21,669 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Enrico Caruso singing Handel's 'Ombra mai fui' on His Master's Voice; Caruso was the dominant international opera tenor of the early 20th century and one of the first major recording stars. This is a reissue of an earlier acoustic recording.AI summary
His Master's Voice 2-052180 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the most celebrated tenor of the early 20th century, in two operatic arias recorded for His Master's Voice. Caruso died in 1921; this is from his extensive back catalogue.AI summary
His Master's Voice DB616 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the most celebrated tenor of the early twentieth century, singing 'Trusting Eyes' on His Master's Voice. This is a precious historical recording of the greatest voice of the age.AI summary
His Master's Voice 4-2480 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the greatest tenor of his age, recorded 'Mia Piccirella' for HMV; this is an electrical recording from the late 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice 052224 Opera
Enrico Caruso's 'Vesti la Giubba' (the famous aria from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci) recorded for His Master's Voice; this is perhaps the most iconic tenor recording of all time, recorded in 1902, and central to the history of the phonograph itself, though HMV pressings are extremely common.AI summary
His Master's Voice 052159 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor, in two operatic arias: Ideale and Spirito gentil, on His Master's Voice DB129. A cornerstone Caruso recording from the electrical era.AI summary
His Master's Voice DB129 Opera
Enrico Caruso's 'Vesti la giubba' from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, recorded for His Master's Voice and issued as HMV 052159, one of the most recorded operatic arias of the acoustic era.AI summary
His Master's Voice 052159 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor (1873–1921), recorded this aria from Meyerbeer's 'L'Africaine' for Gennett. Caruso was the dominant operatic voice of the early recording era, and his discs command exceptional prices. GCo 052157 suggests a reissue or later catalogue number.AI summary
GCo 052157 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the greatest operatic tenor of the early twentieth century, recorded 'The Lost Chord' (the Sullivan ballad) for His Master's Voice. UK HMV pressings of Caruso are common and available in quantity, though early copies from this catalogue range (02000 series) date from the acoustic era.AI summary
His Master's Voice 02397 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor who dominated recording from the 1900s until his death in 1921, recorded these two Spanish songs: 'A la luz de la luna' and 'A Granada'. HMV DB catalogue numbers are from his electrically recorded series.AI summary
His Master's Voice DB592 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor whose voice defined the operatic recording, recorded 'Cujus Animam' and 'Ingemisco' (movements from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Verdi's Requiem) for His Master's Voice; these are among the most historically important vocal recordings ever made, though HMV reissued Caruso extensively and UK pressings are common.AI summary
His Master's Voice DB138 Opera
Enrico Caruso with Schumann-Heink and Frieda Alda performing operatic duets on His Master's Voice DK series: 'Ai Nostri Monti' from Verdi's 'La Forza del Destino' and 'Ah Che la Morte Ognora' (catalogue note suggests attribution to Verdi, though likely from a different work). This is a reissue or later pressing of celebrated vocal recordings.AI summary
His Master's Voice DK119 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor, recorded two famous arias—'Ora e per sempre addio' (from Verdi's *Othello*) and 'La Donna è Mobile' (from *Rigoletto*)—for His Master's Voice, catalogue DA561. Both were recorded early in Caruso's career around 1910-1912. Caruso was the dominant opera singer of the early 20th century and among the most collected of all 78 artists.AI summary
His Master's Voice DA561 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the most celebrated tenor of the early 20th century, recorded "Bois Épais" (the famous flute aria from Lully's Le Roi de Soleil) and "Première Caresse" for His Master's Voice. These are important historical vocal recordings from the greatest tenor of his time.AI summary
His Master's Voice DA1097 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor, performing an aria from Verdi's *Rigoletto* on His Master's Voice — a 78rpm pressing of acoustic-era material, likely a reissue or transfer of an early Caruso recording.AI summary
His Master's Voice 2-52641 Opera
Enrico Caruso sings an aria from Franchetti's Germania on Gramophone Company 7-52013, a single-sided issue.AI summary
Gramophone Company 7-52013 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor, recorded 'L'Alba separa dalla luce' and 'Over There' for His Master's Voice; this is from the twilight of the acoustic era.AI summary
His Master's Voice DA121 Opera
Caruso and Antonio Scotti in a duet from Verdi's "La Forza del Destino", a celebrated pairing from the Gramophone Company's prestige Monarch series.AI summary
Gramophone Monarch 054070 Opera
Enrico Caruso and Antonio Gluck performed "Libiam ne' lieti calici", the famous brindisi (drinking song) from Verdi's La Traviata, for His Master's Voice (7-54006). This is a classic operatic duet recorded in Caruso's later years, likely 1920–1921.AI summary
His Master's Voice 7-54006 Opera
Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor, and Antonio Gluck recorded the duet 'Libiam ne' lieti calici' (from La Traviata) for His Master's Voice, probably in the early 1920s or earlier. This is an acoustic-era recording of one of the greatest singers in recorded-music history.AI summary
His Master's Voice 7-54006 Opera
Enrico Caruso and Louise Homer, two of the greatest American opera singers of the early 20th century, recorded this duet from Verdi's Il Trovatore for Victor, the leading American label. UK copies of this major recording are scarce.AI summary
Victor 89018 Opera
Enrico de Francheschi performs two Italian arias, 'O Monumento' and 'Sei Vendicata Assai', on Parlophone. De Francheschi was an Italian tenor active in the early 20th century.AI summary
Parlophone E10221 Opera
Enrico Gentille recorded 'September Song' and 'Un Bacio' for Columbia (DCQ52). Enrico Gentille does not appear in standard discographies; Columbia DCQ series suggests 1940s–50s dating.AI summary
Columbia DCQ52 Voice
Enzo de Muro Lomanto was an Italian tenor and recording artist active in the early 20th century; this Columbia D pressing offers two arias from Puccini's Tosca.AI summary
Columbia D1656 Opera
Enzo de Muro Lomanto, an Italian operatic tenor, performing two arias from Verdi's 'Rigoletto' on Columbia — classical opera recordings, likely from the 1910s or 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 5060 Opera
Enzo de Muro Lomanto performing 'I almost see the Tears' and 'On every festal Morning' for Columbia, 5147. Lomanto was an Italian tenor of the 1920s–1930s, active in operatic and popular repertoire.AI summary
Columbia 5147 Opera
Enzo de Muro Lomanto, the Italian tenor who sang at La Scala and the Met in the inter-war years, performs 'Che gelida manina' from La Bohème and 'Il lamento di Federico' on Columbia D14711. De Muro Lomanto is a recognised name in operatic 78 collecting, particularly among admirers of the Italian lyric tenor tradition.AI summary
Columbia D14711 Opera
Eric Winstone Swing Quartet performing 'Down Forget Me Not Lane' and 'Whispering Grass' on Columbia FB2687, a 1940s British swing recording.AI summary
Columbia FB2687 Dance
Erdody recorded two novelty vocal pieces for Vocalion M1002, a small British label or label variant of the 1920s-30s.AI summary
Vocalion M1002 Comic
Eric Coates, Britain's most prolific composer of light orchestral music, recorded two of his own compositions—'London Bridge-March' and 'Summer Afternoon (Idyll)'—for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia DB1382 Orchestra
Eric Coates's The Dam Busters March and Sound and Vision on Nixa N15003.AI summary
Nixa N15003 Orchestra
Eric Coates was one of Britain's most successful light-music composers, and here he conducts his own 'London Suite' for Columbia in a deluxe double-sided issue. Coates's own recordings of his compositions are highly valued by enthusiasts of British light music and concert overtures.AI summary
Columbia DX470 Orchestra
Eric Foster on Regal, catalogue 6544, 'The football Match' part 1, a spoken or comedy piece about a football match, likely from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Regal 6544 Comic
Eric Foster recorded 'Geordie's Toothache' and 'Policeman Geordie' for Alb (Albion), a small British imprint, probably in the mid-1920s. The titles suggest Geordie dialect comedy pieces typical of British music-hall tradition.AI summary
Albion 1405 Music Hall
Eric Foster, a British performer, recorded regional Tyneside material for Columbia; 'Tyneside Territorials' and 'The Pitman' appear to be local-interest songs with limited appeal beyond the North East.AI summary
Columbia 1298 Music Hall
Eric Foster recorded 'Geordie's Holiday' and 'Geordie's Motor Bike' for Scala Records (690), a British label of the 1920s–30s. The titles suggest comic material in the Geordie (northeastern English) dialect.AI summary
Scala 690 Music Hall
Eric Foster performing comic patter songs on Zonophone: 'Geordie & His Missus at the Skating Rink' and 'Geordie at the Dentist'. Foster was a British music-hall performer of the early 1900s, specialising in character sketches and comedy monologues.AI summary
Zonophone 677 Music Hall
Eric Foster recorded Geordie dialect comic songs 'Noo luk here Hinnie' and 'Geordie the Tram Conductor' for Pathé, the French-British label, catalogue 93459.AI summary
Pathé 93459 Music Hall
Eric Foster performs two Tyneside dialect comedy sketches — 'Jack and Geordie at the Smoking Concert' and 'Pitman and His Wife at the Seaside' — on Columbia 174, a very early Columbia number indicating one of the earliest British Columbia acoustic pressings. Tyneside comedy on an early Columbia with a sub-200 catalogue number is an unusual and historically interesting item.AI summary
Columbia 174 Music Hall
Eric Foster on Regal 6532 recorded 'Cullercoats Fishwife and the Census Man' and 'Pitman and the Doctor'; these titles suggest North Eastern English dialect comedy or folk-based novelty songs.AI summary
Regal 6532 Music Hall
Eric Foster is an unidentified artist on Rena, a small British label, credited with two comic monologues with British working-class themes.AI summary
Rena 174 Comic
Eric Foster, credited on Regal 6544, performing 'The Football Match' — an early comic or novelty recording. Limited information available about this artist.AI summary
Regal 6544 Comic
Eric Randolph, a British singer, recorded "When God Gave You to Me" and "When the Bells of Peace Are Ringing" for Regal, a British budget label of the early 1930s.AI summary
Regal 7438 Voice
Eric Roland credited on Film, a small British label, performing nursery rhymes.AI summary
Filmophone 340 Voice
Eric Roland credited on Film, a small British label, performing nursery rhymes and light vocal material.AI summary
Filmophone 341 Voice
Eric Roland on Film 342, a small acoustic British label of the 1920s, performing nursery-rhyme songs.AI summary
Filmophone 342 Voice
A Vitaphone sound-on-disc soundtrack record for Three Faces East, with Eric von Stroheim, part 9. Vitaphone discs were large and played at 33 1/3 rpm.AI summary
Vitaphone 4179 Personalities (Prs)
Eric Winstone and his band, a mid-century British dance orchestra, perform 'Whispering Grass' and 'Down Forget Me Not Lane' on Columbia.AI summary
Columbia FB2687 Dance