21,668 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Billy Williams recorded 'Here We Are Again' and 'Let's Have a Song Upon the Gramophone' for Zonophone 405. Williams was a popular singer and stage performer in the early 1900s; Zonophone 405 is an early catalogue number, likely circa 1904–1910.AI summary
Zonophone 405 Music Hall
Billy Williams recorded 'I'll Lend You My Best Girl' and 'I Don't Want a Girl for Sunday' for Zonophone (406), a British label subsidiary of the Gramophone Company. Williams was an early popular singer, and this record likely dates to the 1910s–20s.AI summary
Zonophone 406 Voice
Billy Williams, the music-hall entertainer, recorded these two topical Irish novelty songs for Zonophone, a major British label owned by the Gramophone Company; Zonophone 408 is from the pre-1920 era.AI summary
Zonophone 408 Music Hall
Scala 735 Music Hall
Billy Williams performing 'Are We All Here?' and 'Squeeze Her Ebenezer' on Zonophone 1012. Zonophone was an early British label subsidiary to The Gramophone Company, and this record represents popular comedy or novelty song of the 1900s–1910s era.AI summary
Zonophone 1012 Music Hall
Billy Williams was an American R&B and pop singer; this Cinch pressing offers two Scottish-themed novelty songs from a cheap British budget label.AI summary
Cinch 5156 Voice
Billy Williams recorded 'Why Can't We Have the Sea in London?' and 'She's My Sweet Lassie from Glasgow Toon' for J. Bull, a small British label. Williams was an English entertainer and his recordings represent early 20th-century British music-hall material.AI summary
John Bull 66 Music Hall
Billy Williams (1878-1915), the Australian-born music hall singer, with When Father Papered the Parlour and John Go and Put Your Trousers On on National 234g.AI summary
National 234g Music Hall
Billy Williams, the celebrated music hall star, sings 'Take Me Back to USA' and 'My Lass Frae Glasgae Toon' on an early Zonophone disc with a catalogue number pointing to the pre-First World War period.AI summary
Zonophone 676 Music Hall
Billy Williams, an American singer popular in the early 1950s, recorded 'Don't sing a Song about a Rose to me' and 'Don't let me get any better Nurse' for Zonophone, a British budget label. This is a UK pressing of his work.AI summary
Zonophone 832 Voice
Billy Williams, the prolific British music-hall singer, performing two Irish and American-themed novelty songs on Winner 2484.AI summary
Winner 2484 Music Hall
Billy Williams on Arrow Records with two comic-song sides: 'When Father Papered the Parlour' and 'Why Can't We Have the Sea in London?'AI summary
Arrow 45 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a British vocalist, performs 'When Father Painted the Parlor' and 'Clogs and Shawl' on Cinch 5039, a small British label.AI summary
Cinch 5039 Music Hall
Billy Williams on Winner 2354, performing two sentimental popular songs. Williams was a British singer active in the early 20th century; Winner was a cheap British marque.AI summary
Winner 2354 Voice
Billy Williams performing two novelty vocal numbers on Winner 2355, a cheap British label of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Winner 2355 Music Hall
Winner 2354 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a singer of popular songs in the early acoustic era, recorded 'When Father papered the Parlour' and 'Clogs & Shawl' for Zonophone, a British subsidiary of the Gramophone Company.AI summary
Zonophone 407 Music Hall
Billy Williams, a major British music-hall and variety comedian, on Zonophone 407 (green label), performing comedic songs 'When Father papered the Parlour' and 'Clogs & Shawl'. This is an early pressing from Zonophone's acoustic era.AI summary
Zonophone 407 Music Hall
Billy Williams on Regal 6010, 'Take me back to USA' and 'Why can't we have the Sea in London'. The label notes this copy is signed on the label.AI summary
Regal 6010 Music Hall
Billy Williams, the Australian-born music-hall star known as 'the Man in the Velvet Suit', sings 'She's Coming Home Tonight', backed by Fred Cooper with 'You Are My Girlski', on The Twin, the Gramophone Company's cheap double-sided label of the years before the First World War.AI summary
Twin 273 Music Hall
The Biltmore Hotel band with Georgia and, by a band, No Use Crying on Regal 9213.AI summary
Regal 9213 Dance
Eclipse 12
Eclipse 142
Eclipse 20
Eclipse 65
Eclipse 65
Bing Crosby performs two Christmas and New Year songs on Brunswick 03384 from the mid-1930s.AI summary
Brunswick 03384 Voice
Bing Crosby recorded "You're Getting to be a Habit With Me" and "You've Got Me Crying Again" for Columbia DB1901. Crosby was one of the most successful recording artists of the 20th century; these are from his early electrical recording period.AI summary
Columbia DB1901 Voice
Bing Crosby recorded 'Give Me a Heart to Sing To' and 'Once in a Blue Moon' for Columbia's 'DB' series in the late 1930s. Crosby was the dominant popular singer of the era.AI summary
Columbia DB2000 Voice
Bing Crosby recorded 'Long Ago (and Far Away)' with the Andrews Sisters and 'Is It You or Is It Me?'. No label, catalogue number or further detail is provided, making identification incomplete. The titles are from the 1940s repertoire.AI summary
Voice
Bing Crosby, recorded four popular songs on His Master's Voice B4424: 'Sweet L'il', 'Ain't She Sweet', 'Mississippi Mud', and 'I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain'. Crosby's early 1930s HMV recordings are common and widely available.AI summary
His Master's Voice B4424 Voice
Bing Crosby, one of the most recorded artists of all time, performs 'Out of Nowhere' and 'If You Should Ever Need Me' on Brunswick 01166.AI summary
Brunswick 01166 Voice
Bing Crosby recorded "Lazy Day" and "Young and Healthy" (the latter a popular jazz standard) for Columbia during the early 1930s swing era. Crosby was already one of the biggest popular singers in America by this time.AI summary
Columbia DB2027 Voice
Bing Crosby, one of the most recorded singers of the 20th century, performing 'The Day After Forever' and 'It Could Happen to You' on Decca; Crosby's records are abundant and widely collected.AI summary
Decca M2017 Voice
Brunswick 03019
Bing Crosby's recording of 'Wrap your Troubles in Dreams' and 'Just a Gigolo' on His Master's Voice, from the early 1930s. Crosby was among the most commercially successful singers of the era, and this pressing is British.AI summary
His Master's Voice BD470 Voice
Bing Crosby singing two popular standards for Brunswick, a major American label. This side captures Crosby's early crooner style in a mainstream commercial pressing.AI summary
Brunswick 02498 Voice
Bing Crosby on Columbia DB2085, with 'Black Moonlight' and 'Street of Dreams'. Crosby was the dominant popular singer of the 1930s–1950s, and among the most recorded artists in history.AI summary
Columbia DB2085 Voice
Bing Crosby, one of the most recorded artists of the 20th century, performed 'Down by the Old Mill Stream' and 'Home on the Range' for Brunswick, a major American label with extensive UK pressings.AI summary
Brunswick 02807 Voice
Brunswick 02873
Bing Crosby on Brunswick, performing two evergreen American standards — Crosby was the world's most popular recording artist of the 1930s–50s.AI summary
Brunswick 01993 Voice
Bing Crosby performing Hawaiian songs 'Aloha Oe' and 'Song of the Islands' on Brunswick 02320, a 1930s American pressing.AI summary
Brunswick 02320 Hawaiian
Bing Crosby recorded 'The Folks Who Live on the Hill' and 'Can I Forget You' for Brunswick, likely from the late 1930s or early 1940s.AI summary
Brunswick 02484 Voice
Brunswick 02807
Brunswick 03031
Brunswick 03300
Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters on Brunswick, featuring two popular songs of the 1940s. Crosby was one of the best-selling recording artists of the era and his Brunswick sides are widely available.AI summary
Brunswick 03539 Voice
Bing Crosby on Columbia, performing jazz-inflected standards in the early 1930s. Crosby was one of the most popular and prolific recording artists of the era.AI summary
Columbia 4417M Voice