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Gamage was produced by The British Homophone Company for A. W. Gamage Ltd, of Holborn, London. They are very rare nowadays and little is known about what may be found on this label, or for how long it was available. They use the same source of masters as Homochord, i.e. English Vocalion, American Vocalion, Pathe and possibly Emerson, too, along with Homochord masters of course.
The catalogue numbers are in a G-500 series and they don't quite seem to reach G-700.

There was a much earlier Gamage label, actually labelled "A W Gamage" which dates from the time or World War One. These are even rarer and only a couple of examples have been reported so far.

Finally (I think) there was a Gamage Morse record, of which I only have the scan and have no idea as to the period of the record.

 

This is a first attempt at a listing. Please e-mail me if you can help me fill in the gaps in any of these series.

Extra information provided by: Maurice Holmes, Greg Butler, Wayne Baby, Norman Field

The first list is all that is known from the first A W Gamage label.                                                    Page last updated on December 27, 2011

Cat No Matrix Title Labelled Artists Actual Artists
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71        
72 549-x
550-x		 Shipmates O' Mine
Tommy Lad		 Arthur Grimshaw (song, with piano)  
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91        
92 739-X
741-X		 Cohen 'Phones The Exchange
Cohen 'Phones The Gas Company		 Will Terry Will Terry (from Guardsman 739 as Leonard Morgan))
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107        
108 931-X
932-X		 Sweet Jasmine
Nigger Town		 Olly Oakley (banjo) from Guardsman 691 (as Olly Oakley)
109        
110        

Now the main G- series:

Cat No Matrix Title Labelled Artists Actual Artists
G-501        
G-502        
G-503        
G-504        
G-505        
G-506        
G-507        
G-508        
G-509        
G-510        
G-511        
G-512        
G-513        
G-514        
G-515        
G-516        
G-517   Honeymoon March
El Capitan March		 Imperial Military Band  
G-518        
G-519        
G-520        
G-521        
G-522        
G-523        
G-524 6225
6226		 Weymouth Chimes
Christchurch Bells		 Harmony Band  
G-525        
G-526        
G-527   Poet and Peasant overture, parts 1 & 2 (Suppe) The Gramola Orchestra  
G-528        
G-529        
G-530        
G-531        
G-532        
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G-540        
G-541        
G-542        
G-543        
G-544        
G-545        
G-546        
G-547   Wabash Blues
Wana		 Gamage Dance Orchestra  
G-548        
G-549 02056 At The High-Brow Babies' Ball (sic) Mellor's Dance Orchestra Archibald Joyce's Dance Orchestra
G-550        
G-551        
G-552        
G-553        
G-554        
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G-556        
G-557        
G-558        
G-559        
G-560        
G-561        
G-562        
G-563        
G-564 02184
 		 Jigger Jag
Wig Wam		 Alabama Specialty Orchestra Vocalion Dance Orchestra
 
G-565 02274
02275		 Twelfth Street Rag
Tents Of Arabs		 The Mississippi Coons The White Coons
G-566        
G-567        
G-568        
G-569        
G-570        
G-571        
G-572        
G-573        
G-574        
G-575        
G-576        
G-577        
G-578        
G-579 750
752		 Espagnole
Carnival Of Venice		 Charles Draper (clarionet)  
G-580        
G-581 59913
59958		 Valse Erica
Saxema		 Paul Athens (saxophone)  
G-582        
G-583   The Lost Chord
Nazareth		 Harry Bryan  
G-584 60623
60624		 Oakleigh Quick Step
The Gay Gossoon		 Olly Oakley (banjo, with piano accmp) n/a
G-585 60626
60627		 Camptown Carnival
A Banjo Oddity		 Olly Oakley (banjo) n/a
G-586 60628 A Black Coquette Olly Oakley (banjo) n/a
G-587 60110
60114		 Queen Of The Burlesque
Poppies And Wheat		 Olly Oakley (banjo) n/a
G-588 60111
60113		 Darktown Dandies
The Darkey's Awakening		 Olly Oakley (banjo) n/a
G-589 60115 Ragtime Frolics William Whitlock (xylophone) n/a
G-590 60117
60118		 Islander March
British Empire March		 Billy Whitlock (xylophone) with orch. n/a
G-591        
G-592        
G-593        
G-594        
G-595        
G-596        
G-597   Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight
Dreamy Hawaii		 Malvina Ancaster & Lilo  
G-598        
G-599        
G-600 60011
60030		 La Donna E Mobile ("Rigoletto" - Verdi)
Siciliana ("Cavalleria Rusticana")		 Sam Hempsall  
G-601        
G-602        
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G-606        
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G-610        
G-611        
G-612        
G-613 6914
6949		 Songs Of Araby
I Hear You Calling Me		 John Jamieson (tenor)  
G-614        
G-615        
G-616        
G-617        
G-618        
G-619        
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G-621        
G-622        
G-623        
G-624        
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G-626        
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G-628        
G-629        
G-630        
G-631        
G-632   Floating Down To Cotton Town
I Want Some Money		 Gilbert & Chapman  
G-633        
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G-635        
G-636        
G-637        
G-638 L-00296
L-00300		 Romany Love
My Sweet Hortense		   Stanley C. Holt's Quintette
G-639        
G-640 99283
99383		 Hot Lips
Vamp Me		 Gamage Dance Orchestra  
G-641 93003
95783		 Nobody Lied
Chicago (That Toddling Town)		 Gamage Dance Orchestra California Ramblers
 
G-642        
G-643        
G-644        
G-645 C-6100 Last Night On The Back Porch Gamage Dance Orchestra The Whitehall Dance Orchestra
G-646        
G-647 L-00401
L-00402		 The Temple Bells (Woodford-Finden)
Less Than The Dust (Woodford-Finden)		 Robert Howe (with orch accmp) n/a
G-648        
G-649        
G-650        
G-651 L-00459
L-00462		 Honolulu Blues
Yes! We Have No Bananas		 Gamage Dance Orchestra Homochord Star Dance Orch (dir Nat Star)
G-652        
G-653        
G-654 11765 Why Marry? Gamage Dance Orchestra Louis Katzman & his Orch
G-655   I Love Me
Felix Kept On Walking		 Selwin's Dance Orchestra probably Homochord Dance Orch (dir: Charles Starr)
G-656        
G-657        
G-658        
G-659   In A Monastery Garden (Ketelbey)
The Clock Is Playing		 Gamage String Orchestra  
G-660   When You And I Were Dancing
The Oom-Pah Trot		 Selwin's Dance Orchestra prob. Whitehall Dance Orchestra
prob. Vorzanger's Famous Broadway Band
G-661        
G-662        
G-663        
G-664   When Will The Sun Shine For Me?
What'll I Do?		 Arthur Holt  
G-665   Pasadena
Dream Daddy		 Leslie Howard  
G-666        
G-667        
G-668        
G-669        
G-670        
G-671 C-6586
C-6679		 What Do You Do Sunday, Mary?
Dream Daddy		 Gamage Dance Orchestra Leslie Jeffries' Rialto Orchestra
G-672        
G-673        
G-674        
G-675        
G-676 C-6587
12932		 Oh, Eva
Chicago Blues		 Gamage Dance Orchestra Leslie Jeffries' Rialto Orchestra
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra
G-677 C-6543 Blind Love (waltz)   Leslie Jeffries' Rialto Orchestra
G-678        
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G-680        
G-681        
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G-683        
G-684        
GC-685 94759
94761		 One Little Dance (waltz)
San Francisco		 Swanee Syncopators The "Star" Syncopators (dir Wag Abbey)
G-686 105672
105913		 Everybody Loves My Baby
Let It Rain, Let It Pour		 Gamage Dance Orchestra
Eldon's Dance Orchestra		 Carolina Club Orchestra (dir Hal Kemp)
Bar Harbor Society Orchestra (dir Ben Selvin)
G-687        
G-688        
G-689        
G-690 C-6906
124		 Shanghai
The Only, Only One		 Gamage Dance Orchestra Leslie Jeffries' Rialto Orchestra
Austin Wylie's Golden Pheasant Orchestra
G-691        
G-692        
G-693        
G-694   Radio Tango
Nena		 Gamage Dance Orchestra  
G-695        
G-696 Yy-7573
Yy-7941		 Dream Pal
Valencia		 Gamage Dance Orchestra Carlton Hotel Dance Orchestra (Bert Firman)
G-697 Yy-7944
Yy-8098		 Night
Picador		 Eugene Brockman's Dance Orchestra Bert Firman's Dance Orchestra
G-698        
G-699