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6 unusual facts about Gramophone Company


Ernest Lough

Lord Justice Eldon Bankes suggested that the Temple choir should make a record, and on 15 March 1927, the Gramophone Company brought its new mobile recording unit to the Temple Church where the choir recorded Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer, in which the famous solo O for the Wings of a Dove was sung by Ernest Lough, then aged 15.

Ernest Arthur Lough (17 November 1911 - 22 February 2000) (pronounced Luf) was an English boy soprano who sang the famous solo O for the Wings of a Dove from Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer for the Gramophone Company (later HMV and then EMI) in 1927.

Laurence Gilliam

Gilliam worked with the Gramophone Company, before transferred to the BBC drama department in 1933, where he was responsible for features.

Minos EMI

In 1930, British Columbia Graphophone Company and Gramophone Company, which a year later merged to form EMI Group, formed a partnership along with Greek investor Lambropoulos Brothers Limited to produce records in Greece.

Player piano

To bring capital to the business, they sold off all their overseas assets, so the large piano factory at Hayes was closed and sold with one month's notice, to the Gramophone Company, also based in the town.

Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath

Recordings of his voice exist made in October 1910, in the form of three speeches on the Empire Movement, Gramophone Company 12" G&T black label 'Monarch' records, cat.


Marie Dainton

In 1902 she made several gramophone recordings for the Gramophone & Typewriter Co Ltd and Pathé of songs from this show, namely "The à la Girl", "Sweet Little Sing-Sing", and "Mandie of Ohio".


see also

Class of '78

Originally released by the Great American Gramophone Company as a "direct-to-disc" LP album, it has been re-issued on Compact Disc as The Greatest Drummer That Ever Lived With "The Best Band I Ever Had".

Maurice Renaud

Maurice Renaud made 52 extant records, 45 of them for The Gramophone Company (the forerunner of HMV) and seven for Pathé.