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 0.5.0, I have:

• Added new sources: Badrock and Andrews's "British Phonycord Issues (P. 74 to P. 135)," Henry König's www.musiktiteldb.de, and Mike Thomas's "Grand Pree"
• Added eighteen new recordings that definitely contain Elwin vocals: Dec mx. GB-2841, Dec F-3323, Ecl 734, Hom mx. BL-1020, Pan mx. GB-5716, Par mx. E-804, Par mx. E-3870, Par A-3194, Par E-6423, PA 11272, St 822, and Zon mx. 0Y-1202
• Confirmed nine recordings formerly suspected of containing Elwin vocals: Hom mx. BL-1046, Par mx. E-1351, Par E-5739, Par E-5747, Par E-5832, and PA mx. 95121
• Added quite a few Australian Parlophone pressings, many (but not all) of whose British originals were already listed in earlier versions of this book
• Confirmed the catalogue numbers of some Imperial Juniors
• Added the Elwin pseudonyms "Frank Shaw" and "Lewis Young" (from Grand Pree)
• Added a few "Bobby Brown" sides to the "Unconfirmed: Other Decca Groups" section as probably having Elwin vocals
• Hypothesized that Elwin is probably "Arthur Watson" on St 822
• Identified the constituent parts of the medleys on Par E-6172
• Confirmed many smaller details by examining the discs themselves and by listening to transfers

Release notes for version 0.4.0