171 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Brett Barry singing 'Someday' and 'My Little Persian Rose' on Pathé 8864, from the late 1920s.AI summary
Pathé 8864 Voice
Burt Shepard performs 'The Boy and the Cheese' and 'Nonsense' on Pathé 60440. Shepard was a prolific early recording artist in the comic novelty genre; his Pathé pressings are less common than his Odeon equivalents and are of period interest to collectors of early comic recordings.AI summary
Pathé 60440 Comic
Byron Harlan on Pathé 1107, performing "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?" and a wartime novelty from the First World War era. Harlan was a prolific acoustic-era tenor vocalist.AI summary
Pathé 1107 Voice
The California Ramblers, a prolific American dance band, recorded for the Pathé label in the mid-1920s. This coupling features 'Bebe' and 'Electric Girl', typical hot-dance numbers of the period.AI summary
Pathé 1741 Dance
Caroline Hatchard performing 'Pipes of Pan' and 'Light is my Heart' on Pathé 78534, a British acoustic recording from the early 1920s.AI summary
Pathé 78534 Voice
Frederic Cowen's sacred song 'The Better Land' and Elgar's 'Land of Hope and Glory', sung by Carrie Herwin on Pathé.AI summary
Pathé 5607 Voice
Carrie Tubb was a British mezzo-soprano and concert singer active from the 1900s to the 1930s. This Pathé recording preserves two of her performances of popular ballads.AI summary
Pathé 5426 Voice
Enrico Caruso sings 'E Lucevan le Stelle' from Puccini's 'Tosca' (and a second aria) on Pathé 84004. Pathé issued Caruso recordings by licence or from separate sessions, and their Caruso pressings are considered secondary to his Victor and HMV sides by most collectors. However, any Caruso disc retains significant collector interest; Pathé's hill-and-dale cutting means a standard stylus will not play it correctly.AI summary
Pathé 84004 Voice
Casino Dance Orchestra performing two dance-band selections from the 1920s on Pathé.AI summary
Pathé 1416 Dance
Casino Orch on Pathé 1580, with 'Neath the South Sea Moon' and 'Oogie Wa' — light tropical-flavoured dance music on a major British label, late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Pathé 1580 Dance
C. E. Warrington performing two Northumbrian dialect songs — 'Neighbours Doon Belaw' and 'Geordie Haud the Bairn' — on Pathé catalogue 77230. The artist does not appear prominently in standard references; regional dialect recordings on Pathé are a specialist collecting category and may be uncommon outside their home region.AI summary
Pathé 77230 Music Hall
Celestina Boninsegna, one of the most admired early dramatic sopranos, sings 'Pace mio Dio' from La Forza del Destino and 'Ritorna Vincitor' from Aida on Pathé 10085, a 12-inch pressing. Boninsegna's Pathé recordings are less commonly encountered than her Columbia equivalents and attract specialist collectors of early operatic singing.AI summary
Pathé 10085 Opera
Charles Penrose performs his famous novelty song 'Laughing Ploughboy' (with 'Laughing Johnnie') on Pathé. Penrose's laughing song was one of the most widely known comedy records of the early 20th century.AI summary
Pathé 93557 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and music-hall entertainer, recorded 'I Couldn't Help Laughing (Part 13)' and 'A Merry Family' for Pathé, catalogue 5344. Penrose was best known for his long-running novelty laugh, and his recordings were popular in the 1920s and 1930s.AI summary
Pathé 5344 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British comic vocalist best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', performing 'Laughing Family' and 'Away with melancholy' for Pathé 79958.AI summary
Pathé 79958 Personalities (Prs)
Charles Penrose, best known as 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded comic material for Pathé. This 1920s-1930s pressing preserves his comic laughing sketches, which were hugely popular in music hall. Pathé was a major British label, and Penrose recordings exist in quantity, though individual titles vary.AI summary
Pathé 79960 Music Hall
Charles Tree on Pathé recorded two sentimental vocal numbers with patriotic or nostalgic themes in the early acoustic era.AI summary
Pathé 77074 Voice
Chris Chapman performs two hymns, 'Nearer my God to Thee' and 'Lead kindly Light', on Pathé 1066 from the acoustic or early electric era.AI summary
Pathé 1066 Voice
Eleanora de Cisneros, the American dramatic mezzo-soprano who sang at Covent Garden and La Scala in the early twentieth century, sings 'Bliss Forever Past' and 'I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls' on Pathé 59083. De Cisneros is a recognised name in early operatic collecting; her Pathé recordings are less commonly encountered than HMV equivalents.AI summary
Pathé 59083 Opera
Ella Retford, the popular Edwardian music-hall performer, on Pathé catalogue 77748, with 'You Shall Have a Lovely Home, Johannah' and 'Moving Day'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 77748 Music Hall
Ella Retford, the popular Edwardian music-hall performer, on Pathé catalogue 78496, with 'I'll Let the World Go By' and 'She's a Girl Up North'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 78496 Music Hall
Ella Retford, the popular Edwardian music-hall performer, on Pathé catalogue 78498, with 'I Can Picture Polly Hanging Up the Holly' and 'I Want Mr. Schneider'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 78498 Music Hall
Ella Retford, the popular Edwardian music-hall performer, on Pathé catalogue 78537, with 'I'm Looking for Someone to Love Me' and 'Molly O'Morgan'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 78537 Music Hall
Emma Luart with Jeffry's Jazz performing 'Parade D'Amour' on Pathé, a French label with British distribution in the late 1920s.AI summary
Pathé X3442 Dance
Eric Foster recorded Geordie dialect comic songs 'Noo luk here Hinnie' and 'Geordie the Tram Conductor' for Pathé, the French-British label, catalogue 93459.AI summary
Pathé 93459 Music Hall
Ernest Pike was a British tenor of the early twentieth century; this Pathé recording of 'I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby' and 'Killarney' represents light classical or art-song material from the early acoustic era.AI summary
Pathé 77677
Ernest Shand, the Edwardian music-hall comedian and monologist, on Pathé catalogue 92861, with 'Introductions' and 'I Went On My Way Rejoicing'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 92861 Music Hall
Ernest Shand, the Edwardian music-hall comedian and monologist, on Pathé catalogue 92863, with 'Husband's Strike' and 'We Really Had a Most Delightful Evening'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 92863 Music Hall
Ernest Shand, the Edwardian music-hall comedian and monologist, on Pathé catalogue 92864, with 'In America' and 'Nelson and Me'. Pathé issued a wide range of British music-hall performers and pressings of this type are moderately common.AI summary
Pathé 92864 Music Hall
Female vocalist on Pathé 36003, performing 'Three Coins in a Fountain' and 'Mama'. The artist is unidentified, and without further details, this cannot be placed beyond its label and catalogue information.AI summary
Pathé 36003 Voice
Ferera and Franchini were a celebrated Hawaiian steel-guitar duo of the 1920s–30s, and this Pathé pressing pairs two pieces typical of their repertoire: "Rio Nights Waltz" and "Dreamy Paradise". Hawaiian guitar was hugely popular in Britain during this period.AI summary
Pathé 1532 Hawaiian
Fred Vernon recorded two British music hall or folk-influenced pieces, 'Jolly good luck to the girl ...' and 'Wire in my lads' for Pathé. The titles suggest Victorian or early music hall repertoire.AI summary
Pathé 60552 Music Hall
Fred Vernon, a British dance or music-hall performer, on Pathé 77214 with 'Splash me' and 'Little by little and bit by bit'.AI summary
Pathé 77214 Voice
Fred Vernon recorded 'Wedding of Jack and Jill' and 'Village Choir' for Pathé 77448, a novelty-vocal record from the acoustic era.AI summary
Pathé 77448 Comic
Frosini, an Italian harmonica virtuoso, performing 'Rag in D Minor' and 'On the paragon March' on Pathé 1569, likely from the 1920s.AI summary
Pathé 1569 Instrumental
La Garde Républicaine Band performing 'Salut' and 'Le Tram March' on Pathé 5367, French military band recordings.AI summary
Pathé 5367 Orchestra
Gene Greene, an American ragtime and vaudeville singer, recorded 'Dublin Daisies' and 'That was me' for Pathé.AI summary
Pathé 92135 Voice
George Baker on Pathé 5662 recorded 'Myself When Young' and 'Lowland Sea'; Pathé was a significant British–French label.AI summary
Pathé 5662 Voice
George Formby — here almost certainly George Formby Senior, the Lancashire comedian — on Pathé catalogue 77742, with 'Man from Lancashire No. 2' and 'Walker Walked Away'. Pathé issued a range of British hall performers; Formby Senior on Pathé is moderately uncommon and of interest to collectors of the elder Formby's work.AI summary
Pathé 77742 Personalities (Prs)
Two popular dance numbers credited to Glantz on Pathé, from the 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Pathé 1676 Dance
Glantz performing 'Who did you fool after all' and 'Journey's End' on Pathé 1705, likely from the 1920s-1930s.AI summary
Pathé 1705 Voice
Harry Fay performs two novelty character songs on Pathé 60983: "New Taximeter Car" and "Galloping Major," likely from the 1920s or early 1930s. Pathé was a major European label with British pressings; this artist is otherwise untraced.AI summary
Pathé 60983 Music Hall
Harry Fragson was a celebrated Anglo-French music-hall singer and pianist, enormously popular on both sides of the Channel before his violent death in 1913. This Pathé 3007 — 'En avant les p'tits gars' and 'Si tu veux Marguerite' — is a French pressing on Pathé, whose vertical-cut discs require a special stylus. Fragson's records are collected by enthusiasts of Edwardian music hall and French chanson alike.AI summary
Pathé 3007 Music Hall
Harry Fragson was a celebrated Franco-British music-hall comedian and singer, hugely popular in both London and Paris in the Edwardian era, who was murdered by his own father in 1913. This Pathé disc, catalogue 78099, contains 'Billy Brown' paired with a W. Evans number. Fragson's recordings are actively collected on account of his fame and tragic end.AI summary
Pathé 78099 Music Hall
Harry Lauder, the legendary Scottish music-hall entertainer and singer, on Pathé with 'She's Ma Daisy' and 'Rising Early in the Morning'. Lauder was one of the biggest stars of the Edwardian music hall and recorded extensively throughout his career.AI summary
Pathé 60295/0458 Music Hall
Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish comedian and international star, recorded these novelty numbers on Pathé. Lauder was one of the most commercially successful entertainers of the early gramophone era.AI summary
Pathé 60454 Personalities (Prs)
Harry Lauder, the legendary Scottish music-hall comedian and singer, recorded comic and sentimental material on Pathé. Lauder was one of the most popular recording artists of the early twentieth century.AI summary
Pathé 20790 Personalities (Prs)
Harry Lauder was the most famous British music-hall comedian and singer of the Edwardian era, celebrated for Scots character songs and pantomime. 'I Love a Lassie' was one of his signature numbers. This Pathé pressing is from the acoustic era.AI summary
Pathé 276/8 Music Hall