Charles Penrose

AThe Laughing Curate
BThe Laughing Major

Label: Columbia
Catalogue number: 4117
Genre: Comic
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #9709

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.

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