3,430 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Ulysses Lappas, a Greek-American tenor, performed famous opera arias including 'Vesti la Giubba' from Leoncavallo's *Pagliacci* for Columbia; this D1455 series issue dates from the early acoustic or electrical transfer era.AI summary
Columbia D1455 Opera
Uncle Bob on Columbia, performing 'I'd Like to Find the Guy That Wrote the Stein Song' and 'Chum Song', novelty and comedy material from the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia DB329 Comic
V. Pearce and a chorus of theatre performers, including B. Hale and Bobby Howes, singing musical-theatre material and novelty songs on Columbia DX629 (a double-sided 12-inch release). The titles suggest revue or West End theatre music of the 1930s-40s.AI summary
Columbia DX629 Music Hall
Val Anthony recorded these sentimental ballads for Columbia in the post-war era; the artist is a minor popular singer of the 1940s–1950s.AI summary
Columbia DB3396 Voice
Valerie Carr, a British-Canadian pop singer of the 1950s, recorded these novelty numbers for Columbia's DB-series.AI summary
Columbia DB4131 Voice
Rudy Vallée was one of the greatest American crooners and bandleaders of the 1920s and 1930s, and a major radio and recording star; this Columbia recording of 'Say It Isn't So' captures his distinctive tenor voice and romantic delivery.AI summary
Columbia CB524 Voice
Vallee, likely Rudy Vallée the American crooner, recorded 'A Bed Time Story' and 'I'm Playing with Fire' for Columbia. The catalogue number 2737D places this in the late 1920s electrical era.AI summary
Columbia 2737D Voice
Rudy Vallée, the American crooner and bandleader, recorded for Columbia CB-series around the late 1920s. Vallée was one of the defining voices of early American popular music and radio.AI summary
Columbia CB524 Personalities (Prs)
Van and Schenk were a popular American vocal duet of the 1910s and 1920s, recorded here on Columbia for 'Shadatin Dee' and 'Get Out and Get Under'. The high catalogue number places this in the early 1920s or late 1910s.AI summary
Columbia 4984 Voice
Van Phillips recorded 'Oh Donna Clara' and 'Little Russian Rose' for Columbia, catalogue CB159, in the mid-1920s. Phillips was an accordion or light-music recording artist.AI summary
Columbia CB159 Voice
Van Phillips, a British pianist and bandleader, recorded the popular standards 'Aren't We All' and 'If I Had a Talking Picture of You' for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia 5512 Dance
Van Phillips on Columbia Records performing 'I'm Like a Sailor' and 'High and Low'. Little is known of this artist, likely a popular vocalist of the 1930s era.AI summary
Columbia CB6 Voice
Columbia 5245 Dance
van Phillips recorded 'Through' and 'S'Posin'' for Columbia, dance songs of the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 5657 Dance
Van Phillips performs 'Wind in the Willows' and 'With a Song in my Heart' on Columbia's popular CB series, catalogue 30.AI summary
Columbia CB30 Voice
Van Phillips, a British dance-band vocalist and entertainer of the 1930s, recorded 'I'm Like a Sailor' and 'High and Low' for Columbia, catalogue CB6. The CB prefix indicates a cheaper budget series.AI summary
Columbia CB6 Dance
Van Phillips recorded two popular songs for Columbia (CB67) in the early 1930s. Phillips was a known British dance-band pianist and composer; this is standard popular song repertoire of the period.AI summary
Columbia CB67 Voice
Van Phillips, a British dance-band pianist and composer of the 1920s-30s, performing 'Aren't we all' and 'If I had a Talking Picture of you' on Columbia, catalogue 5512.AI summary
Columbia 5512 Dance
Van Phillips, a British bandleader and pianist, recorded two sentimental ballads for Columbia in the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia CB146 Dance
Van Phillips on Columbia CB150, with 'It Must Be You' and 'Two of Everything' — a vocalist or instrumentalist on a major British label's mid-range series, mid-1930s.AI summary
Columbia CB150 Voice
Van Phillips recorded two popular songs for Columbia (CB160) in the early 1930s. Phillips was a known British dance-band pianist of the era, though this entry provides little identifying detail.AI summary
Columbia CB160 Voice
Van Phillips, a British pianist and bandleader active in the 1930s, recorded 'Why am I so romantic' and 'It's for you' for Columbia CB161. Phillips led a successful British dance band and is a minor figure in British jazz and dance music of the period.AI summary
Columbia CB161 Dance
Van Phillips, the British pianist and bandleader, recorded 'Beyond the blue Horizon' and 'Always in all Ways' for Columbia CB162, continuing his series of recordings for the label in the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia CB162 Dance
van Phillips on Columbia CB172, performing 'Dancing on the Ceiling' and 'No Place but Home'.AI summary
Columbia CB172 Voice
Columbia DB1440
Van Phillips, the noted British light-music composer, with oboist Leon Goossens, performing Phillips's own "Nicolette" and "Salut d'Amour" on Columbia DB1440. Phillips was a major figure in British film and light orchestral music, and this pairing of two elegiac pieces is a rare collaboration with one of the country's finest oboists.AI summary
Columbia DB1440 Instrumental
Van Phillips Band performing 'Little Russian rose' and 'Oh Donna Clara' on Columbia (CB159); Van Phillips was a prominent British pianist and bandleader of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Columbia CB159 Dance
Vaughan Cornish recorded this extended instrumental piece on Columbia's popular-priced series. The unusual title and two-part structure suggest descriptive or programmatic instrumental music, though the artist is not widely documented.AI summary
Columbia D40073 Instrumental
Ralph Vaughan Williams's 'Geud Man of Ballangigh', a folk-dance arrangement, performed on both sides of Columbia DB2242; a classical recording on the standard HMV-Columbia label.AI summary
Columbia DB2242 Classical
Ralph Vaughan Williams, the major English composer, arranged and conducted these folk dance settings for Columbia. 'Oranges and Lemons Square Dance' and 'Hunsdon House Country Dance' are from his English Folk Dance and Song Society work; this is a significant recording by a canonical British composer.AI summary
Columbia DB2241 Classical
Vaughn de Leath, a pioneering American radio singer and recording artist, on Columbia 4443 performing two popular ballads. De Leath was one of the first female singers to achieve fame through radio in the 1920s and had a long recording career.AI summary
Columbia 4443 Voice
Vaughn de Leath on Columbia 4443, performing 'I wonder how I look when I'm asleep' and 'Oh baby don't we get along'. De Leath was an early American recording artist known for intimate vocal delivery; this is a duet with Harris from the 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4443 Voice
Vaughn de Leath on Columbia 4443, an early American dance or sentimental vocal from the 1920s; de Leath was an early female recording artist, and this early Columbia issue may be quite old and obscure.AI summary
Columbia 4443 Voice
Vee Lawnhurst on Columbia, mid-1930s pressing.AI summary
Columbia DB1173 Voice
Joe Venuti, the pioneering jazz violinist, recorded 'Jig Saw Puzzle Blues' and 'Raggin' the Scale' for Columbia, catalogue DF1263.AI summary
Columbia DF1263 Jazz
Vernon Dalhart, the American folk and pop singer, on Columbia 1000D: commemorative songs about Charles Lindbergh and the 1927 transatlantic flight, recorded shortly after the event.AI summary
Columbia 1000D Voice
Versatile Three performing 'The Dear little Garden I love' and 'Oogie Oogie Wa Wa' on Columbia, a vocal ensemble from the 1920s-1930s.AI summary
Columbia 3314 Voice
Vess Ossman, an American banjoist and recording artist of the early 1900s, recorded for Columbia in the acoustic era. Ossman was one of the best-recorded musicians of the early phonograph industry.AI summary
Columbia 1663 Instrumental
Vess Ossman was one of the greatest banjo performers of the turn of the 20th century, and one of the earliest recording artists. This Columbia graphophone recording dates from the very early days of the gramophone industry.AI summary
Columbia GraphCo3477 Instrumental
Vesta Tilley performing 'Sidney's in Civvies Again' and 'I'm a Bit of a Blighty One' on Columbia L1317 — a 12-inch pressing of two of her wartime songs. Tilley was one of the greatest stars of the Victorian and Edwardian music hall, celebrated for her male-impersonation performances, and these wartime recruiting songs are among her most historically resonant recordings.AI summary
Columbia L1317 Music Hall
Vesta Tilley, the legendary British pantomime principal boy and male-impersonator, recorded comic military songs for Columbia. Tilley (1864–1952) was a Victorian and Edwardian superstar and one of the most celebrated music-hall performers of her generation.AI summary
Columbia L1153 Music Hall
Vesta Tilley, one of the greatest stars of the Victorian and Edwardian music hall, on Columbia L1153 — a 12-inch pressing — with 'Where Are the Girls of the Old Brigade' and 'It's a Fine Time for a Soldier'. Tilley's Columbia 12-inch recordings are among her most sought, and wartime-themed numbers add historical resonance.AI summary
Columbia L1153 Music Hall
This is the same Columbia L1317 pressing as id 5910 — Vesta Tilley performing 'Sidney's in Civvies Again' and 'I'm a Bit of a Blighty One' — but catalogued here as signed by Tilley. A copy signed by the artist would be significantly more valuable than an unsigned pressing and must be examined and authenticated before any sale.AI summary
Columbia L1317 Music Hall
Vesta Victoria, the celebrated British music-hall star of the Edwardian era, recorded an 'Old Time Medley' in two parts for Columbia, likely a 1920s-30s reissue or late career recording.AI summary
Columbia DX290 Music Hall
Columbia DX290 Music Hall
Vic Oliver, husband of Winston Churchill's daughter and a stage and radio personality, performing what appear to be comedy monologues or spoken-word pieces on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia FB1227 Personalities (Prs)
Vic Oliver was an Austrian-born British comedian, wit and entertainer of the 1930s–1950s, known for radio work and revue. This Columbia recording (FB1611) of his comic monologues represents his stage and broadcast material. Oliver is sought by British comedy and radio enthusiasts.AI summary
Columbia FB1611 Comic
Victor Borge, the Danish comedian and pianist, recorded 'Phonetic Punctuation' for Columbia, catalogue DC536. Borge's witty and musical comedy routines, combining piano playing with spoken humour, are beloved by collectors of sophisticated comedy.AI summary
Columbia DC536 Comic