Ernest Butcher

ACome to the fair
BI love someone in Somerset

Label: His Master's Voice
Catalogue number: E200
Genre: Voice
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #21766

Ernest Butcher, a British tenor, recorded these sentimental songs for His Master's Voice in the early electrical era; the E200 catalogue suggests a 1930s pressing.

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Ernest Butcher

ABeware of the maiden
BTavvystoch Goozey Vair

Ernest Butcher with Beware of the Maiden and a West Country dialect song about Tavistock Goosey Fair on Vocalion X9837.AI summary

Vocalion X9837 Comic

Ernest Butcher

ACobblin
BBecause I were shy

Ernest Butcher was a British comedian and music-hall artist of the 1920s. This very early HMV E-series acoustic recording, numbered E7, captures two comic monologues: 'Cobblin' and 'Because I were shy', from the earliest days of commercial recording.AI summary

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Ernest Butcher

ACome to the fair
BI love someone in Somerset

Ernest Butcher was a British singer and composer of light vocal music. This early His Master's Voice recording of 'Come to the Fair' and 'I Love Someone in Somerset' is from the acoustic era (catalogue E200, indicating very early HMV pressing). These are sentimental character songs typical of the Edwardian music hall tradition.AI summary

His Master's Voice E200 Music Hall

Ernest Butcher

AMeet Mr Therm
B(Fred Hartley)Meet Nr Therm

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His Master's Voice JH15 Comic

Ernest Butcher

ANowt about owt
BI sing as I limp along

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Columbia DB1520 Music Hall

Ernest Butcher

APeaceful Street
B(Regulars)Old and mild

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Columbia DB3207 Music Hall

Ernest Butcher

AThe Lazy Shepherd
BParson and Me

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Vocalion K05235 Comic