The Sound of 78s
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.
Episodes
May 27, 2009 • 14 mins
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 ...
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April 11, 2009 • 15 mins
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.
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March 4, 2009 • 14 mins
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
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February 5, 2009 • 17 mins
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...
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January 2, 2009 • 13 mins
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
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December 8, 2008 • 15 mins
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
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November 1, 2008 • 16 mins
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"...
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October 1, 2008 • 18 mins
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 Trusti...
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September 5, 2008 • 16 mins
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
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August 6, 2008 • 12 mins
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
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June 27, 2008 • 16 mins
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 Gi...
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June 2, 2008 • 15 mins
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
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May 4, 2008 • 16 mins
'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 ...
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April 2, 2008 • 15 mins
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 rec...
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March 5, 2008 • 16 mins
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)
Zo...
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February 2, 2008 • 18 mins
Operatic 78s - duets and ensembles
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January 2, 2008 • 14 mins
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:
'H...
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December 7, 2007 • 14 mins
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 ...
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November 5, 2007 • 14 mins
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 037...
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October 3, 2007 • 15 mins
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) -'...
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