Monarch of the Microphone: A Maurice Elwin Discography

This discography documents Maurice Elwin's sound recordings (1916-1936). It identifies bands and other accompaniment, vocal partners, session locations and dates, matrices and takes, titles, songwriters, and labels and catalogue numbers (including non-UK issues).

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For version 0.3.0, I have

• Added 12 new recordings that contain Elwin vocals: Col DX-186; EBW 4573; Imp mx. 4361-3; Mimosa mx. E-295; Par E-6358, mx. E-1722; Re mx. WA-4522, mx. WA-4868; Zon mx. 0Y-1624.
• Added 41 new recordings that possibly contain Elwin vocals: Bcst 3201, 3236, 3278, 3304, mx. A-1373-3; Par E-5930, E-5957, E-5958, E-5959, E-5979, E-5993, E-5994, E-6060, E-6145, E-6146, E-6177, E-6193, E-6204, E-6354, E-6358, mx. E-1649, mx. E-3813-2.
• Scrutinized 118 new labels.
• Added new sources: The CHARM Discography, Badrock's "Peggy Cochrane: A Bio-Discography" (Talking Machine Review 103), Mike Thomas's "Take Two" articles (Talking Machine Review [1996-2001]), WikiDiscs.
• Noted that Elwin is Parlophone's "John O'Grady" on at least one occasion (probably more; "O'Grady" records were issued by Ariel under the names "John Curtis" and "Henry Street," which are Elwin pseudonyms); discussed the likelihood that Elwin was probably one member (along with Eddie Collis?) of Parlophone's "Wilson and Waller" (Ariel's "Hampton and Smart"); observed that Elwin was probably Parlophone's "David Sharron" (Ariel's "Bernard Armstrong"); and added some Peggy Cochrane Broadcast Twelves that Badrock thought might have Elwin's voice on them (though I have confirmed that at least one really has Sam Browne).
• Continued to add to "Recordings Not By Elwin" in hopes that it may save other researchers some time in the future.

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