Poppy logo
POPPY header
Poppy logo

Banner ' Bring back memories'

Welcome to POPPY Records

Poppy Records music CDs are remastered from historic archive recordings, bringing back to life the popular music of yesteryear. The catalogue now includes a selection of talking books.


Blind listeners click here for more information

Click on any item for more information


Alphabetical listing

Contact

Trading terms

Technical

Other services

Transcription services

Archival transcription

Wax cylinder recording

Wax cylinder playback

Cylinder player

Wax cylinder labels

Wax cylinder dimensions

Handling wax cylinders

Magnetic disc playback

Voice Records playback

Disc playback

Wire playback

Recordgraph playback

Recordgraph machines

Recordgraph and Erich von Manstein

Company details

Links

 

 

 

 

Victory bands label - click for info
The Victory Bands
1928 - 31

Music of the Seaside

HXP001

Barnacle Bill label - click for info
Barnacle Bill the Sailor
and other Sundry Salty Songs
Music of the pantomime
HXP003
. .

Phonofossils - Selection 1

A wide-ranging selection of tunes and novelties from a bygone era

HXP101

Phonofossils - Selection 2

A wide-ranging selection of tunes and novelties from a bygone era

HXP102

Phonofossils - Selection 3

A wide-ranging selection of tunes and novelties from a bygone era

HXP103

Phonofossils - Selection 4

A wide-ranging selection of tunes and novelties from a bygone era

HXP104

Phonofossils - Selection 5

A wide-ranging selection of tunes and novelties from a bygone era

HXP105

Phonofossils - Selection 6

A wide-ranging selection of tunes and novelties from a bygone era

HXP106

Phonofossils - Selection 7

A wide-ranging selection of tunes and novelties from a bygone era

HXP107

Phonofossils - Selection 8

A wide-ranging selection of tunes and novelties from a bygone era

HXP108

Searching for Samarkand


Henry's Hot Six
Traditional Bristol-based jazz band

HXP010

-

Bath Banjo Festival 2009

Live recordings of virtuoso banjo players
HXP011

Morton to Mozart


Sparkling banjo and piano duets by
Julian Vincent and Keith Nichols

HXP012


Landscapes in Sound


New compositions by the Severnside Composers' Alliance

HXP013

-
Frank newman label - click for info
Frank Newman at the Organ
of the Plaza Cinema, Rugby
and Lozells Picture House, Birmingham
(Double CD)

Music of the cinema
HXP004

The Aeolian Pipe Organ
plays Duo-Art Music
Amazing 'Home Orchestra' Part 1
HYM002

The Aeolian Pipe Organ
plays Popular Music
Amazing 'Home Orchestra' Part 2
HYM006

The Aeolian Pipe Organ
plays Salon Music
Amazing 'Home Orchestra' Part 3
HYM007
My Favourite Blue Amberols
Aeolian Pipe Organ Concert
HYM003


The Garden of Kama
(Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar)
by Laurence Hope
read by Diana Humphrey
(Set of 3 CDs)

Talking book - The Poetry of Passion in India

HXP501
The Flower of Gloster
by E. Temple Thurston
read by Diana Humphrey
(Set of 4 CDs)

Talking book - Idyllic Canal Journey in 1911

HXP504
The Worst Journey in the Midlands
by Sam Llewellyn
read by Sam Llewellyn
(Set of 6 CDs)

Talking book - Hilarious Canal and River Journey

HXP505
Lottie & Lisa
by Erich Kästner
read by Diana Humphrey
(Set of 3 CDs)

Talking book for children - Identical twins hatch a daring plot to uncover a hidden past.

HXP506
"Clippie"
by Zelma Katin
read by Diana Humphrey
(Set of 3 CDs)

Talking book - The Story of a Wartime Sheffield Tram Conductress

HXP507
Five Children and It
(The Psammead) by E. Nesbitt
read by Diana Humphrey
(Set of 4 CDs)

Talking book for children - The five children are granted wishes by a Psammead - a sand fairy

HXP508
Picture of Jarge Balsh
The Jarge Balsh books
 

Discovering Somerset and Jarge Balsh
HXP521
Jarge Balsh at Frome Cheese Show
and Zummat 'O Nothin'
HXP522
by W.M. Jones
read by Barry Paine
(Sets of 2 CDs)

Talking books - Hilarious dialect yarns from rural Somerset

Wax Cylinders - The Von Manstein Project - Life Before Vinyl

Not what you expected ? - Click here for links to other websites