Listing of records used: episodes 21 to date


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The Sound of 78s episode 21


Don Paquale (Donizetti): 'Pronto lo son'
Marcella Sembrich (soprano) & Antonio Scotti (baritone)
HMV VB29  (054074) Victor recording, 14th March 1906

Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti): 'Chi mi frena' (Sextet)
Enrico Caruso (tenor), Amelita Galli-Curci (soprano), Minnie Egener (contralto), Giuseppe De Luca (baritone), Marcel Journet (bass), Angelo Bada (tenor).
HMV DQ100 (2-054067) Victor recording, 1917

Il Trovatore (Verdi): 'Miserere, d'un'alma già vicina' (Miserere)
Rosa Ponselle (soprano) & Giovanni Martinelli (tenor) with the Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Giulio Setti.
HMV DB1199 Victor recording, 1928

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner): 'Selig, wie die Sonne' (Quintet)
Elisabeth Schumann (soprano), Lauritz Melchior (tenor), Friedrich Schorr (baritone), Gladys Parr (contralto), Ben Williams (tenor) with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli
HMV D2002 recorded 16th May 1931

The Sound of 78s episode 22

'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 Sound of 78s episode 23

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 Sound of 78s episode 24

'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

The Sound of 78s episode 25

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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