3,431 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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The Guy Lombardo band, America's leading sweet-music orchestra, recorded for Columbia. Lombardo was enormously popular on both sides of the Atlantic, though his style has dated.AI summary
Columbia CB112 Dance
Columbia 2062D
Guy Lombardo's orchestra, the 'Royal Canadians', performing 'Little Kiss Each Morning' and 'You're My Silver Lining of Love' for Columbia, representing the smooth ballroom dance style that made Lombardo a household name.AI summary
Columbia 5728 Dance
Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians recorded 'Why the Shy Little Violets Grow' and 'Pagan Love Song' for Columbia 5542. Lombardo was one of the most commercially successful bandleaders of the swing era, and his sweet-style orchestra recordings define the period.AI summary
Columbia 5542 Dance
Guy Lombardo's orchestra, known for their sweet dance-band sound, recorded for Columbia throughout the 1930s-1940s. This pressing is typical of their commercial dance-floor repertoire.AI summary
Columbia CB121 Dance
Guy Mitchell was an American singer who rose to fame in the early 1950s with novelty and pop songs; these Columbia sides from that peak period were among his chart hits in Britain.AI summary
Columbia DB2831 Voice
Guy Mitchell, an American popular singer of the 1950s, recorded 'A Beggar in Love' and 'Unless' for Columbia; Mitchell was best known for his chart hits and smooth vocal delivery.AI summary
Columbia DB2871 Voice
Guy Mitchell, the American pop vocalist, singing two novelty songs on Columbia during his peak popularity in the early 1950s.AI summary
Columbia DB2969 Voice
Guy Mitchell, the popular 1950s vocalist, recorded these two novelty-flavoured songs for Columbia. Both sides are light entertainment material typical of Mitchell's chart work.AI summary
Columbia DB3056 Voice
Guy Mitchell was an American popular singer of the 1950s, known for novelty and sentimental songs; this Columbia side is from the post-war era.AI summary
Columbia DB3151 Voice
Guy Mitchell was an American singer popular in the 1950s with a smooth baritone. 'She Wears Red Feathers' was one of his hit singles, recorded here for Columbia's British pressing.AI summary
Columbia DB3238 Voice
Gwen Farrar, a British actress and singer of the 1920s–30s, recorded 'Tell Me I'm Forgiven' and 'If I Had a Girl Like You' on Columbia DB393; Farrar was a noted stage and recording artist.AI summary
Columbia DB393 Voice
Gwladys Stanley performs 'Pantomime Hits' (in two sides) on Columbia, light entertainment recording.AI summary
Columbia DB688 Music Hall
Gwladys Stanley recorded 'Pantomime Hits' for Columbia DB688, likely from the 1930s–40s. Pantomime was a staple of British entertainment, and records of pantomime song medleys were aimed at a domestic and variety market.AI summary
Columbia DB688 Music Hall
H Hall Band performing light orchestral material on Columbia's FB series, a budget line of the 1930s-40s.AI summary
Columbia FB1039 Orchestra
This is a novelty or comic piece featuring three performers, recorded for Columbia. The catalogue and style suggest an early 1930s recording.AI summary
Columbia FB2717 Comic
H Lanin's orchestra performing dance music including the Black Bottom on Columbia, circa mid-1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4153 Dance
A dramatic sketch, 'Fortifying the Home', performed by H. Tate, V. Loraine and M. Harvey on Columbia's early numbered series. Part of the spoken-word and comic repertoire common in British recordings of the 1900s–1910s.AI summary
Columbia 504 Comic
A dramatic sketch or monologue piece titled 'Fortifying the Home' with H Tate, V Loraine and M Harvey, released on Columbia's early catalogue.AI summary
Columbia 504 Music Hall
A British music-hall sketch featuring H Tate, Violet Loraine and M Harvey on Columbia from the acoustic era, split across two parts; Tate was a major comedy artist, though the other performers are less well documented.AI summary
Columbia 504 Music Hall
HAL Fisher recorded 'New Russia' (parts 3 and 4) on Columbia D40005, a three-figure catalogue number in Columbia's D-series. The artist and subject matter are obscure; this appears to be a political or patriotic composition about the Soviet Union.AI summary
Columbia D40005 Personalities (Prs)
Hal Kemp was an American dance-band leader of the 1930s, known for a sweet, sophisticated style. This Columbia 50000-series pressing offers two standard ballads typical of his orchestra's repertoire.AI summary
Columbia 50042 Dance
Credited to Hall on Columbia, a major British label. 'Teddy Tail in Town Today' and 'Hush here comes the Dream Man' appear to be novelty or children's numbers of the mid-to-late 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB2052 Comic
Credited to Hall on Columbia FB1013, performing 'My Heart was Sleeping' and the classic music-hall number 'The Man on the Flying Trapeze'.AI summary
Columbia FB1013 Voice
Columbia CB456 Dance
Hall performing 'Hummin' to myself' and 'Little Romany' on Columbia CB466, a popular song record from the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia CB466 Voice
Hall, a vocalist on Columbia's FB series, a budget line, performing sentimental or popular songs from the 1930s-40s.AI summary
Columbia FB1013 Voice
Hall on Columbia FB1028, a British popular song from the mid-1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1028 Voice
Hall recorded 'Olga Pulloffski the Beautiful Spy' and 'Popeye the Sailor Man' for Columbia, likely novelty or comic songs from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1054 Music Hall
A pianist credited as Hall on Columbia, recording a Kern standard and a popular song of the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1056 Voice
Hall performing 'Red Sails in the Sunset' and 'Curly Head' on Columbia (FB1100), popular songs of the swing era.AI summary
Columbia FB1100 Voice
Hall performing two light popular songs on Columbia's FB series—'Say the Word and It's Yours' and 'Everything's in Rhythm With My Heart'. The artist is unidentified.AI summary
Columbia FB1195 Voice
Hall on Columbia FB1220, with 'There's No Time Like the Present' and 'Just Bits and Pieces' — an unidentified vocalist on a major British label's mid-range series, likely mid-1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1220 Voice
Hall performing two light popular songs, 'Got a Brand New Suit' and 'Love is a Dancing Thing', on Columbia. The artist is unidentified in the catalogue, and the titles suggest British popular song of the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Columbia FB1280 Voice
Hall recorded 'The Music Goes 'Round and Around', a hit novelty song of 1935, and 'The Broken Record', a comedy number, for Columbia's FB-series budget label. The artist's full name and biographical details are not clearly documented.AI summary
Columbia FB1288 Voice
Hall performing the novelty instrumental numbers 'Eccentric' and 'Three Brass Bells' on Columbia FB1818, likely from the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1818 Instrumental
Hall and Flanagan & Allen performing 'Underneath the Arches' on Columbia. Flanagan & Allen were famous British music-hall comedians, and 'Underneath the Arches' became one of their signature songs.AI summary
Columbia CB481 Music Hall
Hall, with Flanagan and Allen, performing 'Underneath the Arches' and 'A Bungalow a Piccolo and you' on Columbia. 'Underneath the Arches' was the signature song of Flanagan and Allen, one of the most famous British comedy duos of the 1930s-40s.AI summary
Columbia CB481 Music Hall
A performer or band credited only as 'Hall' on Columbia; titles suggest novelty or spoken-word broadcast material.AI summary
Columbia CB716 Dance
Columbia CB747 Dance
Flanagan and Allen, a well-known British comic duo, recorded with Hall for Columbia in the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia CB569 Music Hall
Handler performing 'Cryin for the Moon' and '(Carroll) Hugs and Kisses' on Columbia 4381, a dance-series pressing from the early 1920s. The artist is unidentified.AI summary
Columbia 4381 Dance
Handy's Orchestra on Columbia 2914, 'Moonlight Blues' / 'Southern Nights'. Likely led by W.C. Handy, the blues and jazz pioneer, or a group trading on his name.AI summary
Columbia 2914 Jazz
The Hannan Dance Band recorded these two popular dance-band numbers for Columbia: 'Yearning' and 'Moonlight and Roses'. The Hannan Band was a British dance orchestra active in the 1920s-1930s. Both titles are typical of the sentimental dance music of the era.AI summary
Columbia 3602 Dance
Columbia 3592
The Happy Six and the Columbians performing 'Mystery' and 'Swanee' on Columbia A-series, an early vocal or novelty dance side from the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia A2905 Dance
The Happy Six, a small jazz or dance ensemble, recorded 'Shake Your Little Shoulder' and the Yerkes Southern Five's 'Railroad Blues' for Columbia's A-series in the early 1920s. The Yerkes Southern Five were an early jazz group active on the New York recording scene.AI summary
Columbia A2929 Jazz
The Happy Six, a novelty jazz vocal group, perform two songs on Columbia 2998: "Dance-o-Mania" and "Rose of Washington Square," likely from the mid-1920s. This is an early Columbia British pressing of a popular jazz-novelty number.AI summary
Columbia 2998 Jazz