British Music Hall and Variety Songs on CD

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 and 40s.

Artists whose work is re-issued include Dan Leno, Gus Elen, Harry Champion, Alfred Lester, Ben Albert, 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, Hutch, 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, Sandy Powell, Gracie Fields, Elsie and Doris Waters, Billy Bennett, Lupino Lane and many other music hall and vaudeville performers.

A full CD listing is available here. With more than 100 albums featuring over 2400 tracks, you are sure to find plenty of interest.

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100 Years Celebration

Royal Command Performance 1912

Royal Command Performance 1912 commemorates the centenary of the very first Royal Variety Performance. Using period recordings of the original artistes, it reconstructs the glamour of the historic night.

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© W J Clark (2001 - 2012) - This site last updated - 18 May 2012.

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