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A very colourful and scarce pre-WWI record, ILCO discs were pressed in Germany for I. Lange & Co. of Berlin using Bel-Canto masters and catalogued in a 5000 series. Lange went into liquidation in April 1912, so this wa a very short-lived label, probably available for just a few months in early 1912.

Although the label looks to be JLCO, the first letter is in fact an "I" with a "tag " at the bottom, a practice common in Germany at the time, hence ILCO. (I Lange Co.)

Thanks to Bill Dean-Myatt for providing the label photo.

Please e-mail me if you can help me fill in the gaps in any of these series.

My thanks to Frank Andrews in providing most of the information for this page.
Thanks also to:
Zachary Cooper,
Norman Field, Rohan, Richard Prout

Page last updated on: October 24, 2022

Cat No Matrix Title Labelled Artists Notes
5000 1034
1088
Per Appear Ad Astra, march
Rifle March
Military Band  
         
5055 5214
5216
Let's All Go Down The Strand
Love Is A Seidlitz Powder
Harry Bluff (comic)  
         
5080 5204
5211
Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay
Living Animals (Hugh E Wright)
Harry Bluff (comic)  
         
5097 1164
1165
Rocket Gallop (Kark)
The Graceful (Cobien)
Xylophone solo (with orch.)
Chimes solo (with orch)
German language issue
         
5118 5198
5203
All I Said Was Ha! Ha! Ha!
Billy Whitlock's Wedding
Billy Whitlock (comic)  
5119        
5120        
5121        
5122        
5123        
5124        
5125 5136
5138
Every Girl Loves A Military Man
Pansies Mean Thoughts, And Thoughts Mean You
Harry Trevor Mis-reported? - see 5215 which I have seen.
5126        
5127        
5128        
5129 1462
1525/8153
In The Gulf Of Naples, waltz
Echo Polka (Hartmann)
Grand Metropole Band  
         
5150 5114 I Used To Sigh For The Silvery Moon (Darewski) tenor, with piano
         
5162 5116
5119
For Ever And For Ever
If You'll Remember Me
Jules Maltern (tenor, with piano accmp)  
5163        
5164        
5165        
5166        
5167        
5168        
5169 5056
5060
The Dear Little Shamrock
Kathleen Mavoureen
Adi Phillips (contralto, w/piano)  
5170        
5171        
5172 5172
5174
The Corporal's Ditty
My Old Shako
Albert Chapman (baritone)  
         
5180 5077 The Swanee Shore (plantation song) (Geibel) Quartett  
         
5192 5094
5104
I'll Sing Thee Songs Of Araby (Clay)
Bedelia (J. Schwartz)
W.G. Callinan (tenor, w/orch.)  
5193        
5194        
5195        
5196        
5197        
5198 5080
5086
I Love You, Indeed I Do, My Babe (P.B. Armstrong)
The Choir Boy (P.B. Armstrong)
Florence Bruce (mezzo-soprano)  
         
5210 5126
5129
As The Years Roll By
Jolly Good Luck To The Girl Who Loves A Soldier
Harry Trevor (baritone) (= Robert Carr)  
         
5215 5136
5138
Every Girl Loves A Military Man
Pansies Mean Thoughts, And Thoughts Mean You
Harry Trevor (baritone)  
5216        
5217        
5218        
5219 5143
5145
The South Pole or The Boundary Boiunder
The Wedding O' Lauchie McGraw
Dougal McNab (comedian)  
         
6325 5201 Come Under My New Gamp (Whitlock) Billy Whitlock (comedian) ["For the Record" No. 4)