21,558 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians, one of the most famous and prolific dance bands of the 1920s–1950s, recorded for Columbia CB-series. Lombardo's sweet, smooth orchestra was hugely popular and defined ballroom dancing of the era.AI summary
Columbia CB15 Dance
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians performing 'My Love for You' and 'Under the Roofs of Paris' on Columbia CB218, from the late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia CB218 Dance
Guy Lombardo's orchestra, a commercially successful Canadian dance band of the 1930s, performing two popular songs of the period on Columbia's British label.AI summary
Columbia CB45 Dance
Lombardo's "Blue Tango" and "At Last" on Decca 28031, from the British Decca catalogue of the 1950s.AI summary
Decca 28031 Dance
Lombardo (likely Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians) recorded 'Unchained Melody' and 'Danger Heartbreak Ahead' for Columbia, likely in the mid-1950s.AI summary
Columbia POPD5029 Dance
Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians, one of the most commercially successful orchestras of the 1920s and 1930s, performing 'That's how I feel about you' and 'Someday Somewhere' on Columbia 5284.AI summary
Columbia 5284 Dance
Lombardo on Brunswick Records with 'Cat & the Fiddle gems' and 'Between the Devil & the deep blue Sea'. The catalogue number 106 suggests this is an early Brunswick pressing, likely from the late 1920s.AI summary
Brunswick 106 Orchestra
Lombardo (likely Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, the influential dance orchestra) on Brunswick RL323, a pressed reissue series from the 1930s. Both titles are standards from the swing era.AI summary
Brunswick RL323 Dance
Lombardo performing 'Honky Tonk Sweetheart' and 'Wish you were here' on Decca 28308, a catalogue number from the label's numbered series of the 1940s or later.AI summary
Decca 28308 Dance
Guy Lombardo, the Canadian 'King of Jazz' bandleader, recorded the perennial 'Winter Wonderland' and 'Stay as sweet as you are' for Brunswick. Brunswick 01933 is a high catalogue number, suggesting a late 1930s or early 1940s pressing.AI summary
Brunswick 01933 Dance
Brunswick 01797 Dance
Guy Lombardo—the 'King of Jazz' and conductor of the Royal Canadians, one of the most recorded and popular dance orchestras of the 1920s–1950s—on Brunswick, early numbered series.AI summary
Brunswick 01317 Dance
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians on Brunswick: 'Young and Healthy' and 'Japanese Sandman', two of Lombardo's characteristic smooth orchestral interpretations from the early 1930s.AI summary
Brunswick 01456 Dance
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, the hugely popular American dance orchestra, on Brunswick. 'Shanghai Lil' and 'By a Waterfall' are evergreen standards of the early 1930s.AI summary
Brunswick 01650 Dance
Guy Lombardo and his orchestra recorded 'Out o' Breath' and 'Because of You' for Brunswick catalogue 04772, from the late 1940s or early 1950s.AI summary
Brunswick 04772 Dance
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, one of the most popular and widely recorded dance bands of the 20th century, on Brunswick RL211. This is a late 1920s or early 1930s recording, from the period of Lombardo's greatest popularity.AI summary
Brunswick RL211 Dance
Lombardo performing 'I Won't Dance' and 'Lovely to Look at' on Brunswick RL273.AI summary
Brunswick RL273 Dance
Guy Lombardo and the Andrews Sisters, two major American recording acts of the 1940s, on Brunswick. This is a mass-market commercial recording from the swing era.AI summary
Brunswick 04494 Dance
The Lombardo Band, likely Guy Lombardo or a related ensemble, recording dance material for Columbia 5329 with the Columbians. Probably mid-to-late 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 5329 Dance
The London Church Choir sing Sweet and Low on Berliner 4760, a single-sided issue.AI summary
Berliner 4760 Voice
The London Concert Orchestra plays selections from The Merry Widow and the Mikado Waltz on Edison Bell 1.AI summary
Edison Bell 1 Orchestra
The London Dance Orchestra, performing two dance numbers on a Columbia 700-series disc, likely from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 763 Dance
Columbia 734 Jazz
The London Fire Brigade Band recorded two marches — 'Ben Hur' and 'Colonel Bogey' — for Piccadilly, a cheap British budget label. Piccadilly pressings are abundant and typically command minimal value.AI summary
Piccadilly 517 Orchestra
London Fire Brigade Band playing marches and sentimental fare on MimP, an obscure British label.AI summary
Mimosa P204 Orchestra
The London Hippodrome Company performing 'Bairnsfatherland' parts 1 and 2 on Columbia L1129, a theatrical recording from the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia L1129 Music Hall
London Military Band on Tower 2001 with 'Poet and Peasant', a popular light concert overture, from an early Tower Records pressing.AI summary
Tower 2001 Orchestra
A London orchestra recorded a selection from 'San Toy', a light opera or musical comedy by Edward German, for Ar, a small British budget label of the late 1920s or early 1930s. Very little is known of this orchestra or the label.AI summary
Ariel 415 Orchestra
The Mazurka from Moniuszko's opera 'Halka' and the Krakowiak from Różycki's ballet 'Pan Twardowski', by the London Philharmonic, on a disc pressed specially for Polish Radio.AI summary
Special for Radio Polskie JG191 Orchestra
Decca AK1504-6 Orchestra
London Radio performing 'Who Taught You This, Who Taught You That' and 'The Road to Loch Lomond' on Columbia, likely from the 1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4171 Orchestra
London Radio on Columbia 4556, performing two instrumental dance pieces from the mid-1920s.AI summary
Columbia 4556 Instrumental
London Radio performs a repeat of the song "The Devil is Afraid of Music" for Columbia — likely a British session group rather than a named orchestra.AI summary
Columbia 4669 Orchestra
London Radio on Columbia 4670, a house orchestra or session group, playing light romantic material 'Why can't we be Sweethearts' and 'Under the Moon' in the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Columbia 4670 Orchestra
Columbia 4701 Dance
Edison 14 Instrumental
The London Regimental Band on Twin Records with two martial-music sides capturing the departure and wreck of a troopship from the early 1900s.AI summary
Twin 564 Orchestra
The London String Quartet performing Schumann's String Quartet in A Major on Columbia L1199, part 2 of the work. This is the companion disc to ColL1200 (id 15070).AI summary
Columbia L1199 Classical
The London String Quartet, a leading British ensemble of the early twentieth century, performing Schumann's String Quartet in A Major on Columbia's red label. This is part 3 of the work, catalogue L1200.AI summary
Columbia L1200 Classical
The London String Quartet with pianist Ethel Hobday in the first movement of Schumann's Piano Quintet on Vocalion.AI summary
Vocalion 0162 Classical
Columbia 902 Orchestra
London Welsh Male Choir singing 'Martyrs of the Arena', a church or patriotic hymn, recorded for Fav 69065. Fav was a minor British label; male voice choirs from Britain recorded frequently but this particular ensemble and pressing require identification.AI summary
Favorite 69065
London Wind Quartette on VF 515, performing two classical pieces. This artist is not documented in major references and VF was an obscure label.AI summary
Velvet Face 515 Classical
The London Wind Quintet performing the Finale to Lefebvre's Suite and a Passacaille on Winner 3476, a British label of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Winner 3476 Classical
London Zigeuner Orchestra under E. Leggett performing 'Song Ethereal' on Decca ca., a catalogue number that is difficult to parse and may indicate an institutional or special pressing.AI summary
Decca ca Orchestra
Lonnie Donegan, 'Cumberland Gap' and 'Love is Strange', on Nixa 15087; Donegan was the British skiffle pioneer whose acoustic folk-inflected recordings of American blues and folk songs helped spark the British rock-and-roll boom of the mid-1950s.AI summary
Nixa 15087 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan's 'Ham 'n' Eggs' and 'Jack o' Diamonds' on Nixa 15116; Donegan was a British skiffle pioneer whose folk and blues interpretations sparked the skiffle craze of the 1950s and influenced the British rock boom.AI summary
Nixa 15116 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan on Nixa, performing 'The Grand Coulee Dam' and 'Nobody Loves Like an Irishman' — the British skiffle pioneer and one of the first UK rock and pop stars.AI summary
Nixa 15129 Skiffle