21,671 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Dickson's Dance Band on Gu (Grosvenor), a small British label, with 'What'll I Do' and 'Land of My Sunset Dreams'—dance music from the 1930s-1940s era.AI summary
Guardsman 1589 Dance
Dicky Wells was a pioneering jazz trombonist; these sides on HMV represent his sophisticated jazz work, likely from the early 1930s when his influential Harlem style was at its peak.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8826 Jazz
Dmitri Smirnov sings the serenade 'Se il mio nome saper voi bramate' from The Barber of Seville and 'Giunto sul passo estremo' from Mefistofele on HMV DB582, the companion 12-inch disc to DB581 in this collection. A pair of Smirnov 12-inch HMV pressings is a useful collector set.AI summary
His Master's Voice DB582 Opera
Dmitri Smirnov sings 'O dolce incanto' from La Damnation de Faust and 'Mi par d'udir ancora' from The Pearl Fishers on HMV DB583, a 12-inch pressing — the third disc in the Smirnov 12-inch HMV series alongside DB581 and DB582 in this collection. Together the three discs form a substantial Smirnov collection on the premium 12-inch format.AI summary
His Master's Voice DB583 Opera
Dmitri Smirnov (here spelled Smirnoff) on HMV DB753 — 'Pourquoi mon triste cœur' and a duet 'Oh Tsarevitch I implore thee' with M Davidoff. The DB series is HMV's prestigious double-sided black-label series, and a coupling of Smirnov with the bass Davidoff in Russian repertoire is of real interest to collectors of Russian vocal music.AI summary
His Master's Voice DB753 Opera
Dmitri Smirnov, the Russian lyric tenor, sings 'Ah! dispar, vision' from Massenet's 'Manon' on a single-sided Gramophone Company disc.AI summary
Gramophone Company 052300 Opera
Dmitri Smirnov, the celebrated Russian lyric tenor associated with the Bolshoi and major international opera houses, performing 'Daylight slowly fades' on HMV catalogue 2-022025 — an early single-sided pressing. Smirnov's HMV recordings are of collector interest to specialists in early Russian singing.AI summary
His Master's Voice 2-022025 Opera
Dinah Sheridan and J Forbes-Robertson on His Master's Voice B9117-9 (a 3-disc set), performing 'Peter Pan' parts 1-6. This is a dramatic reading or adaptation of J.M. Barrie's *Peter Pan* by theatrical performers; HMV's multi-disc sets of classic literature were popular in the 1930s-40s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9117-9 Personalities (Prs)
Dinah Sheridan and J. Forbes-Robertson in Peter Pan, in two sides, on HMV B9117.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9117 Personalities (Prs)
Dinah Sheridan and J Forbes-Robertson performed part 3 of Peter Pan, a dramatic reading or adaptation, for His Master's Voice.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9118 Personalities (Prs)
Dinah Sheridan and John Forbes-Robertson on 'Peter Pan part 5' (two sides), from HMV B9119. Sheridan and Forbes-Robertson were both theatrical performers; this is a dramatic or theatrical recording, possibly from a stage production or radio adaptation from the 1940s-1950s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9119 Personalities (Prs)
Dinah Sheridan and J. Forbes-Robertson in Peter Pan, part 5, in two sides, on HMV B9119.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9119 Personalities (Prs)
Dinah Sheridan and John Forbes-Robertson on His Master's Voice, performing 'Peter Pan' — a theatrical dramatic recording from the 1930s–40s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9117 Music Hall
Dinah Sheridan and J. Forbes-Robertson performing part 3 of Peter Pan on His Master's Voice B9118 — a dramatic scene from a British theatrical classic.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9118 Personalities (Prs)
Dinah Shore, the American popular singer, performing two contrasting numbers on His Master's Voice: a Nashville-themed piece and a ballad.AI summary
His Master's Voice B10081 Voice
Dinah Shore, the American singer and actress, recorded 'Two Silhouettes' and 'Coax Me a Little Bit' for Columbia—pop standards of the early 1950s.AI summary
Columbia DB30299 Voice
Dinah Shore, the American popular singer and actress, performing 'Body and Soul' and 'Chloe' on His Master's Voice BD1026, from the late 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD1026 Voice
Dinah Shore performing 'Buttons and Bows' and 'Daddy o' on Columbia. Shore was one of the most popular American singers of the 1940s-50s, and this is a British pressing of one of her recordings.AI summary
Columbia 38284 Voice
Dinah Shore was an American popular singer and entertainer with a long career spanning radio, records and television; this HMV pressing features two Noël Coward songs from the 1930s, "Mad About the Boy" and "Be Careful It's My Heart".AI summary
His Master's Voice NE707 Voice
Dinah Shore was an American jazz and popular vocalist and later television personality with a successful recording career from the 1940s onward. This His Master's Voice B-series pressing, with 'Salomee' and a novelty train song, reflects her versatile repertoire.AI summary
His Master's Voice B10753 Voice
Dinah Shore was a major American vocalist of the 1940s and 1950s, equally at home with jazz, pop and country material. This Columbia pressing pairs 'The Thrill Is Gone' with 'Dixie', standard repertoire for a vocalist of her range.AI summary
Columbia DB2284 Voice
His Master's Voice NE843 Dance
Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark performing the novelty duet 'Baby, it's cold outside' on Columbia 38463, recorded during the song's peak popularity in the late 1940s.AI summary
Columbia 38463 Voice
Dinh Gilly performing the Revolutionary song 'Il est venu ce Jour de lutte' on His Master's Voice, a French-language recording from the interwar period.AI summary
His Master's Voice DA558 Voice
Dinh Gilly, a French baritone, performed operatic arias 'Vecchi zimarra' (from La bohème) and 'Scorri fiume' for His Master's Voice catalogue DA559.AI summary
His Master's Voice DA559 Opera
Dinicu and his orchestra recorded "Crepuscule" and "That tiny teashop" for Columbia 5592. Dinicu was likely a continental European ensemble; the Elite label mentioned on the B-side suggests European provenance.AI summary
Columbia 5592 Orchestra
Dink Johnson, the New Orleans pianist and clarinettist and brother-in-law of Jelly Roll Morton, plays 'Las Vegas Stomp' on American Music, Bill Russell's small 1940s label devoted to veteran New Orleans musicians. The label was pressed in very small runs, and its records are seldom found in Britain.AI summary
American 524 Jazz
Dink Johnson, a New Orleans pianist and composer, recorded for American Music Records, a New Orleans jazz label founded in 1943 to document early jazz. This UK pressing of 'Frisco dreams' and 'Dink's blues' is uncommon outside the US.AI summary
AmericanMusic 526 Jazz
Dinkie Rew was a British vocal personality of the 1930s–40s, recorded here on Columbia. 'Bing' and 'Saucy Sue' are novelty or comic songs, typical of the British variety stage.AI summary
Columbia DB2811 Music Hall
Diplomat Novelty Orchestra on Winner (3526), with 'Yodel dodel doh' and 'Secrets of love'; a novelty dance coupling on a cheap British marque.AI summary
Winner 3526 Dance
The Diplomat Novelty Orchestra, a generic session group, on Winner, a budget British label of the early 1930s, performing popular dance titles.AI summary
Winner 3622 Dance
The Diplomat Orchestra performed 'Mellow Moon' and 'Faded Love Letters' for Winner, a British budget label of the 1930s.AI summary
Winner 3896 Dance
The Dix Dance Band performs 'Sahara' and 'Golden West' on Parlophone E5306, part of the E series that dominated the late 1920s dance market.AI summary
Parlophone E5306 Dance
The Dixie Daisies with Way Down Yonder in New Orleans and, by Jazzbo, Chicago on Cameo 284.AI summary
Cameo 284 Dance
Dixie Daisies performing two popular American songs on Muse, a small British label of the 1920s–1930s. The group name and titles suggest a novelty or light vocal ensemble.AI summary
Muse 302 Voice
Dixie Lee and Bing Crosby singing 'A Fine Romance' and 'The Way You Look Tonight' on Brunswick 02291, both Jerome Kern standards from the film *Swing Time* (1936).AI summary
Brunswick 02291 Voice
Victor 18722
Columbia 829 is an early British acoustic pressing credited to the 'Dixieland Jazz Band' — a generic name used on several UK labels in the early 1920s to capitalise on the jazz craze, not necessarily the Original Dixieland Jazz Band itself. The titles 'Soudan' and 'Meow' (attributed to Windeatt) suggest a light novelty-dance coupling typical of the period.AI summary
Columbia 829 Jazz
A British hot-jazz recording credited to Dixieland Jazz Group on HMV BD5827, a two-part jazz side with Lena Horne as guest vocalist.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5827 Jazz
The Dixieland Jazz Group recorded these two New Orleans jazz standards—St Louis Blues and Beale Street Blues—for His Master's Voice, part of the wider 1920s-30s hot jazz catalogue that HMV built in competition with American labels.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD5819 Jazz
The Dixieland Jug Blowers recorded 'Memphis Shake' for HMV, an important early American jazz and folk-blues ensemble of the 1920s. UK copies of 1920s American jazz on HMV are less common than the American originals.AI summary
His Master's Voice B10707 Jazz
The Dixieland Jug Blowers were an early jazz ensemble from Memphis; this His Master's Voice pressing of 'Memphis Shake' and '(Goodrich) So Will I' is a hot-jazz recording from the late 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5249 Jazz
The Dixieland Jug Blowers' 'Hen Party Blues' and 'Carpet Alley Breakdown' on His Master's Voice, catalogue B10727; an American jazz-novelty group recorded for British release in the late 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B10727 Jazz
The Dixieland Pipers perform 'Shake It and Break It' and 'Dauphine Street Blues'—New Orleans jazz classics—on Columbia. The group is not well documented in standard sources.AI summary
Columbia DC534 Jazz
The Dixieland Pipers recorded 'Shake it and break it' and 'Dauphine Street blues' for Columbia. Despite the title, these are instrumental pieces featuring pipes or reeds rather than the jazz idiom the title might suggest.AI summary
Columbia DC534 Instrumental
Dixieland Thumpers was a small jazz group of the late 1920s; this Jazz Collector pressing, from an extremely obscure British reissue label, carries two syncopated jazz numbers.AI summary
Jazz Collection 6 Jazz
Century 3002 Jazz
A band recording of 'Plantation medley' and 'Carmen march' on the Dixy label, an obscure British imprint.AI summary
Dixy 502 Orchestra