21,650 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Albert Whelan, the distinguished British whistler and entertainer famous for his *Invicta* march, recorded two pieces on Eclipse: 'Rippling Brook' and 'We All Go Oo Ha Ha Together'. This appears to be from a later period in his career, likely the 1930s or 1940s.AI summary
Eclipse 1 Personalities (Prs)
Albert Whelan, a British music-hall entertainer known for whistling and character songs, recorded 'Pass Shoot Goal' and 'Crazy' for the obscure Eclipse label, catalogue 3.AI summary
Eclipse 3 Music Hall
Albert Whelan was a British performer known for singing and whistling acts popular in the early acoustic era. This Eclipse label pressing represents his work for a small British marque.AI summary
Eclipse 154 Music Hall
Albert Whelan, a celebrated British entertainer and reciter, on Decca F2688 singing two humorous character pieces from the 1930s–1940s.AI summary
Decca F2688 Music Hall
Albert Whelan, a celebrated British whistler and entertainer of the early gramophone era, recorded novelty vocal pieces including "Whistling Bowery Boy" for Zonophone's brown label series around 1910. Whelan was one of the first recording stars and a staple of early British gramophone catalogues.AI summary
Zonophone 266 Voice
Albert Whelan, a whistler and entertainer of the early recording era, performing 'Cinderella' and 'Old Mother Goose' on Zonophone, the brown-label issue. Whelan was known for his distinctive whistling solos.AI summary
Zonophone 265 Instrumental
Albert Whelan was a British whistler and entertainer of the 1920s–30s, famous for his signature whistled recitations with orchestral accompaniment; this Zonophone recording preserves his distinctive style on two light pieces.AI summary
Zonophone 265 Music Hall
Albert Whelan, a celebrated early British whistler and entertainer, recorded "Cinderella" and "Old Mother Goose" for Zonophone's green label series around 1910. Whelan was one of the first major recording stars and his nursery and character pieces were staples of the early gramophone.AI summary
Zonophone 265 Voice
Albert Wynn, a Chicago jazz trombonist, with 'She's Crying for Me' from 1928, backed by Jimmy Wade's band playing 'Gates Blues', on British Vocalion.AI summary
Vocalion V1029 Jazz
Alberta Hunter, the blues and jazz singer, on two blues recordings: Don't want no Man that's lazy and Your Bread may be good but it ain't as good as mine, on the obscure label JukeBox 511.AI summary
JukeBox 511 Jazz
Alberto Ribeiro, a Portuguese singer, recorded 'Coimbra' and 'Marco do Correio' for His Master's Voice—Portuguese songs, likely from the 1950s, representing fado or Portuguese folk music on HMV's international catalogue.AI summary
His Master's Voice MQ48 Voice
Credited to Albin on Diva, a British budget label of the early 1930s; vocalist performing popular ballads 'Alone with my Dreams' and 'So Sympathetic'.AI summary
Diva 3126 Voice
Alda Noni, an Italian soprano, on His Master's Voice DA-series with operatic arias. Noni was a successful postwar opera singer and recording artist.AI summary
His Master's Voice DA1954 Opera
Enrico Caruso, Lina Cavalieri, Félia Litvinne, and Marcel Journet performed the quartet from Flotow's 'Martha' for HMV's prestigious multi-artist 78, recorded in the 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice 2-054037 Opera
Alec Kennedy, a Scottish vocalist, on Scala with 'Charlie Charlie' and 'It's Lovely to Be in Love'; Scala was a minor British label from the interwar period.AI summary
Scala 795 Voice
Alec Rowley performing 'Two Studies' and 'Two Piano Pieces' on AFMC, catalogue 2049. Rowley was a twentieth-century British composer and pianist.AI summary
AFMC 2049 Classical
Alec Shaw recorded light instrumental and novelty pieces for Columbia in the 1930s; this coupling of two pastoral pieces was typical of novelty instrumental material of the era.AI summary
Columbia DB936 Instrumental
Alec Templeton, an American composer and humorist, recorded 'The Shortest Wagnerian Opera' and 'Two German Lieder Singers' for Gramophone Shop Varieties—clever parody and novelty pieces from an intellectual entertainer and classical musician.AI summary
Gramophoneshopvarieties 1007 Comic
Alessandro Bonci, an Italian tenor of international fame, on Columbia D18010, performing two operatic arias. Bonci was a major operatic tenor of the early 20th century, slightly earlier in career than Caruso but comparably important.AI summary
Columbia D18010 Opera
Alessandro Bonci and Jan Kubelik performing operatic and instrumental pieces—'Rigoletto' and 'Souvenir' (Drdla)—on the obscure Fon label, catalogue 2713.AI summary
Fonotipia 2713 Opera
Alex Hill, the pianist and arranger, with 'Let's Have a Jubilee' from 1934, coupled with 'Swingin' for the King' by Haynes, in British Vocalion's Swing Series.AI summary
Vocalion S70 Jazz
Alex Lukos recorded 'Historical Memories of Great Men and Brave Soldiers', parts C and D, for Popular Records, a small British label.AI summary
Popular 712
Alessandro Bonci was one of the great Italian tenors of his generation, an early rival to Caruso; this Fonotipia disc carries a very low catalogue number from the label's earliest series.AI summary
Fonotipia 1007 Opera
Alessandro Bonci was a renowned Italian tenor and rival to Caruso in his day; this Fonotipia disc preserves arias from Donizetti's La Favorita and Thomas's Mignon.AI summary
Fonotipia 9545 Opera
Alexander Bonci, a celebrated Italian tenor, recorded two arias from Verdi's *Rigoletto* for Columbia: "Questa o quella" ("This one or that one") and "La Donna è Mobile" ("Woman is fickle"). Bonci was a major tenor of the early 20th century, though less frequently encountered on disc than Caruso.AI summary
Columbia D8083 Opera
Alexander Bonci, an Italian tenor of international fame, performing two opera arias: *Donna Non Vidi Mai* from *Manon Lescaut* and *La Tua Pell'* from *Mignon*, on Columbia. Bonci was one of the most celebrated tenors of the early 20th century.AI summary
Columbia D8087 Opera
Alexander Bonci, an Italian tenor of the 1900s-1920s, performs two of the most famous tenor arias from the operatic repertoire: 'Questa o quella' and 'La donna è mobile' from Verdi's *Rigoletto*, on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia D8083 Opera
Alessandro Bonci, a celebrated Italian tenor, performs two Verdi arias—'Che gelida manina' and 'Una furtiva lagrima'—on this Columbia electrical recording, catalogue A5449, from the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia A5449 Opera
Alexander Bonci was an Italian operatic tenor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a star of the Metropolitan Opera and international stages; this Columbia A5468 contains two of his greatest tenor roles, Nemorino's aria 'Spirito gentil' from Donizetti's 'L'elisir d'amore' and the famous solo from Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'.AI summary
Columbia A5468 Opera
Alexander Brailowsky, a Russian-born concert pianist of international fame, recorded these two pieces for Polyphon: a popular salon piece 'Rêve d'Amour' and a virtuoso piano concerto movement.AI summary
Polyphon 66752 Classical
Russian-born pianist Alexander Brailowsky recorded two classical pieces, 'Traumeswirren' and 'Mendelssohn's Scherzo', on Polyphon 90173. Brailowsky was a celebrated concert pianist active in the 1920s-30s, and his recordings are valued by classical collectors.AI summary
Polyphon 90173 Classical
Alexander Davidoff was a Russian operatic tenor; this G&T acoustic disc presents an excerpt from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko.AI summary
G&T 3-22813 Opera
Alexander Davidov (likely a Russian baritone or tenor of the early 20th century) performs arias from Meyerbeer's *L'africaine* on Zonophone catalogue X2-64547, a likely early 1910s pressing.AI summary
Zonophone X2-64547 Opera
Alexander Davidov, a performer credited to Fav (Favorite) Records, sings two pieces from Italian opera: 'Vesti la giubba' (I put on the costume) from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and 'O Columbina'.AI summary
Favorite 75121
Alexander Davidov performing a Russian-language vocal piece 'Proet Nebeenoe Sozdanye' on Zonophone X3-62014, a Russian-language recording on a British label.AI summary
Zonophone X3-62014 Voice
Alexander Davydov, the Russian tenor, sings Russian songs on Sirena, the Warsaw record label of the years before the First World War.AI summary
Sirena 12073 Voice
Alexander Debruille performing Kreisler's 'Liebesfreud' and a 'Malagueña' on the Act label, catalogue 10449. The Act label is not identified in standard references; the artist is also not widely documented. An unrecognised artist on an obscure label warrants investigation.AI summary
Actuelle 10449 Instrumental
Alexander Girardi on the GC label, performing two Viennese operetta pieces—'Das Höchste was es gibt' and 'Hobellied'—in German, representing the popular operetta repertoire of the early 20th century.AI summary
Gramophone Company 4-42005/4 Opera
Alexander Heinemann, the German baritone admired as a lieder singer, sings Schubert's Serenade and Schumann's 'Die beiden Grenadiere' on G&T.AI summary
G&T G.C.-42118/9 Classical
Alexander Johnson performing 'Hey Ho Can't You Hear the Steamer' and 'Everybody but Me' on Beka, a continental label rarely found in British collections.AI summary
Beka 35210 Voice
Alexander Kipnis, a celebrated Russian bass-baritone of the Metropolitan Opera, recorded 'Le Veau d'Or' and 'Mephisto Sérénade' for Columbia, catalogue 5044. Kipnis's operatic 78s are collected by serious record enthusiasts.AI summary
Columbia 5044 Opera
The Alexander London Orchestra performing lancers on the Alex label, a British imprint. The orchestra and label are obscure; this appears to be a provincial or small-scale British dance recording from the early twentieth century.AI summary
Alexander 47 Dance
The Alexander London Orchestra recorded 'Delphegnor March' and 'Semper Fidelis' for Alex, a tiny British imprint of unknown history.AI summary
Alexander 32 Orchestra
Alexander MacGregor performing Scottish pipe music, the patriotic song 'Scots Wha' Hae' and 'The Piper o' Dundee', on His Master's Voice B2210, a British pressing from the 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B2210 Instrumental
Winner 2167
Alexander Prince performing two wartime or patriotic songs on Columbia 2480: 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary' and 'La Marseillaise'; the early Columbia catalogue suggests a 1920s or earlier pressing.AI summary
Columbia 2480 Voice
Alexander Prince recorded 'The Lost Chord' and 'Il Bacio', classical piano or vocal pieces, for Winner 2483, a British Winner pressing of the early era.AI summary
Winner 2483 Classical
Alexander Prince on Regal, performing medleys of popular stage songs from the musical theatre of the 1920s-30s.AI summary
Regal 8495 Voice