3,430 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Charles Penrose, the British comedian and actor, performing parts 9 and 10 of "Inkwell Fairy" on Columbia 4109. Like his other novelty recordings, this was part of his long series of recorded comedic pieces.AI summary
Columbia 4109 Comic
Charles Penrose performing 'Adventures of 'Arry, Emmy & Joe' (Parts 1 & 2) on Columbia 4222, a mid-1920s British pressing. This is a comic character piece typical of Penrose's popular monologue repertoire.AI summary
Columbia 4222 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on Columbia 4223, recorded 'Adventures of 'Arry Emmy & Joe' parts 1 and 4, comic sketches with dialogue.AI summary
Columbia 4223 Comic
Charles Penrose on Columbia 4224, performing 'Adventures of 'Arry, Emmy & Joe' (part 6). Penrose (1863–1952) was a celebrated British character comedian and singer; this extended sketch is one of his character comedy routines.AI summary
Columbia 4224 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on Columbia 4225, recorded 'Doings of Dismal Desmond' parts 1 and 2, comic spoken word with sound effects.AI summary
Columbia 4225 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'Doings of Dismal Desmond' (part 4) for Columbia, catalogue 4300; Penrose was a British entertainer and comedian known for comic vocal novelties.AI summary
Columbia 4300 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall comedian famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', performing 'Army Laughs' and 'Village Laughsmith' on Columbia, catalogue 4691.AI summary
Columbia 4691 Comic
Charles Penrose, of 'Laughing Policeman' fame, performing novelty Christmas material on Columbia; likely 1920s–30s.AI summary
Columbia 5083 Comic
Charles Penrose's 'Laughing Policeman' was one of the most famous novelty records of the 1920s, a global hit that defined its era. This Columbia pressing is the updated version, 'Laughing Policeman Up to Date', in two parts, from the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 5532 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and recording artist, recorded for Columbia in the 1920s. Penrose was a popular character comic, though he remains less famous than his contemporaries.AI summary
Columbia 3902 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'The Laughing Curate' and 'The Laughing Major' for Columbia, catalogue 4117, in the early 1920s. Penrose's 'laughing' novelties, recorded in various comic characters, remain among the most distinctive British comedy records of the acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia 4117 Comic
Charles Penrose, a popular British comic monologist, performed 'Doings of Dismal Desmond - Fairy Market' on Columbia 4584, a mid-1920s British pressing. Penrose's comic character pieces were popular and widely recorded.AI summary
Columbia 4584 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, famous for his novelty 'laughing' recordings, performed 'Laughing Railway Porter' and 'Laughteritis' for Columbia, catalogue DB302. His comic vocal records remain novelties of enduring appeal.AI summary
Columbia DB302 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'Laughing Through' for Columbia, catalogue DB1010, in the early 1930s. Another of Penrose's celebrated laughing novelties, continuing the character-based comic records that made him a recording institution.AI summary
Columbia DB1010 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and recording artist famous for his comic recordings and character voices, recorded 'Laugh and you'll feel grand' and 'Let's laugh together Mike' on Columbia DB1021 in the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB1021 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall comedian famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded two comic novelties for Columbia: 'Our Albert's Accordion' and 'Jolly Coppers on Parade', catalogue DB1461.AI summary
Columbia DB1461 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British comic performer, recorded 'Let's Have a Jolly Good Laugh' and 'Laughter and the Old Bassoon' on Columbia DB2602. Penrose was known for his comic monologues and novelty vocal recordings.AI summary
Columbia DB2602 Comic
Charles Penrose's 'The Laughing Policeman', a comedy novelty that became one of the most famous and frequently recorded comic songs of the early twentieth century, captured here on a Columbia pressing from the late acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia FB1184 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British music-hall performer famous for his laugh, on Columbia DB-series with novelty numbers 'Laughing Love & the Old Trombone' and 'Laughing Wife & the Clarinet'.AI summary
Columbia DB266 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British entertainer famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded 'Laughing Policeman's Party' and 'Laughing Policeman's Baby' for Columbia's electrical DB series, sequels to his signature piece.AI summary
Columbia DB305 Comic
Charles Penrose performs 'Laughing Policeman's Sweepstake' on Columbia DB493 from the late 1920s or early 1930s. Penrose was a popular music hall performer and comedian known for novelty comedy records.AI summary
Columbia DB493 Music Hall
Charles Penrose's signature novelty recording, 'The Laughing Policeman', one of the most famous British comedy recordings of the 1920s–30s; this is the Columbia DB 605 pressing.AI summary
Columbia DB605 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comedian best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded 'Laughing stuttering Sam' and 'Happy Hikers' on Columbia in the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB856 Music Hall
Charles Penrose performing his most famous piece, 'The Laughing Policeman', on Columbia in the mid-1920s. Penrose made this novelty recitation a signature act, and it became one of the most popular recordings of the early electrical era.AI summary
Columbia DB881 Music Hall
Charles Penrose's second appearance, recorded for Columbia DB-series with his characteristic music-hall novelty material and laugh-song comedy from the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB949 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on Columbia DB881, performing 'The Laughing Policeman at Madame Tussauds' in two parts. Penrose (1863–1952) was a British character comedian and singer famous for 'The Laughing Policeman'; this is a variant or sequel recording of that signature piece.AI summary
Columbia DB881 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British music hall comedian, became a recording star with his novelty hit "The Laughing Policeman" (1925); this Columbia pressing offers "Laughing Policeman's Baby" and "Laughing Policeman's Party", spin-off sides capitalizing on that success.AI summary
Columbia DB305 Music Hall
Charles Penrose & Co performing comic songs 'Laughing Stuttering Sam' and 'Happy Hikers' on Columbia DB856. Penrose was a popular British music hall entertainer known for his laughing and novelty songs.AI summary
Columbia DB856 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, credited as the 'Never Never Players', performing Christmas novelty pieces for Columbia, likely from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 5083 Music Hall
Charles Pierce, an early jazz and novelty recording artist, performing 'Sister Kate' and 'Nobody's Sweetheart' for Columbia in the mid-1920s.AI summary
Columbia 35950 Jazz
Columbia 360 Voice
Charles Tilbury performs 'Song of Hybrias the Cretan' on this Columbia record, catalogue 25472, likely from the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 25472 Voice
Charles Trenet, the French singer and songwriter, recorded two of his most celebrated songs: "Vous Êtes Jolie" and "Boum". The latter was one of his signature hits. This Columbia DB1847 dates to the late 1930s–1940s and represents Trenet at the height of his European fame.AI summary
Columbia DB1847 Voice
Charles Trenet, the French singer and composer, recorded "Les Enfants S'ennuient" and "Vous Obliez Votre Cheval" for Columbia 4299. This pressing represents Trenet's prolific output in the late 1930s and 1940s, when his sophisticated vocal style and witty songwriting made him a major figure in French popular music.AI summary
Columbia 4299 Voice
Charles Trenet was a major French chanson singer and composer; his signature song "Boum" became an international hit. This Columbia DB1847 pressing brings together "Vous Etes Jolie" and "Boum", capturing the sophisticated French popular music that made Trenet a star across Europe in the late 1930s and 1940s.AI summary
Columbia DB1847 Voice
Charles Trenet, the French composer and entertainer, sings two of his own pieces on this Columbia pressing. Trenet was famous for his whimsical, character-driven songs and recording career spanning decades.AI summary
Columbia BF318 Voice
Charles Trenet, the great French singer and composer, recorded 'La mer' and 'De la fenetre en haut' for Columbia DC414; 'La mer' became one of the most iconic French songs of the 20th century.AI summary
Columbia DC414 Voice
Charles Trenet was a celebrated French singer-songwriter and chanson artist. This Columbia recording of 'Raphael' and 'L'ame des poetes' represents his work from the 1940s-50s; Trenet's records remain collectable in France and among francophile listeners, though British pressings are less common.AI summary
Columbia DCF72 Voice
Charles Trenet, the celebrated French chanson artist and composer, recorded 'Fleur bleue' and 'Je chante' for Columbia DF2270, typical of his whimsical, poetic repertoire from the 1940s–50s.AI summary
Columbia DF2270 Voice
Charles Trenet, the French chanson singer, recorded 'La Mer' — his most famous composition — for Columbia in the late 1940s or 1950s.AI summary
Columbia DZ466 Voice
Charles Trenet, a French singer-songwriter and pianist, performing two French compositions on Columbia: "Hop hop" and "Le Soleil et la Lune" ("The Sun and the Moon"), from a 1940s-50s recording period.AI summary
Columbia DF2667 Voice
Charles Trenet, the celebrated French chanson singer and composer, recorded "Douce France" and "Que Reste-il de nos Amours" for Columbia DCF14. These songs represent some of his most enduring compositions, with "Douce France" becoming a patriotic anthem and "Que Reste-il de nos Amours" a timeless chanson standard.AI summary
Columbia DCF14 Voice
Charles Trenet, the celebrated French singer-songwriter, performing two of his own compositions 'Les Enfants S'Ennuient' and 'Vous Obliez Votre Cheval' on Columbia 4299, a British pressing from the late 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 4299 Voice
Charles Whittle was an Edwardian music-hall comedian best known for the song 'Let's All Go Down the Strand'. This Columbia disc, catalogue 1972, contains 'Tommy Trouble' and 'We're All Going to the Seaside'. Columbia pressings of music-hall comedians at this catalogue number are moderately common.AI summary
Columbia 1972 Music Hall
Columbia FB1108 Jazz
The Charleston Chasers, a hot jazz ensemble, on 'Red Hair and Freckles' and 'Lovable and sweet', Columbia 1925D. This is a mid-1920s American jazz recording; the Charleston Chasers are an important early jazz group.AI summary
Columbia 1925D Jazz
The Charleston Chasers were a hot-dance band of the 1920s, and their Columbia sides such as 'Someday sweetheart' and 'Wabash blues' capture the syncopated energy of the era.AI summary
Columbia 4419 Jazz
The Charleston Chasers, a white hot-dance ensemble, recorded 'Feelin' no Pain' and 'Five Pennies' for Columbia 4797. This is an important early jazz dance recording from the mid-1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4797 Jazz