greeting.AI summary
Columbia DB1466 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia DB3129 Personalities (Prs)
Sid Field, a celebrated British comedian and stage performer, on Columbia performing his comedy sketch 'Playing Golf'. Field was a major post-war entertainment star.AI summary
Columbia DB2163 Personalities (Prs)
Sir Alan Cobham was a pioneering British aviator who made record-breaking long-distance flights in the 1920s and became a popular public figure. Columbia 9161 is a spoken-word recording in which Cobham describes how to fly an aeroplane — a remarkable document of the early aviation age and of the celebrity spoken-word market of the period.AI summary
Columbia 9161 Personalities (Prs)
Sir John Forbes-Robertson, the celebrated English actor of the Victorian and Edwardian stage, performing a *Shakespearean Recital* (in two parts) on Columbia. This is a speaking recording rather than sung, capturing one of Britain's greatest classical actors.AI summary
Columbia D40006 Personalities (Prs)
Sir John Forbes-Robertson, the celebrated English actor, performing a Shakespearean recital (part 3) on Columbia D40006. Forbes-Robertson was one of the greatest classical actors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.AI summary
Columbia D40006 Personalities (Prs)
Sir John Forbes-Robertson (1853–1928), the legendary English Shakespearean actor, recorded reciting from Shakespeare in parts 3 and 4 of a theatrical recitation series for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia D40007 Personalities (Prs)
Sir William Bragg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, delivers two parts of a lecture titled 'What is Sound' on this Columbia record, catalogue D40175, likely from the 1920s or 1930s.AI summary
Columbia D40175 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia D40183 Personalities (Prs)
Sir William Bragg, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, recorded on Columbia discussing sound and echoes. A curiosity of scientific interest rather than musical.AI summary
Columbia D40184 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the Russian-born American vaudeville star known as 'The Last of the Red Hot Mamas', recorded this Columbia 78 in the 1920s. Both sides are comedy songs typical of her stage repertoire.AI summary
Columbia 5064 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, one of the biggest stars of vaudeville and early recording, performed 'Some of These Days' on Columbia 4269, a British pressing from the early 1920s. Tucker's recording of this signature number is a classic of the era.AI summary
Columbia 4269 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the Russian-American vaudeville star and 'Last of the Red-Hot Mamas', on Columbia. Tucker was one of the biggest recording and stage stars of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Columbia 5030 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the American vaudeville star and recording artist known as 'The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas', recorded for Columbia 5064, likely mid-1920s. Tucker was a major international recording star and performer of jazz and popular song.AI summary
Columbia 5064 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the great American vaudeville star, performing two songs on Columbia—'Stay Out of the South' and 'There's Something Spanish in My Eyes'. Tucker was one of the most famous entertainers of the early twentieth century, though these particular sides are not among her best-known recordings.AI summary
Columbia 4941 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the American vaudeville and recording star, singing 'Virginia' and 'He's Tall Dark and Handsome' for Columbia, catalogue 4942, likely from the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4942 Personalities (Prs)
Stanley Holloway, the beloved British comic actor and music-hall performer, recorded two comic monologues for Columbia. 'Albert Evacuated' and 'My Missus' are typical of Holloway's gentle, working-class humour that made him a star on stage and later in Ealing films.AI summary
Columbia FB2408 Personalities (Prs)
Stanley Holloway was a celebrated British comedian, actor, and performer, known for his character monologues and comic songs from the 1920s onwards. 'Song of the Sea' and 'Lovely Ladies' (with Cicely Hulbert) are recorded on Columbia 9542, a catalogue number consistent with the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 9542 Personalities (Prs)
Stanley Lupino, a British musical-theatre and revue star, on Columbia 5354, performing novelty and theatrical material.AI summary
Columbia 5354 Personalities (Prs)
Stanley Lupino, a British musical theatre performer and comedian, sang 'Yes No' and 'Side by Side' (with L Cliff and E Fawcett) for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia FB1538 Personalities (Prs)
Ted Lewis performing two sentimental ballads on Columbia CB74. Lewis (1890–1971) was an American entertainer, singer and bandleader with an enormous career spanning vaudeville, Broadway and recordings from the 1910s onward.AI summary
Columbia CB74 Personalities (Prs)
Ted Lewis, the 'Me and My Clarinet' entertainer and bandleader, on two novelty songs from the mid-1920s for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia CB204 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia L1188 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Handley, the British comedian and star of the long-running radio show ITMA, recorded this solo piece for Columbia early in his career. Handley was one of the most celebrated entertainers of the 1940s, but this is an acoustic-era record from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB9 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Handley, the star of the radio comedy series *It's That Man Again*, in Columbia sides playing his comic character. Handley was hugely popular in wartime Britain and this became one of his catchphrases.AI summary
Columbia FB2303 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Handley, the celebrated British comedian, in 'It's that Man again' and 'Tomsky the great Counter Spy' on Columbia FB2303. Handley was a major radio star whose catchphrase 'It's that man again' gave the show ITMA its name.AI summary
Columbia FB2303 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Trinder, the British comedian and entertainer, performing two novelty and comedy songs on Columbia: 'Happy Go Lucky Song' and 'All Over the Place'.AI summary
Columbia FB2531 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Trinder, the British comedian and entertainer, performing comedy material on Columbia: 'Mr Chumley' and 'Pilgrim Family'—examples of his variety act.AI summary
Columbia FB2552 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Trinder, the British comedian and stage entertainer, recorded 'Stage Show' and 'S'artnoon' for Columbia in the post-war years; this is a mass-market variety side.AI summary
Columbia FB2553 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Trinder, a British comedian and entertainer, recorded 'Arf of 'Arf and 'Arf' and 'Come on Algernon' on Columbia FB3051; these are typical of his comic material from the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Columbia FB3051 Personalities (Prs)
Turner Layton, a successful American vaudeville performer and singer of the 1920s–30s, recorded on this Columbia medley of hillbilly songs (FB1204).AI summary
Columbia FB1204 Personalities (Prs)
Rudy Vallée, the American crooner and bandleader, recorded for Columbia CB-series around the late 1920s. Vallée was one of the defining voices of early American popular music and radio.AI summary
Columbia CB524 Personalities (Prs)
Vic Oliver, husband of Winston Churchill's daughter and a stage and radio personality, performing what appear to be comedy monologues or spoken-word pieces on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia FB1227 Personalities (Prs)
Vita Sackville-West — the novelist, poet and garden designer, partner of Harold Nicolson and member of the Bloomsbury Group — reads from her poem 'The Land' on Columbia D40192. Spoken-word records by major literary figures are an uncommon and specialised collecting area, and Sackville-West's public celebrity makes this of interest beyond literary specialists.AI summary
Columbia D40192 Personalities (Prs)
Who's Who at Whipsnade, Animals on Parade, in two sides on Columbia C223.AI summary
Columbia C223 Personalities (Prs)
Will Fyffe, the Scottish comedian and character performer, recorded a two-part travelogue 'Round Scotland with Will Fyffe' for Columbia DX series. Fyffe was a celebrated music-hall and film entertainer known for comic monologues and character songs.AI summary
Columbia DX369 Personalities (Prs)
Will Hay, the celebrated British comedian and character actor, on Columbia performing one of his famous monologues from his radio and stage repertoire. Hay was a major star of British entertainment from the 1920s to the 1940s.AI summary
Columbia 5695 Personalities (Prs)
Will Hay performing 'Fourth Form at St Michaels' on Columbia 9689, a British pressing. Hay was a prominent comedy actor and sketch performer of the 1930s, known for radio and film work as well as recordings of comic monologues and sketches.AI summary
Columbia 9689 Personalities (Prs)
Will Hay was a famous British comedian and actor of the 1930s–1940s, beloved for his bumbling schoolmaster character; this Columbia disc preserves extracts from his film *Convict 99*.AI summary
Columbia FB2040 Personalities (Prs)
William McCulloch performing 'The Pensioner' and its continuation on Columbia DB1463, a double-sided classical or recitation piece from the mid-1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB1463 Personalities (Prs)
Yvonne Arnaud, Leonora Henson, and George Grossmith performing 'Happy Family' on Columbia MC15, a theatrical or comic vocal ensemble recording.AI summary
Columbia MC15 Personalities (Prs)
Yvonne Arnaud, Leonora Henson, and George Grossmith performing 'I like it' on Columbia MC16, a theatrical or comic vocal ensemble piece.AI summary
Columbia MC16 Personalities (Prs)