21,556 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, recorded these early blues numbers for Nixa, a small independent British label of the early 1950s.AI summary
Nixa 2006 Skiffle
Nixa 150116 Skiffle
Nixa 15071 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, the skiffle pioneer, performs 'Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O' and 'I'm Alabamy Bound' on Nixa 15080, an early recording before his major commercial success.AI summary
Nixa 15080 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan recorded 'Cumberland Gap' and 'Love Is Strange' for Nixa Records—among the earliest skiffle and rock-and-roll recordings in Britain, from the artist who pioneered the skiffle craze in the UK.AI summary
Nixa 15087 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan on Nixa 15129, with 'The Grand Coulee Dam' and 'Nobody Loves Like an Irishman'. Donegan was a British skiffle and folk artist of the 1950s–1960s, best known for 'Rock Island Line', and a major influence on British popular music.AI summary
Nixa 15129 Skiffle
Nixa 15172 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, pioneer of British skiffle, recorded these two songs for Columbia, likely in the late 1950s as his career was taking off. 'Take My Hand Precious Lord' is a spiritual; 'On a Christmas Day' suggests seasonal novelty material.AI summary
Columbia DB3850 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, recorded "I'm just a rollin' stone" and "My Dixie Darling" for Nixa, a small British label that released blues and folk material.AI summary
Nixa 15108 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, performs 'The Golden Vanity' and 'My Old Man's a Dustman' on Pye in the late 1950s; 'My Old Man's a Dustman' became one of his signature tunes and a hit.AI summary
Pye 15256 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan recorded 'Rock Island Line' and 'Portuguese Washerwoman' for Decca POPE7048. Donegan was the British skiffle pioneer who brought folk-based, acoustic-guitar-driven rock to the UK charts in the mid-1950s; 'Rock Island Line' was one of his signature recordings and a major hit in 1956. This is a landmark record of British popular music.AI summary
Decca POPE7048 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan performing 'Ham 'n' Eggs' and 'Jack o' Diamonds' on Nixa Records. Donegan was a British skiffle pioneer who achieved major commercial success in the mid-1950s; this Nixa pressing documents his early recording work.AI summary
Nixa 15116 Skiffle
Lonnie Donegan's 'Rock Island Line', recorded with Chris Barber's band and issued in Decca's jazz series, was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1956 and set off the British skiffle craze. It is coupled here with 'John Henry'.AI summary
Decca F-J.10647 Skiffle
Lonnie Johnson, the pioneering blues guitarist, with 'Rambler's Blues' and 'Fly Right Baby' on American Bluebird.AI summary
Bluebird 34-0708 Jazz
Lonnie Johnson, blues and jazz guitarist and vocalist. Vocalion 03013 records duets with C Williams and S Williams ('Wipe It Off' and 'Monkey and the Baboon').AI summary
Vocalion 03013 Jazz
Lonnie Johnson, the pioneering blues and jazz guitarist, on 'Tomorrow Night' and 'What a Woman', King 4201. Johnson is a foundational figure in electric blues and jazz guitar. King Records was an American label with limited UK distribution.AI summary
King 4201 Jazz
Lonnie Johnson, influential blues and jazz guitarist, on King 4225. Johnson recorded extensively in the early 1930s; King was a small American label and UK pressings are scarce.AI summary
King 4225 Jazz
Lonnie Johnson, the influential blues and jazz guitarist and singer, recorded 'Blues Stay Away from Me' and 'Confused' for King Records 4336. Johnson's recordings, particularly on smaller labels like King, are of high interest to blues and jazz collectors.AI summary
King 4336 Jazz
Lopez with Lonesome Lover on Hit of the Week 1127. Hit of the Week discs were thin Durium records sold at newsstands around 1930, not shellac.AI summary
Hit of Week 1127 Dance
Lopez performing two jazz standards — 'Birth of the Blues' and 'St. Louis Blues' — on Brunswick, catalogue 20065. This is likely Vincent Lopez, a pianist and bandleader prominent in the 1920s–1930s jazz and dance orchestras.AI summary
Brunswick 20065 Dance
Lopez — identity uncertain, possibly a pseudonym or session musician — recorded the novelty piece 'Palesteena' and a light piece called 'Caresses' for Columbia in the early 1920s.AI summary
Columbia A3349 Dance
Lopez, credited with orchestra, recorded "Sweetest Words I Know" and "Dixieland Rhumba" for Columbia. This pressing carries a "Spec (for Radio Stations)" designation, indicating a special edition made for radio airplay.AI summary
Columbia SPEC(forRadioStations) Orchestra
Lopez recorded 'Rubetown Frolics' and 'Sally Lou' for Parlophone (E5254). The artist and titles suggest dance or novelty material from the early 1930s, but little is known of this Lopez.AI summary
Parlophone E5254
Duophone D4015
Lopez recorded 'Talking through my Heart' and 'You came to my Rescue' for Rex, a British imprint of the early 1930s. The artist and exact identity of Lopez remain unclear from the label alone.AI summary
Rex 8955 Voice
Lopez recorded 'If I Had a Talking Picture of You' and 'Dreaming of You' for Supremacy Records (1785), a minor British label of the late 1920s–30s.AI summary
Supraphon 1785 Voice
Vincent Lopez's dance orchestra, credited Lopez, with Steppin' Out and Somebody Loves You After All on OKeh 40024.AI summary
Okeh 40024 Dance
Vincent Lopez's dance orchestra, credited Lopez, with There's Nobody Else but You and Lovey Came Back on OKeh 40035.AI summary
Okeh 40035 Dance
Lopez recorded 'Maybe' and 'The One I Love' for OK Records (40051), a minor British label. The artist is not further identified, and the record likely dates to the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Okeh 40051 Voice
Lopez performing 'Eliza' and 'Cold Cold Mammas' on OK 40221, a dance or novelty recording on a small British label.AI summary
Okeh 40221 Dance
Lopez with Laughing on the Outside and Ashby de la Zouch on Mercury 2074.AI summary
Mercury 2074 Dance
Lopez on Piccadilly 469, performing 'If I Had a Talking Picture of You' and 'Little Pal' (Grey Gull).AI summary
Piccadilly 469 Voice
Lopez on Piccadilly 471, performing 'Sweetheart We Need Each Other' and 'Love Me' (Grey Gull).AI summary
Piccadilly 471 Voice
Lopez recorded the sentimental ballads 'Lonely Troubadour' and 'Dream Lover' for Piccadilly, catalogue 509, a cheap British label of the 1930s.AI summary
Piccadilly 509 Voice
Lopez on Imperial 2356, singing 'There's Danger in your Eyes Cherie' and Schubert's 'I love you so much'.AI summary
Imperial 2356 Voice
Lopez performing 'Chant of the Jungle' and 'Love your Spell is Everywhere' on Imperial, a minor British label. The artist and specific pressing are unidentified.AI summary
Imperial 2196 Dance
Lopez on Imperial 2211, 'Charming' and 'The Shepherd's Serenade', light romantic or orchestral material from the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Imperial 2211 Orchestra
Lopez performing 'Should I?' and 'I'm a Dreamer' on Imperial 2212. Imperial was a minor British label; the artist cannot be placed with confidence, and may be a pseudonym or session credit.AI summary
Imperial 2212 Dance
Lopez (unidentified artist or ensemble, likely Latin or Cuban in context), on Imperial Records 2226, performing 'Tain't no Sin' and 'Happy Days are here again'.AI summary
Imperial 2226 Dance
Lopez recorded 'Are you happy' and 'Kiss and make up' for Brunswick. This may refer to Vincent Lopez, the American bandleader and pianist, or another artist with the same surname. Without additional information, identification is uncertain.AI summary
Brunswick 3658 Dance
Lopez performing the exotica numbers 'Voodoo' and 'Mama Inez' on Brunswick 01425, an early Brunswick issue likely from the late 1920s.AI summary
Brunswick 01425 Dance
Lopez recorded dance material for Imperial; 'Should I?' and 'I'm a Dreamer' are typical light vocal-dance sides of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Imperial 2212 Dance
Credited to Lopez on Brunswick, a major British label; catalogue 3633 suggests a 1920s–30s pressing of a popular song vocal.AI summary
Brunswick 3633 Voice
Lopez Dance Band performing two well-known songs on Imperial—'Look for a Silver Lining' (a standard of the 1920s) and 'If I'm Dreaming'. The band is not identified in standard discographies.AI summary
Imperial 2253 Dance
Loraine and Thorne performing two period comic novelty songs on Columbia, likely from the 1920s: 'We've Been Married Just One Year' and 'When We've Wound Up the Watch on the Rhine'.AI summary
Columbia 2484 Music Hall
Lord Kitchener, a Trinidadian calypso singer, on Parlophone with 'The Underground Train' and a recording by Lord Beginner. These are early postwar calypso sides reflecting the Caribbean community's music in Britain.AI summary
Parlophone MP103 Calypso
Lord Rockingham's XI, a novelty instrumental group, recorded the comic novelty hit 'Hoots Mon' and 'Blue Train' for Decca in 1958; 'Hoots Mon' was a UK number-one novelty hit.AI summary
Decca F11059 Comic
Lord Rockingham's XI achieved a number-one hit with 'Hoots Mon', a novelty instrumental that became famous through BBC radio exposure in 1958; this Decca pressing pairs it with 'Blue Train', a jazzier B-side.AI summary
Decca F11059 Instrumental