3,431 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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London Radio performs a repeat of the song "The Devil is Afraid of Music" for Columbia — likely a British session group rather than a named orchestra.AI summary
Columbia 4669 Orchestra
London Radio on Columbia 4670, a house orchestra or session group, playing light romantic material 'Why can't we be Sweethearts' and 'Under the Moon' in the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Columbia 4670 Orchestra
Columbia 4701 Dance
The London String Quartet performing Schumann's String Quartet in A Major on Columbia L1199, part 2 of the work. This is the companion disc to ColL1200 (id 15070).AI summary
Columbia L1199 Classical
The London String Quartet, a leading British ensemble of the early twentieth century, performing Schumann's String Quartet in A Major on Columbia's red label. This is part 3 of the work, catalogue L1200.AI summary
Columbia L1200 Classical
Columbia 902 Orchestra
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
Lopez — identity uncertain, possibly a pseudonym or session musician — recorded the novelty piece 'Palesteena' and a light piece called 'Caresses' for Columbia in the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia A3349 Dance
Lopez, credited with orchestra, recorded "Sweetest Words I Know" and "Dixieland Rhumba" for Columbia. This pressing carries a "Spec (for Radio Stations)" designation, indicating a special edition made for radio airplay.AI summary
Columbia SPEC(forRadioStations) Orchestra
Loraine and Thorne performing two period comic novelty songs on Columbia, likely from the 1920s: 'We've Been Married Just One Year' and 'When We've Wound Up the Watch on the Rhine'.AI summary
Columbia 2484 Music Hall
Lorenzi on Columbia performing 'We've Got Rhythm', a popular song from the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1418 Voice
Lorenzi, recorded 'After You've Gone' and 'Some of These Days' for Columbia FB1168: a singer or musician untraced in major discographies.AI summary
Columbia FB1168 Dance
Lorenzi on Columbia FB1406 with novelty instrumental items 'Celebratin'' and 'The Whistling Waltz'; an unidentified performer on Columbia's budget FB series.AI summary
Columbia FB1406 Instrumental
Lorenzi performing 'Miss Annabelle Lee' and 'I'll see you in my dreams' for Columbia, FB1358. Both are popular standards; Lorenzi is unidentified.AI summary
Columbia FB1358 Voice
Lorenzi performing 'We've Got Rhythm' on Columbia, circa early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1418 Voice
Lou Alter on Columbia 4131. Alter was a prolific 1920s–30s songwriter and performer, but this specific record is not clearly identified beyond the catalogue number.AI summary
Columbia 4131 Misc.
Columbia FB3124
Lou Preager's band, a sophisticated British dance orchestra, on Columbia FB3486 performing two comic novelty numbers from the swing era.AI summary
Columbia FB3486 Dance
Louis Armstrong's 'Cornet Chop Suey' and 'Muskrat Ramble' on Columbia DB2624; Armstrong was the towering figure of jazz, and these are among his most historically important recordings from the Hot Five era.AI summary
Columbia DB2624 Jazz
Louis Armstrong's 'Heebie Jeebies' and 'Potato Head Blues' are among the most important early jazz recordings ever made, recorded in 1926. This Columbia 35000-series pressing is a key early Armstrong recording. UK copies of Armstrong's earliest sides are difficult to find and highly sought by jazz collectors worldwide.AI summary
Columbia 35660 Jazz
Louis Armstrong's 1925 recording "Gut Bucket Blues" / "Yes! I'm in the Barrel" was originally issued on Okeh in the USA and is here reissued by Columbia in Britain. Armstrong was already a major jazz figure by this time, and these sides are classics of early hot jazz.AI summary
Columbia DB2978 Jazz
Louis Armstrong, recorded for Columbia DB2624, performing 'Cornet Chop Suey (take 26)' and 'Muskrat Ramble'. These are canonical early jazz recordings. Armstrong's Columbia DB-series sides are among the most important jazz records ever made, and even British pressings are avidly collected.AI summary
Columbia DB2624 Jazz
Columbia 37535 Jazz
Louis Levy, the British composer and conductor of light music, recording 'The Eyes of the World Are on You' and 'Jingle of the Jungle' for Columbia FB-series (FB1636), likely 1940s–50s.AI summary
Columbia FB1636 Orchestra
Louis Levy and his band recorded "I Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire" and "Meet the Sun Half Way" for Columbia in the late 1930s. Levy was a British bandleader and composer.AI summary
Columbia FB2477 Dance
Louis van Tulder was a Dutch tenor; these Columbia sides present operatic arias from Haydn's Creation and Seasons in a voice-focused recital setting.AI summary
Columbia DHX1 Opera
The Louisiana 5 recorded 'Slow and Easy' and 'Dance o' Mania' (with the Happy 6) on Columbia, representing early 1920s dance and jazz repertoire.AI summary
Columbia A2949 Jazz
The Louisiana Five were an early jazz ensemble of the 1910s–20s, known for hot dance and novelty jazz. 'Yelping Hound blues' and 'Just another good Man gone wrong' are typical of their jazz and blues-tinged dance repertoire. This Columbia A2742 pressing is from the acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia A2742 Jazz
The Louisiana Five, an early hot-jazz group, recorded 'I ain't got no Time to have the Blues' and '(Sweatman) Slide Kelly slide' for Columbia, catalogue A2775.AI summary
Columbia A2775 Jazz
The Louisiana Five, an early American jazz ensemble, perform 'Alcoholic Blues' and 'Kansas City Blues' on Columbia A-series — extremely rare early jazz recording, a landmark of 1920s jazz on a major label.AI summary
Columbia A2768 Jazz
The Louisiana Five, an early jazz ensemble, recorded 'Slow and Easy' and 'Dance o'Mania' (the latter with the Happy Six) for Columbia A2949, one of the earliest jazz recordings on disc in Britain. This is an extremely early jazz recording from the late 1910s.AI summary
Columbia A2949 Jazz
The Louisiana Five, an early jazz ensemble, recorded 'Slow and Easy' and 'Dance o'Mania' (with the Happy Six) for Columbia A2949, one of the earliest jazz recordings on disc in Britain from the late 1910s.AI summary
Columbia A2949 Jazz
Under the comic stage name Lovejoy Enoch Ramsbottom, a novelty performer sings 'The Rain Came Pitter Patter Down' and 'When Moaning Minnie Moans No More' on Columbia, the latter title referring to wartime air-raid siren slang.AI summary
Columbia FB2652 Comic
The London Symphony Orchestra under Albert Coates performing Scriabin's 'Le Poème d'Extase', a two-part recording on Columbia L1380.AI summary
Columbia L1380 Orchestra
Sir Granville Bantock's 'Immortal Hour' was a famous British operetta, and here the London Symphony Orchestra under Rutland Boughton performs the Love Duet and Faery Chorus on Columbia Records, capturing British light opera of the early 20th century.AI summary
Columbia 935 Opera
The London Symphony Orchestra under Rutland Boughton performs the Love Duet and Faery Chorus from Boughton's opera The Immortal Hour on Columbia 935. The Immortal Hour had a celebrated West End run in the early 1920s and Boughton was a significant if eccentric figure in British musical nationalism. Columbia 935 is a low catalogue number, suggesting an early electrical or late acoustic pressing, and this is a historically interesting document of an unusual British operatic work.AI summary
Columbia 935 Classical
Frank Bridge conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in his own tone poem 'Seascape' (and its companion piece 'Sea Foam'), issued on Columbia L1500. Bridge is now best remembered as Benjamin Britten's teacher, but was himself a respected composer and conductor; this LSO coupling was part of Columbia's serious British music programme of the late acoustic or very early electrical era, around 1921–1925. Collector interest in Bridge as a composer has grown steadily.AI summary
Columbia L1500 Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra under Frank Bridge, performing two short orchestral pieces (Debussy and possibly Bowen) on a Columbia long-playing L-series disc.AI summary
Columbia L1501 Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra under Gustav Holst performing 'Jupiter' (from The Planets) parts 1 and 2 for Columbia's L series, a landmark electrical recording from the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia L1459 Classical
The London Symphony Orchestra conducted for 'Jupiter' from Holst's The Planets on Columbia L1459R, a classical orchestral recording from the electrical era; a landmark early electrical recording of this famous work.AI summary
Columbia L1459R Classical
The London Symphony Orchestra under Gustav Holst recorded his own orchestral work 'Uranus' from the suite 'The Planets' for Columbia. Holst composed the work in 1914-1916, and this recording likely dates from the late 1920s or early 1930s based on the L-series catalogue number. Composer-conducted recordings of major works are valued by collectors.AI summary
Columbia L1509 Classical
Columbia L1542 Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra under Gustav Holst performing two movements from his *The Planets*: 'Mercury' and 'Marching Song No. 2', on Columbia L1543. This is an important recording by the composer himself conducting one of his most celebrated works.AI summary
Columbia L1543 Classical
The London Symphony Orchestra under Sir William Walton—or conducted in collaboration with Gustav Holst himself—performing the 'Jupiter' movement from Holst's *The Planets* on Columbia L1459. This is a major orchestral work recorded electrically in the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia L1459 Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Strauss, performing the Rosenkavalier waltz from his opera on Columbia L1422, an electrical recording of a great twentieth-century composer leading his own orchestra.AI summary
Columbia L1421 Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Strauss, performing 'Salome's Dance' from his opera on Columbia L1422, an early electrical recording of a major twentieth-century composer leading his own orchestra.AI summary
Columbia L1422 Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra under Felix Weingartner performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 for Columbia Records on the L-series, a premium classical catalogue of the 1930s. Weingartner was one of the most recorded conductors of the era, and this Beethoven symphony remains a benchmark recording.AI summary
Columbia L1480 Classical
Felix Weingartner conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the fourth part of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, from Columbia's album series.AI summary
Columbia L1481 Classical