Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
here's Off To Philadelphia sung by Stuart Robertson the English Baritone from rare 78 rpm shellac record released in the mid 1920's.
here's Off To Philadelphia sung by Stuart Robertson the English Baritone from rare 78 rpm shellac record released in the mid 1920's.





![4 Cautionary Tales and a Moral, No.4 Henry King by Hilaire Belloc sung by Harold Williams Baritone
Heres 4 Cautionary Tales and a Moral, No.4 Henry King by Hilaire Belloc sung by Harold Williams Baritone from a rare 78 rpm
Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (/hɪˈlɛər ˈbɛlək/, French: [ilɛːʁ bɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870[1] – 16 July 1953) was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford South from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship.
Belloc was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France to a French father, Louis Belloc (1830-1872) and an English mother. His sister Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes also grew up to be a writer.
His Cautionary Tales for Children, humorous poems with an implausible moral, illustrated by Basil Temple Blackwood (signing as B.T.B.) and later by Edward Gorey, are the most widely known of his writings.[27] Supposedly for children, they, like Lewis Carrolls works, are more to adult and satirical tastes: Henry King, Who chewed bits of string and was early cut off in dreadful agonies.[28] A similar poem tells the story of Rebecca, who slammed doors for fun and perished miserably.
The tale of Matilda who told lies and was burned to death was adapted into the play Matilda Liar! by Debbie Isitt. Quentin Blake, the illustrator, described Belloc as at one and the same time the overbearing adult and mischievous child. Roald Dahl was a follower. But Belloc has broader if sourer scope. For example, with Lord Lundy (who was far too freely 4 Cautionary Tales and a Moral, No.4 Henry King by Hilaire Belloc sung by Harold Williams Baritone](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h4VgvhHLKLc/mqdefault.jpg)

![Bluebells Played On The Tubaphone 78 rpm
Heres Bluebells Played The Tubaphone an instrument similar to Xylaphone but using metal tubes from an early double sided 78 rpm Twin shellac record.
A tubaphone is a type of metallophone constructed from a series of metal tubes arranged in a keyboard configuration.[1][2] The tubes are similar in length to that of a xylophone, and sound vaguely like a glockenspiel.[3 Bluebells Played On The Tubaphone 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hKtzNNIjVu8/mqdefault.jpg)

![An Englishmans Home - Threat of Invasion Play by Guy du Maurier WW1 Rare 78 rpm Numark TTX
heres a very rare 78 rpm shelllac record played on my modern Numark TTX record deck of a snippet of An Englishmans Home a threat-of-invasion play by Guy du Maurier, first produced in 1909. The title is a reference to the expression an Englishmans home is his castle.
An Englishmans Home caused a sensation in London when it appeared anonymously, under the name A Patriot, in 1909.[1] The writer Guy du Maurier was a regular officer in the British Army, who had seen active service during the South African War and who was to be killed in France in 1915.[2]
It first played at Wyndhams Theatre on 27 January[3] and went on to be a long-running success. It is now considered a typical example of the invasion literature popular at the time.[4] The play was produced by Guys brother Gerald du Maurier, possibly without his knowledge and with some assistance from J. M. Barrie.[5] The story concerns an attack on England by a foreign power identified as Nearland, generally assumed to represent Germany. The home of an ordinary middle-class family is besieged by Nearlander soldiers, and the play climaxes with the father shooting an enemy officer and subsequently being executed.[1] In Guy du Mauriers original version the invaders triumph but J. M. Barrie and Gerald du Maurier revised the ending to provide a last-minute British victory.[6]
The play stressed Britains unpreparedness for attack, and has been credited with boosting recruitment to the Territorial Force in the years immediately before World War I.[1][3] The play was revived on stage in May 1939 at Londons Princes Theatre.[7] It influenced niece Daphne du Mauriers 1952 novelette The Birds,[8] which was made into a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Film Edit An Englishmans Home - Threat of Invasion Play by Guy du Maurier WW1 Rare 78 rpm Numark TTX](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i34j30YGRyg/mqdefault.jpg)
![4 Cautionary Tales and a Moral, No.3 Matilda by Hilaire Belloc Rare 78 rpm
Heres 4 Cautionary Tales and a Moral, No.3 Matilda by Hilaire Belloc sung by Harold Williams Baritone from a rare 78 rpm
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (/hɪˈlɛər ˈbɛlək/, French: [ilɛːʁ bɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870[1] – 16 July 1953) was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford South from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship.
Belloc was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France to a French father, Louis Belloc (1830-1872) and an English mother. His sister Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes also grew up to be a writer.
His Cautionary Tales for Children, humorous poems with an implausible moral, illustrated by Basil Temple Blackwood (signing as B.T.B.) and later by Edward Gorey, are the most widely known of his writings.[27] Supposedly for children, they, like Lewis Carrolls works, are more to adult and satirical tastes: Henry King, Who chewed bits of string and was early cut off in dreadful agonies.[28] A similar poem tells the story of Rebecca, who slammed doors for fun and perished miserably.
The tale of Matilda who told lies and was burned to death was adapted into the play Matilda Liar! by Debbie Isitt. Quentin Blake, the illustrator, described Belloc as at one and the same time the overbearing adult and mischievous child. Roald Dahl was a follower. But Belloc has broader if sourer scope. For example, with Lord Lundy (who was far too freely 4 Cautionary Tales and a Moral, No.3 Matilda by Hilaire Belloc Rare 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i5eVO5Y4jZ8/mqdefault.jpg)