1,230 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Bud Flanagan, one of the Crazy Gang comedians and a major British entertainer, performing two popular songs on Decca: 'Tomorrow Is a Beautiful Day' and 'Who Could Love You Like Me'. Flanagan was a star of stage and film and his recordings remain of interest to theatre and comedy enthusiasts.AI summary
Decca F8595 Personalities (Prs)
Bud Flanagan with Allen on Decca, performing 'Two very ordinary People' and 'Tomorrow is a beautiful Day'. Flanagan was a long-standing British radio and stage entertainer, best known as one half of the Crazy Gang.AI summary
Decca Y5981 Personalities (Prs)
Burl Ives performs 'I Know an Old Lady' and 'Hen Is in the Haymow' on Decca, the American folk singer's recordings from the 1940s–1950s.AI summary
Decca 88125 Country
Henry Busse was an American trumpeter and bandleader best known for his Hot Lips recordings in the late 1920s. This Decca disc pairs two of his signature pieces: 'Hot Lips' and 'Way Down South in New Orleans', capturing the hot-jazz spirit that made him a minor star of the hot-dance era.AI summary
Decca F5330 Jazz
Buster Bailey, the pioneering jazz clarinetist, on Decca F5492, performing 'Call of the Delta' and 'Shanghai Shuffle', likely mid-1930s.AI summary
Decca F5492 Jazz
Cicely Hulbert, Bobbie Comber, Phyllis England and Muriel Kester, British stage and revue entertainers, recorded 'Taking the Air' parts 1 and 2 for Decca, a theatrical sketch or novelty piece.AI summary
Decca F2597 Music Hall
Decca AK2366/67 Classical
Carl Brisson was a Danish-American operetta singer and film star popular in the 1920s–30s; this Decca recording couples two continental operetta favourites.AI summary
Decca F1927 Opera
Carl Brisson, the Danish tenor and film actor, on Decca F5014 with 'Cocktails for Two' and 'Live and Love Tonight'. Brisson was a popular balladeer and musical-theatre performer of the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Decca F5014 Voice
Carl Brisson, the Danish-American baritone and actor, singing two light romantic songs on Decca in the 1930s.AI summary
Decca F2127 Voice
Carlyle Cousins for Decca, performing a medley on both sides. The artist is unrecognised.AI summary
Decca F3978 Dance
Carlyle Cousins on Decca F5276 recorded 'America Calling'; Decca F5276 is from a mainstream British pressing period, likely the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Decca F5276 Personalities (Prs)
Decca 60.385 Dance
Casa Loma, a Canadian dance orchestra of the 1930s, recorded 'Clarinet Marmalade' and 'In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree' for Decca. Casa Loma sides are collected by hot-dance enthusiasts, though British pressings are less sought than American originals.AI summary
Decca F3397 Dance
Catcheside Warrington was a prolific British character comedian and singer, particularly known for his North East dialect pieces; 'Newcastle v Sunderland' captures his work in the 1930s–1950s on Decca.AI summary
Decca F2693 Comic
Cecil Johnson, an accomplished piano entertainer of the 1930s-1940s, performs on this Decca side titled 'Day's Broadcasting', with both sides credited as such — suggesting a topical or novelty piece about radio entertainment.AI summary
Decca F6236 Instrumental
Charles Baum on Decca 24026 with medley titles 'Swingin' Down the Lane + 2 More' and 'Beside a Babbling Brook + 1 More', a 1930s Decca release.AI summary
Decca 24026 Voice
A Charles Hill recording of the novelty number 'Chuck It Priestly', issued on Decca as a two-record set (catalogue AD3017/3018). Hill was a minor vocalist or comic performer of the 1930s.AI summary
Decca AD3017/3018 Comic
Charles Hill on Decca with a comedy piece; "Chuck it Priestley" appears to be a music-hall or vaudeville sketch, and the second side notes "4 sides, 2 records", indicating this is part of a longer recorded sequence.AI summary
Decca AD3017/3018 Comic
Charles Hill on Decca performing 'Chuck it Priestley', a British music-hall song, on a two-record set (AD3017/3018). Charles Hill was a British character comedian and singer.AI summary
Decca AD3017/3018 Music Hall
Charles Iwegbue and his Archibogs, a West African highlife ensemble, recorded 'Go inside Mami' and 'Amalinze' for Decca WA3105. The WA series was Decca's West African series of the 1950s.AI summary
Decca WA3105 Dance
Charles Penrose was a British bass singer and music-hall entertainer famous for his comic vocal effects and sound effects recordings; 'The Laughing Policeman' and similar Decca sides featuring Penrose's virtuoso laughing and comic routines were perennial sellers.AI summary
Decca F2226 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, British comic and novelty singer, recorded 'Giggling Curate' and 'Laughing Trombone' for Decca (F1578) in the 1930s-40s. Penrose was known for his humorous vocal effects and music hall comedy.AI summary
Decca F1578 Music Hall
Charles Penrose recorded 'Laughing Vamp' and 'Pernickety Pete' for Decca F3115. Penrose was a British comedy vocalist known for novelty and comic songs.AI summary
Decca F3115 Comic
Charles Penrose was a British music-hall comedian and vocalist; this Decca recording of 'Laughing Jazz Band' and 'You've Got to Laugh' captures his comic style, which was known for novelty effects and audience-participation humour.AI summary
Decca F1627 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British comic vocalist, on Decca F2226. Penrose was known for his 'Laughing Policeman' novelty number and similar comic vocal effects; this disc appears to feature similar material.AI summary
Decca F2226 Comic
Charles Penrose, famous as 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded numerous novelty and comedy sides; this Decca pressing pairs two of his comedy routines ('Simpering Susie and a Sousaphone', 'Laughs and Liberties').AI summary
Decca F2463 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the celebrated British comedian known for his character voices and comic recordings, recorded 'Film Fun' and 'Pernickety Pete the Postman' for Decca F3115 in the late 1930s–early 1940s.AI summary
Decca F3115 Music Hall
Decca F3262 Personalities (Prs)
Charles Penrose and Company on Decca, a British comedy piece with two parts titled 'Sweepstake Luck'.AI summary
Decca F2954 Comic
Charles Smart's arrangement of the Bridal Chorus and Wedding March, standard organ or piano repertoire recorded for Decca's F-series around the late 1940s.AI summary
Decca F10252 Instrumental
Decca F10252
Charlie Chester, a British entertainer and comedian, performing two novelty numbers for Decca.AI summary
Decca F8693 Personalities (Prs)
Charlie Chester, a British comedian and entertainer, performing two novelty pieces on Decca: 'Vamp of Baghdad' and 'Let It Be Soon'. Chester was known for comic and novelty material.AI summary
Decca F8701 Music Hall
Charlie Kunz was a hugely successful British pianist of the 1930s-50s, best known for his 'Kunz Revivals' medley series which mixed popular and classical melodies. This Decca pressing of 'Kunz Revivals (34)' represents one entry in his enormous discography; Kunz was a prolific and popular recording artist whose sides were pressed in vast quantities.AI summary
Decca F6385 Instrumental
Charlie Kunz, a popular British pianist of light classical and novelty music, recorded prolifically for Decca from the 1930s onwards; this is one of his 'Revivals' series.AI summary
Decca F6864 Instrumental
Charlie Kunz, a British pianist famous for 'Medley' recordings, issued this Medley No. 121 on Decca, part of an enormous series of compilations of popular tunes that made him a household name.AI summary
Decca F10771 Instrumental
Charlie Kunz, the popular German-British pianist, recorded 'Old Time Music Hall' (both sides) for Decca F11007 in the late 1950s.AI summary
Decca F11007 Instrumental
Decca 8273 Instrumental
Clara Inter performing two Hawaiian novelty songs on Decca in the 1930s-40s.AI summary
Decca 3430 Hawaiian
Clarice Mayne was a British singer and entertainer popular in the Edwardian era and 1920s, known for comedy songs and light musical theatre. This Decca recording represents her work in the electrical recording era.AI summary
Decca F2724 Music Hall
Clarice Mayne in 'Selection of Songs' parts 3 and 4, recorded for Decca F3199. Mayne was a British comedy singer and music-hall performer of the 1920s–30s; the F-series numbering places this in the mid-to-late 1930s.AI summary
Decca F3199 Music Hall
Claude Ivy, a British entertainer, recorded two novelty and popular songs for Decca in the late 1930s or early 1940s.AI summary
Decca F2327 Music Hall
Claude Ivy, a British light entertainer, recorded 'When the Circus comes to Town' and 'Match Parade' for Decca in the early 1940s; the artist is unrecorded in standard references.AI summary
Decca F2527 Personalities (Prs)
Cliff Edwards, known as 'Ukulele Ike', performs two selections from Walt Disney's *Pinocchio* — the iconic 'When you wish upon a Star' and 'I've got no Strings' — on a Decca pressing.AI summary
Decca 18836 Personalities (Prs)
Cliff Edwards and Andy Iona recorded two popular sentimental numbers—'If I Had You' and 'Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful'—for Decca. Edwards was a popular American vocalist and ukulele player of the 1920s-30s era.AI summary
Decca 1106 Voice
Clifford Curzon, one of Britain's greatest pianists, and Benjamin Britten recorded 'Mazurka Elegiaga' and 'Intro and Rondo Alla Burlesca' for Decca K1117/8; this was a notable collaboration between two major British musical figures.AI summary
Decca K1117/8 Classical
Coleman Hawkins, the tenor saxophone pioneer, recorded 'Some of these days' and 'After you've gone' for Decca F5581 in the 1930s.AI summary
Decca F5581 Jazz