316 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Marcel Journet, the distinguished Belgian bass who sang at the Met, Covent Garden, and La Scala alongside the greatest singers of his era, performs 'Vecchia Zimarra' from La Bohème on Victor 64035, a single-sided pressing. Journet's Victor recordings are collected by admirers of the basso cantante tradition; the 64000 Victor series is an early acoustic single-sided format.AI summary
Victor 64035 Opera
Marcel Journet, a French baritone and one of the leading Wagnerian singers of the early 20th century, performing the *Abendsterrn* aria from *Tannhäuser* on Victor. This is an early recording of one of the great bass-baritones of the pre-acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 74006 Opera
Marcel Journet, a celebrated French baritone of the early 20th century, sings 'Les deux Grenadiers' (The Two Grenadiers), Schubert's setting of Heinrich Heine's famous patriotic poem, on Victor.AI summary
Victor 74038 Opera
Maria Jeritza was one of the most glamorous and celebrated dramatic sopranos of the 1920s, the Met's favourite Tosca and Salome and a star of considerable personal renown. Victor 74776 — 'Traft ihr das Schiff' from Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer — is a large-format single-sided Victor Red Seal pressing, indicating a prestigious acoustic celebrity issue on the American Victor label.AI summary
Victor 74776 Opera
Maria Jeritza, the Moravian-born soprano and international opera star, recorded arias from *Cavalleria rusticana* and Puccini's *Tosca* for Victor Records in the acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 1346 Opera
Marion Harris, an American singer whose smooth vaudeville style influenced early jazz vocalists, recorded "For Johnny and Me" and W.C. Handy's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" for Victor in the acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 18535 Voice
Mark Sheridan on Victor catalogue 35229 — an American Victor pressing — with 'A Nightmare in the Desert' and the unusual 'Puzzle Record' on the reverse, which contains four different tracks starting from different points on the disc. Puzzle records were a novelty format of the early acoustic era; a Sheridan Puzzle Record on American Victor is an unusual combination that warrants investigation.AI summary
Victor 35229 Music Hall
Mart Kenney & His Western Gentlemen recording 'The West is a Nest and You Dear' on Victor 216593, a North American pressing. Kenney was a prominent Canadian dance-band and Western-swing leader.AI summary
Victor 216593 Country
Matilde Brodes is not a name that appears in standard operatic or vocal discographies, and Victor 66096 — 'England's Godspeed to Her Prince' — appears to be a patriotic occasional piece rather than operatic repertoire. Victor 66000-series pressings are American acoustic discs from the earliest recording era (c.1902–1908). The identity of the performer and the occasion of the piece both warrant investigation.AI summary
Victor 66096 Voice
Maud Powell was one of the first American concert violinists of international standing, and this recording of the famous salon piece Humoresque dates from the acoustic era of Victor's catalogue. UK copies are scarce.AI summary
Victor 74494 Classical
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, one of the finest big bands of the late 1920s, play 'I Miss a Little Miss' and 'After All, You're All I'm After' on American Victor.AI summary
Victor 23024 Jazz
McKinney's Cotton Pickers, one of the leading African-American jazz orchestras of the late 1920s, on Victor—a label now highly sought by collectors of early hot jazz.AI summary
Victor 38013 Jazz
Emma Eames was an American operatic soprano of the late 19th century. Victor 88016 ('Ave Maria') is an early acoustic recording of a canonical prima donna.AI summary
Victor 88016 Opera
Mme Michailowa performing Gounod's 'Serenade' on Victor 61144, a sentimental classical vocal piece. Michailowa is unidentified; Victor 61000 series dates to the early electrical era (late 1920s). The name suggests a Russian or Eastern European singer.AI summary
Victor 61144 Classical
Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, one of the greatest contraltos of the early 20th century, recorded Donizetti's 'Lucrezia Borgia' aria for Victor 043068; Schumann-Heink had an extraordinarily long and celebrated recording career.AI summary
Victor 043068 Opera
Myrtle Eaver, a British vocalist, recorded for the American Victor label in the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Victor 20803 Voice
Myrtle Eaver singing 'A Deserted Farm' on Victor 22161, an American label.AI summary
Victor 22161 Voice
Nat Shilkret, the American conductor and composer, arranged and conducted these two pieces—including The Desert Song from Romberg's operetta—for Victor, a major American label, in the late 1920s.AI summary
Victor 20512 Orchestra
Nellie Melba, the legendary Australian soprano, recorded 'Goodbye' for Victor, catalogue 88065, one of her final recordings and among the most sought-after voices on record.AI summary
Victor 88065 Opera
Victor 6211
Nelson Eddy, the American operatic baritone, performing light operatic material on Victor 4280. Eddy was a major star of 1930s-40s Hollywood and a prolific recording artist.AI summary
Victor 4280 Opera
Nicola Zerola on Victor 64170, with 'Trovatore—Di Quella Piazza' (an excerpt from Verdi). Zerola was an Italian tenor recorded in the early electrical era.AI summary
Victor 64170 Opera
Olga Samaroff, the American pianist, first female music critic of the New York Evening Post, and wife of Leopold Stokowski, plays Liszt's Liebestraum and Chopin's Nocturne in E flat on Victor 6269, a single-sided pressing. Samaroff's recordings are uncommon and she is a recognised name in the history of American piano playing.AI summary
Victor 6269 Classical
Credited to 'Olsen' on Victor, this pressing of two numbers from the musical 'Good News' is likely a performance by the Olsen dance band or a related act. Victor was an American label; UK copies are less common.AI summary
Victor 20875 Dance
Olsen, a dance bandleader, performing two popular numbers for Victor in the 1920s.AI summary
Victor 19518 Dance
Olsen's orchestra recorded 'Sunny' and 'Who' for Victor, a major American label; likely an American dance-band side of the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Victor 19840 Dance
Olsen on Victor Records with 'If you believed in me' and 'Song of the moonbeams'. The catalogue number 22065 suggests a mid-to-late 1920s pressing.AI summary
Victor 22065 Voice
Olsen recorded for Victor, the American label; 'Please' and 'It's gonna be you' are routine popular ballads of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Victor 24139 Voice
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band were white New Orleans musicians who made the first jazz recordings in 1917 and became recording stars of the 1920s. This Victor 26000-series pressing documents their influential ensemble style.AI summary
Victor 26039 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the pioneering hot-jazz group that made the first jazz recordings in 1917, on Victor 18564 with 'Fidgety Feet' and 'Lazy Daddy'. These are instrumental jazz sides from the early 1920s.AI summary
Victor 18564 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band performing 'St Louis Blues' and 'Jazz me Blues' for Victor 18772, a US pressing.AI summary
Victor 18772 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's 1918 Victor recordings, including 'Ostrich Walk' and 'At the Jazz Band Ball', were among the first jazz sides ever issued; UK copies of Victor's early jazz catalogue are extremely uncommon.AI summary
Victor 18457 Jazz
Victor 18483 Dance
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the pioneering ensemble that made the first jazz recordings in 1917, recorded 'Fidgety Feet' on Victor 25668. This band was revolutionary in establishing jazz as a recordable and commercial art form.AI summary
Victor 25668 Jazz
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band on Victor 18729 with 'Home Again Blues' and 'Crazy Blues'. This is an American import of one of the earliest and most historically significant jazz groups, credited with the first jazz recordings in 1917.AI summary
Victor 18729 Jazz
The Original Memphis Five, a pioneering American jazz ensemble, recorded these jazz numbers for Victor. Both titles are jazz standards; the group recorded important early jazz and dance-band material in the 1920s.AI summary
Victor 19480 Jazz
The Original Memphis Five performing two early jazz numbers on Victor 19805. The Memphis Five were a prolific recording ensemble active in the early 1920s and recorded under many variations of their name.AI summary
Victor 19805 Jazz
Otto Goritz performing what appears to be a German operatic or folk piece on Victor 64164. Goritz was likely a European vocalist or character performer of the acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 64164 Opera
Pale K Lua, a Hawaiian vocalist, recorded these two Hawaiian songs for Victor. 'Ua like no a like' is a traditional Hawaiian title; the second side credits the Royal Hawaiians with Irene West as vocalist. Typical of the Hawaiian music recordings that were hugely popular in the 1920s-1930s.AI summary
Victor 17804 Hawaiian
Pale K. Lua and David K. Kaili, early Hawaiian guitarists, play Indiana March and Minnehaha Medley Waltz on Victor 17807.AI summary
Victor 17807 Hawaiian
Paul Reimers performing the romantic songs 'On Wings of Song' and 'Whither' on Victor 45065, a vocal side from a minor recording artist.AI summary
Victor 45065 Voice
Paul Whiteman's orchestra, the most popular dance band of the 1920s, plays 'Early in the Morning Blues' and 'Chicago' on American Victor.AI summary
Victor 18946 Dance
Perry Como's US Victor recording of the Rodgers & Hammerstein numbers from South Pacific, a major hit for the American crooner in the early 1950s.AI summary
Victor S2 Voice
Peter Mandell and his Rhythm Masters, a British dance band of the early 1930s recorded for the American Victor label — unusual for a British group, suggesting either touring or licensing.AI summary
Victor 214 Dance
Leopold Stokowski conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in the Largo from Dvořák's *New World Symphony* (Symphony No. 9 in E minor) for Victor, catalogue 74631. Stokowski was one of the most celebrated conductors of the twentieth century, and his Philadelphia Orchestra recordings defined the American symphonic sound.AI summary
Victor 74631 Orchestra
A Victor recording of instrumental Chinese piano and Chinese vocal, credited only to 'Piano' and 'Female Chinese Singer'. The catalogue number and minimal information suggest this is a very early or unusual release for the Victor label.AI summary
Victor 43514 Instrumental
Pol Plancon singing 'Faust - Le Veau d'Or' (The Golden Calf) from Gounod's Faust on Victor, the celebrated French baritone recorded in the acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 81038 Opera
Pol Plançon, a legendary French baritone of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, recorded the 'Mephistopheles Serenade' (Gounod, *Faust*) for Victor 81040. Plançon was one of the greatest singers of the acoustic era and his recordings are historically important.AI summary
Victor 81040 Opera