21,672 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Jazz pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton performing 'Chant' and 'Black Bottom Stomp' on His Master's Voice B5164. Morton was a pioneer of jazz composition and recording, and these are among his most celebrated sides.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5164 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton, the pioneering New Orleans jazz pianist and composer, recorded 'Chant' and 'Black Bottom Stomp' for His Master's Voice. These are seminal hot jazz recordings from the 1920s; UK copies are uncommon.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5164 Jazz
Two of Jelly Roll Morton's best-known numbers, 'Doctor Jazz' with Morton's own vocal and his 'Original Jelly Roll Blues', both recorded with his Red Hot Peppers for Victor in Chicago in 1926, here on the Nu-Range label.AI summary
Nu-Range Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, a seminal New Orleans jazz ensemble, recorded 'Black bottom stomp' and 'The Chant' for His Master's Voice, catalogue B5164.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5164 Jazz
Another Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers disc, but issued in Victor's later 40-0000 reissue series rather than as an original pressing, making it more accessible than the first-issue 20000-series discs.AI summary
Victor 40-0121 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers made some of the most admired small-group recordings of the 1920s, and 'Beale Street Blues' and 'The Pearls' on US Victor are classic examples sought by jazz collectors.AI summary
Victor 20948 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton, the pioneering jazz pianist and composer (1890–1941), recorded his composition 'Climax Rag' for His Master's Voice; 'West End Blues' is Louis Armstrong's masterpiece, adapted here (likely by a British jazz ensemble rather than by Armstrong himself, who recorded the original for OKeh).AI summary
His Master's Voice B9219 Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton, one of the founding figures of jazz and a pianist, composer and bandleader, on His Master's Voice. 'Cannon Ball Blues' and 'Steamboat Stomp' are compositions from his New Orleans jazz repertoire.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9979 Jazz
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961 — a third copy of this same pressing in this collection alongside IDs 18563 and 17109. One copy is worth retaining; the others are straightforward duplicates.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jen Latona recorded two Scots-flavoured comic songs on Zonophone 822: 'Maggie McLaren' and 'Keep on swinging me Charlie'.AI summary
Zonophone 822 Music Hall
Jen Latona, credited on Zonophone, with the novelty song *Gee But I Like Music with My Meals*, a popular number of the 1910s–1920s. Artist and label suggest a minor performer or regional favourite.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Voice
Jen Latona, a singer of the 1910s–20s, performs 'Gee but I like Music with my Meals' for Zonophone.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Voice
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961 — a duplicate of the two other copies of this same pressing in this collection. One copy is worth keeping; the others are straightforward duplicates of a standard early acoustic Zonophone.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jen Latona performs 'Ragging the Baby to Sleep' and 'Yiddisher Luck and Irisha Love' on Zonophone 1009, an early acoustic pressing. The Yiddish-Irish topical coupling is an unusual period document; the Zonophone 1009 number places this in the early acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 1009 Music Hall
Jen Latona on Zonophone 1096 — 'Hark It Is the Thunderman' and 'Your Daddy Did the Same Thing 50 Years Ago.' Zonophone catalogue number 1096 is a very low number for the label, placing this among its earliest pressings, likely before 1905. Latona is not a widely traced name, but the early Zonophone series is actively collected.AI summary
Zonophone 1096 Music Hall
Jen Latona performing popular ballads on Zonophone, a British pressing label active in the early 20th century.AI summary
Zonophone 1297 Voice
Jen Latona — a Scottish or Irish comic singer active in the Edwardian era — performs 'Rum Tum Tiddle' and 'Why Do You Keep Laughing at Me?' on Zonophone 896, a very early Zonophone pressing in the low-800s series. The 896 number places this among the earliest British Zonophone pressings, probably around 1904–1907.AI summary
Zonophone 896 Music Hall
Jen Latona recorded two songs for Zonophone: 'Land of I dunno where' and 'That haunting Melody', circa 1910–20.AI summary
Zonophone 939 Voice
Jen Latona performs 'I Want to Be in Dixie' and 'Gee But I Like Music with My Meals' on Zonophone 961, an early acoustic pressing. This is one of three copies of this same disc in the collection; the Zonophone 961 number places it in the early British acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 961 Music Hall
Jen Latona recorded 'Maggie McLaren' and 'Keep On Swinging Me Charlie' for Zonophone, a major British label. The Scottish titles and Zonophone catalogue suggest early 1900s pressing, but nothing further is known of this artist.AI summary
Zonophone 822 Voice
Jen Latona recorded these two novelty numbers—'Land of I Dunno Where' and 'That Haunting Melody'—for Zonophone, a British label, in the early 1920s or earlier.AI summary
Zonophone 939 Voice
Jennie Howard on Curry's 369, performing 'I'm Too Young to be Careful' and 'What'll Become of Me'. Curry's was a very obscure British record label, likely short-lived. Howard's recording history is unknown.AI summary
Curry's 369 Voice
Jenny Howard, a singer for Winner records in the early 1930s, recorded these light novelty numbers on the budget British imprint.AI summary
Winner 5520 Voice
Jenny Howard, a British entertainer, recorded comic and novelty material for the Cr label, a small or short-lived imprint. The titles suggest music-hall humour of the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Crown 292 Music Hall
Jenny Howard recorded two novelty numbers for Cr Records, an obscure or short-lived British label; very little is known of the artist or the imprint.AI summary
Crown 292 Music Hall
Jenny Howard recorded two comic novelty songs for Winner (5461) in the early 1930s. The artist is otherwise unidentified. Winner was a cheap British label, and such novelty items were mass-produced.AI summary
Winner 5461 Music Hall
Jenny Howard on 'Looking on the Bright Side', recorded for Winner 5515. Winner was a cheap British marque of the 1930s–40s; Howard's identity and recording career are unclear.AI summary
Winner 5515 TEST Voice
Jenny Howard recorded two sentimental songs for Eclipse, a short-lived British budget label: 'On the Golden Shores of Wigan' and 'That Old Fashioned Cottage of Dreams'.AI summary
Eclipse 521 Voice
Hom HB2069 Orchestra
Jeno Fesca, identified on the HomHB label, performing two classical pieces: a Minuet and 'Vienna Blood', the latter a famous waltz by Johann Strauss II.AI summary
Hom HB2113 Classical
Jeremy Taylor's 'Tsotsi Style' recorded for NewSound 3377, a South African label.AI summary
NewSound 3377 Personalities (Prs)
Jerome Conrad Band on Diva 3068, singing 'Sweetheart We Need Each Other' and 'You're Always in My Arms', likely 1930s.AI summary
Diva 3068 Dance
Jerry Blaine performing 'Ti Pi Tin' and 'Prove It' on BB label 7443, a US small label release.AI summary
Bluebird 7443 Voice
Mercury 5531 Misc.
Jerry Colonna, the bug-eyed comedian of Bob Hope's radio show, with Hector the Garbage Collector and You're My Everything on Vocalion 3876.AI summary
Vocalion 3876 Comic
Brunswick 05212
Jerry Jerome on Asch Records performing 'People Will Say We're in Love' (from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!) and a jazz instrumental. Jerry Jerome was a jazz saxophone player and session musician of the 1940s; Asch was an American independent label known for jazz and folk recordings.AI summary
Asch 1503 Jazz
Jerry Keller with Here Comes the Summer and Time Has a Way on London HLR8890.AI summary
London HLR8890 Rock
Jerry Lee Lewis's 'Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On' backed with 'It'll Be Me' on Sun 267 is one of the defining American rockabilly 78s, first issued in 1957. A UK copy would normally appear on London American or a similar licensee; a Sun label copy in a British collection is highly unusual and should be examined carefully — it may be an American original, which is considerably more valuable.AI summary
Sun 267 Rock
Jerry Lewis with I Love a Murder Mystery and I Keep Her Picture Hanging Upside Down on Capitol 14559.AI summary
Capitol 14559 Personalities (Prs)
Jerry Lewis recorded 'Sad Sack' and 'Shine on your Shoes' for Brunswick. This is likely the comedian Jerry Lewis, recorded in the early 1950s, or possibly an earlier singer of the same name.AI summary
Brunswick 05727 Comic
Jerry Lewis, the American comedian and film star, performing two novelty songs on Decca. This is likely a film-related or novelty recording from his early career as an entertainer.AI summary
Decca 30124 Personalities (Prs)
Jerry Lewis, the American comedian and entertainer, performing two popular songs on Brunswick 05636. The catalogue number suggests late 1930s or 1940s.AI summary
Brunswick 05636 Personalities (Prs)
Jerry Lewis performing comedy songs on Brunswick.AI summary
Brunswick 05727 Comic
Jerry Lewis, the American comedian and entertainer, recorded 'Come Rain or Come Shine' and 'Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody' on Brunswick. This late 1940s or 1950s side captures Lewis's pop-novelty style.AI summary
Brunswick 05636 Personalities (Prs)
Jerry Lewis, the American comedian and film star, sings two standards on Brunswick Records, capturing his occasional ventures into recording during his peak career in the 1950s.AI summary
Brunswick 05636 Personalities (Prs)
The Jerry Murad Harmonicats, a 1950s harmonica novelty group, with 'My gal Sal' and 'I love you' on Universal 4.AI summary
Universal 4 Instrumental
Capitol 80366