Next issue is No 64 (April 2011) which will include photos of some lesser lights of the pre World War 1 recording world
Picture: Sheila Buxton, one of those in the 1960 Royal Variety Performance. She recorded from 1955 on Columbia 78s, in 1959 moving to the Top Rank label.

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Royal Variety Performance 1960 (May 22nd)

The first to be televised, achieving the highest audience figure of any UK programme to date.
"One of those thrilling nights," wrote Mollie Ellis, "Anne Shelton and Alma Cogan's parasols became intertwined; when it seemed Lonnie Donegan was going to forget the new lines of My Old Man's a Dustman specially written for the occasion, and then merely turned the incident into another laugh... Moments after the show stopping act of Sammy Davis Jr, one sympathised with whoever had to follow... it was Liberace, and it says much for his showmanship and magnetic personality that in a matter of minutes he had the audience."
Innovations included the return of the warm up, done by Bud Flanagan who "made a pleasing appeal to remember that a lot of youngsters were appearing... try to realise how nervous they were.... the rest of the Crazy Gang soon joined Bud with ... pointed references to well-known personalities."
Among the other acts was Focus on Youth with Adam Faith backed by the John Barry Seven and the Vernons Girls. Cliff Richard and the Shadows gave Living Doll before Cliff joined Adam in Rock and Roll. Nat King Cole sang When I Fall in Love, Mona Lisa, and Dance Ballerina Dance. "A kaleidoscope of colour and movement" as Billy Cotton swung into rhythm and introduced Max Bygraves and Russ Conway. The celebrated coconuts came out for the finale, "Billy Cotton and his friends furiously throwing them at the audience and the audience retaliating. The Duke reached in vain for one and spent quite a long time discussing with the Queen whether one had gone to the back of the box."
Tell Me Pretty Maiden included among others Sheila Buxton, Alma Cogan, Pearl Carr, Vera Lynn, Joan Regan, Anne Shelton as maidens with, as their beaux, Ronnie Carroll, Ronnie Hilton, Bryan Johnson, Teddy Johnson, Benny Lee, Denis Lotis, Glen Mason, Gary Miller and Paul Carpenter.
Charlie Drake was "one of the big hits."
"To say Sammy Davis Jr stopped the show is an understatement" but the audience was upset he was not permitted to do an encore. What he sang included The Lady is a Tramp, Irresistible Power, Hey There, and Birth of the Blues in which he impersonated "impeccably" several artistes.
The finale was memorable, with Bud Flanagan in Strolling, with the entire company joining in before Vera Lynn sang We'll Meet Again.
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Globophone Records

Partial listing by matrix numbers of recordings appearing on the Globophon and associated labels in Britain prior to World War One.

6001 Jack Bryant... Since Father joined the Territorials
6002 The Cubanola Glide ~~ Playwell P516

6004 Edie Philips... By the Light of the Silvery Moon
6006 I like your Apron and your Bonnet ~~ Apollo 175, Eclipse 203

6008 Donald Russell... Just a Wee Deoch and Doris
6009 The Message Boy ~~ Globophon

6012 Fred Harrison ... I'm Henery the Eighth I am
6015 I must go home tonight ~~ Globophon

6016 Billy Whitely... I'm Shy Mary Ellen I'm Shy ~~ Globophon (coupled with 6019)

6017 Dorothy Green... Meet Me tonight in Dreamland ~~ Festival 7017 (with 6025)

6018 Fred Harrison... That fumry (sic) little Bobtail Coat ~~ Festival 7018 (with 6020)

6019 Billy Whitely... Wallah wallah Wallparoo ~~ Globophon

6020 Fred Harrison... Cover it over quick Jemima ~~ Festival 7018

6021 Edward Floyd ... The Rosary ~~ Globophone (with 6031)

6025 Ethel Pierce ... Queen of the Cannibal Isle ~~Festival 7017

6031 Edward Floyd ... I hear you calling me ~~ Globophone

6042 Frank Lynne... Do What you can for 9d
6043 My Wife's gone to the Country ~~ Globophon

6052 Edward Floyd... Two Eyes of Grey ~~ Apollo 170

6057 Frank Lynne... When I woke up in the Morning ~~ Globophon (with 6060)

6059 Dorothy Green... On the Silvery Sands ~~ Globophon (with 6061)

6060 Frank Lynne... Come with me down Regent Street ~~ Globophon

6061 Dorothy Green... If I should plant a tiny Seed of Love ~~ Globophon (with 6068)

6067 Fred Harrison... Down came the Blind
6068 We're all waiting for a Girl ~~ Globophon (with 6074)

6072 Archie Pitt... I wish I was a lot older
6074 Fred Harrison: I don't care what becomes of me ~~ Globophon

6079 Will Deller ... All Hands on Deck
6080 What's the Matter with Father ~~Globophone, Festival 7040

6082 Will Deller (as S Fulton) ... I'd like to spend my holydays (sic) with you ~~ Playwell 528

6110 Frank Lynne... That's what he bought with his Wages
6111 If we hadn't any Women in the World ~~ Festival 7052

6114 Edie Phillips ... O' Brien
Dorothy Freen: Do You remember the last Waltz? ~~ Globophon

6116 Dorothy Green ... All that I ask is Love
6117 If I had the World to give you ~~ Globophon

6118 R Park ... Down the vale ~~ Playwell 510

6125 Chas Kempton ... The Yeoman (sic) of England
6126 Green Isle of Erin ~~ Globophon

6127 Will Deller... Gentlemen the King ~~ Eclipse 309

6138 N Patterson ... T-r-o-u-b-l-e ~~Playwell 522

6139 Fred Harrison... Archibald certainly not ~~ Eclipse 309

6144 Frank Lynne ... The Cigar Girl
6145 I can't make it out can you ~~ ~~ Festival 7066

6151 N Patterson... Here we are again ~~ Playwell 522

6156 Will Deller ... I saw Sandy to his Front Street Door
6157 I had a little Garden ~~ ~~Globophon

6162 Will Deller ... Two dirty little Hands ~~ Festival 7072
6163 Will Deller... When Father papered the Parlour ~~ Festival 7072, Playwell 528 (as S Fulton)

6164 Chas Kempton... Lighterman Tom ~~Apollo 170

6165 R Park ... Boys of the Old Brigade ~~~ Playwell 510

6166 Will Deller... Come round and hear the Gramophone
6167 Ethel Pierce ... When you're far from the Old Folks at Home ~~ Festival 7075

6169 Chas Kempton ... Because ~~ Globophone

6171 Chas Kempton ... The Star of Bethlehem
6172 Killarney ~~ Globophone

6173 Chas Kempton ... Queen of the Earth ~~ Globophone

6177 Farren Fredericks ... Ruben Ranzo
6179 Melissande in the Wood ~~ Globophone

6188 Globophon London Military Band ... The Arcadians selection pt 1
6189 The Arcadians pt 2 ~~ Globophone

6191 Band ... Reminiscences of Sullivan part 1
6192 Sullivan part 2 ~~ Eclipse 109

6211 Will Terry ... Hush here comes the Dream Man
6212 There's something in the Seaside Air ~~ Globophone

6214 Will Terry ... Why can't we have the Sea in London
6215 My Boy ~~ Festival 7083

6231 Fred Monument ... Four Jolly Sailormen
6232 Ben the Bosun ~~ Festival 7087

6234 Fred Monument ... Rose of My heart ~~ Eclipse 347

6243 Moreland Dale ... Simon the Cellarer

6247 I fear No Foe ~~ Eclipse 347

6255 Will Terry ... That old Waltz Tune
6256 The Countryman's Holiday ~~ Festival 7093

6262 Jock McCallum ... That's the reason noo I wear a Kilt
6263 Tobermory ~~ Festival 7096

6267 Fred Monument ... A Song of Thanksgiving
6268 Baritone solo... King Charles ~~ Festival 7098

6281 R Everson (cornet) ... O dry those Tears
6282 Star of Bethlehem ~~ Festival 7102

6285 Robert Everson ... Killarney
6288 Home Sweet Home ~~ Playwell 461

The 10 inch Eclipse records below may be of foreign origin, but I include them here, as they could equally be British recordings:

Band ... Poet and Peasant Overture ~~ Eclipse 98

Band ... Les Flots du Danube
Wedding March ~~ Eclipse 99

Band ... Our Miss Gibbs selection
Cavalleria Rusticana intermezzo ~~ Eclipse 116

Band ... The Soldiers in the Park
Clear for Action ~~ Eclipse 119

Band ... Merry Peasant waltz
Barcarolle Offenbach ~~ Eclipse 121

Band ... Niki march
Peasant waltz ~~ Eclipse 122

Band ... Rose's Bridal Procession
Loin du Bal ~~ Eclipse 323

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In this magazine, issue 61, was a photo and discography (Winner Records) of Sylvia de Gay. My thanks to her relative, Martine Hunt, who has kindly supplied a biography.

Sylvia de Gay (1st May 1896 – 11th Dec 1976)
Sylvia was born in Melbourne, Australia into a musical family. Her uncle, J.B. Zerbini, played in the Joachim quartet in London, before immigrating to Australia, and her father was a well known musician in the Melbourne musical circle. She started playing the violin at a very young age and worked passionately at it, giving her first public performance at the age of six. She won several medals and performed her first recital at the age of twelve playing the Mendelssohn violin concerto (ref: The Argus Newspaper 1908 “Remarkable Child Violinist”).
She won a scholarship at the age of 15 to study with Wittenberg (one of Joachim’s favourite pupils) in Berlin. Unfortunately this was brought to an end three years later by the outbreak of the 1st World War, sending her back to the UK. Her first important post was as part of the Lena Ashwell Tour playing to the British troops in Egypt. She remained for seven years playing regularly in concerts in Alexandria and Cairo, and married an Army Colonel, Billy Williams. The marriage however did not last long so she returned to the UK giving concert recitals there and on the continent, particularly in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
In 1930 she met a dashing English farmer (brother of the actress Martita Hunt) who lived in Argentina. She fell for his charm, married and left Europe to live in a farm located to the north of Buenos Aires. In this isolated place she gave birth to two children, James and Portia, but found life so difficult that after a few years she moved to Buenos Aires performing in the musical circle there.
At the end of the 2nd World War she moved back to the UK and lived in London. She worked in Beneden School as a violin teacher from 1957 up to her retirement, and continued playing in concerts and enjoying music for pleasure up to her death in 1976.
Sylvia played regularly on the BBC radio and was one of the first Europeans to perform for the radio in Berlin.

The picture is of an interesting communication from the shortlived Phonycord Record company. The writer, Claude Yearsley had engaged Sylvia to record on the Metropole label in 1928, but alas, his letter must have come too late
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AUCTION PRICES -
September and October 2011. Selected prices on eBay auctions from European sellers.
Of course, probably for every record sold on eBay, possibly at least five, putting it generously, receive no bid at all.

Lord Baden Powell...How Scouting Grew ~~~ Durium =£8.50 (not A1 condition)
Herbert Beerbohm Tree... Hamlet. usual speech ~~ G&T1312 =£6.05
Oswald Mosley.. TWO British Union records = £135
Tom Wootwell: The Little Shirt My Mother Made for Me ~~ Edison cylinder 13628= £12
George Lashwood... I've been out with Charlie Brown~~ Columbia Rena 1163=£6.05
Nikolai Figner... The North Star Romance~~~ G&T3-22716 slight wear but still made= £249.99
Bragin... Eugene Onegin: Should I decide on domesticity ~~G&T2-22677 = £165 (good condition except for a faint edge hair crack)
Maria Callas... I Puitani: Mad scene~~~ Parlophone R30043 =not sure how this reached the staggering £113. Another copy later made a mere £83
Victor de Maunee... In the Great Unknown ~~ an interesting Columbia white label pressing= £6.05
Blanche Marchesi... Homage from Lady Waterhouse~~~ HMVJH9, privately recorded in 1936, but available for sale....£6.51
Franz von Vecsey... Traumerei HMV 7964 = £91 ("mint")
Ferruccio Busoni: Chopin Prelude and Etude ~~~ Columbia L1460= £80
Sapellnikoff... Scherzo by Mendelssohn etc~~ pink Vocalion B3110=£28.99
Fred Astaire... Sluefoot~~ rare export HMV JO 450 =£4
Al Bowlly... A Faded Summer Love~~~ Winner 5470= now this is rare £63.76
Sister Rosetta Tharpe... There Is Something Within~~ Decca 48010= £6.95
Peggy Seeger... Freight Train ~~ Topic TRC107= bit of a snip at £16
Big Bill Broonzy... Hard Hearted Woman~~ Okeh 6651= £6
Little Tony And His Brothers ... Foxy Little Mamma ~~ DeccaF11190 =£87 (mint allegedly)
Elvis... Stuck on You~~~ RCA1187= £215.51
Tiny Topsy ... Come On Come On ~~Parlophone R4397= someone got a bargain £4.61
Poni Tails... Seven Minutes In Heaven~~ London HLP8670 = rather a bargain £1.24
Vera Guilaroff (piano)... A cup of coffee a sandwich and you ~~ Actuelle 11167 =£13.30
Django Reinhardt etc... Dinah~~ Oriole LV100=£25
Ray Starita Band... You Rascal You ~~ Sterno 900 = something of a miracle price £21
Jack Harris Orchestra... All Mine ~~ Parlophone R235 =£6.10 an early purple label
Dance Orchestra (Actually Ray Noble)... Wedding in the Ark ~~~7" HMV AS43= £51
Goofus Five (Frank Trumbauer with Bix)... Borneo~~~ Parlophone R203= £100 !!
ET Mensah Tempo Band... Queen's Welcome~~~ Decca WA928= 26.00
And just to show how daft ebay can be, a Formby Regal Zono of his very common (if very enjoyable) TT Races went for £17.39 !! Where are my 8 copies?
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Some 1957 Adverts by Recording Stars, and other notices

Most interesting is the 1957 Cavan O'Connor offer to record for aspiring song writers. Does anyone have any such recordings? Cavan had recorded from the late 1920's onwards on labels such as World Echo and Zonophone, then in the Thirties on Regal Zonophone, and in the 1940's on Rex. But did he make any commercial discs in the 1950's?
Bob and Alf Pearson were recording veterans and by 1957, the date of this ad, they were still active in variety, though their recording days were long past. Keen golfers, they were joint presidents of the VAF Golfing Society.
Comedian Roy Barbour was touting for work that autumn- he had recorded on the Rex label in pre war days.
Finally greetings from Tessie O'Shea to the new ITV station TWW, from early 1958.

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Variety Acts Who Made 78's Still Going - From The Stage March 10th 1960
Variety Club Honours were announced on March 8th at a Savoy Hotel lunch. Bernard Miles (HMV 78s) won the special award, for collecting £100,000 to build the Mermaid. Other winners included Anthony Newley (Decca 78s) Most Promising Newcomer, and Harry Secombe (Philips 78s) Show Business Personality of 1959.
"Queen of Jazz" Ella Fitzgerald topped the bill at the Royal Festival Hall on March 5th. "Ella, wearing a white, black spotted dress and carrying a bright red chiffon scarf, proved she is a phenomenon!" The reviewer stated "she has little or no stage presence," but "exciting is an understatement... her understanding of jazz is remarkable her voice honey sweet, her diction near perfect and her sense of balance and rhythm wonderful." She was on stage for 50 memorable minutes.
Down under in Melbourne, at the Tivoli, Tommy Steele had made a big hit. "By the end of his half hour appearance he had almost the entire audience under his thumb, clapping and shouting to his orders, and cheering wildly... a real trouper with terrific personality and boundless energy. Also in Australia was Maurice Chevalier at the Comedy Theatre Melbourne. "Disarmingly Chevalier begins his performance by confessing that he was 70 eighteen months ago. Nobody believes that can be at all possible!" There were all his favourite songs, "he gives clever mime sketches: how different members of an audience look to him (a drunk, a fellow actor, a priest, a man about to be sick), of how the interval will be spent by the audience, without actual words, of the intonations of various nationalities talking their own language. All these are nothing short of brilliant." He also previewed songs from his latest film Can-Can and "not only does Chevalier tap dance but even performs a creditable and hilarious imitation of a rock n roller. 'I can still get hot,' he says, then adds, after a long pause, 'but I've got to send myself a telegram the night before.'"
Another old timer celebrated 25 years as a band leader. Harry Leader now resident at Brighton's Regent Ballroom, had started in London clubs in 1935. Some musicians associated with him, says the article include Nat Temple, Johnnie Gray, George Chisholm, Tommy Whittle and Tommy McQuater. Some of his vocalists are also mentioned, Kitty Masters, Anona Winn, Chick Henderson, Sam Browne, while more recently Matt Munro and Clinton Ford.
Dickie Henderson was elected Acting President of the Vaudeville Golfing Society while Vice Presidents included Jack Hodges, Hal Swain, Leslie Sarony, Bob and Alf Pearson and Bud Flanagan. Other members included Ted Ray, Max Bygraves and George Buck.
Elsa Brunelleschi who made a curious 78rpm record of Rhapdosia Valenciana on the TeyTone label, advertised her dancing academy (pictured).
Finally Hilda Bertram was still active as an accompanist at a Concert Artists Association event on February 29th. She had recorded for the Guardsman label way back in 1916.
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TALKING MACHINE SOCIETIES
Before the first war sprung up societies devoted to the playing of gramophone and phonograph recordings. Here are accounts of some of those early meetings. Previous articles have been on 1 West London, 2 Northants, 3 Liverpool, 4 Tyneside, 5 South London, 6 Sheffield, 7 Wolverhampton, 8 Salford.

No.9 Woodford
The inaugural meeting of this group took place on October 2nd 1913. Pathe Freres had loaned equipment and it was noted that "the sapphire point did not injure the records even if scratched across the grooves, and further, that it is unwearable."
Not to be outdone, the National Gramophone Co provided an All Marathon Night at the next session a fortnight later. The company were represented by Mr AR Sparrowe who brought along a Marathon No 8 machine plus a selection of Marathon discs. The membership of over twenty were invited to give their "candid opinion," five claiming they were "the finest that had been heard." The members made their choices of the discs that had been brought along and these were selected:
2028 Les Cloches de Corneville, 2026 Tannhauser Overture, 2029 Unfinished Symphony, 2002 Raymond Overture/ Poet and Peasant, and 2025 Il Trovatore. 10 inch records chosen were 293 Mary/ The Children's Home, 258 Auld Robin Gray/ East Neuch o' Fife, 294 Torchlight March/ Moonlight Capers, 295 Serenade/ Berceuse, 300 John Anderson my Jo/ Gala Water/ Caller Herrin', 309 Deep Sea Blue/ Weel May the Keel Row, 310 Souvenir de Posen/ Cazardas, and 313 Vesti la Giubba/ E Lucevan le Stelle. From this one can gather that Mr Sparrowe brought along Marathon's most recent records and that members were a fairly serious bunch. The report adds, "all present were impressed by the low prices charged (for Marathon equipment) and their general excellence."

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Elsie Carlisle

Sheet music of a great 1926 number.

Elsie record the title on
Zonophone 2757.
It was reissued on
Ariel 940 and Ariel 1006.

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From The Record Mirror for
March 14th 1959
On the front page were pictures of two Decca artists and their latest releases, Max Bygraves with Napoli Napoli (F11119) and Ted Heath with Peter Gunn (F11111), both hard to find on 78rpm. The front page also plugged Tommy Dorsey's Dinah Cha Cha on Brunswick 05784.
Page 3 had a Pye advert with photos of Gary Miller (N15188) and Joe Mr Piano Henderson (N15187).
London Records advertised on page 5 with Duane Eddy: The Lonely One (HLW8821) and Fats Domino: When the Saints go marching in (HLP8822), both very rare on 78s.
Decca have another centre page ad with the Max Bygraves Napoli, plus two other London discs, Pat Boone: With the Wind and the Rain in your Hair (HLD8824) and David Seville and The Chipmunks with Alvin's Harmonica (HLU8823).
Vogue advertise their POP records, singles available on 78rpm included Sonny Knight (V9134), Shirley and Lee (V9135), Gene and Eunice (V9136), Earl Cadillac (V9138), Thurston Harris (V9139) and Sidney Bechet (V9141). This last disc is the only one of these I've ever found on 78rpm.
Oriole Records advertise The Reprieve of Tom Dooley (CB1492) by Russ Hamilton, with the banner "Tom Dooley's not gonna die!"
Top Rank are advertising Dotty Frederick: Ricky/ Just Wait (JAR106), and Tony Hatch: Chick/ Side Saddle (JAR 107), with photos of both artistes.
Philip's ad also contains photos of their artistes. Johnny Ray (PB901), Marty Wilde (PB902- this does turn up on 78), Robert Earl (PB891), Johnny Gentle (PB908), Vic Damone (PB889) and Frankie Vaughan (PB896- this again isn't that uncommon on 78).
From Reviews of singles, I pick out
London HLE8819 The Coasters, Charlie Brown, "a cute song, well presented."
HMV POP599 Bernard Bresslaw, his version of The Coasters' song above, "less rock n roll and more novelty."
Mercury AMT1032 Joe Medlin, "a serious sounding choir... could be good."
Vogue Coral Q72360 Buddy Holly, the reviewer notes it has leapt into the Top 20, "a distinct change of approach for Buddy."
Dotty Frederick (as above), "Miss Frederick really seems to be enjoying herself."
Capitol CL14999 The Rinky Dinks, "one of the catchiest and smoothest of cha chas."
Parlophone R4533 Alyn Ainsworth, "crisp swinging arrangement" of an old Chu Chin Chow number.

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Record Quiz
The artists, titles and labels have got rather mixed up here, leading to some rather interesting, indeed unique records. Can you untangle them?

Lewis Waller .... Phantom melody ~~~~ Philips PB668

Maurice Chevalier .... La Lettre de Manon ~~~~ Winner 3355

California Ramblers .... A Hunting Scene ~~~~ Parlophone P1033

Oliver Wakefield .... Henry V at Harfleur ~~~~ HMV 1442

Marek Weber Orch .... Banana boat song ~~~~ Coumbia FB1553

Irwell Springs Bacup Band .... Oh come on be sociable ~~~~ HMV B3685

Shirley Bassey .... Voice of Inexperience ~~~~ Duophone M136

Auguste van Biene .... Bebe ~~~~ Scala7022

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QUIZ ANSWERS. Here are the untangled discs.
They're printed rather faint, as we suspect you might have cheated!!

Lewis Waller .... Henry V at Harfleur ~~~~ HMV 1442

Maurice Chevalier .... Toi et moi Oh come on be sociable ~~~~ HMV B3685

California Ramblers .... Bebe ~~~~ Scala7022

Oliver Wakefield .... Voice of Inexperience ~~~~ Coumbia lFB1553

Marek Weber Orch .... La Lettre de Manon ~~~~ Parlophone P1033

Irwell Springs Bacup Band .... A Hunting Scene ~~~~ Duophone M136

Shirley Bassey .... Banana boat song ~~~~ Philips PB668

Auguste van Biene .... Phantom melody ~~~~ Winner 3355

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HARRY JOSEPH
In their Supplement No 31, at the end of 1911, the Grammavox label announced they were presenting "A Memento of that most interesting Matinee Competition
organised by the Evening Times Newspaper
and held at the Palladium, September 28th." The announcement continued that the event was "for deciding by Competition the Finest Pierrot Troupe from the Troupes selected by the Public.

Mr Harry Joseph's Troupe from Littlehampton was adjudged the Best Pierrot Troupe out of all the Competitors, and secured the Prize Engagement."
Six titles were recorded by the troupe, with a piano accompaniment.
Matrix 8040 In Old Madrid (humorous variation)- Grammavox G21
8041 The Blacksmith's Wedding (with bell effects) - Grammavox G21
8042 The Arcadian's Opening Chorus (humorous variation) - Grammavox G22
8043 The Cubanola Glide - Grammavox G22
8044 Arabella - Grammavox G23
8045 The Wedding in the Moon (with bell effects) - Grammavox G23
The company policy was to reissue every possible recording to maximise its profitability, but oddly I can find no reissues of these items on the cheaper Popular or Butterfly labels. Perhaps you can prove me wrong, or did Harry and his troupe sink into utter recording oblivion?
I can add that Mrs Harry Joseph who said she was "one of the first original pierrots," died in 1960 aged 88. At the age of 85 she had made a 'comeback' in her home town of Littlehampton, with an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice as well as her original puppet act. The couple had a daughter named Lena Jay.
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Record Sleeves

A typical classical design on this sleeve from FH Rider.

The scene suggests the wonderful outdoor freedom that taking your gramophone and records into the wide open spaces might bring.

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