316 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Hilos Hawaiian Orchestra performing two Hawaiian songs for Victor (the US RCA subsidiary). This is a commercial Hawaiian music recording from an unidentified US group.AI summary
Victor 20596 Hawaiian
The Honolulu Serenaders recorded 'Honolulu Stomp' and 'Mele of Hawaii' for Victor (21120). The Honolulu Serenaders were a vocal group specializing in Hawaiian music; this is an American Victor pressing, not a UK issue.AI summary
Victor 21120 Hawaiian
Horace Wright and Rene Dietrich with My Luau Girl and On the Beach at Waikiki on Victor 18132.AI summary
Victor 18132 Hawaiian
I Patricola on Victor 18967 performing 'Hot Lips' and 'All for the Love of Mike', both jazz standards of the 1920s. Patricola was a known jazz artist of the period; Victor 18000-series pressings are uncommon in the UK.AI summary
Victor 18967 Jazz
Ignace Jan Paderewski, the legendary Polish pianist and statesman, recorded two classical piano pieces—the famous Minuet attributed to him and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. These are historic acoustic recordings on the American Victor label.AI summary
Victor 16250 Classical
International Novelty recorded a novelty or dance number 'Let It Rain' and 'My Kid' on Victor label, catalogue 19624. Victor was the American label, and UK pressings of this catalogue range are scarce.AI summary
Victor 19624 Dance
Isham Jones (1894–1956) was an American bandleader and composer who recorded sophisticated dance and novelty sides throughout the 1920s and 1930s; this Victor side pairs 'Blue Prelude' with Ray Noble's 'Lady of Spain'.AI summary
Victor 24499 Dance
Isham Jones was a prominent American bandleader and composer of the 1920s–30s, leading one of the most sophisticated dance orchestras of the era. 'Blue Prelude' and 'Just Born to Be Lonesome' are typical of his refined hot-dance style, recorded for Victor.AI summary
Victor 24298 Dance
J. Moskowitz performing 'Operatic Rag' and 'Panama Pacific Drag' on Victor catalogue 17978. The operatic rag was a short-lived novelty form combining ragtime with operatic melody, popular in the 1910s.AI summary
Victor 17978 Instrumental
J Shilkret, credited on Victor, performing popular novelty and sentimental songs from the 1920s-30s era.AI summary
Victor 19817 Voice
J Shilkret on Victor 19931, a vocal novelty record from the late 1920s.AI summary
Victor 19931 Voice
J. Smith recorded popular sentimental songs for Victor Records. The titles are from the 1920s standard repertoire, widely recorded across all labels. Victor was a major American label with UK pressings, and such material survives in quantity.AI summary
Victor 35682 Voice
Jack Charman on Victor C36, performing novelty pieces. Victor was the British subsidiary of the American Gramophone Company, and C-series pressings are early.AI summary
Victor C36 Music Hall
Jack Charman on Victor (British Victor) C28, performing novelty songs.AI summary
Victor C28 Music Hall
Jack Charman recorded 'Oh You Beautiful Doll' and 'Ragtime Violin' for Victor C46, an extremely early catalogue number suggesting a British or American pressing from around 1905 or earlier. This is one of Victor's earliest releases.AI summary
Victor C46 Instrumental
Jack Pettis, American saxophonist and bandleader, on two dance and jazz sides, Freshman Hop and A Bag of Blues, recorded for Victor 21793.AI summary
Victor 21793 Jazz
Jack Smith, an American popular tenor, recorded 'When Autumn Leaves are Falling' and 'Always' (Irving Berlin) on Victor 19959. Smith was a prolific recording artist and radio performer of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Victor 19959 Voice
Jan Kubelik, the Czech violinist and composer, performing his virtuoso showpiece Perpetuum Mobile on Victor 74257, recorded during the early electrical era.AI summary
Victor 74257 Classical
Jeanette Macdonald, the American soprano and Hollywood film star, recorded these two popular songs on the Victor label, likely early 1930s. Macdonald was one of the most famous recording artists of her era.AI summary
Victor 10-1153 Voice
Jeanette MacDonald, the American operetta star and film actress, recorded Spanish-language versions of romantic songs for the Victor label in the early 1930s during the height of her popularity.AI summary
Victor 18315 Opera
Jelly Roll Morton was a pioneering jazz pianist and composer, often called the 'inventor of jazz'. 'Sidewalk Blues' and 'Dead Man Blues' are seminal jazz recordings. This Victor 40-0118 pressing is a later re-pressing or issue, catalogue number format suggesting 1930s or later, of recordings that were originally made in the 1920s.AI summary
Victor 40-0118 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton's 'Boogaboo' and 'Kansas City Stomps' on Victor date from his celebrated Red Hot Peppers period, among the most studied small-group jazz recordings of the era.AI summary
Victor 38010 Jazz
Another Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers disc, but issued in Victor's later 40-0000 reissue series rather than as an original pressing, making it more accessible than the first-issue 20000-series discs.AI summary
Victor 40-0121 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers made some of the most admired small-group recordings of the 1920s, and 'Beale Street Blues' and 'The Pearls' on US Victor are classic examples sought by jazz collectors.AI summary
Victor 20948 Jazz
Jessie Broughton, a British concert and ballad singer, recorded sentimental material for Victor in the 1920s; 'When all was young' is a Victorian drawing-room ballad typical of her repertoire, here on the American Victor label.AI summary
Victor B25 Voice
Joe Raymond band recorded novelty songs 'Dirty Hands Dirty Face' and 'My Sweetie Went Away' for Victor 19110, a US Victor pressing.AI summary
Victor 19110 Dance
Joe Raymond's band perform 'Hollywood' and Paul Whiteman's 'Linger Awhile' on Victor, the American subsidiary of His Master's Voice. The band is not well documented.AI summary
Victor 19211 Dance
Johnny Marvin, an American tenor vocalist of the 1920s, on Victor: 'One I love just can't be bothered with me' and 'Lazy Lou'siana Moon', sentimental vocal numbers from the acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 22348 Voice
Johnny Marvin, a singer and actor prominent in the 1920s–30s, performs two popular songs on Victor 22348.AI summary
Victor 22348 Voice
Joseph Smith Orchestra recorded two popular songs for Victor Records, a US label; this catalogue number suggests a 1920s American pressing, and UK copies are uncommon.AI summary
Victor 18632 Orchestra
Julia Culp, Dutch mezzo-soprano and leading art-song recitalist, performing 'Silver Threads Among the Gold' on the American Victor label.AI summary
Victor 74527 Voice
Julia Culp, Dutch mezzo-soprano, on Victor, performing 'At Parting' — the celebrated early-20th-century art-song recitalist.AI summary
Victor 64441 Voice
Julia Culp was a Dutch mezzo-soprano (1880–1970) celebrated for Lieder and concert song, particularly German art-song repertoire; this Victor pressing of a lullaby from an Indian song cycle is from the early acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 64491 Classical
Julip Culp, a mezzo-soprano of Lieder repertoire, recorded for Victor (RCA); the title "Haidenroslein" is a German folk poem, and Culp's recordings are now scarce.AI summary
Victor 64396 Voice
JW Myers on Victor Records, catalogue 4968, a very early American pressing from the acoustic era (circa 1915-1920). 'Bowery Grenadiers' suggests comic or music hall material.AI summary
Victor 4968 Music Hall
Knecht on Victor 18432 with 'American Serenade' and 'Maytime', early instrumental recordings from around 1910–1915.AI summary
Victor 18432 Instrumental
Korsoff and Beyle performing 'Manon' and 'Favorita' on Victor 16551, a US-pressed operatic recording from the early 20th century.AI summary
Victor 16551 Opera
Arturo Toscanini conducts the La Scala Orchestra in the Aragonaise from Bizet's Carmen on Victor 64999, a single-sided acoustic pressing. This is a companion to the other Toscanini La Scala Victor in this collection; single-sided acoustic Victor pressings of Toscanini's earliest conducting career are collected by orchestral 78 enthusiasts.AI summary
Victor 64999 Classical
Arturo Toscanini conducts the La Scala Orchestra in a Mozart minuet from the Symphony in E flat on Victor 74668, a single-sided 12-inch red-seal pressing. Toscanini's pre-war La Scala Victor recordings are historically important documents of his early career and are collected by admirers of both Toscanini and historic orchestral performance.AI summary
Victor 74668 Classical
Leo Reisman's orchestra, a prestige New York dance band, performing 'Have You Met Miss Jones' and 'I'd Rather Be Right' on Victor, representing sophisticated 1930s ballroom dance.AI summary
Victor 25687 Dance
Leopold Stokowski, the flamboyant and celebrated conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, performing an outline of themes from César Franck's Symphony in D Minor on Victor catalogue 6725. Stokowski's Victor recordings are collected by enthusiasts of the conductor's distinctive orchestral sound.AI summary
Victor 6725 Orchestra
Lillian Blauvelt (1873-1947), the American soprano, sings an aria from Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes on Victor 81067.AI summary
Victor 81067 Opera
Lyric Quartet performing 'Good Night (Martha)' on Victor 5855. The quartet is unidentified; Victor was primarily an American label.AI summary
Victor 5855 Voice
M Pilzer performing classical instrumental pieces (a Spanish dance and a Chopin waltz) on Victor, a major American label whose British pressings circulated widely.AI summary
Victor 17206 Classical
Credited to Mandell on Victor 183, an early catalogue number, performing 'Love your Spell is everywhere' and 'Darkie's Dream'.AI summary
Victor 183 Dance
Mandell recorded 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' and a 'Valse Chromatique' for Victor 212, an early American issue likely from the 1920s.AI summary
Victor 212 Instrumental
Marcel Journet, the French bass, sings Colline's 'Vecchia zimarra' from 'La bohème' on a single-sided Victor.AI summary
Victor 64035 Opera
Marcel Journet, the distinguished Belgian bass, sings 'La Chanson des Peupliers' on Victor 64011, a single-sided pressing. The Victor 64011 number is an early single-sided format; this is a companion to the other Journet single-sided Victor in this collection (Vic64035).AI summary
Victor 64011 Opera