21,668 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Charles Penrose, a British comedian and music-hall entertainer, recorded 'I Couldn't Help Laughing (Part 13)' and 'A Merry Family' for Pathé, catalogue 5344. Penrose was best known for his long-running novelty laugh, and his recordings were popular in the 1920s and 1930s.AI summary
Pathé 5344 Comic
Charles Penrose, the comedian of 'The Laughing Policeman', with 'I Tried to Keep from Laughing' and 'He'd a Funny Little Way with Him' on the Pilgrim label.AI summary
Pilgrim 5536 Comic
Charles Penrose on Polyphon 5537, performing comic speciality songs. Penrose was a British comic singer known for novelty and dialect pieces from the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Polyphon 5537 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'The Old Couple's Christmas Eve' and 'Good King Wenceslas' for Alb Records (1375). Penrose was a British music hall comedian and singer; Alb was a small British imprint.AI summary
Albion 1375 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British baritone and comic performer, recorded 'Gay Deceiver' and 'Merry Vicar' for Scala 1639. Penrose was famous for comic and novelty songs; Scala was a small British label.AI summary
Scala 1639 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with Oh Who Said So and Life in the East End of London on Stella C20.AI summary
Stella C20 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British baritone and comic entertainer, recorded 'Laughing Family' and 'I Tried to Keep from Laughing' for Victor Records. Penrose was famous for his laughing trick and novelty vocal effects.AI summary
Victor C6 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and recording artist, recorded for Columbia in the 1920s. Penrose was a popular character comic, though he remains less famous than his contemporaries.AI summary
Columbia 3902 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'The Laughing Curate' and 'The Laughing Major' for Columbia, catalogue 4117, in the early 1920s. Penrose's 'laughing' novelties, recorded in various comic characters, remain among the most distinctive British comedy records of the acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia 4117 Comic
Charles Penrose, a popular British comic monologist, performed 'Doings of Dismal Desmond - Fairy Market' on Columbia 4584, a mid-1920s British pressing. Penrose's comic character pieces were popular and widely recorded.AI summary
Columbia 4584 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, famous for his novelty 'laughing' recordings, performed 'Laughing Railway Porter' and 'Laughteritis' for Columbia, catalogue DB302. His comic vocal records remain novelties of enduring appeal.AI summary
Columbia DB302 Comic
Charles Penrose recorded 'Laughing Through' for Columbia, catalogue DB1010, in the early 1930s. Another of Penrose's celebrated laughing novelties, continuing the character-based comic records that made him a recording institution.AI summary
Columbia DB1010 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and recording artist famous for his comic recordings and character voices, recorded 'Laugh and you'll feel grand' and 'Let's laugh together Mike' on Columbia DB1021 in the 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB1021 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall comedian famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded two comic novelties for Columbia: 'Our Albert's Accordion' and 'Jolly Coppers on Parade', catalogue DB1461.AI summary
Columbia DB1461 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British comic performer, recorded 'Let's Have a Jolly Good Laugh' and 'Laughter and the Old Bassoon' on Columbia DB2602. Penrose was known for his comic monologues and novelty vocal recordings.AI summary
Columbia DB2602 Comic
Charles Penrose's 'The Laughing Policeman', a comedy novelty that became one of the most famous and frequently recorded comic songs of the early twentieth century, captured here on a Columbia pressing from the late acoustic era.AI summary
Columbia FB1184 Comic
Charles Penrose was a British music-hall comedian best known for the novelty record 'The Laughing Policeman'; this HMV recording of 'Santa Claus Workshop' represents his comic song material from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B1150 Music Hall
Charles Penrose recorded 'Laughing Vamp' and 'Pernickety Pete' for Decca F3115. Penrose was a British comedy vocalist known for novelty and comic songs.AI summary
Decca F3115 Comic
Charles Penrose was a British comedian and recording artist famous for his novelty recordings, particularly 'The Laughing Policeman'. This Winner 3600 side records him performing children's material, typical of his comedy style. Penrose's recordings remain popular with collectors of British music-hall and comic novelty material.AI summary
Winner 3600 Comic
Charles Penrose on Winner 3739, performing 'Story of Dick Whittington and his Cat' (parts 1 and 2). Penrose was a celebrated British music-hall comedian and singer, extremely prolific on record.AI summary
Winner 3739 Comic
Charles Penrose was a British comedian known for novelty and music-hall recordings. 'Dr Whackem's Academy' part 1 and 2 was recorded for Winner, a British label. Penrose's most famous recording was 'The Laughing Policeman', a novelty hit.AI summary
Winner 4345 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British music-hall performer famous for his laugh, on Columbia DB-series with novelty numbers 'Laughing Love & the Old Trombone' and 'Laughing Wife & the Clarinet'.AI summary
Columbia DB266 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British entertainer famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded 'Laughing Policeman's Party' and 'Laughing Policeman's Baby' for Columbia's electrical DB series, sequels to his signature piece.AI summary
Columbia DB305 Comic
Charles Penrose performs 'Laughing Policeman's Sweepstake' on Columbia DB493 from the late 1920s or early 1930s. Penrose was a popular music hall performer and comedian known for novelty comedy records.AI summary
Columbia DB493 Music Hall
Charles Penrose's signature novelty recording, 'The Laughing Policeman', one of the most famous British comedy recordings of the 1920s–30s; this is the Columbia DB 605 pressing.AI summary
Columbia DB605 Comic
Charles Penrose, a British comedian best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded 'Laughing stuttering Sam' and 'Happy Hikers' on Columbia in the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB856 Music Hall
Charles Penrose performing his most famous piece, 'The Laughing Policeman', on Columbia in the mid-1920s. Penrose made this novelty recitation a signature act, and it became one of the most popular recordings of the early electrical era.AI summary
Columbia DB881 Music Hall
Charles Penrose's second appearance, recorded for Columbia DB-series with his characteristic music-hall novelty material and laugh-song comedy from the early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia DB949 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on His Master's Voice B2367, 'The Laughing Policeman' (catalogued here as 'Popular Jocular Dr Brown'); Penrose's laughing performance became a comic standard from the 1920s onwards.AI summary
His Master's Voice B2367 Music Hall
Charles Penrose performing two Scottish comic novelties, 'Laugh when Fu' the Noo'' and 'Laughing McPhee fra' Bonnie Dundee', on Regal 475, the famous laughing comedian in the Scottish dialect tradition.AI summary
Regal 475 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British comedian and music-hall performer best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', on Regal; this is a novelty or comic recording from the early 1930s.AI summary
Regal 723 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on DuoM, a short-lived British label of the early 1920s, performing comedy material in the music-hall tradition.AI summary
Duophone M145
Charles Penrose, the comedian of 'The Laughing Policeman', with 'The Laughing Sailor' and 'The Laughing Jazz-Mad Drummer' on Duophone.AI summary
Duophone M146 Comic
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian whose Laughing Policeman became a national favourite, with Put Me in a Taxi and Laughing Brown from Camden Town on Duophone UB2007.AI summary
Duophone UB2007 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the comedian best remembered for 'The Laughing Policeman', with 'Dismal Desmond' and 'Laugh and You'll Never Grow Old' on Duophone.AI summary
Duophone UB2008 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British comic vocalist best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', performing 'Laughing Family' and 'Away with melancholy' for Pathé 79958.AI summary
Pathé 79958 Personalities (Prs)
Charles Penrose, best known as 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded comic material for Pathé. This 1920s-1930s pressing preserves his comic laughing sketches, which were hugely popular in music hall. Pathé was a major British label, and Penrose recordings exist in quantity, though individual titles vary.AI summary
Pathé 79960 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with Laughing Saxophone and Laughter, Love and Lingerie on Sterno 306.AI summary
Sterno 306 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with Laughing Yodeller and Discord and Laughter on Sterno 541.AI summary
Sterno 541 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, performs Laughing Trombone on Mayfair 2066.AI summary
Mayfair 2066 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, with The Cigar Girl and, by B. Whitlock, Snowdrops on Meloto 1043.AI summary
Meloto 1043 Music Hall
Charles Penrose was a British music-hall comedian and vocalist; this Decca recording of 'Laughing Jazz Band' and 'You've Got to Laugh' captures his comic style, which was known for novelty effects and audience-participation humour.AI summary
Decca F1627 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British comic vocalist, on Decca F2226. Penrose was known for his 'Laughing Policeman' novelty number and similar comic vocal effects; this disc appears to feature similar material.AI summary
Decca F2226 Comic
Charles Penrose, famous as 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded numerous novelty and comedy sides; this Decca pressing pairs two of his comedy routines ('Simpering Susie and a Sousaphone', 'Laughs and Liberties').AI summary
Decca F2463 Music Hall
Charles Penrose performs 'Laughing Saxophone' on an unidentified test pressing on 'StTEST'. Penrose was a British comedian and entertainer famous for his novelty song 'The Laughing Policeman'. This appears to be a test or special pressing rather than a commercial release.AI summary
StTEST TEST Comic
Charles Penrose performing 'Laughing Band' and 'Laughing Scot' on Piccadilly, a cheap British budget label of the 1930s. These are further variations of Penrose's popular laughing routine.AI summary
Piccadilly 230 Comic
Charles Penrose, the celebrated British comedian known for his character voices and comic recordings, recorded 'Film Fun' and 'Pernickety Pete the Postman' for Decca F3115 in the late 1930s–early 1940s.AI summary
Decca F3115 Music Hall
Decca F3262 Personalities (Prs)