21,677 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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The Kentucky Colonels with Learn to Do the Strut and, by the Ambassadors, Dream Daddy on Vocalion X9423.AI summary
Vocalion X9423 Dance
Kentucky Freebooters recorded 'Sunshine' and 'Mary Ann' for Piccadilly Records, a cheap British label. The band name suggests a novelty or regional act.AI summary
Piccadilly 119 Dance
Keray Regan recorded 'Drunkard's Love' and 'If the Moon Would Shine' for the obscure Aragon label, catalogue A107.AI summary
Aragon A107 Voice
Kernoff, a male vocalist, performs two European concert pieces—'Serenade Don Juan' and 'Song of the Volga Boatmen'—on Met, catalogue 1116; Met was a minor British label.AI summary
Metropole 1116 Voice
Kernoff performing 'Song of the Volga Boatmen' and 'When the King went forth to War' on Piccadilly 5069.AI summary
Piccadilly 5069 Voice
Albert Ketèlby was a prolific English composer of light orchestral and ballet music, famous for descriptive and atmospheric pieces. This Columbia recording features two of his best-known salon compositions, characteristic of the Edwardian and interwar light-music tradition.AI summary
Columbia 068 Orchestra
Kid Ory's 'Savoy Blues' and '12th Street Rag' on Vogue V2012. Ory is canonical; Vogue French pressings of his work are sought after.AI summary
Vogue V2012 Jazz
Kid Ory was a pioneering New Orleans jazz trombonist whose tailgate style shaped early jazz; this French Decca 'MU' series pressing couples his own 'Blanche Touquatoux' with the jazz standard 'High Society'.AI summary
Decca MU60089 Jazz
Good Time Jazz 2186
Kid Ory's 'Muskrat Ramble' and 'High Society' for Vocalion V1012. Ory is a canonical New Orleans trombonist; this is a classic hot-jazz recording of the acoustic era.AI summary
Vocalion V1012 Jazz
Kid Ory, the New Orleans trombonist who wrote 'Muskrat Ramble' and led one of the best bands of the 1940s New Orleans revival, plays 'High Society' and 'Muskrat Ramble' on British Vocalion.AI summary
Vocalion V1012 Jazz
Kid Ory led one of the pioneering New Orleans jazz bands; this UK Vocalion issue carries the first catalogue number of a short British series reissuing early American jazz sides for collectors.AI summary
Vocalion V1001 Jazz
Kid Ory, the New Orleans trombonist who wrote 'Muskrat Ramble', plays 'Muskrat Ramble' and 'High Society' on British Vocalion.AI summary
Vocalion V1012 Jazz
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band plays 'Weary Blues' and 'Savoy Blues' on Esquire.AI summary
Esquire 10-018 Jazz
Kid Ory, the New Orleans trombonist who wrote 'Muskrat Ramble', plays 'High Society' and 'Muskrat Ramble' on British Vocalion.AI summary
Vocalion V1012 Jazz
Kid Ory, the pioneering New Orleans jazz trombonist, performing 'Jazz Band' (both sides) on Good Time Jazz Records (catalogue GV 2191). Good Time Jazz was a respected American jazz reissue label of the 1950s–1960s, known for high-quality pressings of early New Orleans and swing jazz.AI summary
GoodTimeJazzGV 2191 Jazz
Kid Ory (1886–1973) was a pioneering New Orleans trombonist and bandleader. Vogue V2011 ('Tiger Rag' and 'Eh, la bas') are from his post-war Paris recordings, highly collectable in the UK.AI summary
Vogue V2011 Jazz
This Vocalion pressing reissues the pioneering 1922 Kid Ory Sunshine Orchestra sides, often cited as the first jazz recordings made by a black New Orleans group; Ory was a key trombonist who later worked with both King Oliver and Louis Armstrong.AI summary
Vocalion V1001 Jazz
Kid Ory's 'Tiger Rag' and 'Eh, la bas' on Vogue V2011. Ory is canonical; Vogue French pressings of his work are sought after. Note: this appears to be a duplicate of id 20511.AI summary
Vogue V2011 Jazz
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, pioneers of New Orleans jazz, recorded 'Panama' and 'Under the Bamboo Tree' for Crescent, catalogue 7; this is a scarce American jazz pressing issued in the UK.AI summary
Crescent 7 Jazz
Kid Ory performing 'Origins of Jazz', an early New Orleans jazz trombonist and bandleader, though label and catalogue information are missing.AI summary
Jazz
Kid Rena's Delta Jazz Band, recorded in New Orleans in 1940 in one of the first sessions of the revival, plays 'Lowdown Blues' and 'Gettysburg March' on Esquire.AI summary
Esquire 10-111 Jazz
Kid Rena's Delta Jazz Band, recorded in New Orleans in 1940 in one of the first sessions of the revival, plays 'High Society' and 'Panama' on Esquire.AI summary
Esquire 10-112 Jazz
Imperial 19284
The King Brothers were a successful British vocal group of the 1950s; '6–5 Jive' and 'Hand Me Down My Walking Cane' reflect the skiffle and rock-and-roll influences of the era, and this Parlophone side is from their active recording period.AI summary
Parlophone R4410 Rock
King Edward VIII's 'Farewell Message' recorded on the Kugel label in two parts, a historic speech pressing from the abdication crisis of December 1936.AI summary
Kugel Personalities (Prs)
King Edward VIII recorded 'A Message to the Empire' for His Master's Voice, catalogue RB8417. This is Edward's only commercial recording, made during or shortly after his reign (1936-1937). It is one of the most sought and historically significant British 78s.AI summary
His Master's Voice RB8417 Personalities (Prs)
King George V's speech opening the Five Power Naval Conference of 1930 on HMV RB3290, in two parts.AI summary
His Master's Voice RB3290 Personalities (Prs)
King George V, recording of the 'Five Power Naval Conference' on His Master's Voice RB3290. This is a spoken-word recording of historical interest, capturing the British monarch addressing an important diplomatic conference.AI summary
His Master's Voice RB3290 Personalities (Prs)
King George V delivers 'A Message to the Empire' on this HMV record, a historically significant speech recording from the royal archives.AI summary
His Master's Voice RCS2811 Personalities (Prs)
King George V's A Message to the Empire on HMV RCS2811, a royal speech issued on disc for the Empire.AI summary
His Master's Voice RCS2811 Personalities (Prs)
His Master's Voice RCS2811 Personalities (Prs)
A spoken-word recording of King George V at the Five Power Naval Conference, issued by His Master's Voice. This is a historical documentary record rather than entertainment, captured on the HMV Red Label series.AI summary
His Master's Voice RB3290 Personalities (Prs)
His Majesty King George VI, speaking *A Message to the Empire*, a royal address recorded for His Master's Voice in two parts. This is a historically significant recording made during the reign of the reigning British monarch.AI summary
His Master's Voice RC3555 Personalities (Prs)
A Decca recording of the second part of the abdication narrative featuring King George VI, Churchill and others, pressed as SX3 in the immediate post-abdication period.AI summary
Decca SX3 Personalities (Prs)
King Howard recorded instrumental pieces—a gavotte and 'Liselotte'—for the obscure Phoenix label, catalogue 165.AI summary
Phoenix 165 Instrumental
King Nawahi's Hawaiians performing Hawaiian vocal numbers on Columbia. Nawahi was a Hawaiian musician recorded in the early acoustic era; UK copies of Hawaiian sides on the DB series are relatively scarce.AI summary
Columbia DB248 Hawaiian
"Baby Doll" and "Mabel's Dream" are classic King Oliver sides from the 1920s, here on the Biltmore label, a specialist British reissue imprint aimed at jazz collectors rather than an original commercial pressing.AI summary
Biltmore 1050 Jazz
A UK Panachord pressing of King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators performing 'Someday Sweetheart' and 'Limehouse Blues'; Oliver was Louis Armstrong's mentor and a central figure in early New Orleans jazz, and British issues of his work are not common.AI summary
Panachord 25035 Jazz
King Oliver, a pioneering early jazz trumpeter and bandleader, on Brunswick 03575, performing "Mabel's dream" and "Riverside blues"; both sides are significant recordings from the early electric era of jazz.AI summary
Brunswick 03575 Jazz
"Krooked Blues" and "Alligator Hop" were recorded by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band for Gennett in 1923, landmark early jazz sides; this Century pressing is a later specialist reissue of those recordings rather than an original Gennett disc.AI summary
Century 3008 Jazz
A King Oliver recording of "Farewell Blues" issued on Perfect, a budget American dime-store label of the late 1920s and 1930s that reissued jazz and dance sides cheaply.AI summary
Perfect 15685 Jazz
King Oliver was a formative figure in early New Orleans jazz, and 'Working Man Blues' and 'Zulu's Ball' are historic titles here reissued on Biltmore, a cut-price American label.AI summary
Biltmore 1028 Jazz
King Oliver led one of the most influential early New Orleans jazz bands; this Biltmore pressing is a later cheap UK reissue of his original recordings, issued for jazz enthusiasts rather than as a first pressing.AI summary
Biltmore 1050 Jazz
King Oliver's Vocalion sides 'Wa Wa Wa' and 'Someday Sweetheart' are celebrated recordings from his mid-1920s period, important documents of early jazz.AI summary
Vocalion V1004 Jazz
British Vocalion reissued key American jazz sides for the UK market in the early 1930s under its "V" series; this coupling of King Oliver's "Tin Roof Blues" and "West End Blues" is sought after among collectors of early British jazz pressings.AI summary
Vocalion V1024 Jazz
"Riverside Blues" and "Working Man Blues" are classic King Oliver Creole Jazz Band sides from the 1920s, here on the Hot Jazz Club of America label, a limited-run specialist reissue produced for serious jazz collectors rather than an original commercial issue.AI summary
Hot Jazz Club of America 7 Jazz
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band with 'Chimes Blues', which includes Louis Armstrong's first recorded solo, and 'Froggie Moore', from their 1923 sessions, in Tempo's R series.AI summary
Tempo R6 Jazz