21,561 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Spike Hughes, a notable British bandleader and composer of the 1930s, with an instrumental piece on Decca F3639. Hughes' Decca sides are well-regarded by jazz collectors.AI summary
Decca F3639 Jazz
Spike Hughes, the British composer and bandleader, recorded 'Funny Dear What Love Can Do' and 'That's Where the South Begins' for Decca in the early 1930s. Hughes was a respected figure in British jazz and swing, also known as a critic and composer.AI summary
Decca F1906 Jazz
Spike Hughes, a British musician, composer and bandleader, recorded the standards 'They Didn't Believe Me' and 'Sheik of Araby' for Decca in the 1930s.AI summary
Decca F2114 Jazz
Spike Hughes, the British jazz composer and bandleader, recorded 'Tap Your Feet' and 'High Life' for Decca F2323, likely 1930s.AI summary
Decca F2323 Jazz
Spike Hughes and his orchestra recorded 'Roll Jordan' and 'Joshua fit de Battle of Jericho' (spiritual arrangements) for Decca F2373; Hughes was a British jazz bandleader, composer and critic influential in the 1930s jazz scene.AI summary
Decca F2373 Jazz
Spike Hughes was a British jazz musician, composer and arranger of the 1920s–30s; 'Air in D Flat (33)' and 'Sweet Sorrow Blues' are instrumental jazz selections. Hughes made important experimental hot-jazz recordings for Decca in the early 1930s and is of genuine historical interest to jazz collectors.AI summary
Decca F5101 Jazz
Spike Hughes on Decca F3606, performing 'Pastoral' and 'Bugle Call Rag'. Spike Hughes was a respected British bandleader and jazz composer of the 1930s, known for sophisticated hot dance and swing recordings.AI summary
Decca F3606 Jazz
Spike Hughes, a British composer-bandleader known for his hot-jazz arrangements of the early 1930s, recorded for Decca with sides titled 'Everything is Peaches down in Georgia' and 'Sure as you're born'.AI summary
Decca F1910 Jazz
Spike Hughes, prominent British bandleader and composer, recording 'Doing Things' and 'Get happy' for Decca in the early 1930s.AI summary
Decca F2150 Jazz
Spike Hughes and his orchestra performing 'Everybody Loves My Baby' and 'Misty Mornin' on Decca F2166. Hughes was a British jazz composer and bandleader of the 1930s, and an important figure in the British jazz of that era.AI summary
Decca F2166 Jazz
Spike Hughes, the British composer, bandleader and jazz enthusiast, performs two jazz-influenced novelty numbers on Decca F2217: "Button Up Your Overcoat" and "Moanin' Low," likely from the 1930s. Hughes was an important figure in British jazz recording and music journalism of that era.AI summary
Decca F2217 Jazz
Spike Hughes, a British composer, arranger and bandleader from the 1930s, on Decca with 'Moon Love' and 'Some of These Days'; Hughes led an influential hot-jazz band and his recordings are prized by jazz collectors.AI summary
Decca F2259 Jazz
Decca F2711 Jazz
Spike Hughes was a British jazz composer, bandleader and writer, active 1930s–40s. 'Nocturne' is a Hughes composition; 'Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn' is a jazz number. Hughes was an important figure in British hot jazz, and his Decca recordings are sought by specialists.AI summary
Decca F3563 Jazz
Spike Hughes, the British jazz composer and conductor, performing 'Arabesque' and 'Fanfare' on Decca F-series — likely jazz-oriented or modernist instrumental pieces from the mid-to-late 1930s.AI summary
Decca F3639 Jazz
Spike Hughes was a British composer, bandleader and bassist who recorded sophisticated small-group jazz and dance sides for Decca in the early 1930s; 'Music at Sunrise' and 'Music at Midnight' are from his better-known session work.AI summary
Decca F3836 Jazz
Spike Hughes, British bandleader and arranger, recording 'Sweet Sue' and 'How come you do me like you do' for Decca in the mid-1930s; Hughes led innovative hot-dance orchestras that influenced British jazz.AI summary
Decca F3972 Jazz
Spike Hughes recording two contrasting pieces — a classical piece in D flat and 'Sweet Sorrow Blues' — for Decca in the mid-to-late 1930s, showing the breadth of his artistic range.AI summary
Decca F5101 Jazz
Spike Hughes was a distinguished British composer, bandleader and musicologist whose Decca recordings of the mid-1930s represent some of the finest swing-influenced jazz made in Britain. F3606 is from this important period.AI summary
Decca F3606 Jazz
Decca F2735
Spike Hughes Orchestra performing 'Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn' and 'Nocturne' on Decca F3563, a late 1930s British jazz recording.AI summary
Decca F3563 Jazz
Spike Hughes and his Orchestra on Decca, catalogue F3717. Hughes was a respected British jazz-influenced bandleader and composer of the 1930s; 'Firebird' is an ambitious orchestral jazz piece, and Hughes's records are collectable.AI summary
Decca F3717 Jazz
Spike Hughes' orchestra recorded 'A Harlem Symphony' for Decca in the 1930s; Hughes was a British bandleader and composer known for composing extended jazz works.AI summary
Decca F2711 Jazz
Spike Jones, the American novelty bandleader, performing two songs for His Master's Voice. Jones was famous for his humorous, anarchic big band sound and was widely recorded in the 1940s-1950s.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD1107 Dance
Phil Spitalny and his orchestra recorded 'One I Love Just Can't be Bothered with Me' and 'Down the River of Golden Dreams' for His Master's Voice B5835 in the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B5835 Dance
Spitalny (likely Phil Spitalny and his ensemble) recorded 'Worried' and 'Jealous' on His Master's Voice B1891. Spitalny was known for his novelty harmonica and xylophone ensembles of the 1920s-30s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1891 Instrumental
Phil Spitalny's all-female orchestra, the Hour of Charm, recorded this transcribed broadcast programme for the Pepsodent radio show in the late 1930s-40s; this is a commercial test pressing or promotional issue rather than a regular retail 78.AI summary
Pepsodent 2 Orchestra
Phil Spitalny and his orchestra recorded two selections from 'Hour of Charm' for Pepsodent, a sponsored broadcast programme of the 1940s.AI summary
Pepsodent 2 Orchestra
Spitalny was a bandleader known for novelty and light orchestral arrangements; 'Hour of Charm' was his signature theme and a popular radio series. The Pepsodent catalogue number suggests a promotional or radio-show recording, possibly from the 1930s–40s. This is a titled instrumental-dance novelty.AI summary
Pepsodent 2 Instrumental
Spitalny (likely Paul Spitalny, the orchestra leader known for the 'Hour of Charm' programme) on Pepsodent 2. Pepsodent was a radio-sponsored label of the 1930s–1940s; these appear to be broadcast or promotional recordings.AI summary
Pepsodent 2 Orchestra
Spitalny recorded 'Hour of Charm' sides (parts 4 and 9) for Pepsodent, a promotional label sponsored by the toothpaste brand; likely Phil Spitalny's orchestra, a popular ensemble of the 1930s–1940s.AI summary
Pepsodent 2 Orchestra
Spitalny, a dance-orchestra leader, recorded 'My Silent Love'/'Hummin' to Myself' on Sefono-F label, catalogue 4-5. The Sefono imprint was a British or European label of modest circulation in the late 1920s–early 1930s.AI summary
Sefono F4-5 Dance
Spitalny recorded 'My Song' and 'You call it madness' for Imperial, catalogue 2637, a British or imported label of the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Imperial 2637 Dance
A spoken recording on Pop 554 with 'How the Declaration of War Was Received in London' and a censored title, a documentary or novelty spoken record.AI summary
Popular 554
The SS Leviathan Band, named after the famous ocean liner, recorded these two sides for His Master's Voice in the early 1920s; the ship's dance band made several recordings, now quite scarce.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1848 Dance
St Alban's Band recorded two marches—'Cossack March' and 'Battle Abbey March'—for Scala, catalogue 7042; military and patriotic marches were popular recordings in Britain throughout the 78rpm era.AI summary
Scala 7042 Instrumental
The St Albans Band performing operatic and orchestral selections on Scala 7044, a two-part 'Lohengrin' selection; Scala was a small British label active in the 1920s.AI summary
Scala 7044 Orchestra
St. Cecilia's Male Voice Quartet recorded two sacred vocal works on Decca, a standard repertoire for British church choirs and male voice ensembles of the 1930s-40s.AI summary
Decca F2978 Voice
St Hilda Colliery Band recorded the 'Faust Overture' and 'Le Retour' for Imperial, performing orchestral and brass-band repertoire; a regional British colliery band.AI summary
Imperial 1422 Brass band
The St Hilda Colliery Band, a Welsh male-voice colliery ensemble, recorded 'Coriolanus' and other vocal and orchestral numbers for Winner, a cheap British marque. Colliery bands are sought by collectors of working-class cultural history and British brass tradition.AI summary
Winner 3472 Brass band
St Hilda Colliery Band, a British brass band from County Durham, recorded the Coriolanus overture for Winner, a small British label; this is an amateur brass-band recording of classical repertoire.AI summary
Winner 3472 Brass band
Zonophone 2127 Brass band
The St Petersburg Quartette (also known as the Russian Imperial Quartette) were a renowned vocal ensemble from Imperial Russia who recorded prolifically for HMV in the 1920s; this pressing of the famous 'Volga Boatmen' is an early HMV numerical catalogue.AI summary
His Master's Voice 7-24000 Voice
St Wandrille Abbey Choir performing liturgical chant and hymns ('Wandregisulus') for Mona, a small label of uncertain date.AI summary
MonaSM 73 Classical
Stafford on Brunswick 3966, with 'Precious Little Thing Called Love' and 'Lover Come Back to Me'. A vocalist on the popular Brunswick label in the swing era; Stafford is unidentified and was likely a session singer.AI summary
Brunswick 3966 Voice
The Stage Coach Players perform two wartime songs, 'I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen' and 'This Is the Army, Mr Jones', on Regal, likely a studio ensemble assembled for the topical material of the Second World War years.AI summary
Regal MR3725 Music Hall
Stainless Stephen, a British comedian known for fast-talking comic patter, on Broadcast 658, performing his characteristic monologues about contemporary topics.AI summary
Broadcast 658 Music Hall
Stainless Stephen, the British music-hall comedian and novelty recording artist, recorded 'Behind the Scenes at the BBC' and 'We've heard him on the Wireless' for Decca, F1797; these titles reflect his popular topical comedy material of the mid-1930s.AI summary
Decca F1797 Comic