27 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
27 records matching
Betty Smith, the British tenor saxophonist, with her skiffle group in 'There's a Blue Ridge Round My Heart' and 'Double Shuffle' on Tempo.AI summary
Tempo A162 Skiffle
Betty Smith, the British tenor saxophonist, with her skiffle group in 'Double Shuffle' and 'There's a Blue Ridge Round My Heart' on Tempo.AI summary
Tempo 162 Skiffle
Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group with Greenback Dollar and I'm Satisfied on Oriole CB1371.AI summary
Oriole CB1371 Skiffle
The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group with I'm Satisfied and Greenback Dollar on Oriole CB1371.AI summary
Oriole CB1371 Skiffle
Hylda Sims, of the skiffle group the City Ramblers, sings 'Nine Hundred Miles' and 'Round and Round the Picket Line' on Topic, the Workers' Music Association label. Topic 78s were pressed in small numbers.AI summary
Topic TRC101 Skiffle
Jimmy Jackson's Rock n Skiffle performing 'River Line' and 'Lonely Road' on Columbia DB3957, a skiffle recording from the British skiffle boom of the mid-1950s.AI summary
Columbia DB3957 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, 'Cumberland Gap' and 'Love is Strange', on Nixa 15087; Donegan was the British skiffle pioneer whose acoustic folk-inflected recordings of American blues and folk songs helped spark the British rock-and-roll boom of the mid-1950s.AI summary
Nixa 15087 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan's 'Ham 'n' Eggs' and 'Jack o' Diamonds' on Nixa 15116; Donegan was a British skiffle pioneer whose folk and blues interpretations sparked the skiffle craze of the 1950s and influenced the British rock boom.AI summary
Nixa 15116 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan on Nixa, performing 'The Grand Coulee Dam' and 'Nobody Loves Like an Irishman' — the British skiffle pioneer and one of the first UK rock and pop stars.AI summary
Nixa 15129 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, the king of British skiffle, with Stewball and Lost John on Nixa N15036.AI summary
Nixa N15036 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan's "Putting on the Style" and "Gamblin' Man" on Nixa, recorded in the early skiffle boom of the mid-1950s, capture the genre that brought folk and American blues forms to British teenagers and influenced the rock era that followed.AI summary
Nixa 15093 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, recorded these early blues numbers for Nixa, a small independent British label of the early 1950s.AI summary
Nixa 2006 Skiffle
Nixa 150116 Skiffle
Nixa 15071 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, the skiffle pioneer, performs 'Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O' and 'I'm Alabamy Bound' on Nixa 15080, an early recording before his major commercial success.AI summary
Nixa 15080 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan recorded 'Cumberland Gap' and 'Love Is Strange' for Nixa Records—among the earliest skiffle and rock-and-roll recordings in Britain, from the artist who pioneered the skiffle craze in the UK.AI summary
Nixa 15087 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan on Nixa 15129, with 'The Grand Coulee Dam' and 'Nobody Loves Like an Irishman'. Donegan was a British skiffle and folk artist of the 1950s–1960s, best known for 'Rock Island Line', and a major influence on British popular music.AI summary
Nixa 15129 Skiffle
Nixa 15172 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, pioneer of British skiffle, recorded these two songs for Columbia, likely in the late 1950s as his career was taking off. 'Take My Hand Precious Lord' is a spiritual; 'On a Christmas Day' suggests seasonal novelty material.AI summary
Columbia DB3850 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, recorded "I'm just a rollin' stone" and "My Dixie Darling" for Nixa, a small British label that released blues and folk material.AI summary
Nixa 15108 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, performs 'The Golden Vanity' and 'My Old Man's a Dustman' on Pye in the late 1950s; 'My Old Man's a Dustman' became one of his signature tunes and a hit.AI summary
Pye 15256 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan recorded 'Rock Island Line' and 'Portuguese Washerwoman' for Decca POPE7048. Donegan was the British skiffle pioneer who brought folk-based, acoustic-guitar-driven rock to the UK charts in the mid-1950s; 'Rock Island Line' was one of his signature recordings and a major hit in 1956. This is a landmark record of British popular music.AI summary
Decca POPE7048 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan performing 'Ham 'n' Eggs' and 'Jack o' Diamonds' on Nixa Records. Donegan was a British skiffle pioneer who achieved major commercial success in the mid-1950s; this Nixa pressing documents his early recording work.AI summary
Nixa 15116 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan's 'Rock Island Line', recorded with Chris Barber's band and issued in Decca's jazz series, was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1956 and set off the British skiffle craze. It is coupled here with 'John Henry'.AI summary
Decca F-J.10647 Skiffle
The Cranes Skiffle Group with The Banana Boat Song and Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O on Embassy WB223, one of the Woolworths-sold cover versions of the day.AI summary
EmbWB WB223 Skiffle
The Cranes Skiffle Group with The Banana Boat Song and Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O on Embassy WB223, one of the Woolworths-sold cover versions of the day.AI summary
EmbWB WB223 Skiffle
The Vipers Skiffle Group with Railroad Steamboat and Streamline Train on Parlophone R4308.AI summary
Parlophone R4308 Skiffle