21,668 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Flanagan and Allen, the British comedy duo, recorded "Memories" (2 sides) for Columbia. Flanagan and Allen were hugely successful music hall comedians and entertainers of the 1920s-1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1558 Music Hall
Philips 103 Personalities (Prs)
Flanagan and Allen, the celebrated British comedy-song duo, on Columbia FB2143, performing their characteristic fast-patter comedy songs.AI summary
Columbia FB2143 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen recorded these popular songs for Brunswick; this is a later Brunswick pressing of the celebrated British comic duo.AI summary
Brunswick SA1715 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the celebrated British comedy and music-hall duo, recorded 'Where the Arches used to be' and 'Life begins again' for Columbia under catalogue FB1131, likely from the mid-1930s onwards.AI summary
Columbia FB1131 Music Hall
Flanagan and Allen, the famous British comic double act of the inter-war years, recorded the sentimental song 'Where the Arches Used to Be' on Columbia FB1131. The duo was one of the most popular entertainers in British variety, known for their partnership in music hall and film.AI summary
Columbia FB1131 Music Hall
Fletcher Henderson, whose orchestra was the most important big band of the 1920s, plays 'After the Storm', backed by Onivas with 'The Grass Is Always Greener', on Homochord.AI summary
Hom C682 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, a pioneering jazz bandleader, recorded 'Stampede' (matrix 26) and 'Money Blues' (matrix 25) for Columbia, catalogue 35669, likely early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 35669 Jazz
Columbia 35670 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, one of the most important American jazz ensembles of the 1920s, recorded for Brunswick on 'Clarinet Marmalade' and 'Fidgety Feet' — both seminal hot jazz recordings. This UK pressing (catalogue 02634) represents a significant early jazz issue.AI summary
Brunswick 02634 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson was a central architect of big-band jazz arranging; Harmony was Columbia's budget subsidiary label, which often issued his sides under pseudonyms.AI summary
Harmony 353 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, a pioneering hot-dance and jazz bandleader, recorded 'Sugar Foot Stomp' (1925) and 'Young Woman's Blues' with Bessie Smith (1926) for Columbia S10002, representing some of the most important jazz and blues of the mid-1920s; UK copies of the OKeh 8000 series are extremely uncommon, and this Columbia special issue brings serious jazz collector attention.AI summary
Columbia S10002 Jazz
'Dicty Blues' and 'Do Doodle Oom' are among Fletcher Henderson's earliest recordings as a bandleader, important documents of the formative big-band jazz sound of the 1920s.AI summary
Vocalion 14654 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, one of the most important big-band leaders and arrangers, recording 'Christopher Columbus' and 'Blue Lou' on Vocalion 3211.AI summary
Vocalion 3211 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson's orchestra performing 'Honeysuckle Rose' and 'Underneath the Harlem Moon' on Columbia CB584, from the jazz hot-dance era of the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia CB584 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, the pioneering African-American bandleader and arranger, leading his orchestra on 'Whiteman Stomp' and 'I'm Coming Virginia' on Columbia 4561. Both are important early jazz recordings from the mid-1920s hot-jazz era.AI summary
Columbia 4561 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson was one of the most important figures in jazz history — a pioneering bandleader, arranger and pianist whose Roseland Ballroom orchestra in the 1920s was a foundational big band. Brunswick 2592 is from the early to mid-1920s, in Henderson's most creative period. UK pressings of Henderson's Brunswick sides are less common than American copies and are sought by hot-jazz and early big-band collectors. This is one of the more significant jazz items in the list.AI summary
Brunswick 2592 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson's orchestra performing jazz on Columbia, a British pressing of the American hot-jazz pioneer.AI summary
Columbia CB678 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson's orchestra on Imperial 1321, with 'Charley My Boy' and 'Doodle-Doo-Doo' — a mid-1920s hot-dance coupling. Imperial was a British label that licensed American material, and Henderson sides on British pressings are scarce; Henderson himself is a foundational figure in big-band jazz and his 1920s recordings are keenly sought by hot-jazz collectors.AI summary
Imperial 1321 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, the pioneering American big-band jazz leader, recorded 'Alabamy Bound' and 'Peter Pan I Love You' (Terr) for Imperial Records 1420.AI summary
Imperial 1420 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, the influential jazz bandleader and arranger, recorded for the Imperial label; 'There's a Rickety Rackety Shack' represents dance-band material from Henderson's prolific recording career.AI summary
Imperial 1858 Jazz
Fletcher Henderson, the pioneering jazz bandleader and arranger, recorded these sides for Brunswick. Henderson's orchestra was one of the most influential groups in early jazz, and these recordings document hot jazz from the late 1920s.AI summary
Brunswick 01659 Jazz
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Fletcher Henderson, the pioneering American jazz bandleader and arranger, on Columbia performing jazz material. Henderson was foundational to hot jazz and swing.AI summary
Columbia 4421 Jazz
Flip Phillips, the tenor saxophonist of Woody Herman's Herd and Jazz at the Philharmonic, with 'Cookie' and 'This Can't Be Love' on American Mercury.AI summary
Mercury 8908 Jazz
Flome on Decca F6601 performing 'Lambeth Walk' and 'My Gipsy Dream Girl'.AI summary
Decca F6601 Voice
The Flonzaley Quartet was an American string quartet renowned for concert and recording work, especially in chamber music and art-song repertoire, active from the early 1900s into the 1920s. This recording of Smetana's 'From My Life' quartet (two parts) is a major work of the chamber repertoire. The Victor pressing represents the acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 7130 Classical
The Flonzaley Quartet, a renowned European string ensemble, on Victor Records performing Smetana's String Quartet No. 1 'From My Life'; the Flonzaley Quartet was one of the first and most celebrated chamber ensembles to record extensively.AI summary
Victor 7131 Classical
The Flonzaley Quartet, a prestigious Swiss string quartet renowned for chamber music, performing the 'From My Life' Quartet by Bedřich Smetana, Part 6, on Victor 7132. The Flonzaley Quartet were among the most recorded chamber ensembles of the acoustic era.AI summary
Victor 7132 Classical
The Flonzaley Quartet, a celebrated American string ensemble of the early twentieth century, perform a lento movement from a quartet in F major on this HMV electrical recording from the late 1920s.AI summary
His Master's Voice 08096 Classical
The Flonzaley Quartet, the famous Swiss string quartet, perform a chamber work on His Master's Voice. The Flonzaley was one of the most recorded ensembles of the early 20th century and their discs are widely collected.AI summary
His Master's Voice 08103 Classical
His Master's Voice D288
Florence Brine on Piccadilly Records with classical vocal material, the 'Virgin's Slumber Song' and 'Quiet of the Woods'. Piccadilly was a cheap British label active from the late 1920s.AI summary
Piccadilly 5080 Classical
Florence Brine recorded 'Virgin's Slumber Song' and 'Quiet of the Woods' on Piccadilly label, catalogue 5080. Piccadilly was a cheap British label used for budget releases of sentimental and classical material in the 1930s–1950s.AI summary
Piccadilly 5080 Classical
Florence Bruce performing 'I love you indeed I do my Babe' and 'Choir Boy' on Aga, catalogue 5198. An unidentified artist on an obscure British label of the early 1930s.AI summary
Aga 5198 Voice
Florence Bruce with Loch Lomond and My Honolulu Queen on Pick of All 976.AI summary
Pickofall 976 Voice
Florence Bruce sings 'My God and Father' and 'Be Thou Nigh' on a Berliner Concert (BelCTEST) test pressing with no catalogue number. A test pressing on the early Berliner Concert label — predecessor to the Gramophone Company in Britain — with no catalogue number is a genuinely unusual survival, and potentially dates from the very earliest years of disc recording in Britain.AI summary
BelCTEST Voice
Florence Bruce sings 'In the Shadow of the Pines' and 'Loch Lomond' on the JLCO label, catalogue 5188. JLCO is an unidentified label abbreviation; Florence Bruce is not a well-known recording name.AI summary
JLCO 5188 Voice
Florence Bruce recorded 'Don't forget your old Home' and 'Greeting' for Op Records, catalogue 80. Op was a small, obscure British label; Bruce is an unidentified artist, likely from the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Opera 80 Misc.
Florence de Yong, a popular vocalist of the 1920s, recorded 'Remembrance' and 'Diane' for Brunswick. Both were sentimental ballads of the era.AI summary
Brunswick 140 Voice
Florence de Yong on Brunswick, catalogue 20057, performing 'Four Indian Love Lyrics', a popular solo vocal recital piece spanning two sides. Brunswick's higher catalogue numbers from the early 1930s.AI summary
Brunswick 20057 Voice
Florence Desmond was a British impressionist and comic actress who became famous for her character sketches and celebrity parodies. 'Alice in Wonderland' is likely a comic monologue or recitation. This His Master's Voice C3243 is from the speech and comedy series, probably mid-1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice C3243 Comic
Florence Desmond, a British comedienne and variety performer, recorded comic novelty material, including "Oh What a Surprise for the Duce" (a topical song mocking Mussolini), for His Master's Voice around 1940. Desmond was a popular music-hall and cabaret performer.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9133 Music Hall
Florence Desmond, a British impressionist and comedienne, sings 'In Love Again' and 'Public Sweetheart No. 1' on Columbia, typical of her light comedy vocal work in the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia FB1201 Personalities (Prs)
Florence Desmond, a British actress and entertainer, recorded 'Mae Time' and 'A British Mother's Big Flight' for His Master's Voice, catalogue B8223.AI summary
His Master's Voice B8223 Personalities (Prs)
Florence Desmond's novelty recordings 'Public Sweetheart No. 1' and 'In Love Again' on Columbia FB1201. Desmond was a British impressionist and actress popular in the 1930s–40s, known for mimicry and character comedy.AI summary
Columbia FB1201 Music Hall
Florence Desmond, a British impressionist and comedienne of stage and film, recorded a novelty piece on His Master's Voice in the early 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B4264 Personalities (Prs)
Florence Desmond, a celebrated impressionist and revue performer of the 1930s-40s, recorded 'Cigarettes Please' and 'More Impersonations' for His Master's Voice. Desmond was known for her ability to parody well-known entertainers of the day.AI summary
His Master's Voice B4388 Music Hall
Florence Desmond on 'She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor', recorded for His Master's Voice B9039. Desmond was a British comedienne and actress known for her impressions and comic monologues; this late 1930s B-series release showcases her stage repertoire.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9039 Comic