21,668 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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Charles Penrose, a baritone soloist and music-hall performer, recorded 'Merry Irishman' and 'I'm 82 Tomorrow' for Regal, catalogue 7751; Penrose was known for humorous and sentimental character pieces.AI summary
Regal 7751 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and recording artist best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', performing 'Jack and the Beanstalk' on Winner 3738.AI summary
Winner 3738 Comic
Charles Penrose, the celebrated British comedic singer and music hall star, on Scala Records with two comic novelty songs; Penrose is best remembered for 'The Laughing Policeman', one of the most famous comic recordings of all time.AI summary
Scala 639 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the music hall comedian behind The Laughing Policeman, performs A Trip to Paris in two parts on Homochord H759.AI summary
Hom H759 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British vocalist and entertainer of the early 1920s, recorded "Land of Nod" with S. Coltham and "Pirate's Island" for His Master's Voice. Penrose was a popular recording artist of the acoustic era.AI summary
His Master's Voice B2366 Voice
Charles Penrose, the British character comedian famous for his laughing songs, performing 'How the Family laughs' and 'The Mirthful Curate' on Winner. These are variations on Penrose's signature laughing-novelty routine.AI summary
Winner 3699 Comic
Charles Penrose, a celebrated Music Hall comic of the early 20th century, known as 'The Laughing Policeman', on Winner 3717. This record captures his signature laughing vocal effect on comic patter pieces.AI summary
Winner 3717 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall comedian, recorded this Winner disc of 'Join Me in a Merry Laugh' and 'When I Do Start Laughing', typical of his novelty comic material.AI summary
Winner 3891 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British character comedian and musical-hall entertainer famous for his laughing songs, performing 'The Laughing Widow' and 'The Laughing Monk' on Winner. Penrose recorded many variations of his signature laughing routine.AI summary
Winner 4084 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall performer famous for 'The Laughing Policeman' recording, recorded 'The Laughing Tinker' and 'Felix Keeps on Laughing' for Winner, catalogue 4277.AI summary
Winner 4277 Music Hall
Charles Penrose was a British comedian and vocalist best known for his signature laughing songs of the 1920s–30s; this Eclipse recording preserves two of his comic specialty pieces.AI summary
Eclipse SC26 Music Hall
Charles Penrose was a British music-hall comedian and singer, famous for 'The Laughing Policeman'; these Winner sides show his comic novelty material from the early 1920s. Winner was a cheap British marque.AI summary
Winner 4277 Music Hall
Charles Penrose on Columbia DB881, performing 'The Laughing Policeman at Madame Tussauds' in two parts. Penrose (1863–1952) was a British character comedian and singer famous for 'The Laughing Policeman'; this is a variant or sequel recording of that signature piece.AI summary
Columbia DB881 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall comedian famous for his laughing songs, recorded for Regal with novelty material characteristic of his stage act.AI summary
Regal 7135 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British music hall comedian, became a recording star with his novelty hit "The Laughing Policeman" (1925); this Columbia pressing offers "Laughing Policeman's Baby" and "Laughing Policeman's Party", spin-off sides capitalizing on that success.AI summary
Columbia DB305 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the British comedian famous for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded for the Fairy label, a minor British imprint.AI summary
Fairy 353 Music Hall
Charles Penrose was a celebrated British comic singer and music-hall star known especially for his novelty recordings. This Fairy label pressing captures two of his comic numbers.AI summary
Fairy 356 Music Hall
Charles Penrose was a British singer best known for 'Laughing Policeman', a novelty recording that became iconic. 'Laughing PC Brown' on Fairy label (Fairy 357) is a variant or related novelty number from this period, early twentieth century.AI summary
Fairy 357 Comic
Charles Penrose, the celebrated comic singer and entertainer, on Zonophone 2176, performing a dramatic comic monologue based on the Jack the Giant Killer tale.AI summary
Zonophone 2176 Music Hall
Charles Penrose and Company, British comedians of the 1920s, recorded the novelty hit 'Laughing Policeman' alongside 'Laughing Trombone' on Broadcast 505. The 'Laughing Policeman' became one of the most popular comedy records of its era.AI summary
Broadcast 505 Comic
Charles Penrose & Co, credited here with 'Laughing Clara & the comic Cornet' and 'Laughs & Yodels' on Broadcast, a minor British label active in the late 1920s and early 1930s.AI summary
Broadcast 533 Comic
Broadcast 638 Music Hall
Charles Penrose & Co performing comic songs 'Laughing Stuttering Sam' and 'Happy Hikers' on Columbia DB856. Penrose was a popular British music hall entertainer known for his laughing and novelty songs.AI summary
Columbia DB856 Music Hall
Charles Penrose & Co performing a two-part comic narrative, 'Careless Peter visits the Land of Topsy Turvy', on His Master's Voice B3974. Penrose was a prolific British comic singer and entertainer of the early 20th century.AI summary
His Master's Voice B3974 Comic
Charles Penrose and Company on Decca, a British comedy piece with two parts titled 'Sweepstake Luck'.AI summary
Decca F2954 Comic
Charles Penrose, the British music-hall comedian best known for 'The Laughing Policeman', recorded this Parlophone TEST pressing with whimsical titles 'Wilful William' and a Christmas carol with choir; the TEST catalogue prefix indicates this is an experimental or test pressing, extremely scarce.AI summary
Parlophone TEST Comic
Charles Penrose and Company on Piccadilly, a cheap British budget label, performing the pantomime story 'Cinderella' or related material from the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Piccadilly 440 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, the celebrated British comic singer and whistler, recorded on Piccadilly 441 performing dramatic scenes from Cinderella.AI summary
Piccadilly 441 Music Hall
Charles Penrose and company in Dr. Kanem's Kollege, a two-sided comic sketch, on Dominion A218.AI summary
Dominion A218 Comic
Charles Penrose & Co performing 'Laughter on the Line' and 'Diner à Deux' on His Master's Voice B3932, a mid-1920s British pressing. Charles Penrose was a popular comedy monologist and character actor of the period.AI summary
His Master's Voice B3932 Music Hall
Charles Penrose and company in a comic novelty recitation on HMV, part of the tradition of music-hall spoken word that Penrose made famous.AI summary
His Master's Voice B3974 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, a British comedian and entertainer, known for 'The Laughing Policeman', on His Master's Voice; likely 1920s–1930s.AI summary
His Master's Voice B3932 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, credited as the 'Never Never Players', performing Christmas novelty pieces for Columbia, likely from the late 1920s or early 1930s.AI summary
Columbia 5083 Music Hall
Charles Penrose, known as Uncle Sambo, performing nursery songs on the Nursery label — a specialist children's imprint.AI summary
Nursery I Comic
Children's songs credited to Charles Penrose, the music hall singer behind The Laughing Policeman, on the Nursery label.AI summary
Nursery K Personalities (Prs)
Charles Penrose, known as Uncle Sambo, performing 'Nursery Laughs' and 'Little Miss Muffet' on the Nursery Label — comic numbers from a performer of the early 20th-century variety stage.AI summary
Nursery L Comic
Charles Penrose, the 'Laughing Policeman', on Regal 7816, performing his signature novelty recording 'The Laughing Policeman' and 'You've Got to Laugh'. Penrose's laughing policeman routine was a popular music-hall and recording act of the 1920s–30s.AI summary
Regal 7816 Comic
Charles Penrose and Billy Whitlock recorded these comedy pieces for the DuoM label; Penrose was known for his barnyard sound-effect comedy.AI summary
Duophone M147
Charles Penrose and Whitlock with Two of the Old Brigade and Two Old Sports Join the Mustard Club on Duophone M148.AI summary
Duophone M148 Comic
Charles Pierce performs 'Bull Frog Blues' and 'China Boy' on the UHCA label, an unidentified British or American imprint with no catalogue number listed.AI summary
Charles Pierce, an early jazz and novelty recording artist, performing 'Sister Kate' and 'Nobody's Sweetheart' for Columbia in the mid-1920s.AI summary
Columbia 35950 Jazz
Charles Rousselière was a French tenor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a celebrated Wagnerian; this Polyphon recording preserves arias by one of the great voices of the acoustic era.AI summary
Polyphon 561019 Opera
Columbia 360 Voice
Charles Sargent and J Marvin are credited to this OK Records pressing of jazz standards 'Farewell Blues' and 'Go Long Mule' from the early 1920s. OK was a small American label with limited distribution in Britain.AI summary
Okeh 40139 Jazz
Charles Saunders sings 'The Enemy Said' from Handel's 'Israel in Egypt' on a single-sided G&T.AI summary
G&T 3-2454 Classical
Charles Singer and George Player credited on Artiphon Records, a small or short-lived British label. 'I'll Be Thinking of You' and 'Prancin' Dancin' Yodelin' Man' suggest light entertainment and novelty material from the 1930s-40s.AI summary
Artiphon 12167 Voice
Charles Smart's arrangement of the Bridal Chorus and Wedding March, standard organ or piano repertoire recorded for Decca's F-series around the late 1940s.AI summary
Decca F10252 Instrumental
Decca F10252