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“All Trivial Fond Records”: On the Uses of Early Recordings of British Music-Hall Performers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Laurence Senelick
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Extract

The fruits of scientific enterprise are never without their detractors, and so the Illustrated News of the World felt the necessity, early in 1891, to deplore a chain of events, pursuant to the invention of the talking machine.

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Research Article
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , November 1975 , pp. 135 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1975

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References

1 The Illustrated News of the World, 24 January 1891, p. 92Google Scholar.

2 Quoted in The Hillandale News, No. 78 (June 1974), 197Google Scholar.

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11 MacInnes, pp. 107–108. Davison, Peter, Songs of the British Music Hall (New York, 1971) p. 172Google Scholar.

12 There is a photograph of Lauder standing beside a talking machine in Cheshire, D. F., Music Hall in Britain (Newton Abbot, 1974) p. 77Google Scholar.

13 Bennett, John R., Voices of the Past (Lingfield Surrey, n.d.)Google Scholar.

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16 There are no specialized discographies of British music hall performances, but Rust's, BrianComplete Entertainment Discography from the mid-1890s to 1942 (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1973)Google Scholar, although it limits itself to Americans, does cover certain British performers who were popular in this country. Thus, there are listings of Gracie Fields, Will Fyffe, George Lashwood, Harry Lauder, Alice Lloyd, Cissie Loftus, Eugene Stratton, Vesta Tilley and Vesta Victoria. Many reissues of original music-hall recordings have appeared in England over the last decade, chiefly on the E.M.I. and Decca labels.