218 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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HM Grenadier Guards military band performing extracts from Hérodiade (Massenet) on Odeon. Military band recordings of classical opera excerpts were standard concert-hall repertoire.AI summary
Odeon 66499/500 Orchestra
The HM Grenadier Guards, a British military band, recorded the 'Marche Indienne' and 'The Marseillaise' for Odeon—patriotic and classical repertoire from the mid-20th century.AI summary
Odeon 66314 Orchestra
The H.M. Grenadier Guards recorded a two-part selection—likely from a popular musical or operetta—for Odeon. This represents a military band recording, a common genre in early 20th-century shellac production.AI summary
Odeon 66335 Instrumental
The HM Grenadier Guards, the regimental band of the Household Division, recorded 'An Evening in Toledo' (a light orchestral piece) on Odeon; a straightforward military band recording of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Odeon 66430 Orchestra
His Majesty's Grenadier Guards, a British military band, performing orchestral suite on Odeon. Military-band recordings of this type were common, and this is a typical ceremonial or state-occasion recording.AI summary
Odeon 66433 Orchestra
HM Grenadier Guards Band performing 'Reminiscences of Eales' on Odeon 66838, a mid-period British military band recording.AI summary
Odeon 66838 Orchestra
Odeon 66855
The HM Grenadier Guards perform a selection from Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Patience' on Odeon 0244, a two-part recording from the early acoustic era.AI summary
Odeon 0244 Orchestra
His Majesty's Grenadier Guards, a British military band, performing 'Shepherds Dance' and 'Waltz Romeo & Juliet' on Odeon 66099. Military band recordings by the Foot Guards are collected for their precision and period interest.AI summary
Odeon 66099 Orchestra
Her Majesty's Irish Guards recorded orchestral and band repertoire for Odeon; 'The Benediction of the Poignards' (from Bizet's Carmen) and Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' are dramatic concert pieces.AI summary
Odeon 32067 Orchestra
The HM Irish Guards, a military band recorded for His Master's Voice, performing 'Benediction of the Poignards' and Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture', catalogue 32648.AI summary
Odeon 32648 Orchestra
Humphrey Bishop recorded 'The Jovial Monk' and 'The Ringers' for Odeon 0712, likely a recitation or novelty number from the early 1930s or earlier.AI summary
Odeon 0712 Music Hall
The Imperial Infantry Band recorded two light instrumental pieces, "Reverie" and "Fascination Waltz", for Odeon 44717. Odeon was a major German-owned label with substantial British pressings from the 1920s onward.AI summary
Odeon 44717 Orchestra
The Imperial Infantry Band recorded "The Balkan Princess" for Odeon, a German-owned label that pressed significant quantities in Britain from the 1920s onwards. This is a military brass-band arrangement of light repertoire.AI summary
Odeon 66719 Orchestra
The Imperial Infantry Band performing 'Distant Greeting' and 'In Toyland' on Odeon 44523, a British military band recording.AI summary
Odeon 44523 Orchestra
Imperial Military Band performing 'Whispers of Love' and 'In a Pagoda' on Odeon 44233, a British military band recording from the acoustic or early electrical era.AI summary
Odeon 44233 Orchestra
Ivor Foster singing two romantic songs—'Woo Thou Thy Snowflake' and 'Thou'rt passing hence'—on Odeon 44843.AI summary
Odeon 44843 Voice
Ivor Foster performing two sentimental ballads on Odeon, a major international label. Foster was a British tenor recording in the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Odeon 66656 Voice
Ivor Foster recorded for Odeon in the 1920s or early 1930s, singing 'Who Is Sylvia' (a classical art song by Schubert) and 'Queen of My Heart', suggesting light classical or sentimental vocal material.AI summary
Odeon 72524 Voice
Odeon 82R
A Belgian accordion player recording in French for the Odeon label; little is known of J Willekens or the reach of Odeon's continental catalogue in Britain.AI summary
Odeon 33287 Instrumental
James Davis on Odeon 44650, performing two sentimental popular songs. Odeon was a major international label with a large British catalogue; Davis is not a major identified artist.AI summary
Odeon 44650 Voice
Jessie Reeve, an unidentified vocalist, on Odeon (a German label with British distribution), with 'Alas Those Chimes' and 'Tis the Harp'.AI summary
Odeon 66714 Voice
Johannes Herskind, a Danish musician, recorded these waltzes from *Klokken fra Corneville* (a Danish operetta) on Odeon; the catalogue number suggests a 1920s–1930s pressing.AI summary
Odeon 144253//4 Instrumental
John McCormack, the celebrated Irish tenor, recorded 'Lolita' and 'I Hear You Calling Me' for Odeon in the 1920s-30s.AI summary
Odeon 84217 Voice
John McCormack, the Irish tenor widely regarded as one of the finest lyric voices of the early twentieth century, performing 'La donna è mobile' and 'Questa o quella' from Verdi's Rigoletto on Odeon catalogue 57508. McCormack's Verdi recordings are consistently collected; Odeon pressings of his work are moderately uncommon.AI summary
Odeon 57508 Opera
John McCormack, the Irish tenor widely regarded as one of the finest lyric voices of the early twentieth century, performing 'Roses' and 'I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby' on Odeon catalogue 57580. McCormack's recordings are consistently collected; Odeon pressings of his work are moderately uncommon.AI summary
Odeon 57580 Voice
John McCormack, the legendary Irish tenor (1884–1945), recorded extensively for Odeon and other labels; 'Savoureen Delish' and 'Terences Farewell to Kathleen' are Irish songs typical of his repertoire, recorded in the acoustic or early electrical era.AI summary
Odeon 44852 Voice
John McCormack, the celebrated Irish tenor, singing 'Roses' and 'I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby' on Odeon 57580. McCormack was one of the most famous recording artists of the acoustic and early electric era, and his recordings remain highly collectable.AI summary
Odeon 57580 Voice
John Morton recorded 'Happenings' and 'The Christmas Party' on Odeon catalogue 32233. The artist and titles do not appear in standard discographies.AI summary
Odeon 32233
Kent Hamilton and Dante Varela performing two popular ballads on Odeon, mid-period catalogue.AI summary
Odeon 45880 Voice
Kunz performing the Wartime novelty 'I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire' for Odeon. 'Home Sweet Home Again' is a sentimental standard. Kunz is unrecognised.AI summary
Odeon 283675 Voice
Le Messe de Saint Hubert perform 'Trompes de Chasse', traditional French hunting-horn fanfares, on the Odeon label's international catalogue.AI summary
Odeon 33125 Instrumental
Leo Slezak was one of the most celebrated dramatic tenors of the early twentieth century, an enormous figure known for his Otello, Lohengrin and comic wit. This Odeon disc, catalogue 38017, contains 'O Glanz von Paris' and the 'Arioso aus Bajazzo' from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Slezak's Odeon recordings are of collector interest to enthusiasts of early German operatic singing.AI summary
Odeon 38017 Opera
Lina Margy sings Voulez-vous danser grand-mère and Cours de danse on Odeon 281.856.AI summary
Odeon 281.856 Voice
Lloyd Chandos performing light operatic material on Odeon 32723, from the 1920s-30s era. Odeon was a major European label with wide British distribution.AI summary
Odeon 32723 Opera
Lloyd Chandos singing sacred songs 'The Star of Bethlehem' and 'The holy City' for Odeon.AI summary
Odeon 32964 Voice
Lloyd Chandos was a British baritone of the 1920s-30s era. This Odeon pressing pairs two popular sentimental songs: 'When Other Lips' and 'Sally in Our Alley', both standard drawing-room repertoire of the period.AI summary
Odeon 57570 Voice
Louis Armstrong, the greatest jazz trumpeter and vocalist of the twentieth century, recorded 'Irish Black Bottom' and 'You Made Me Love You' for the Odeon label. This is an early Armstrong recording from his prolific early period in the mid-1920s.AI summary
Odeon 279.787 Jazz
Louis Armstrong's 'Big Butter and Egg Man' and 'Sunset Cafe Stomp', recorded for Odeon with catalogue number 279.788 in the 1920s, are among Armstrong's most important early jazz recordings.AI summary
Odeon 279.788 Jazz
Louis Armstrong, the revolutionary jazz trumpeter, recorded the early jazz classics 'Come Back Sweet Papa' and 'Georgia Grind' for Odeon, the German label, possibly an early British pressing.AI summary
Odeon 279.790 Jazz
Louis Armstrong on Odeon 279.827, recording "King of the Zulus" and "Lonesome blues"; Odeon was a major Continental label and UK copies of early Armstrong material remain uncommon.AI summary
Odeon 279.827 Jazz
Louis Armstrong, the revolutionary jazz trumpeter and vocalist, recorded 'Skid dat de dat' and 'Jazz lips' for Odeon; this is an early Armstrong electrical recording from the late 1920s.AI summary
Odeon 279.828 Jazz
Louis Armstrong's early hot jazz sides 'Melancholy Blues' and 'Keyhole Blues' on Odeon, a major international label. These are Armstrong's foundational recordings from the mid-1920s, among the most important jazz recordings of the period.AI summary
Odeon 279.829 Jazz
Louis Bradfield was a popular Edwardian actor and singer known for his work in musical comedy. This Odeon disc, catalogue 32046, contains 'I Don't Care' and 'There's Nothing Much More to Say'. Odeon pressings of British musical-comedy artists at this catalogue level are moderately common.AI summary
Odeon 32046 Music Hall
Luisa Ribacchi and Rolando Panerai, Italian opera singers, recorded Massenet's 'Samson et Dalila' in two parts for the Odeon label, likely a 1950s European pressing.AI summary
Odeon R30033 Opera
M. Jaume recorded 'Mendiant d'Amour' and 'O Sole Mio' for Odeon, catalogue 60110, in the late 1920s or early 1930s; this is light classical or operatic material on a major European label.AI summary
Odeon 60110 Classical
M. Lapelletrie, credited on Odeon 73111, performing 'Sa Mere l'Attend Toujours' and 'Pardon d'Enfant' — French-language sentimental songs, likely from the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Odeon 73111 Voice