Eric Foster

AJack & Geordie at the Smoking Concert
BPitman & his Wife at the Seaside

Label: Columbia
Catalogue number: 174
Genre: Music Hall
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #15505

Eric Foster performs two Tyneside dialect comedy sketches — 'Jack and Geordie at the Smoking Concert' and 'Pitman and His Wife at the Seaside' — on Columbia 174, a very early Columbia number indicating one of the earliest British Columbia acoustic pressings. Tyneside comedy on an early Columbia with a sub-200 catalogue number is an unusual and historically interesting item.

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AGeordie & his Missus at the Skating rink
BGeordie at the Dentist

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BPoliceman Geordie

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ANoo luk here Hinnie
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B(2 sides)

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Eric Foster

AThe football Match (11)
B(2 sides)

Eric Foster, credited on Regal 6544, performing 'The Football Match' — an early comic or novelty recording. Limited information available about this artist.AI summary

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ATyneside Territorials
BThe Pitman .....

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