3,430 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Biese, performing two novelty pieces on Columbia: 'Ilo' and 'Crooning'.AI summary
Columbia 3057 Instrumental
Biese performing 'Just like the Rose' and 'When you're alone' on Columbia A2864, a pre-electrical Columbia acoustic recording.AI summary
Columbia A2864 Voice
Bill Clifton, a bluegrass and folk guitarist from Kentucky, recorded these popular standards for Columbia in the early 1950s during the post-war folk revival.AI summary
Columbia 39177 Country
Billie Anthony was a British popular singer of the 1950s who enjoyed some chart success; this Columbia DB pressing pairs two of her vocal recordings.AI summary
Columbia DB3798 Voice
Billie Anthony performing 'Butterscotch Mop' and 'No More' on Columbia DB3566 — post-war popular dance or novelty material from a British vocalist.AI summary
Columbia DB3566 Voice
Billie Anthony, a British singer of the 1950s, recorded 'The banjo's back in town' and 'Ten little kisses' for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia DB3648 Voice
Billie Anthony, a British popular singer, recorded 'Shake the Hand of a Stranger' and 'Tweedle Dee' for Columbia (DB3592) in the early 1950s, part of the post-war British vocal recording boom.AI summary
Columbia DB3592 Voice
Columbia 3802
Billy Bennett, the British comedian and novelty singer famous for monologues and comic songs, recorded 'Family Secrets' and 'Devil-may-not-care' for Columbia Records, catalogue 4005. Bennett was a popular music-hall star and recording artist in the 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4005 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, the British music-hall comedian, performing 'The Miser' and 'I'll Be Thinking of You' on Columbia 4006.AI summary
Columbia 4006 Comic
Billy Bennett, a British comedian and character singer, recorded "The Green Fly on the little yellow Dog" and "Nell" for Columbia, typical of his novelty and comedy work.AI summary
Columbia 4004 Music Hall
Billy Bennett was a London-born comic monologist famous for his rapid-fire comic songs and character sketches, often with risqué or darkly comic themes. 'Don't Send My Boy to Prison' and 'She Was Poor but She Was Honest' are typical of his satirical style. This Columbia electrical record is from his peak recording period in the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia DB164 Personalities (Prs)
Columbia 4004 Personalities (Prs)
Billy Bennett on Columbia 5719 with 'My Mother Doesn't Know I'm on the Stage' and 'Club Raid'. Bennett was a British comic entertainer and monologist popular in music hall and on radio in the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Columbia 5719 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British music hall comic and singer, performing two sentimental comic songs on Columbia: 'Don't send my Boy to Prison' and 'She was poor but she was honest'.AI summary
Columbia DB164 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British comic entertainer and monologist known for irreverent music-hall humour, performs two novelty pieces on Columbia DB658.AI summary
Columbia DB658 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British comic singer and music-hall entertainer famous for novelty and comic songs, recorded two pieces for Columbia: 'Domestic Blisters' and 'Real Guy'.AI summary
Columbia 9105 Music Hall
Billy Bennett on Columbia 9205 with 'Charge of the Tight Brigade' and 'No Power on Earth'. Bennett was a British music-hall comedian and vocalist, famous for comic monologues and novelty songs recorded in the 1920s and 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 9205 Music Hall
Billy Bennett on Columbia 9237, the British music-hall comic performing his character songs 'She's mine' and 'Napoleon', from the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 9237 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British music-hall comedian of the interwar years, recorded 'Tightest Man I Know' and 'Ogul Mogul' for Columbia 9296.AI summary
Columbia 9296 Music Hall
Billy Bennett was a British comedian and monologist of the 1920s–30s, famous for his rapid-fire comic recitations and parodies. 'Mottoes' and 'Memory Man' are typical of his humorous spoken-word repertoire, recorded for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia 9454 Comic
Billy Bennett was a famous British comic performer and recording artist of the 1920s-30s, celebrated for rapid-fire novelty monologues. This Columbia electrical recording captures him in characteristic form.AI summary
Columbia DX28 Comic
Billy Bennett, an English comic singer and character performer, singing novelty titles 'Charge of the Tight Brigade' and 'No Power on Earth' on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia 9205 Music Hall
Billy Bennett, a British comic singer and monologist of the 1920s–30s, on Columbia 9296 with "The Tightest Man I Know" and "Ogul Mogul" — novelty comedy songs typical of Bennett's act.AI summary
Columbia 9296 Comic
Billy Bennett was a British comedian and character vocalist of the 1920s–30s; this Columbia side features comic novelty material.AI summary
Columbia 5649 Comic
Billy Bennett, a British comic singer and entertainer of the music hall tradition, performing humorous novelty songs on Columbia. Bennett was a popular variety performer whose recordings are now scarce.AI summary
Columbia DB658 Music Hall
Billy Bennett was a British comic vocalist and music-hall performer. 'Christmas Day in the Cook House' and 'Please Let Me Sleep on Your Doorstep Tonight' are novelty and comic songs typical of 1930s–40s British variety; this Columbia DB658 pressing is a comic-song recording.AI summary
Columbia DB658 Music Hall
Billy Day recorded 'Red Lips Kiss My Blues Away' and 'My Regular Gal' for Columbia, likely from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 4567 Voice
Billy Day credited on Columbia 4567 with two comic-novelty blues titles from the late 1920s or early 1930s. Day does not appear in standard discographies and little is known of this artist.AI summary
Columbia 4567 Voice
Billy Mayerl, the British light-music composer and pianist, recording an 'Own Selection' for Columbia DB1219, likely mid-1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB1219 Instrumental
Billy Mayerl was a British pianist and composer known for his light, syncopated piano pieces; this Columbia side preserves his 'Words and Music' medley, typical of his entertainment and concert work.AI summary
Columbia DB939 Instrumental
Billy Mayerl, the virtuoso British light-classical pianist and composer, recorded for Columbia. 'Ten Cents a Dance' and 'Baby's Birthday Party' are from his varied repertoire of pieces ranging from jazz-influenced numbers to salon miniatures.AI summary
Columbia DB445 Instrumental
Billy Mayerl, a celebrated British light-music composer and pianist, recorded 'By the Fireside' and 'Try to Remember Me' for Columbia, catalogue DB806, in the 1930s. Mayerl's piano recordings capture sophisticated light-music idiom of the era.AI summary
Columbia DB806 Instrumental
Billy Mayerl, a British pianist and light-music composer, on Columbia DB16, performing his own light piano arrangements of classical themes and folk songs.AI summary
Columbia DB16 Instrumental
Billy Mayerl recorded 'Love Race' and 'Sons o' Guns' for Columbia DB188. Mayerl was a British pianist and composer known for light piano music and dance compositions.AI summary
Columbia DB188 Instrumental
Billy Merson was a popular British music-hall performer and comedian of the 1910s–1930s, known for comic songs and character work. 'Hard Boiled Herman' and 'Why shouldn't we?' (with Hardwicke) are recorded on Columbia 3640, a catalogue number consistent with the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 3640 Music Hall
Billy Merson, the music-hall comedian and songwriter best remembered for 'The Spaniard That Blighted My Life', records 'She'll Think of Her Soldier Boy' and 'Wallahpazink' on Columbia 1510. This early Columbia number suggests an acoustic-era pressing; Merson is a recognised and collected music-hall name.AI summary
Columbia 1510 Music Hall
Billy Merson, the music-hall comedian and songwriter, records 'I'm Setting the Village on Fire' and 'Not Exactly' on Columbia 1545. The early Columbia series number suggests an acoustic-era pressing; Merson is a collected music-hall name.AI summary
Columbia 1545 Music Hall
Billy Merson on Columbia 1579 — 'Fireman' and 'My Yacht' — is from the standard Columbia series, making this a more widely distributed pressing than his minor-label recordings elsewhere in this collection. Columbia 1579 is a mid-period acoustic issue; Merson on Columbia is collected but not scarce.AI summary
Columbia 1579 Music Hall
Billy Merson, the British music-hall comedian and early recording star, on two comic novelty numbers, I'm so spiteful and The Spaniard that blighted my Life, on Columbia 1757.AI summary
Columbia 1757 Music Hall
Billy Whitlock performing two comedy numbers, 'Chuckles' and 'Laughing', on Columbia. The titles suggest music-hall novelty material or comic song.AI summary
Columbia IS1058 Comic
Billy Whitlock recorded 'Islander' and 'Jolly Coons' for Columbia IS113, likely early 1920s—an acoustic-era side on a rare catalogue series.AI summary
Columbia IS113 Music Hall
Billy Whitlock on Columbia IS-series with novelty music-hall material from the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia IS980 Music Hall
Billy Whitlock, a comic performer, recorded two topical comic songs — 'A German Recruiting Station' and 'The Last Zeppelin' — for Columbia during or just after the First World War.AI summary
Columbia is685 Comic
Billy Whitlock on Columbia's IS series, a cheap budget line, performing comic or novelty material.AI summary
Columbia IS981 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a British music-hall and comic singer, performing 'The Land Where the Women Wear the Trousers' and 'Bobbing About in the Briny', recorded for Columbia (catalogue IS1272).AI summary
Columbia is1272 Music Hall
Billy Williams on Columbia is1297, singing 'My Lass frae Glasgae Toon' and 'Oh Mr McPherson'. A Scottish vocalist; the Columbia Scottish series (is) issued recordings from Scottish and English artists for the home market. Billy Williams (fl. 1920s–1930s) is now obscure.AI summary
Columbia is1297 Voice
Billy Williams performing 'Put me amongst the Girls' and 'I like little People' on Columbia, early in the label's catalogue (is1302)—likely from the 1910s-20s.AI summary
Columbia is1302 Voice