78 rpm Recordings From India: My Complete List

Here are all the links to my uploads of 78 rpm discs, all in one place. I have many more which haven’t gotten uploaded or digitized yet, so perhaps this will goose me along a bit.

Here you go. Enjoy:

Classical Instrumental Music

Sitar and Surbahar:

Ravi Shankar

Vilayat Khan

Enayat Khan

Sarod:

Ali Akbar Khan

Vichitra Veena

Ustad Abdul Aziz Khan
Ustad Abdul Aziz Khan

Ustad Ahmed Raza

Violin

Gajananrao Joshi

V.G. Jog (with Ahmedjan Thirakwa)

Bansuri:

Kumar Birendra Narayan

Shehnai:

Nazir Hossain

Talim Hossain

Ali Ahmed Hussain

Bismillah Khan

Clarinet

Rajan Sarkar (with Keramatullah Khan) (Rajasthani)

Percussion and Dance

Ustad Amir Hussain Khan and Pt. Madhavrao Alkutkar

Pt. Govindrao Burhanpurkar

Sitara Devi

Classical and Semi-Classical Vocal Music

Master Vasant

Ramakrishnabua Vaze

Pt. Chand Narayan

Vishnupant Pagnis

Pyare Saheb

Mr. Chimanlal

Bai Sundrabai

Miss Indubala

Light Classical and Regional Music

Kakoo Ram (Urdu Geets)

Bashir Quawwal of Poona (Urdu Naat)

Wahidanbai of Agra (Urdu Naat)

The Twin Dramatic Party (Urdu Drama)

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Ismail Azad Quawwal (Quawwali)

Ali Hossain Quawwal (Quawwali)

Abdul Rehman Kanchwala, and Sufi Quawwal of Patiala (Quawwali)

Mahomed Yacub and Fidai Premragi (Quawwali)

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G.N. Joshi (Marathi Bhavgeet)

Miss Gohar of Bijapur (Marathi)

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Mukul (Rajasthani)

M.L. Choudhury & Sunita Devi (Rajasthani)
M.L. Choudhury & Sunita Devi (Rajasthani)

Parvati and Party (Rajasthani)

Dhirasen Of Jodhpur (Marwari)

Sardar Bai (Bangri)

Cassum Ranji (Kutchi)

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Mianbhai and Mahomed (Hindi Song)

Sorabji Katrak of the New Alfred Company (Hindi Theater)

Pandit Shikarpuri (Hindustani Geet)

Mr. Muradaly And Others (Hindustani Comic Song)

Mr. Bhagoo of the New Alfred D. Company (Hindi Theater)

Popular and Vernacular Instrumental Music

Adu Nath (Been Lahara – “snake-charmer’s flute”)

V. Balsara “Harmonium Dance”

K.C. Mookherjee and G.C. Chatterjee (Violin, Piano and Tabla trio — early “fusion”)

The Dacca Orchestral Party (Indian instrumental orchestra — early “fusion”)

Master Ibrahim Clarinet

African Music

Sitti Binti Saad (Swahili Song)

Western Music

The Manhattan Jazz Band (“Jazz”)

The Peerless Orchestra (“Jazz”)