Music Hall and Variety Songs on CD
Welcome to Windyridge CDs for original music hall and variety songs and monologues.
We re-issue old songs of the music-hall taken from original performances on 78rpm gramophone disc records and phonograph cylinders. You can buy CDs online and by post.
The old songs on the original recordings date from the Victorian and
Edwardian musichall and vaudeville eras through to the Variety performances of the
1930s.
Artists include Dan Leno, Gus Elen, Harry Champion, Billy Williams, Florrie Forde, Marie Lloyd, Bransby Williams, Mark Sheridan, George Formby Snr., Little Tich, George Lashwood, Harry Lauder, Ella Shields, Wilkie Bard, Whit Cunliffe, Vesta Victoria, Albert Chevalier, Lily Morris, Vesta Tilley, George Robey, Nellie Wallace, Billy Merson, Ella Retford, Sam Mayo, Clarice Mayne, G H Elliott, Randolph Sutton, Max Bacon, Norman Long, Charlie Higgins, Tessie O'Shea, Max Miller, Douglas Byng, Will Fyffe, Vivian Foster, Flotsam and Jetsam, Leslie Sarony, Jack Warner, Gracie Fields, Elsie and Doris Waters, Billy Bennett, Gillie Potter and many other music hall and vaudeville performers.
A full CD listing is available here.
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Help Keep These Old Sounds Alive
In a surprise move, Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services at the European Commission, has revealed
plans
to extend the term of copyright protection for sound recordings from the current 50 years to 95 years. Before this Summer, the Commission will propose a directive to extend the term in all 27 EU member states. If adopted this could come into force in 2009. This is in direct contradiction of his own Commission's Report. It is also opposed by the UK and German Governments. If the law is passed, the implication for lovers of Music Hall and most historic material is that all recordings made right back to 1912 will be dragged back into copyright and will no longer be available.
Write to your MEP More information available here. Also sign the on-line petition. Please act now before it is too late.
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© W J Clark (2002 - 2008) - This site last updated - 1 May 2008.
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