Melodisc Records information

Melodisc Records was a record label founded by Emil E. Shalit in the late 1940s. It was one of the first independent record labels in the UK and the parent...

associated with the record label. The Blue Beat label was founded in 1960, in London, as an imprint of Emil E. Shalit's Melodisc Records. Melodisc, which was founded...

the UK on the Melodisc label, he moved to Jamaica in late 1959 to perform and record and decided to settle there. In 1962, he recorded "Independent Jamaica"...

Albums Blues+Gospel+Soul (Melodisc Records, 1963) Black London Blues (Beacon Records, 1969) Bootleg Blues (Beacon Records, 1971) You Simply Are... (Fresh...

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian "Big Ears", track by the Hedley Ward Trio on Melodisc Records Big Ears Festival, annual music festival in Knoxville, Tennessee Big...

featured in the programme Educating Archie. The trio released records on the Melodisc Records label. "Music While You Work". Radio Times. No. 1325. 6 March...

Folkes and Greensleeves Records after they brought a lawsuit against Campbell and Melodisc (CampbelI by this time had acquired Melodisc) concerning authorship...

singles in Britain by Melodisc Records, and were later compiled as an album, Live the Highlife, released in 1968. His many records include a 1968 LP Live...

Club Afrique, successor to the Abalabi, and recorded an album, Highlife from Nigeria, for Melodisc Records in the late 1960s, with his group credited as...

during the 1950s. He first recorded for Melodisc c. 1949–1951 before he started to record for EMI's Columbia label and his records included two UK number...

in the UK on Melodisc Records: Melodisc 1123 Original Jelly Roll Blues (Jelly Roll Morton)/ At a Georgia Camp Meeting (Mills) Melodisc 1124 Daddy Do...

one of the first major calypsonians to have records released on Emil Shallit's UK-based Melodisc Records, in 1950. In 1953, he took a job as a fireman...

own name in 1954, releasing a handful of EPs for Columbia, Pye/Nixa and Melodisc throughout the 1950s. However, the majority of his 1950s recordings were...

recordings of Afrobeat founder Fela Kuti. Fela recorded the song "Fela's Special" in London in 1960 for the Melodisc label with his band Fela Ransome-Kuti &...

as musical director of the Melodisc record label established by Emil Shalit, which increasingly sought to release records to appeal to Britain's growing...

bongo player Ade Bashorun. In the 1950s Campbell recorded a series of 78 rpm records for the Melodisc label owned by Emil Shalit, and became a well-known...

2004) Hot Chip - "The Ass Attack" (Moshi Moshi Records, 4 October 2004) Pedro - "Fear & Resilience" (Melodisc, 18 October 2004) Cyne - "Automaton" (City Centre...

Blue Beat) "Please Don't Leave Me" (1961, Blue Beat) "Mary Lee" (1961, Melodisc) "Love Me Baby" (1961, Starlite) "Stars Were Made" (1961 Starlite) "Brother...

(Folkways FA 2013) (1954) More Songs By Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston (Melodisc MLP12-106) (1955) Cisco Sings (Folkways FA 2346) (1958) Cisco Houston Sings...

Washington Hoggin' / Blues A La King Melodisc, 1946 1946 Studio Howard McGhee Sweet Potato / Night Mist Melodisc, 1946 1946 Studio Howard McGhee Riff...