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A short-lived label available in the early 1930s, Simcha drew its masters from Piccadilly, including some American Grey Gull items. Simcha is a Hebrew word meaning Joy or Gladness and is pronounced "Simka" (i.e. with the -ch- pronounced as a -k-.). The records were presumably made for a shop or store, but I don't know which one. The catalogue numbers are in a 10000-series and about 60 were issued. It seems the first few were dance band ones and the rest were light music and operatic vocal, at least based on the information I have so far. There was also a Hebrew series with A-100- catalogue numbers.  The records generally show a false matrix number.

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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.
Thanks to the following for their help:
Bill Dean-Myatt, Richard Bloomfield, George Foxon, Graham Meachen, Mike Jones, (the late) Arthur Badrock.

Cat No

Matrix Title Labelled Artists Actual Artists
10000 4338-2 (104338)
4352-2 (104352)
When The Guards Are On Parade
I'm Happy When I'm Hiking (6/8)
Steve Haddon's Bohemians
Jerome Joy and his Band
Percy Chandler & his Band
Jack Leon and his Band
10001 4363-2
4365
Bell Bottom Trousers
Walking My Baby Back Home
Jerome Joy and his Band Jack Leon and his Band
10002 4360-1-2
4386-2
My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes
Thank You Most Sincerely
Cosmopolitan Syncopators The Waldorfians, directed by Howard Godfrey
10003 4230-1-2
4246-1-2
Ten Cents A Dance
Drink, Brothers, Drink (taltz)
Jerry Hoey and his Band n/a
10004 4266-1
4319-2
Walking Lover's Lane Alone (waltz)
Were You Sincere?
Al Clarkson and his Band
Jack Hay and his Scala Dance Band
Jerry Hoey and his Band
Vic Filmer and his Murray's Dance Band
10005        
10006 4201-2 Reaching For The Moon (waltz) Jerry Hoey and his Band n/a
10007 4267-1
4304-1
Alone And Afraid
Laughing At The Rain
Jerry Hoey and his Band n/a
10008
(AB)
4133-2 (5149)
 (5148)
Sweet Jennie Lee
Old New England Moon (waltz)
Tivoli Dance Orchestra Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10008 4133-2
4147-2
Sweet Jennie Lee
Down The River Of Golden Dreams (waltz)
  Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10009 4184-2 (5151)
4194    (5150)
Choo Choo
Okay Baby
Percy Grant and his Band
Times Square Syncopators
The Blue River Band
Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10010 4144-2
4148-2
Beyond The Blue Horizon
I'm Yours
Jerome Joy and his Boys Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10011 4109
4147
Bye Bye Blues
Down The River Of Golden Dreams (waltz)
Bohemian Dance Band Grey Gull Studio Band (U.S.)
Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10012 4034-1
4072-1
Don't Tell Her What's Happened To Me
With My Guitar And You
  Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10013 4073 (5136)
4077 (5137)
I'd Like To Find The Guy Who Wrote The Stein Song
My Baby Just Cares For Me
Metropole Dance Orchestra Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10014 3956-1 (5132)
3959-1 (5133)
Cupid On The Cake
Soldier On The Shelf
Montmatre Mad-Hatters Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10015 3957-2
4076-2
Let's Have A Sing-Song (6/8)
Oh! Donna Clara
Montmatre Mad-Hatters Jock McDermott and his New Carlton Players
10016        
10017 3830
3833 (5109)
The Love Waltz
My Lonely Heart (waltz)
Fifth Avenue Dance Band Julius Kantrovich & his Band
10018 M-29 / 1029
1870
Ave Maria (Gounod)
Jewel Song ("Faust" - Gounod)
Samehtino And trio
Suzanne Bertin (soprano)
 
10019 M-91-2 (1091)
M-92   (1092)
Valse Caprice
Rosenkavalier waltz
The Casano Octet Alfred Saunders' Octet
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
10020 1203
1406
Serenade (Schubert)
Raymond, overture (Thomas)
Hotel Majestic Orchestra
Newport Brass Band
 
10021   Liebestraume Nocture
Ich Liebe Dich (Grieg)
Orchestre de Paris
Hotel Majestic Orchestra
 
10022 1441
1442
String Quartet in F Major (1st mvt) (Mozart)
String Quartet in F Major (3rd mvt) (Mozart)
The Terrell String Quartet  
10023 1497
1499
Wiegenlied (Zika)
Humoreske (Dvorak)
The Lido String Quartette  
10024        
10025 3219 Manon, selection parts 1 & 2 Queen's Orchestra  
10026 1454
1540
Serenade ("Don Juan" - Tchaikowsky)
O Star Of Eve ("Tannhauser" - Wagner)
Kernoff (baritone, with orch)
Frederick Ranalow (baritone, w orch)
 
10027 1542
(5103)
Hungarian Dance (Brahms)
First Waltz (Durand)
Lewis Rubenstein (violin with piano)
Serge Kalnoff (piano solo)
 
10028 1796
1988
Largo Al Factotum (Rossini)
O Sole Mio (di Capua)
Joseph Farrington, baritone)
Nicolas Amato (baritone)
 
10029 1496
1942
Waltz in A, op54 No 1 (Dvorak)
Andante Cantabile (Tchaikowsky)
The Zika String Quartet
The Shatton String Quartet
 
10030        
10031 1389
3666
Blue Danube, valse (Strauss)
Overture Trieste (Pietro)
Gellin & Bagstrom (accordeons)
Macari Brothers (accordions)
 
10032        
10033        
10034 1813
2033
La Donna E Mobile (from "Rigoletto" - Verdi)
E Lucevan Le Stelle (from "Tosca" - Puccini)
Laro Zarido (tenor) (with orchestra)  
10035        
10036 1885
1886
Nightbirds, selection parts 1 & 2 (Die Fledermaus, Strauss) New Symphony Orchestra  
10037 2076
3731
Meditation ("Thais" - Massenet)
Prelude (Rachmaninoff)
Lewis Rubenstein (violin, w piano)
Serge Kalnoff (piano)
Arschensky
Winifred Rowley
10038        
10039 1809
1810
La Favorita: Una Vergine
Mignon: Addio Mignon
Laro Zarido, tenor Giuseppe Lenghi-Cellini
10040        
10041 1804-2
4098-2
Annie Laurie (trad, arr. St Denis)
Walther's Prize Song (from "The Meistersingers")
Dorothy Gill (contralto, with orch)
David Leslie (tenor, with orch)
Sheila Gray
John Cootes
10042        
10043 3828
3989
Over The Waves (Rosas)
Stradella - overture (Flotow)
Scala Grand Orchestra
New Symphony Orchestra
 
10044 3868
3869
Ruy Blas, overture parts 1 & 2 (Mendelssohn) The Welsh Symphony Orchestra  
10045 3589
3664
La Paloma (Yradier)
Lorentina Waltz (arr. A Macari)
American Hawaiian Guitar Band
The Accordionists

The Macari Brothers
10046        
10047 3583
3871
Two Hearts Bohemian Dance Band Grey Gull Studio Band
10048 1482
1819
Finlandia, parts 1 & 2 Athenaeum Orchestra (cond: Fred Adlington)  
10049 1812-2
1814-1
 
Questa O Quella (from "Rigoletto" - Verdi)
Here's To The Sparkling Cup ("Cavalleria Rusticana" - Mascagni)
Enrico Benini (tenor, with orch)
Laro Zarido (tenor, with orch)
 
Giuseppe Lenghi-Cellini (tenor)
(some issues have the artist labelled correctly)
10050        
10051 3761
4004
Rustle Of Spring (Sinding)
Rondo Capriccioso (Mendelssohn)
Serge Kalnoff (piano) Winifred Rowley
10052        
10053 1745-1
1761
Amoretten Tanze (waltz) (Gungl)
Pizzicato ("Sylvia" - Delibes)
Salon Orchestra
New Symphony Orchestra
Jack Leon and his Band
 
10054 3411
3412
Old Time Jigs And Reels
Turkey In The Straw
Bertini Three Wabash Trio
Joseph Samuels (violin). Larry Briers (piano)
10055 1582
1621
Old Comrades March
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor (Brahms)
Newport Brass Band  
10056 M-1612
2003-2
Song Of The Toreador (from "Carmen" - Bizet)
I'm A Roamer (from "Son & Stranger" - Mendelssohn)
John Phillips (baritone, with orch)
Ronald Mentmore (bass, with orch)
 
10057  3955 / 3680
3956 / 3679
O Dem Golden Slippers
Climbing Up Those Golden Stairs
Leslie Gray (with banjo)  
10058 2038-2
2039-1
Good Old Songs, selection parts 1 & 2 The Ever-Bright Boys (?) Percival Mackey and his Band
10059 4344-2
4345
Patiently Smiling (Lehar)
You Are My Heart's Delight (Lehar)
John Cootes (tenor, with orch accmp)  
10060        

Just to make things even more complicated, there was a Hebrew series with an A-100- catalogue; see Below. GIven the meaning of the label's name, this may actually be the "proper" series and the 10000-series the odd one. The label design is the same as the 10000 series.
Information from www.russian-records.com. Go and visit the site.

Cat No

Matrix Title Labelled Artists Actual Artists
A-100 3944
3946
Mozel Tov (Pront-Brown)
Moderne Zures
Simkhe Fostel  
A-101        
A-102        
A-103        
A-104 4013-2
4014-2
Mach Es Noch Amohl
Dus Shtrikele
Simkhe Fostel  
A-105        
A-106 4476-2
4477-2
Ziese Mommenten
Schwartze Oigen
Julius Nathanson (acc. by Jack Leon's Orchestra)  
A-107        
A-108        
A-109        
A-110