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This Butterfly label was an oversized 10" disc using Grammavox masters (many also issued on Popular).
The label was dark red with a gold butterfly and used a B- catalogue series, possibly starting at B-1 but running up into the B-400s. There was also a C-series and D-series as well, of which only one of each has been reported to me.

These recordings (and possibly the records themselves) date from about 1910-1915.

Thanks to Mike Jones for the label image.

If you can add anything to this listing, please email me.

Thanks to the following for their help:
Frank Andrews, Duncan Brand, Paul Buck, Bill Dean-Myatt, Norman Field, Robert Girling, Mike Jones, Paul Kilmartin, Justin Macauley, Adam Miller, Richard Prout, Mark Schuler

Page last updated: November 23, 2023

Cat No Matrix Title Artists Source
B 1 4059
4063
I Don't Want A Girl For Sunday
We Really Had a Most Delightful Evening
Jack Charman
Harry Bluff
Grammavox E-29
B 2        
B 3        
B 4        
B 5        
B 6        
B 7 4085
4087
There's Something In The Seaside Air
We All Go The Same Way home
Jack Charman Grammavox E-48
B 8        
B 9        
B 10        
         
B 20        
B 21        
B 22        
B 23        
B 24        
B 25        
B 26        
B 27        
B 28        
B 29 2027
2031
The Distant Shore
Asleep In The Deep
Wilfred Virgo (tenor)
Norman Williams (bass)
Grammavox E-115
Grammavox E-20
B 30        
B 31        
B 32        
B 33        
B 34        
B 35        
B 36 4045
4050
Just To Show Who's Boss Of The House
What Is A --- ?
Fred Harvey (= Tom Richards)
Tom Richards
Grammavox E-23
B 37        
B 38        
B 39        
B 40        
         
B 50 8013
8017
Excelsior (Balfe)
My Heart Has Learned To Love You (Ball)
Wilfred Virgo (tenor) & Albert Chapman (baritone) Grammavox G-7
B 51 8014x1
8021x1
The Moon Has Raised Her Lamp Above
Watchman, What Of The Night ?
Wilfred Virgo (tenor) & Albert Chapman (baritone)
Herbert Williams & Bertram Ellis (duet)
Grammavox G-8
         
B 70        
B 71        
B 72        
B 73        
B 74        
B 75        
B 76 19
20
Pomp and Circumstance March (Elgar)
Rienzi Overture (Wagner)
The British Guards Band Grammavox A-7
B 77        
B 78 56
59
Les Huguenots - selection
Blaze Away
British Guards Band (= Grammavox Military Band) Grammavox A-25 
Grammavox A-159 
B 79        
B 80        
B 81        
B 82        
B 83        
B 84        
B 85        
B 86        
B 87        
B 88 27
30
The Balkan Princess - selection
The Territorial March
Crown Escort Band (= Royal Military Band) Grammavox A-21
Grammavox A-156
B 89 38
39
Teddy Bears' Picnic
By The Watermelon Vine
Imperial Military Band (= London Concert Band) Grammavox A-6
B 90        
B 91        
B 92 129
137
Imperial Edward March
The Mill In The Black Forest
Imperial Military Band (= Grammavox Military Band) Grammavox A-79
Grammavox A-70
B 93        
B 94        
B 95 15
16
The Arcadians - selection
Wee MacGregor - Patrol
British Guards Band Grammavox A-16
B 96 57
58
Cotton Blossoms - cake walk
At A Georgia Camp Meeting
British Guards Band (= Grammavox Military Band) Grammavox A-23
B 97 55
60
"Zampa" - overture
With Sword And Lance, march
The British Guards Band Grammavox A-24
B 98        
B 99 69 The Quaker Girl, selection The British Guards Band Grammavox A-27
B 100        
B 101        
B 102        
B 103        
B 104 125
133
Wellington March
Melodious Memories No. 2
Hibernian Concert Band (= Grammavox Military Band) Grammavox A-158 
Grammacox A-76   
B 105        
B 106        
B 107        
B 108        
B 109        
B 110        
B 111        
B 112 106
107
Reminiscences Of Weber
Reminiscences Of Mozart
The Crown Escort Band (= Earl of Lonsdale's Private Military Band) Grammavox A-51
B 113        
B 114 113
114
"Yeomen Of The Guard" - selection
The Ride Of The Valkyries
British Guards Imperial Military and Hiberia Concert Massed Bands Grammavox A-54
B 115 117
118
Selection Of Popular Melodies, part A
Selection Of Popular Melodies, part B
Crown Escort Band (= Imperial Military Band) Grammavox A-56
B 116 3 x2
71
Light Cavalry, overture
El Capitan, march
British Guards Imperial Military and Hiberia Concert Massed Bands Grammavox A-59
B 117        
B 118 2686
2694
Down In Virginia
Mandy And Me
The Belmont Duettists  (= Brooks and Hudson) Popular P-930
Popular P-935 
B 119        
         
B 130        
B 131 6020
6022
Her Ladyship
Echo De Bastion
George Emberson (tubaphone) Grammavox C-4
B 132        
B 133 6003
6006
L'Extase
Cornet Polka
Philip Lewis (violin)
D. Flynn (cornet)
Grammavox C-7
Grammavox C-8
B 134        
B 135        
B 136 6008
6010
The Dear Homeland
Red Wing
D. Flynn (cornet)
John Pidoux (banjo)
Grammavox C-5
B 137        
B 138        
B 139        
         
B 160 2096
2106
If I Had The World To Give You
Come Into The Garden, Maud
Norman Williams (bass, with orch.)
George Ellis (tenor, with orch)
Grammavox D-51
B 161        
B 162 4061
4063 x2
He's A Very Old Friend Of Mine
We Really Had A Most Delightful Evening
Harry Bluff (comic) Grammavox E-30
Grammavox E-29
B 163        
B 164        
B 165        
B 166        
B 167 2107
2113
I Hear You Calling Me
The Arab's Farewell To His Steed
George Ellis (tenor)
Albert Temple (baritone)
Grammavox D-58
B 168 2110
2112
The Song Of The Toreador
Simon The Cellerar
Alan Turner (baritone)
Harry Thornton (baritone)
Grammavox D-59
B 169        
         
B 197 15
90
The Arcadians, selection
A Waltz Dream, selection
The British Imperial Military Band Grammavox A-15
Grammavox A-29
B 198        
B 199 2306
2311
Private Tommy Atkins
Your King And Country Need You
Howard Beresford (baritone) Grammavox D-199
B 200        
B 201        
B 202        
B 203        
B 204        
B 205        
B 206        
B 207        
B 208        
B 209        
B 210        
B 211        
B 212        
B 213        
B 214        
B 215        
B 216        
B 217        
B 218 4033
4038
Fall In And Follow Me
Put On Your Ta-Ta Little Girlie
Jack Charman
Leonard Leigh
Grammavox E-18
B 219        
B 220        
B 221        
B 222 4046
4052
Jonathon Jay
Come With Me Down Regent Street
Tom Richards
Fred Harvey
Grammavox E-24
B 223        
B 224        
B 225        
B 226        
B 227        
B 228        
B 229        
B 230        
B 231        
B 232        
B 233        
B 234        
B 235 4078
4031
Bob Down, You're Spotted
The Drug Store
Mack Culley
Tom Wilkins (comic patter)
Grammavox E-40
  Note: A copy of the above has been reported which has matrix 4071 (Arabella by Elsie Steadman) instead of the first side.
B 236        
B 237        
B 238 4012
4024
The Whistling Village
The Nightingale
Arthur Melrose
Charles Capper (whistling)
Grammavox F-2
B 239        
B 240        
B 241        
B 242        
B 243 2213
2216
All That I Ask Is Love
Meet Me To-Night In Dreamland
Rupert Templemore (bass) (= Robert Carr)
Austin Reid (baritone) (= Robert Carr)
Grammavox D-139
Grammavox D-140
B 244        
B 245        
B 246        
B 247        
B 248        
B 249        
B 250 178 Alexander's Ragtime Band Imperial Military Band (= Grammavox Military Band) Grammavox A-97
B 251 2004
2005
When The Fields Are White With Daisies
Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?
Albert Thorne (tenor) Grammavox D-3
B 252 2087
2093
Your Eyes Have Told Me So
Beautiful Garden Of Roses
Glandon Lewis (bass)
Horace Mather (tenor)
Grammavox D-47
B 253        
B 254        
B 255 2193
2194
Every Valley Shall Be Exalted (Handel)
Comfort Ye My People (Handel)
Albert Watson (tenor) Grammavox D-128
B 256        
B 257        
B 258        
B 259        
         
B 270        
B 271        
B 272        
B 273        
B 274 4110
4111
I Shall Blow My Whistle
Has Anybody Seen My Tiddler?
Alf Willis Grammavox E-61
B 275        
B 276        
B 277        
B 278 6033
6037
Serenade
Rondo In C
St James' Quartette
Joseph Batten (piano)
Grammavox C-19
B 279        
B 280        
B 281 8035
8039
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
Eleanor Freile (soparano), Lucy Wade (contralto), Vincent Hards (tenor), Norman Williams (bass) Grammavox G-19
B 282        
B 283        
B 284 8047
8048
Casey Jones
That Hypnotising Man
Brothers Fitz and Fritz Grammavox G-24
B 285 8049
8050
Baby Rose
I'm Going Back To Dixie
Brothers Fitz and Fritz Grammavox G-25
B 286        
B 287 4135
4136
Waltz Me, Willie In Ragtime
Keep On Swinging Me Charlie
Sid Darkey Grammavox E-77
B 288 4132 Paree, Gay Paree Jack Charman Grammavox E-75
B 289        
B 290        
B 291 4125
4129
Hello, Susie Green
You Can Do A Lot Of Things At The Seaside
Mack Culley Grammavox E-73
B 292 4127
4128
I've Had My Fortune Told
I Never Heard Father Laugh So Much Before
Jack Charman (with orch accmp) Grammavox E-74
B 293 196 Red Pepper Rag St. James' Meister Orchestra (= Grammavox Military Band) Grammavox A-114
B 294 197
198
Everybody's Doing It Now
The Gaby Glide
St. James' Meister Orchestra (= Grammavox Military Band) Grammavox A-115
B 295        
B 296 196
199
Red Pepper - two-step
Mr Thomas Cat - two-step
St. James' Meister Orchestra Grammavox A-114
Grammavox A-116
B 297        
B 298        
B 299        
B 300        
B 301        
B 302        
B 303        
B 304        
B 305        
B 306        
B 307        
B 308        
B 309        
B 310 167 Old Comrades, march The Crown Escort Band Grammavox A-98
B 310        
B 312        
B 313        
B 314 192
193
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
The Merry Wives Of Windsor, overture (Nicolai)
The Crown Escort Band Grammavox A-112
B 315        
B 316        
B 317        
B 318        
B 319        
B 320 152
216
The Whistler And His Dog
The Jolly Coppersmith
J. Pierson (whistler) (with HCB)
Hibernian Concert Band (= Imperial Guards Band)
Grammavox A-121
         
B-448 4193
4194
Take Me To That Swanee Shore
All The Girls Are Lovely By The Seaside
Mr. Jack Hilton (= Jack Charman) Grammavox E-105
B-449        
B-450 4197
4211
I Do Love You My Orange Girl
It's A Long Way To Tipperary
Sam Ford (= Harry Cove)
Ted Lorimer (= Harry Cove)
Grammavox E-107
B-451 4198
4209
Orchestra Rag
Whoops, Let's Do It Again
Sam Ford (= Harry Cove)
Ted Lorimer (= Harry Cove)
Grammavox E-108
B-452        
B-453        
B-454        
B-455        
B-456        
B-457 4208
4210
That Rag-Time Suffragette
You Made Me Love You
Harry Glandford (= Harry Cove)
Jack Hilton and Ted Lorimer (= Jack Charman & Harry Cove)
Grammavox E-114
Grammavox E-114
B-458        
B-459        
B-460        

 

Cat No Matrix Title Artists Source
C 1        
C 2        
C 3        
C 4        
C 5        
C 6        
C 7        
C 8        
C 9        
C 10 6009 Silver Heels John Pidoux (banjo) Grammavox C-10

 

Cat No Matrix Title Artists as Labelled Source
D-190        
D-191        
D-192        
D-193        
D-194        
D-195        
D-196        
D-197        
D-198        
D-199 2306
2311
Private Tommy Atkins
Your King And Country Needs You
Howard Beresford (baritone, with orch) Grammavox D-199