21,668 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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A gospel duet recorded on Guar, a small British label, with hymn-style titles suggesting amateur or church-affiliated recording.AI summary
Guardsman 1049
Ethel Waters' 'Stormy Weather', recorded for Brunswick in the early 1930s, is one of the defining torch-song recordings of the era and central to her legacy.AI summary
Brunswick 6564 Voice
Ethel Waters, an influential American blues and jazz vocalist, recorded two numbers for Columbia in the 1920s.AI summary
Columbia DB579 Jazz
Ethel Waters, a legendary African American jazz and blues vocalist, recorded 'Porgy' with Duke Ellington and 'St Louis Blues' for Brunswick in the late 1920s. This is a significant pairing of two major artists of the jazz age, though Brunswick pressings are less scarce than their Parlophone or Odeon equivalents.AI summary
Brunswick 01522 Jazz
Ethel Waters, one of the most important African-American blues and jazz singers of the 1920s–30s, performing two blues sides on Columbia 14132D. Waters' early recordings are highly sought after by blues and jazz collectors.AI summary
Columbia 14132D Jazz
Ethel Waters, an African-American jazz and popular singer of the 1920s–30s, on Columbia; a recording of hot jazz and popular song.AI summary
Columbia 14353D Jazz
Ethel Waters, an iconic American jazz and blues singer, recorded 'Dinah' and 'Sweet Man' on Columbia. Waters was a pioneering African-American entertainer whose 1920s recordings defined the jazz vocal tradition and remain among the most sought early jazz recordings.AI summary
Columbia 487D Jazz
Columbia DB579 Classical
Ethel Waters, the pioneering African-American blues and jazz singer, performing two blues sides on Columbia 14093D. Waters' early recordings are among the most important in blues history and are highly collected.AI summary
Columbia 14093D Jazz
Ethel Waters, the pioneering African-American jazz and blues singer and entertainer, recorded two songs on Columbia 14134D: 'If You Can't Hold the Man You Love' and 'I Wonder What Became of Joe'. Waters was one of the first major Black recording stars, active from the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 14134D Voice
Ethel Waters, the celebrated American blues and jazz singer, recorded 'You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me' and 'My Kind of a Man' on Columbia 2222D. Waters was a major recording and stage star of the 1920s-30s and her records are sought by jazz and blues collectors.AI summary
Columbia 2222D Jazz
Ethel Waters, the African-American jazz singer, blues artist, and stage performer, recorded 'Shoo Shoo Boogie Boo' and 'Don't I Know What I'm Doin'' for Columbia, catalogue 5690. Waters was one of the most influential and celebrated entertainers of the 1920s and 1930s, and her recordings remain important to jazz and blues collectors.AI summary
Columbia 5690 Jazz
Eubie Blake, the celebrated African-American pianist and composer, recorded 'Bandana Days' and 'Baltimore Buzz' for Victor, a US label—two instrumental jazz and ragtime pieces from the early recording era.AI summary
Victor 18791 Jazz
Eubie Blake, the pioneering African-American jazz pianist and composer, recorded 'Bandana Days' and 'Baltimore Buzz' for His Master's Voice; historic early jazz from one of the creators of stride piano.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1297 Jazz
Eubie Blake, an African-American pianist and composer of ragtime and early jazz, on Imperial Records 2628, performing 'Life is just a Bowl of Cherries' and 'Today I feel so happy'.AI summary
Imperial 2628 Jazz
Eugene Earle on Piccadilly, a cheap British marque of the early 1930s; a banjo novelty and light instrumental.AI summary
Piccadilly 152 Instrumental
Eugene Stratton on His Master's Voice GC3-2011, a celebrated American-born singer and performer of blackface comedy songs, from HMV's GC series pressing.AI summary
His Master's Voice GC3-2011 Music Hall
Eugene Stratton was a major British music-hall and vaudeville performer famous for Negro dialect songs and entertainments popular in the 1890s-1910s. 'Lily of Laguna' (marking 1911) and 'I may be crazy' on His Master's Voice (HMV C556) represent his recordings from the early twentieth century, and are historically significant examples of early commercial recording.AI summary
His Master's Voice C556 Music Hall
His Master's Voice C556
Eugène Ysaÿe was one of the supreme violinists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a towering figure in the Belgian school whose influence on violin playing was immense. This Columbia pressing, catalogue 36521, contains his recording of Wieniawski's Mazurkas. Ysaÿe's recordings are scarce and always collected by students of the golden age of violin playing.AI summary
Columbia 36521 Instrumental
Eugène Ysaÿe, the legendary Belgian violinist and composer, recorded 'Humoreske' on Columbia 7102.AI summary
Columbia 7102 Classical
Eugene Ysaÿe, the legendary Belgian virtuoso violinist and composer, performing the Prize Song (Act 3) from Wagner's *Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg* on Columbia 7107. Ysaÿe's recordings are extremely rare and highly prized by serious collectors.AI summary
Columbia 7107 Classical
Eugène Ysaÿe, the legendary Belgian violinist and composer, performing 'Ave Maria' for Columbia's classical list.AI summary
Columbia 7103 Classical
Eugenia Burzio was an Italian operatic soprano; this Columbia D4289 contains two operatic or vocal pieces, 'Figlio del sol' and 'Ave Maria'.AI summary
Columbia D4289 Opera
Eugenia Bronskaja was a Russian soprano who had a significant career in the early twentieth century, recording for several labels. This Columbia A5295 disc contains 'Ave Maria' and 'Caro nome' from Verdi's Rigoletto. Bronskaja's recordings are of interest to collectors of early Russian singing.AI summary
Columbia A5193 Opera
Eugenie Bronskaja, a singer, recorded the operatic standards 'Ave Maria' and 'Caro Nome' (from Rigoletto) for Columbia.AI summary
Columbia A5193 Opera
Eustace Pett performed on the celeste, a keyboard percussion instrument. 'Humoreske' (Dvořák) and 'Stéphanie Gavotte' are salon pieces arranged for the instrument; this Regal G8702 pressing is a novelty instrumental recording, likely from the 1930s.AI summary
Regal G8702 Instrumental
Eva Plaschke-von der Osten, the Dresden soprano who created Octavian in Strauss's 'Der Rosenkavalier', sings duets with the Czech tenor Otto Mařák on a single-sided Gramophone Company disc.AI summary
Gramophone Company 044193 Opera
Eva Plaschke-von der Osten, the Dresden soprano who created Octavian in Strauss's 'Der Rosenkavalier', sings duets with the Czech tenor Otto Mařák on a single-sided Gramophone Company disc.AI summary
Gramophone Company 044193 Opera
Eva Taylor was a blues and jazz vocalist active in the 1920s–30s. Okeh 4805 ('12th Street Rag' and 'Downhearted Blues') captures her work.AI summary
Okeh 4805 Jazz
Eva Taylor, backed by pianist and bandleader Clarence Williams, on "Barefoot Blues", a 1920s Okeh race-series release.AI summary
Okeh 8073 Jazz
Eva Turner, a renowned British Wagnerian soprano and teacher, performs 'Homing' and 'I Love Thee' on Columbia Records. Turner was a significant classical artist of the 20th century.AI summary
Columbia LB11 Classical
Eva Turner, one of the finest British dramatic sopranos of the 20th century, singing 'Homing' and 'I Love Thee' on Columbia LB11.AI summary
Columbia LB11 Voice
Eva Turner, one of the greatest British operatic sopranos of the 20th century, performing arias from Puccini's 'Turandot' on Columbia D1631.AI summary
Columbia D1631 Opera
Eva Turner, a celebrated British dramatic soprano and operatic star, recorded 'Sometimes in My Dreams' and 'Because' for Columbia. Turner had a major career in Italian opera and made records from the 1920s onwards; these ballad sides are atypical of her stage reputation.AI summary
Columbia D1563 Voice
Columbia D1578
Evan Williams, the American tenor of Welsh descent, sings 'Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes' on a single-sided G&T.AI summary
G&T 3-2415 Voice
Evan Williams, the American tenor of Welsh descent, sings 'Sound an Alarm' from Handel's 'Judas Maccabaeus' on a single-sided G&T.AI summary
G&T 02079 Classical
Evan Williams performing 'The Hoy City' on Victor, the American label which made limited UK pressings during the acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 74356 Voice
Evan Williams was a Welsh singer recording in the 1920s–30s. This HMV DA-series side pairs two Welsh-language pieces: 'Yu iach i ti Cumru' and 'Mentra Gwen', representing the specialized market for recordings in minority languages within the UK.AI summary
His Master's Voice DA387 Voice
Evan Williams was a British baritone and light-opera singer who recorded art-song repertoire for HMV in the 1920s and 1930s; this disc pairs two romantic ballads, 'Hark Hark the Lark' and 'Softly through the Night'.AI summary
His Master's Voice DA383 Voice
Evan Williams on His Master's Voice, recording a sentimental song by Edna Park. The artist is not recognised; GC series indicates an early acoustic pressing from c. 1910-20.AI summary
His Master's Voice GC4-2093 Voice
Eve Becke performs two popular songs on Pana 25652 from the early 1930s. Pana was a small British label.AI summary
Panachord 25652 Voice
Eve Becke recorded sentimental ballads 'Fat Lil Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes' and 'My Curly Headed Baby' for Decca F6537, a British Decca pressing.AI summary
Decca F6537 Voice
Eve Boswell was a South African-born singer who had a recording career in Britain in the 1950s; this Parlophone side is from that period.AI summary
Parlophone R3343 Voice
Eve Boswell, the British-Canadian vocalist popular in the early 1950s, recorded "Moon above Malaya" and "Oh my love, oh my heart" for Parlophone.AI summary
Parlophone R3599 Voice
Eve Boswell, a South African-born singer who recorded for British labels in the 1950s, recorded 'A Million Stars' and 'Don't Ever Leave Me' for Parlophone; Boswell was known for her popular vocals and light repertoire.AI summary
Parlophone R3784 Voice
Eve Boswell, a light entertainment vocalist of the 1950s, on Parlophone performing 'Stop Whistlin' Wolf' and 'Gypsy in My Soul' — commercial popular songs from the postwar era.AI summary
Parlophone R4341 Voice