21,561 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Tommy Handley, the radio comedian best known for the RAF comedy show ITMA, recorded 'Forty seven ginger headed Sailors' and 'Bananas are coming back again' for Piccadilly 140, likely late 1930s or 1940s.AI summary
Piccadilly 140 Comic
Tommy Handley, the British radio and music-hall comedian, performing 'Why' and 'Love Wonderful Love' on Piccadilly 158.AI summary
Piccadilly 158 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Handley, the famous British radio comedian, performing comedy songs 'Give Me a Slice of Roly Poly' and 'I Wish She'd Come Along Now' on Piccadilly.AI summary
Piccadilly 182 Music Hall
Tommy Handley performing comic monologues on Piccadilly, a British budget label of the 1930s.AI summary
Piccadilly 193 Comic
Tommy Handley on Piccadilly 222, performing 'Lino is Linoleum' and 'Misery Farm', comic monologues. Handley was a celebrated British radio comedian and variety performer.AI summary
Piccadilly 222 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Handley, the celebrated British radio comedian, on Piccadilly 325, performing sketches 'When I Met Connie in the Cornfield' and 'Oh Amelia' — early recordings of a star entertainer on a budget label.AI summary
Piccadilly 325 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Handley, one of Britain's most famous radio comedians, recorded these two comedy numbers on Piccadilly 477, likely early 1930s. Handley was the star of the hugely popular BBC radio show 'ITMA'.AI summary
Piccadilly 477 Comic
Tommy Handley, the British radio comedian famous for the show 'ITMA,' recorded 'Coom pretty one' and 'Silly Girl' for Decca F3982. These are comedy or novelty items from the late 1930s.AI summary
Decca F3982 Comic
Tommy Handley, the celebrated British comedian, in 'It's that Man again' and 'Tomsky the great Counter Spy' on Columbia FB2303. Handley was a major radio star whose catchphrase 'It's that man again' gave the show ITMA its name.AI summary
Columbia FB2303 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Handley was a music-hall comedian and the star of the BBC radio show ITMA (It's That Man Again); this Regal recording captures his comic patter and character work from the late 1930s.AI summary
Regal MR76 Music Hall
Tommy Handley, the British comedian famous for the radio show ITMA, recorded 'The Dis-Orderly Room' in two parts for Zonophone; a novelty or comedy piece typical of his stage and recording work in the 1920s–1930s.AI summary
Zonophone 2900 Comic
Tommy Handley, the celebrated British radio comedian who would become famous as the star of ITMA (It's That Man Again), recorded 'Sizzle of the Sausage' and 'We're living at the Cloisters' for Regal catalogue 9158.AI summary
Regal 9158 Comic
Regal 9365 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Handley, the British radio comedian and star of the long-running *ITMA*, recorded comic material for HMV, split across two parts.AI summary
His Master's Voice C3034 Comic
Tommy Handley and Doris Summers performing 'Mr Therm', with Jeanne de Casalis performing 'EDA', on His Master's Voice JH47. Handley was the comic star of the hugely popular British radio programme ITMA.AI summary
His Master's Voice JH47 Comic
Tommy Handley, Britain's most celebrated radio comedian, recorded a 'Tuning In' sketch with Frank Muir, Clapham & Dwyer for Parlophone. Handley's ITMA show was a national institution during the Second World War.AI summary
Parlophone R748 Comic
Tommy Keevney, a tenor vocalist, recorded two sentimental songs for His Master's Voice: 'One Morning very early' and the hymn 'Art thou troubled'. The catalogue number B25 places this in HMV's earliest vocal series, likely from the late 1920s or very early 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B25 Voice
Tommy Kinsman led a British dance band; this Piccadilly side features two light dance pieces from the early 1930s on a cheap British label.AI summary
Piccadilly 349 Dance
Tommy Kinsman Band performing two popular songs on St, an unidentified short-lived or regional British label. No information about this orchestra or label is readily available.AI summary
Sterno 854 Dance
Tommy Ladnier, a pioneering American jazz trumpet player, on His Master's Voice performing classic early jazz. Ladnier was active in the 1920s and represented the New Orleans tradition.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9236 Jazz
Tommy Ladnier was a New Orleans jazz cornet player of the 1920s, celebrated for his blues work with Sidney Bechet and others; this HMV pressing of 'Ja-Da' and 'Really The Blues' may be from a 1930s reissue of earlier material.AI summary
His Master's Voice B9236 Jazz
Tommy Mara singing 'Honey Bunch' and 'Pledging My Love' for MGM Records, catalogue 821; an unconfirmed artist on MGM's British 78rpm label.AI summary
MGM 821 Voice
Tommy Sands with Ring My Phone and Goin' Steady on Capitol 14745.AI summary
Capitol 14745 Rock
Tommy Sands with Sing Boy Sing and Crazy 'Cause I Love You on Capitol 14834.AI summary
Capitol 14834 Rock
Tommy Steele with Singing the Blues and Rebel Rock on Decca F10819.AI summary
Decca F10819 Rock
Tommy Steele on Decca F11072, performing 'Put a ring on her finger' and 'Come on let's go'. Steele was Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star, prominent in the mid-to-late 1950s; this Decca recording is from the early years of his career.AI summary
Decca F11072 Rock
Tommy Steele, the British rock and roll pioneer, performing 'Put a Ring on Her Finger' and 'Come On Let's Go' on Decca (catalogue F11072). Steele was one of the first British rock and roll stars and a major chart presence in the mid-to-late 1950s.AI summary
Decca F11072 Rock
Tommy Steele, the British pop star and actor, recorded 'Grandad's Rock' and 'Shiralee' for Decca F10896 in the mid-to-late 1950s.AI summary
Decca F10896 Rock
Tommy Steele recorded 'The only man on the island' and 'I puts the lightie on' for Decca in 1957. This is an early single from Steele, who became Britain's first major rock and roll star following his 1956 breakthrough with 'Rock with the Caveman'.AI summary
Decca F11041 Rock
Tommy Steele's second Decca recording, from late 1956 — among his earliest discs, just as the teenager had become Britain's first rock and roll star following his appearance in 'Rock Around the Clock'.AI summary
Decca F11041 Rock
Tommy Steele, a British rock and roll pioneer of the 1950s, recorded 'Trial' and 'Hiawatha' for Decca; this is a minor entry in his early recording career, before he achieved mainstream fame.AI summary
Decca F11117 Rock
Decca F10976 Misc.
Tommy Steele, the British rock-and-roll pioneer and teen idol, recorded 'Rock Around the Town' and 'Rock with the Cavemen' for Decca, catalogue F10795 (1956). These are among his earliest and most significant recordings.AI summary
Decca F10795 Rock
Tommy Steele performing 'Trial' and 'Hiawatha' for Decca, F11117. Steele was a major British rock and roll star of the 1950s; this late 1950s recording dates to his early career when he was being marketed as a rock and roll performer, before his transition to musical theatre and entertainment.AI summary
Decca F11117 Rock
Tommy Trinder, the British comedian and entertainer, performing two novelty and comedy songs on Columbia: 'Happy Go Lucky Song' and 'All Over the Place'.AI summary
Columbia FB2531 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Trinder, the British comedian and entertainer, performing comedy material on Columbia: 'Mr Chumley' and 'Pilgrim Family'—examples of his variety act.AI summary
Columbia FB2552 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Trinder, the British comedian and stage entertainer, recorded 'Stage Show' and 'S'artnoon' for Columbia in the post-war years; this is a mass-market variety side.AI summary
Columbia FB2553 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Trinder was a British music-hall and cabaret entertainer, famous for his rapid comic banter and catchphrases. 'Der Fuehrer's Face' and 'No Columbus' are wartime topical comedy numbers, recorded for Columbia. This FB-series pressing dates from the 1940s.AI summary
Columbia FB2885 Comic
Tommy Trinder, a British comedian and entertainer, recorded 'Arf of 'Arf and 'Arf' and 'Come on Algernon' on Columbia FB3051; these are typical of his comic material from the 1930s–40s.AI summary
Columbia FB3051 Personalities (Prs)
Tommy Tucker Time with Rose O'Day and When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New on OKeh 6448.AI summary
Okeh 6448 Dance
Tommy Westwood and Leo Souris' Swingette recorded two popular songs, 'If I Had My Way' and 'Rose Covered Shack', for Rythme, a small British jazz label of the 1930s. Neither artist is prominently documented.AI summary
Rythme 5142 Dance
The Tonhalle Orchestra under Franz Lehár performing the 'Gypsy Love Overture' (Lehár's own composition from the operetta *Gypsy Love*) in two parts. Lehár was the famous Austro-Hungarian operetta composer; this Decca K-series pressing represents his orchestral work.AI summary
Decca K1811 Orchestra
The Tonhalle orchestra performing Lehár's 'Vienna Wives Overture' on Decca in the 1930s–1940s, representing the popularity of Viennese operetta in the British record market.AI summary
Decca K1903 Orchestra
The Tonhalle Orchestra under the direction of related to Lehár, recorded waltzes and ballet music from The Count of Luxembourg for Decca. This is an orchestral arrangement of the famous Lehár operetta from the early electrical era.AI summary
Decca K1997 Orchestra
The Tonhalle orchestra conducted an arrangement of Franz Lehár's operetta waltzes—'Count of Luxembourg Waltz' and a 'Waltz Intermezzo Ballet'—on this Decca pressing, representing European operetta repertoire.AI summary
Decca K1997 Orchestra
The Tonhalle Orchestra performing the overture and intermezzo from Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera 'Il Segreto di Susanna' (Susanna's Secret), conducted by Wolf-Ferrari himself, on Decca K1872. A composer conducting his own opera is always historically interesting; Wolf-Ferrari's delicate comic operas had a substantial following and a self-conducted recording is of specialist collector interest.AI summary
Decca K1872 Orchestra
The Tonhalle Orchestra recorded the Wolf-Ferrari Susanna's Secret Overture for Decca's classical K-series in the 1930s.AI summary
Decca K1872 Classical
The Tonhalle Orchestra under Woldemar Wolf-Ferrari performing the 'Susanna's Secret Overture' and 'Intermezzo' from Wolf-Ferrari's operetta on Decca K1872, a classical orchestral recording.AI summary
Decca K1872 Classical