815 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Zonophone 1119 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, a British entertainer, recorded for Zonophone; novelty or comic songs 'One Little Two Little' and 'I Didn't Want to Do It'.AI summary
Zonophone 1299 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants, a British vocal entertainer, recorded for Zonophone; 'I'm Going Away to be a Soldier' and 'Cuckoo' represent popular song and novelty material from the acoustic or early electric era.AI summary
Zonophone 1418 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'At ten o'clock at night' and 'Why do they call me Archibald' for Zonophone, catalogue 1469. Pleasants was a music hall entertainer active in the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Zonophone 1469 Music Hall
Zonophone 1507 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants performing two songs on Zonophone (catalogue 1664), from the acoustic or early electrical era.AI summary
Zonophone 1664 Voice
Jack Pleasants, credited on Zonophone 1799, performing 'She Would' and 'They Can't Find Me'. Limited information available about this artist or these recordings.AI summary
Zonophone 1799 Voice
Jack Pleasants, a British music hall comedian and character singer, recorded two comic songs on Zonophone in what is likely a later issue. Pleasants was a prolific recording artist of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Zonophone 1846 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'Where do Flies go in the Wintertime?' and 'John you're in the Way' for Zonophone, catalogue 1970. A comic vocalist, Pleasants made novelty recordings for Zonophone in the early twentieth century.AI summary
Zonophone 1970 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants on Zonophone 2119, performing two comic or novelty titles: 'Have you ever seen a Winkle wink' and 'Old Top Hat I was married in'. Zonophone was a Decca budget label often used for short-run or regional titles.AI summary
Zonophone 2119 Comic
Jack Pleasants performing two comic songs on Zonophone, catalogue 2197. Both titles suggest music-hall or vaudeville material from the early twentieth century.AI summary
Zonophone 2197 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants on Zonophone 2339 with 'It's My Bath Night Tonight' and 'I'm Playing Gooseberry', a British comedy or novelty recording from the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Zonophone 2339 Comic
Jack Pleasants performs 'Long Years Ago' and 'My New Hat' on Zonophone. Pleasants was a minor British variety singer of the early 20th century, now largely forgotten.AI summary
Zonophone 1565 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded 'Meet me' and 'Drown your Sorrows when the Band plays' for Zonophone, catalogue 2245. Pleasants was a music hall entertainer active in the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Zonophone 2245 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded novelty and music-hall material for Zonophone in the early 1920s; these comic vocal numbers were typical of postwar British popular entertainment.AI summary
Zonophone 1970 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants recorded comic and novelty songs for Zonophone in the early 1920s; 'She Would' and 'They Can't Find Me' are likely music-hall or novelty material.AI summary
Zonophone 1788 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants performing novelty comedy numbers 'I'm a Dadda' and 'Norman the Mormon' on Zonophone. Pleasants is otherwise obscure; this appears to be a music-hall novelty recording from the early twentieth century.AI summary
Zonophone 1922 Music Hall
Jack Pleasants on Zonophone 1970 with novelty spoken-word comedy pieces. The Zonophone label was a prolific British imprint of the 1920s–30s, and Pleasants appears to have been a music-hall entertainer.AI summary
Zonophone 1970 Comic
Jack Pleasants on Zonophone 1922: British comic or novelty vocal from the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Zonophone 1922 Comic
Zonophone 2245 Voice
James Brown, credited on Zonophone 116, recorded two instrumental pieces: 'Jack's the Lad' and 'Favourite Hornpipe'.AI summary
Zonophone 116 Instrumental
Jan Rudenyi on Zonophone 968, performing 'Traumerei' and 'The Wren Polka'. Zonophone was a budget British label active from the 1900s through the 1930s; this pressing likely dates from the 1920s-30s.AI summary
Zonophone 968 Instrumental
Jas Brown on Zonophone Records with two Scottish reels: 'Stirling Castle and Speed the Plough' and 'Flowers O Edinburgh', likely a bagpipe or fiddle recording.AI summary
Zonophone 845 Instrumental
J C Scatter performs 'The Orange Lass' on Zonophone 42866. The 42000-series Zonophone number is a Continental or export series rather than the standard British domestic series; Scatter was a Tyneside dialect comedian and this is a companion to his other pressings in this collection.AI summary
Zonophone 42866 Music Hall
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961 — a third copy of this same pressing in this collection alongside IDs 18563 and 17109. One copy is worth retaining; the others are straightforward duplicates.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jen Latona recorded two Scots-flavoured comic songs on Zonophone 822: 'Maggie McLaren' and 'Keep on swinging me Charlie'.AI summary
Zonophone 822 Music Hall
Jen Latona, credited on Zonophone, with the novelty song *Gee But I Like Music with My Meals*, a popular number of the 1910s–1920s. Artist and label suggest a minor performer or regional favourite.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Voice
Jen Latona, a singer of the 1910s–20s, performs 'Gee but I like Music with my Meals' for Zonophone.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Voice
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961 — a duplicate of the two other copies of this same pressing in this collection. One copy is worth keeping; the others are straightforward duplicates of a standard early acoustic Zonophone.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jen Latona performs 'Ragging the Baby to Sleep' and 'Yiddisher Luck and Irisha Love' on Zonophone 1009, an early acoustic pressing. The Yiddish-Irish topical coupling is an unusual period document; the Zonophone 1009 number places this in the early acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 1009 Music Hall
Jen Latona on Zonophone 1096 — 'Hark It Is the Thunderman' and 'Your Daddy Did the Same Thing 50 Years Ago.' Zonophone catalogue number 1096 is a very low number for the label, placing this among its earliest pressings, likely before 1905. Latona is not a widely traced name, but the early Zonophone series is actively collected.AI summary
Zonophone 1096 Music Hall
Jen Latona performing popular ballads on Zonophone, a British pressing label active in the early 20th century.AI summary
Zonophone 1297 Voice
Jen Latona — a Scottish or Irish comic singer active in the Edwardian era — performs 'Rum Tum Tiddle' and 'Why Do You Keep Laughing at Me?' on Zonophone 896, a very early Zonophone pressing in the low-800s series. The 896 number places this among the earliest British Zonophone pressings, probably around 1904–1907.AI summary
Zonophone 896 Music Hall
Jen Latona recorded two songs for Zonophone: 'Land of I dunno where' and 'That haunting Melody', circa 1910–20.AI summary
Zonophone 939 Voice
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961, an early acoustic pressing. This is one of three copies of this same disc in the collection; the Zonophone 961 number places it in the early British acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jen Latona recorded 'Maggie McLaren' and 'Keep On Swinging Me Charlie' for Zonophone, a major British label. The Scottish titles and Zonophone catalogue suggest early 1900s pressing, but nothing further is known of this artist.AI summary
Zonophone 822 Voice
Jen Latona recorded these two novelty numbers—'Land of I Dunno Where' and 'That Haunting Melody'—for Zonophone, a British label, in the early 1920s or earlier.AI summary
Zonophone 939 Voice
Jimmie Rodgers (1897–1933), the 'Father of Country Music', recorded on Zonophone—a British budget label—in the late 1920s. 'Blue Yodel No. 6' is one of his famous yodelling numbers; 'Yodelling Cowboy' is a variant title. UK copies of Zonophone pressings of American artists are uncommon.AI summary
Zonophone 5623 Country
Jimmie Rodgers, the 'Father of Country Music', recorded 'A Drunkard's Child' and 'The Mystery of Number Five' for Zonophone, a British-marketed imprint, in the late 1920s.AI summary
Zonophone 4343 Country
Jimmie Rodgers, the legendary American country-blues pioneer known as 'The Father of Country Music', on Zonophone 6159 performing two blues numbers.AI summary
Zonophone 6159 Country
Jimmie Rodgers, the 'Father of Country Music', recorded these two sides for Zonophone, a British label. This is a UK pressing of sides from Rodgers' prolific recording career in the late 1920s.AI summary
Zonophone 5356 Country
Jimmie Rodgers, the 'Father of Country Music', on Zonophone 5341 with two sentimental popular songs. Rodgers was a foundational figure in American country and folk music.AI summary
Zonophone 5341 Country
Jimmy Rodgers on Zonophone 6102, performing 'Why should I be lonely' and 'Sweet Violets' (credited to Bob Dickson). Zonophone was a British label of the early electrical era.AI summary
Zonophone 6102 Voice
Jock Lorimer, a Scottish comedian and singer, in two comic Highland songs on Zonophone, the British budget label of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Zonophone 551 Music Hall
Jock Lorimer recorded 'D'ye ken Bonnie Mary' and 'Jessie Dear' for Zonophone, catalogue 639; Lorimer was a Scottish singer and the ballad repertoire reflects the ethnic and regional recording market.AI summary
Zonophone 639 Voice
Zonophone 2-42061 Music Hall
Jock Mills performing Scottish instrumental pieces 'McGregor's Trip to London' and 'McIntosh' on Zonophone 1143. Zonophone was a British label active from the 1900s through the 1920s; Mills cannot be placed with confidence, though these appear to be pipe or fiddle music.AI summary
Zonophone 1143 Instrumental
Joe Elvin recorded 'Over the Sticks' and 'Running to Orders' for Zonophone; songs about horse racing, likely from the 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Zonophone 794 Music Hall