1,199 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Shirley Temple performing Christmas material on V-Disc 288. V-Disc was a special US military-issue label produced during World War II for distribution to armed forces; Shirley Temple was a child star of Hollywood's Golden Age.AI summary
VDisc 288 Personalities (Prs)
Shirley Temple, the American child star, recorded Christmas material for V-Disc 288, a wartime label issued to American servicemen. This is a V-Disc pressing, a special category of 78rpm made by the U.S. military during the Second World War.AI summary
VDisc 288 Personalities (Prs)
Sid Field, a British comedian and actor, in "You can't keep a good Dreamer down" and a London Town Overture on Decca, from the late 1930s.AI summary
Decca F8672 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)
Sid Field, a celebrated British comedian and music-hall entertainer, recorded a comic novelty with orchestral backing on Decca in the 1940s, when he was at the height of his West End and radio popularity.AI summary
Decca F8672 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 Harold Mackintosh, chairman of the National Savings Committee, speaks on Salute the Soldier, with Lord Kindersley on the reverse, on HMV JH61.AI summary
His Master's Voice JH61 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)
Two songs credited to Solemn and Gay on Zonophone, including 'When You're Smiling', the 1928 song that became a standard.AI summary
Zonophone 5707 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 American vaudeville legend and recording artist, recorded 'On a Little Balcony in Spain' and 'My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes' for Broadcast 3042. Tucker was one of the biggest stars of the 1920s–1930s entertainment world.AI summary
Broadcast 3042 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the 'Last of the Red Hot Mamas', performing on Broadcast, a British budget label.AI summary
Broadcast 5195 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the American vaudeville star and recording artist active from the 1910s, recorded for the British Broadcast label in the late 1920s.AI summary
Broadcast 5196 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the legendary American entertainer and singer known as 'The Last of the Red Hot Mamas', recorded 'Washin' the Blues from My Soul' for Broadcast in the early 1920s.AI summary
Broadcast 5208 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the legendary American blues and vaudeville singer known as the 'Last of the Red Hot Mamas', on Broadcast 674. Tucker was a major recording artist and her sides are highly collectable.AI summary
Broadcast 674 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the major vaudeville star, recorded for Broadcast, a minor British imprint, with characteristic novelty vocal material.AI summary
Broadcast 5196 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 legendary American vaudeville and stage star known as the 'Last of the Red-hot Mamas', performing 'Cause I feel low down' and 'Oh you have no idea' on Parlophone R197. Tucker was a major entertainer from the 1900s–40s.AI summary
Parlophone R197 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the American vaudeville and recording star known as the 'Last of the Red Hot Mamas,' recorded 'I'm feathering a Nest' and 'I'm doing what I'm doing for Love' for HMV B3131, a UK pressing from the early 1930s. Tucker was one of the most celebrated entertainers of her era.AI summary
His Master's Voice B3131 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker was an American vaudeville and recording star, one of the most celebrated female entertainers of the 1920s-1930s known as 'The Last of the Red Hot Mamas'. This His Master's Voice pressing is from her recording career.AI summary
His Master's Voice B3132 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the 'Last of the Red Hot Mamas' and a major vaudeville star, recorded for His Master's Voice with characteristic novelty and vocal material.AI summary
His Master's Voice B2223 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the American vaudeville and recording star, performing 'That's what I call sweet Music' and 'I don't want to get thin' on Victor 21995, likely from the mid-1920s.AI summary
Victor 21995 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the American vaudeville and recording star, in "What good am I without you" and "Makin' Wicky Wacky down in Waikiki" on Broadcast, a small British label of the early 1930s.AI summary
Broadcast 3001 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)
Sophie Tucker, the 'Last of the Red Hot Mamas', performing 'No Man is ever going to worry me' and 'Life begins at 40' on Decca 23033. Tucker was a major American stage and recording star of the 1920s and 1930s.AI summary
Decca 23033 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the American vaudeville star and 'Last of the Red Hot Mamas', recorded these novelty numbers for Brunswick in the early 1930s. 'Why Go to Havana' and 'No One Woman Can Satisfy Any One Man all the Time' are typical of the risqué material Tucker was famous for.AI summary
Brunswick 03897 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the 'Last of the Red-Hot Mamas', was a major American vaudeville and recording star. These Brunswick recordings from the 1930s capture her ribald, comedic style for which she was famous.AI summary
Brunswick 03898 Personalities (Prs)
Sophie Tucker, the American vaudeville and music-hall star known as 'the Last of the Red-Hot Mamas', performing 'Oh You Have No Idea' and 'Cause I Feel Low Down' on Parlophone.AI summary
Parlophone R197 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 sings 'Come to the Cookhouse Door' and 'Coaling' on Velvet Face, from before his monologues made him famous.AI summary
Velvet Face 1135 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 Holloway, the celebrated British actor and ballad singer, performing 'Future Mrs Hawkins' and 'My Old Dutch' on Decca F1841.AI summary
Decca F1841 Personalities (Prs)
Stanley Holloway, the British actor and entertainer famous for his comic monologues and character songs, recorded these two pieces with P Mackey's Band for His Master's Voice. Both are typical of the novelty material that made up much of Holloway's early recording career before he became known for dramatic film roles.AI summary
His Master's Voice JH12 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)
Stanley Lupino, a British musical-theatre personality and entertainer, performs 'I've found the right Girl' and 'Let me gaze' on Decca F3652.AI summary
Decca F3652 Personalities (Prs)
Stanley Lupino, the actor and playwright, on Decca F3974 from the mid-1930s. Lupino was a theatrical personality and minor recording artist; this is likely material from a theatrical production or light entertainment broadcast.AI summary
Decca F3974 Personalities (Prs)
Stewart Family performing folk or traditional songs on GiltEd, an obscure British label, in the early acoustic era.AI summary
GiltEd 5025 Personalities (Prs)
Sydney Nesbitt on Zonophone 5005, a British early acoustic label from the 1900s-1920s era. Nothing is known of this artist or these titles.AI summary
Zonophone 5005 Personalities (Prs)
Talbot O'Farrell, an Irish character vocalist and entertainer, performs 'Girl of a Million Dreams' and 'To you it's only Ireland' on Imperial 2551.AI summary
Imperial 2551 Personalities (Prs)