78rpm
records often had florid labels as a way of drawing attention to
themselves in shops - there were no illustrated records sleeves, just
brown paper cases with a cut-out to show the label and sometimes an
advertisement. This is a typical example - it's noticeable that it's
often the small labels which had the most complicated designs.
The
recording is of the music-hall artist Charles Coborn singing the chorus
of his most famous song, 'Two Lovely Black Eyes', in an assortment of
languages. Beltona seem to have paid more attention to the label design
than the recording quality, and the record is quite noisy, but I have
cleaned it up as best I can. It was recorded in London around November
1924.
The
recording lasts 3m 13s and the file size is 2.2MB
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