Vinyl records

James Blades vinyl records

1 album with 16 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

English classical percussionist, Professor of Percussion, and author. Born 9 September 1901 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - Died 19 May 1999 in Cheam, Surrey, England, UK. His most famous and widely heard performances were the sound of the drum playing "V-for-Victory" in Morse code, the introduction to the BBC broadcasts made to the European Resistance during World War II. He also provided the sound, but not the image, of the Rank Organization's 'Gongman', who introduced films for many years. He spent most of the 1920s working at a movie theater, creating sound effects for silent movies - gunshots, thunderstorms - and playing in dance bands around Britain.