Burt Shepard

ALaughing Song
BEvery little Bit

Label: Odeon
Catalogue number: 44870
Genre: Comic
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #2373

Burt Shepard performs 'Laughing Song' and 'Every Little Bit' on Odeon 44870. Shepard was a prolific early recording artist in both Britain and America, best known for comedy and laughing-song novelties; the Odeon 44000 series suggests an early acoustic pressing. His laughing songs are among the best-known novelty recordings of the early disc era.

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1. ABoy & the Cheese
2. BNonsense
Burt Shepard performs 'The Boy and the Cheese' and 'Nonsense' on Pathé 60440. Shepard was a prolific early recording artist in the comic novelty genre; his Pathé pressings are less common than his Odeon equivalents and are of period interest to collectors of early comic recordings.AI summary

Pathé 60440 Comic
Burt Shepard
1. AEvery little Bit added to what you've got makes a little Bit more
2. BLaughing Song
Burt Shepard performs 'Every Little Bit Added to What You've Got' and 'Laughing Song' on Odeon 0310. Shepard was a prolific early recording artist in the comic novelty genre; his Odeon pressings are collected as period documents of early British novelty recording.AI summary

Odeon 0310 Comic
Burt Shepard
1. AHas anybody seen our Cat
Burt Shepard, credited to Victor, singing the novelty 'Has anybody seen our Cat', an early American acoustic recording on the Victor label (later RCA).AI summary

Victor 883 Comic
Burt Shepard
1. AHello old girl
Burt Shepard on Zonophone 42536, performing 'Hello old girl'.AI summary

Zonophone 42536 Voice
Burt Shepard
1. AI wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you
Burt Shepard on the GC label, a British marque of the early 1930s, performing the comic novelty song 'I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut for You'.AI summary

Gramophone Company 3-2342 Comic
Burt Shepard
1. AI'll lend you anything except my Wife
2. BShe only started giggling
Burt Shepard performing novelty comic songs on Columbia 1754, from the early acoustic era.AI summary

Columbia 1754 Comic
Burt Shepard
1. AI'm the Plumber
Burt Shepard recorded 'I'm the Plumber' for G&T 2554, on the Gramophone & Typewriter label, a small or regional British marque.AI summary

G&T 2-2554 Comic
Burt Shepard
1. AIt's the same old girl
Burt Shepard is credited on a GC label 78, a small budget imprint; the song is a sentimental ballad.AI summary

Gramophone Company 3-2378 Voice
Burt Shepard
1. AIt's the same old Girl
Burt Shepard, an American minstrel singer popular in British music halls, sings 'It's the Same Old Girl' on a single-sided G&T.AI summary

G&T 3-2378 Music Hall
Burt Shepard
1. ALaughing Song
2. BWhistling Coon
Burt Shepard performing 'Laughing Song' and 'Whistling Coon' on His Master's Voice, catalogue B468 — an early acoustic era pressing from roughly 1910–13.AI summary

His Master's Voice B468 Music Hall
Burt Shepard
1. ALaughing Song
Burt Shepard, an American minstrel singer who was very popular in Britain, with his 'Laughing Song' on a single-sided G&T.AI summary

G&T 2-2803 Comic
Burt Shepard
1. ALaughing Song
Burt Shepard performs Laughing Song on Gramophone Company 2-2803, a single-sided issue.AI summary

Gramophone Company 2-2803 Music Hall
Burt Shepard
1. AMamie May
2. BMaidie and her little Teddy Bear
Burt Shepard recorded two popular or comic songs for Columbia's early numbered series (circa 1910–1915).AI summary

Columbia 1835 Voice
Burt Shepard
1. ANo Wedding Bells for me
2. BOh oh Antonio
Burt Shepard recorded for Zonophone in the early 1920s; this pressing of 'No Wedding Bells for me' and 'Oh oh Antonio' is a comic or sentimental popular vocal.AI summary

Zonophone 38 Voice
Burt Shepard
1. ASahara
2. BI will I won't
Burt Shepard recorded 'Sahara' and 'I will I won't' for Zonophone, catalogue 57. Extremely scarce catalogue information exists on this artist and these recordings.AI summary

Zonophone 57 Music Hall
Burt Shepard
1. AShe only started giggling(11)
2. BI'll lend you anything except my Wife
Regal 6505 Music Hall
Burt Shepard
1. AWaling Home with Angeline
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Gramophone Company 3-2269 Voice
Burt Shepard
1. AWalking Home with Angeline
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G&T 3-2269 Voice