The Sound of 78s: Recent Episodes
Roger Wilmut
An occasional Podcast in which Roger Wilmut plays a variety of 78rpm records from his collection: including comedy, music-hall, opera, Edwardian songs and oddities.
The Kit-Cat Band: 'Magnolia' (de Sylva, Brown & Henderson) Columbia 4477 recorded London, 12 August 1927 'Recorded in a Public Hall'
Roy Fox and his Band (At the Café Anglais, London): 'Here Lies Love' (Rainger, Robin) Recorded London, 22 November 1932 Vocal by Jack Plant
The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra, Directed by Henry Hall: 'Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?' (Gordon & Revel) Columbia CB699 recorded London, 12 December 1933 Vocal by Les Allen, arrangement by Phil Cardew
Bertini and the Tower Blackpool Dance Band: 'Just Around The Corner' (Bertini, Finch, Muriel) Eclipse 674 recorded London, 9 April 1934 Vocal by Harry Bentley
Joseph Joachim: Hungarian Dance in D Minor - No. 2 (Brahms) HMV D803 recorded 17 August 1903, Berlin. Transferred at 81 rpm: the label says 75 rpm but this is a whole tone flat.
Eugene Ysaye: Humoreske (Dvorak) Columbia 7102 recorded 1915
Fritz Kreisler: Concerto in E Minor Op64 (Mendelssohn) - 3rd movement With the State Opera Orchestra conducted by Dr. Leo Blech HMV DB999/1000 recorded 1926 in the Singakademie, Berlin.
George Formby (Sr.): 'I Parted My Hair In The Middle' (David & Murphy) Zonophone 1336 recorded 22 February 1914.
Clapham and Dwyer: 'It Isn't Cricket' (Clapham & Dwyer) Columbia DB845 recorded 21 May 1932
Sophie Tucker: 'He Hadn't Up To Yesterday' (Wright, Haines, Tucker & Meskill) Columbia 5064 recorded 28 August 1928
Luisa Tetrazzini (soprano) (1871-1940) Grande Valse, Op.10 (Venzano) HMV DB530 (2-053087) Victor recording, 1913
Pasquale Amato (baritone) (1879-1942) Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini): Largo al Factotum HMV DB156 (2-052051) Victor recording, 1911
Miliza Korjus (soprano) (1909-1980) Le Toreador (Adam): 'Ah! vous dirai-je, maman' (sung in German) HMV C2688 (1933)
Giovanni Zenatello (tenor) (1876-1949) Otello (Verdi): 'Si pel ciel marmoreo giuro!' with Giuseppe Noto (baritone) BIRS HMB15, live recording, Covent Garden, 17 June 1926
Percival Mackey: 'Greenwich Witch' (Confrey) Columbia 3230 recorded 1923
Jelly Roll Morton: 'Finger Buster (Morton) Good Time JAzz GB2256 recorded Washington D.C., December 1938
Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons: 'Boogie Woogie Prayer' (side 2) (Lewis, Johnson, Ammons) Parlophone R2649 recorded New York, 30 December 1938
The Oscar Peterson Trio: 'Sweet Georgia Brown' (Bernie, Pinkard, Casey) HMV JO330 recorded 1952
Sir Harry Lauder: 'That's The Reason Noo I Wear A Kilt' (Lauder) Zonophone G.O.83 recorded 17 May 1928
Billie Richardson (West Country Humourist): 'Soft As Oi Looks' (Green & Lyster) Regal MR153 recorded 1930
Harry Weldon: 'The Policeman' (Tindall & Weldon) HMV C981 recorded 8 July 1920
Selection from 'The Geisha' (Jones) - side 1 (excerpt) The New Mayfair Theatre Orchestra HMV BD759 recorded 1939
'Abide With Me' (Liddle) sung by Madame Clara Butt (excerpt) accompanied by Mr. Landon Ronald. Key C. Gramophone 03179 recorded 1910
'The Old Superb' (Stanford) sung by Peter Dawson (excerpt) with orchestra conducted by Clifford Greenwood. HMV B4483 recorded 10 January 1933
'O Souverain! O Juge! O Père!' from 'Le Cid" (Massenet) (excerpt) sung by Enrico Caruso Gramophone 2-023025 recorded 1916
Scene from 'The Good Companions' (Priestly) (excerpt) with John Gielgud and Adele Dixon HMV C2288 recorded 9 October 1931
Albert Chevalier - 'The Little Nipper' (excerpt) Berliner 2239 recorded London, 30th December 1898
'The Toy-Town Party' from 'Nippy' (Mayerl) sung by Binnie Hale with Debroy Somers' band Columbia DB349 recorded 27 November 1930
'Il était un roi de Thulé' from 'Faust' (Gonoud) sung by Conchita Supervia BIRS HMB 11 (Odéon unpublished) recorded 1932
The Rev. J.M.Gates: 'Need of Prayer' Square M3 (re-issue) recorded May 1926
The Reverend A.W.Nix and his Congregation: 'The Black Diamond Express To Hell' (side 2) Decca F9720 (reissue) recorded 23 April 1927
The Southernaires: 'Little David, Play On Your Harp' American Decca 2857, recorded c.1939
Professor Johnson & his Gospel Singers: 'Give Me That Old Time Religion' Vocalion V1013 recorded 1950
Voices of Victory: 'I'm Trusting In Jesus' (Peters, Allen) Vocalion V1040 recorded 25 September 1953
Charles Penrose: 'The Laughing Policeman' (Grey) Regal G7816 (as 'Charles Jolly') recorded June 1922
Naughton and Gold: 'On Insurance' Imperial 2367 recorded November 1930
Harry Champion: 'Don't Do It Again, Matilda' (Murray) Columbia-Rena 1490 recorded c.May 1910
Gillie Potter: 'Mr. Potter Visits Southend' Columbia 5067 recorded 1st October 1928
Herman Wasserman: 'Hedge Rose' (Schubert arr. Godowky) Dominion B13 recorded 1929
Vladimir de Pachmann: Etude in G flat Major Op.10 No.5 ('Black Keys') (Chopin)(with comments) HMV DA 1302 recorded 1928
Leff Pouishnoff: Caprice in G Major (Paderewski) Columbia 4829 recorded May 1927
Wilhelm Backhaus: Caprice Espagnole Op.37 (Moszkowski) HMB DB 1130 recorded January 1928
The Original Dixieland Five: Original Dixieland One-Step (LaRocca, arr. J. Dale) Nick LaRocca (cornet), Eddie Edwards (trombone), Larry Shields (clarinet), J. Russel Robinson (piano), Tony Sbarbaro (drums). HMV B8648 recorded New York, 10 November 1936.
Wolverine Orchestra: Tiger Rag (La Rocca) Bix Beiderbecke (cornet), Al Gande (trombone), Jimmy Hartwell (clarinet/alto sax), George Johnson (tenor sax), Dick Voynow (piano), Bob Gillette (banjo), Min Leibrook (brass bass), Vic Moore (drums). Brunswick 02205 recorded Richmond, Indiana, 20 June 1924.
The Mills Brothers: The Old Man Of The Mountain (Brown, Young). '(Novelty Quartet, with Guitar acc.) No musical instruments or mechanical devices used on this recording other than one guitar.' Brunswick 1346 recorded Chicago, early June 1932.
Joe Venuti and his Orchestra: Flip (Venuti) Glenn Rohlfing, Bob Stockwell (trumpets); Charlie Dahlsten (trombone); Wayne Singer, Charlie Spero (also-sax); Clark Galehouse, Elmer Beechler (tenor sax); Joe Venuti (violin); Mel Grant (piano); Frank Victor (guitar); George Horvath (bass); Burrert Deems (drums). Brunswick 02738 recorded New York, 25 January 1939.
The Cotton Pickers: Rampart Street Blues (Robinson) Tommy Dorsey (trumpet), Glenn Miller (trombone), Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet), Arthur Schutt (piano), Perry Botkin (banjo), Joe Tarto (bass), Stan King (drums). (This personnel is taken from Brian Rust's discography and differs from that shown on the label, which wrongly refers to an earlier recording). Brunswick 02508 recorded New York, 27 March 1929.
Florrie Forde: 'And Then - We Won't Go Home!' (Castling-Kennedy) Imperial 2491 recorded London, May/June 1931
Ronald Frankau: 'Lady, be Bad?' (Frankau-Crick) with Monte Crick at the piano Parlophone R 2391 recorded London, 3 September 1937
Harry Tate & His Company: 'Motoring' (Tate) Columbia 320 (2 sides) recorded London, c. August 1912
'Row, Row, Rosie' (Meyer & Bryan) The Denza Dance Band (Earl Gresh and his Gangplank Orchestra) Columbia 3743 recorded New York, 30 June 1925
'Tip-Toe Thro' The Tulips With Me' (Dubin, Burke) The Brooklyn Broadcasters Dominion A 233 recorded London, 1929/30.
'My Sweet Virginia' (Rose, Klages, Meskill) The Durium Dance Band (pick-up group including Nat Gonella and Paul Fenoulhet, vocal by Al Bowlly) Durium EN 9 recorded London, 1 April 1932
'Coo-ee' (Harden) The All Star Orchestra Solex AX 100 advertising record, date unknown - probably early 1930s.
'Now's the Time To Fall In Love' (Sherman, Lewis) The Durium Dance Ensemble (Phil Spitalny's Music, vocal by Paul Small) Durium EN 7 recorded New York, December 1931
Empire Day Messages to the Boys and Girls of the British Empire from His Majesty King George the Fifth and Her Majesty Queen Mary HMV RE 284 recorded March 1923
Two excerpts from set 'The Voice of Poetry' spoken by Edith Evans Upon Westminster Bridge Wordsworth Columbia DB 1855 You Are Old, Father William (Carroll) Columbia DB 1958 recorded 1938
'Percy The Prawn' (Alan) a short story read by A.J.Alan Regal-Zonophone MR 1118 recorded 1933
The 22nd in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
'Betove' (Michel Maurice Lévy): 'Folies Musicales' (side 2) Parlophone DP116 recorded c. December 1926
Ella Shields: Burlington Bertie from Bow (Hargreaves) Columbia 629 recorded August 1916
Mabel Constanduros assisted by Michael Hogan: 'Mrs. Buggins makes the Christmas Pudding' Broadcast X.6 recorded October 1928
Douglas Byng: 'She May Be All That's Wonderful' (Wade) Zonophone 5407 recorded 22 April 1929
The 20th in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
HUNGARIAN: 'Ritka búza, ritka árpa' (Héteny-Heidlberg): Berkes Béla és cigányzenekara (Béla Berkes and his Gypsy Orchestra) Hungarian Columbia OH15, date unknown, presumably late 1920s or 1930s.
MAORI & ENGLISH: 'Waiata Poi': Ana Hato with piano accompaniment Parlophone R3557, recorded at Rotorua, New Zealand, during the visit of the Duke & Duchess of York, 1927.
MAORI: 'Haka (War Cry)' Parlopone R3557 as above (part side)
JAPANESE (TRADITIONAL): 'Entering Formosa' (traditional): Chikufu Tahanine (excerpt) Orient A998, date unknown, probably early 1920s.
JAPANESE (WESTERNISED) 'Song of soldiers in a Trench': Akira Sasaki (excerpt) Japanese Columbia 29712, date unknown - probably during World War 2.
BALINESE: Djangér (Dance): 'Putih putih saput anduk' (excerpt) Parlophone MO106, 'Music of the Orient' series no. 14 recorded in 1930s.
HAWAIIAN: 'Tomi, Tomi': Kanui & Lula (excerpt) Parlophone R1614 published 1933
MANDARIN CHINESE: 'Méigui méigui wǒ ài nǐ' (aka 'Rose, Rose, I Love You')(Chen Gexin): 'Miss Hue Lee' (Yao Lee) Columbia DB2837 (UK), recorded in Shanghai, 1940.
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The 19th in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Gracie Fields: 'Our Avenue' (Weston & Lee) HMV B2733 recorded 24 May 1928
Milton Hayes: 'The Meanderings of Monty: The General Outlook and All That Sort Of Thing' (Hayes) Columbia 3233 recorded 1 January 1923
Charlie Higgins: "When I Was Twenty-One' (Hargreaves) Broadcast 918 recorded c. November 1932
'Betove' (Michel Maurice Lévy): 'Folies Musicales' (side 1) Parlophone DP116 recorded c. December 1926
The 18th in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Caspar Reardon, his harp and his Orchestra: Tormented (Hudson) Liberty Music Shop L193, recorded New York, 23 April 1936
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra: The Man from Harlem (Hudson) Vocal by Cab Calloway Rex 8924 recorded New York, 30 November 1932
Hoagy Carmichael (piano & vocal) with Artie Bernstein (bass) & Spike Jones (drums): Hong Kong Blues (Carmichael) Brunswick 03752 recorded Los Angeles, 11 May 1942
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra: In The Mood (Garland, Razaf) HMV BD5565 recorded 1 August 1939
The 17th in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
'Mivoice' sound recording: A.C.Marston sings 'The Policeman's Lot' Six-inch copper(?) disk. Recording date unknown.
Message disk: Servicio Fonopostal. 8 inch flexible record made in Rosario, Argentina, 1944.
HMV Private Recording. 'The Slide', read by A. Neave Brayshaw. 12 inch standard pressing, ref. JG1. Recorded 28th March 1935
The Daily Mail Mystery Record (side 1) -' £1950 for naming the artists'. EMI RO100 recorded 1933
'Forward the Fire Bomb Fighters' (edited excerpt) The London Transcriptions PG170 - undated but presumably 1939/40
Bow Bells Interval Signal - BBC fill-up record. BBC Library no. 2 A 23. Recording date not stated but pre-1940
Novachord Fillup - side 1 band 1 BBC Library no. 9842. Recorded 14th November 1946 (Performer not credited but is Charles Smart).
Opening Music for Light Programme - 'Oranges and Lemons' (arr. Spike Hughes) BBC Theatre Orchestra conducted by Harold Lowe, BBC Library no 10247 recorded 29th April 1947
The 16th in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Harry Fay: 'I'm Twenty-One Today' (Kendal) Zonophone 729 recorded 1911.
Tom Clare: 'Where Does Daddy Go to?' (Searson & Gallatly) Columbia 3978 recorded March 24th 1926
Tommy Handley: 'The Kerb Step' (Knox, Street, Young) Piccadilly 505 recorded c. February 1930
Elsie and Doris Waters: 'Gert, Daisy and the Blackout' (E & D Waters) Decca F 7281 recorded October 16th 1939.
The 15th in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Percival Mackey's Band: 'I've never Seen A Straight Banana' (Waite) Recorded London, November 22nd 1926 Columbia 4151
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra: 'My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies' (Amberg, Raymond & Bernauer) Recorded June 2nd 1931, Empire Theatre Liverpool HMV B6024
Jack Payne & His BBC Dance Orchestra: 'Sing Holly, Go Whistle, Hey Hey' (Hulbert & England) Recorded London, February 17th 1931 Columbia CB232
Henry Hall & his Orchestra: 'Teddy Bear's Picnic' (Kennedy & Bratton) Recorded London, September 28th 1932 Columbia FB2816 (re-issue of DB955) Special vinyl pressing for BBC Engineering Department.
The fourteenth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Mr. Arthur Pryor - 'There'll Come a Time' (trombone solo) Berliner 3309 recorded New York, 27th July 1897
The 7th Ragtime Orchestra - 'The Circus Girl' (excerpt) Berliner 87, recorded New York, date unknown, probably 1897
H. Scott Russell - 'The Old Brigade' Berliner E2007 recorded London, 19th August 1898
Miss Harwood - 'Yum-Yum's song' from 'The Mikado' (Sullivan) (excerpt) Berliner E3025 recorded London, 18th October 1898
Albert Chevalier - 'The Little Nipper' (excerpt) Berliner 2239 recorded London, 30th December 1898
Miss Beatrice Hart and Chorus from Daly's - 'I'm A Naughty Girl' (excerpt) Berliner 3078 recorded London, 18th January 1899
Messrs. Morton and Shepard - 'A Good Joke' Berliner 1176 recorded London c. 1901
Chas. Foster - 'Jolly Little Polly on a Tin Gee Gee' Berliner 2675 recorded London, 13th February 1901
Edvard Grieg - 'Au Printemps' (To The Spring) (from 'Lyric Pieces' Op.43 no.6) (Grieg) HMV D 803 (reissue of G&T 35510) recorded Paris, April/May 1903
The thirteenth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Tom Leamore: 'Hi! Hi! HI!' (Leamore) Panachord 25359-A recorded in London, 6th May 1932
Ben Albert: 'Three Ages of Women' 'The Twin' serial 40, recorded in London, c. January 1908
The Stars of 'Happidrome' in 'Let Me Tell You' series No: 7 - 'Out In Indiah' (Eddie Latta) Mr. Lovejoy (Harry Korris), Enoch (Robbie Vincent), Ramsbottom (Cecil Frederick) Recorded in the Grand Theatre, Blackpool Columbia FB2717 recorded 1941
Sandy Powell, assisted by 'Little Percy': 'The Lost Policeman' Broadcast 429, recorded in London, c. May 20th 1929
The twelfth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Nellie Melba (1861-1931), soprano Le Roi D'Ys (Lalo): Aubade Gramophone Company 03072 (lilac label) recorded July 1906
Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973), tenor Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prize Song HMV DB 1858 recorded 1932
Meta Seinemeyer (1895-1929), soprano Liebesträume No.3 (Liszt) Parlophone E 10901 recorded 1929
Mariano Stabile (1889-1968), baritone Falstaff (Verdi): L'onore! Ladri! Columbia LX 1081 recorded 1947
The eleventh in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
John Barrymore: 'Ay, Edward will use women honourably' (Henry VI part 3, Act III Scene 2: Shakespeare) HMV DB1177, recorded April 13th 1928, New York
Bransby Williams: 'The Green Eye of the Yellow God' (Milton Hayes) Columbia 388, recorded June 1913, London
John Gielgud and Edith Evans: excerpt from 'The Importance of being Earnest': 'Lady Bracknell interviews John Worthing' (Oscar Wilde) HMV B8883 recorded 1938
The tenth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Billy Jones and Ernest Hare ('The Happiness Boys'): 'You Can't Walk Back from an Aeroplane' (Bibo, Friedlander). American Columbia 1141-D, recorded 1927.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy: 'Laurel and Hardy Themselves'. Columbia DX-370, recorded in London, August 18th 1932.
Frank Crumit (accompanied by Frank Banta, piano): 'I Married the Boot-legger's Daughter' (Crumit) HMV B 2170, recorded Camden, New Jersey, June 10th 1925.
Dwight Fiske: 'Ida, the Wayward Sturgeon' 36100-B, recorded New York, October 26th 1933.
The ninth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Harry Roy and his Orchestra: 'God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain' Parlophone F1597 recorded 24th November 1939
Mr. Russell Hunting: 'Departure of a Troopship - Descriptive scene at Southampton Docks' (assisted by the Gramophone Band) Gramophone Concert Record G.C.-2-108 recorded late 1904 or early 1905.
Ernest Gray: 'Stand To Your Post' (B.Scott) The Winner 2144, recorded 1912
Florence Desmond: 'A British Mother's Big Flight (Gladys on the Air)' (A.P.Herbert) From the revue 'Streamline'. HMV B-8823, recorded 25th September 1934
The eighth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Clarkson Rose: 'Ee, By Gum' (Flynn) Zonophone 5359, recorded Hayes, Middlesex, 15 March 1929
Billy Merson: 'The Gondolier' (Merson) Metropole 1002, recorded London, c. February 1928
Will Hay and his Scholars: 'The Fourth Form at St. Michael's' (Hay)(2 sides) Columbia 5695, recorded London, February 8 1929.
The seventh in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
The Savoy Havana Band: 'Bam Bam Bammy Shore' (R. Henderson) Vocal by Cyril Ramon Newton HMV B 2186 recorded Hayes, Middlesex, 5 November, 1925
Arthur Lally and his Orchestra: 'We've Got The Moon And Sixpence' (Grey, Levant) Vocal by Al Bowlly Decca F 3066 recorded London, 23 July 1932
Jack Payne and his BBC Dance Orchestra: 'Between Devil And the Deep Blue Sea' (Benson) Vocal by Jack Payne according to the label, but may in fact be Val Rosing Columbia CB 232 recorded London, 27 January 1931
Jay Whidden and his New Midnight Follies Band from the Hotel Metropole: 'Let's All Go To Mary's House' (Charleston Fox-Trot)(Conrad & Wood) Vocal by Jay Whidden Columbia 4130 recorded London, 12 August 1926
The sixth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Titta Ruffo (1877-1953), baritone Carmen (Bizet): Con voi ber, affe mi fia caro (Toreador Song)(sung in Italian) HMV DB 406 (reissue of 052249) recorded 1908
Richard Tauber (1891-1948), tenor The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) - The Legend of Kleinsach (sung in German) Parlophone-Odeon PXD 1033 recorded 1929
Elisabeth Schumann (1885-1952), soprano Der Vogelhändler (Zeller) - Wie mein Ahnl zwanzig Jahr! (sung in English) HMV E552 recorded 17th February 1930
Theodore Chaliapine (1873-1938), bass Faust (Gonoud) - Vous qui faites l'endormie HMV DB1437 recorded 1931
The fifth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Ted Lewis Jazz Band: 'Bo-La-Bo' (Egyptian Fox-Trot) (Fairman) Regal G7533 (as 'Novelty Jazz Band) recorded January 12, 1920, New York Walter Kahn (clarinet), Harry Raderman (trombone), Ted Lewis (clarinet/alto sax), Ernie Cutting (piano), John Lucas (drums)
Clarence 'PineTop' Smith: 'PineTop's Boogie-Woogie' (Smith) Brunswick 03600 recorded December 29, 1928, Chicago
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra: 'Bach Goes To Town' (Templeton) HMV B-8879 recorded December 15, 1938, New York
Jelly-Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers: 'Georgia Swing' (Morton) HMV B-9221 recorded June 11, 1928, New York Ward Pinkett (trumpet), Geechie Fields (trombone), Omer Simeon (clarinet), Jelly Roll Morton (piano), Lee Blair (banjo), Bill Benford (tuba), Tommy Benford (drums).
The fourth in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
Charlie Higgins: 'Charlie Makes Whoopee' (Hargreaves) assisted by Bert Bray Broadcast 936 recorded c. January 1933
Nellie Wallace: 'Mother's Pie Crust' (Wallace) HMV B 3683 recorded 16th October 1930
George Robey: 'The Barrister' (Edgar and Pether) HMV C 550 recorded c. December 1915
All material is out of copyright
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The third in an occasional series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records.
'My Old Shako' (Trotère), sung by Mr. Harry Dearth HMV D211 recorded c. 1st November 1922
'The Gypsy and the Bird' (Benedict), sung by Amelita Galli-Curci Flute obbligato by Clement Barone. HMV DA 928 recorded 1928
'Asleep In The Deep' (Petrie) sung by Peter Dawson with Orchestra and Male Quartet HMV B 3542 (2 sides) recorded 16th June 1930
All material is out of copyright.
The second in an occasional series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records.
John Henry: 'Joe Murgatroyd Says' HMV B-2120 recorded August 31st 1924
George Lashwood: 'Send for A Policeman' Zonophone 'Twin' 162, recorded June 23rd 1909
Robb Wilton with Florence Palmer: 'The Fire Station' Sterno 833, recorded 24th September 1931
All material is out of copyright
The first in an occasional series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records.
Tiger Rag - One-Step (La Rocca): The Original Dixieland Jazz Band Recorded March 25th, 1918, New York. Nick la Rocca (trumpet), Eddie Edwards (trombone), Larry Shields (clarinet), Henry Ragas (piano), Tony Sbarbaro (drums). HMV B8466 (electrical dubbing, reissued 1936
'Going To the Races': Dan Leno. Recorded late March, 1903. HMVC545 (reissue).
'O Souverain! O Juge! O Pére!' (Le Cid) (Massenet): Enrico Caruso. Recorded 5th November 1916. HMV 2-032025.