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Charles "Wag" Abbey (né Charles Frederick Abbey; 24 November 1887 Bethnal Green, London – 14 September 1962 Surrey, England) was a British drummer, xylophonist, and band leader. On some recordings, as director, he used the pseudonym Victor Stirling, aka Sterling.

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His Band (aka Windsor Orchestra)

From Discogs

Charles "Wag" Abbey was a drummer and xylophonist in the earlier years of dance bands. He was present on hundreds of records and directed the "house" band for English Pathe in the early 1920s.

Performed with:

• Was with the Peerless Orchestra in 1911.
• The Mayfair Dance Orchestra, directed by George W. Byng (drums) (1919)
• He was a founder member of Jack Hylton's "Queen's Dance Orchestra" in 1921–1922, and
• was much in demand in the 1920s by the organizers of many of the "house" dance bands such as
• Stan Greening (1888–1971) (drums) (1925),
• Harry Bidgood's Orchestra (drums) (1926),
• Harry Bidgood and the Midnight Merrymakers (drums) (1927),
• The Plaza Band, directed by Harry Hudson (drums) (1927),
• Ronnie Munro, and
• Nat Star (1887–1950) (drums) (1928).

Selected compositions

• "The Jazz Fountain" (1933), xylophone solo with piano accompaniment. London: Premier Drum Co. (publisher). OCLC 498353181 (all editions).
• "Snatches" xylophone solo
• "The Skeleton Dance" (xylophone solo), Charles Abbey (music), A. Hibbert (arrangement); full military band parts; pf.–conductor; ©27 June 1930; E19736; Lareine & Co., Ltd.
• "The Dripping Well" (xylophone solo), Charles Abbey (music), A. Hibbert (arrangement); full military band parts; pf.–conductor; ©27 June 1930; E19737; Lareine & Co., Ltd.

Selected discography

Released	Label	Cat No.	Title	Artist(s)	Matrix	Audio	Archive info	Notes
1912	Zonophone	(E)905	"Red Pepper, Rag Time" Henry Lodge (fr) ©19 December 1910; E246579	Peerless Orchestra (Abbey; drums, chimes, xylophone)	Ah-15282e X-40660		Discogs Release 5369774	Recorded July 2, 1912, in London
1925	Aco	G-15526 F-201	"Xylophone Rag" Wag Abbey (music)	Wag Abbey (with orchestra)	C6498		Discogs Release 15486903 78rpm.club "Aco 15000 Series" Musikdatenbank. "Aco Label"
1924	Zonophone	1913	"Mad Jazz Razz" Ivor Weir ©13 December 1918; E435516	Manhattan Jazz Band	Y-21492-e X-2-40306	Audio via YouTube	Discogs Artist 10919650	Recorded March 4, 1919, in Hayes, Middlesex
	His Master's Voice	HMV B-1236	"Turque" Paul Wyer & Pierre de Caillaux	Queen's Dance Orchestra				Recorded May 28, 1921, at Hayes, Middlesex, at the studios of His Master's Voice
	His Master's Voice	HMV B-1236	"I'm Wondering if It's Love" (waltz)	Queen's Dance Orchestra				Recorded May 28, 1921, at Hayes, Middlesex, at the studios of His Master's Voice
	His Master's Voice	HMV B-1237	"The Wind in the Trees"	Queen's Dance Orchestra				Recorded May 28, 1921, at Hayes, Middlesex, at the studios of His Master's Voice
	His Master's Voice	HMV B-1237	"Idol of Mine" Lew Pollack	Queen's Dance Orchestra				Recorded May 28, 1921, at Hayes, Middlesex, at the studios of His Master's Voice
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10765 18359	"The Golden West" (waltz)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director	94678
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10765	"Secrets"	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10767	"Go'long Mule" (fox-trot) Henry Creamer & Robert King (words & music) ©7 June 1924; E591016	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director Vernon Dalhart, tenor vocalist	105511
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10767	"The Animals Came in Two by Two" (fox-trot)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10764	"Love Is Just a Gamble" (fox-trot)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10764	"Sahara" (fox-trot)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director	94676
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10772	"Dream Maker of Japan" (fox-trot)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10772	"Just Like a Beautiful Story" (fox-trot)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director	94704
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10766	"When The Music Dies Away" (fox-trot)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director
March 1925	Pathé Actuelle	10766	"Hum a Little Tune" (fox-trot)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director
1926	Disque Pathé	1924	"Barcelona" (Spanish one-step) Tolchard Evans (music)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director	94998	Audio via YouTube	Discogs Release 17823403	"Manufactured in England" (printed on the label)
1926	Disque Pathé	1924	"Barcelona" (Spanish one-step) Tolchard Evans (music)	Star Syncopators Wag Abbey, director	94998	Audio. via Internet Archive.		"Made in Belgium" (etched in the runout)
1926	Pathé Actuelle	1924	"Barcelona" (Spanish one-step) Tolchard Evans (music)	Star Syncopaters Wag Abbey, director	94998
1926	Pathé Actuelle	9221 Pathe Act 11157	"I Never See Maggie Alone"	Victor Stirling and His Band (aka Windsor Orchestra)	95070
1926	Pathé Actuelle	9221 Pathe Act 11195	"I'm Flirting With You, Yoo! Hoo!" Cliff Friend (words), Harold Leonard (music) ©3 April 1926; E636674	Victor Stirling and His Band	N95102	Audio via YouTube
1928	Edison Bell Radio	821	"Snatches"	Wag Abbey (xylophone & orchestra)	88041		Discogs Master 1431598 Discogs Release 12580124
1928	Edison Bell Radio	821	"Jazz Fountain"	Wag Abbey (xylophone & orchestra)	88042	Audio via YouTube	Discogs Master 1431598 Discogs Release 12580124

Bibliography

References

• Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review (October 1929). Johnson, Axel B. (ed.). "Foreign Records" → "Tesoro Mio and Colonel Bogey, Xylophone Solos by Victor Sterling" (re: "Victor Sterling"). 4 (1). Jamaica Plain, Boston: The Phonograph Publishing Co., Inc. (publisher): 34 – via Internet Archive . {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) LCCN unk84135656; OCLC 11380159 (all editions), OCLC 1762297 (all editions), 499264168.

• 78 RPM Collection (playlist of popular songs from the 1920s & 1930s, in the public domain → as of October 19, 2022, 10649 audio had been uploaded) – via Internet Archive.

• Gramophone, Wireless and Talking Machine News (October 1924). "'Xylophone Rag,' Abbey" (New Series). Vol. 16, no. 408B. p. 380 (col. 3, 2nd from top) – via British Newspaper Archive. LCCN 77-641085; LCCN 77-641086; OCLC 4690897 (all editions); 1274319022.

Robert Donaldson Darrell (1903–1988), Assistant Editor

• British Music Yearbook → citing → Memory Lane (magazine) (Wag Abbey; born 1887 – died 24 November 1962). – via www.r2ok.co.uk/yearb.htm. LCCN sn87-11956; ISSN 0266-8033 (print), ISSN 2516-3833 (online).

1. Memory Lane (magazine) (September 14, 1962). (re: Wag Abby: Born 1887 – died 1962). Vol. 40.
2. Memory Lane Indexes.
1. Wright, John A.B., ed. (December 1985). Vol. 1 (Issues 1–65). (PDF) (name index).
1. "Abbey, Wag". Vol. 10 (40): 28. Autumn 1978.
2. Wright, John A.B., ed. (June 1993). Vol. 2 (Issues 66–95). (PDF) (name index).
2. "Abbey, Wag". Vol. 19 (75): 21. Summer 1987.
3. "Abbey, Wag". Vol. 20 (79): 26. Summer 1988.
3. Wright, John A.B., ed. (December 2001). Vol. 3 (Issues 96–130). (PDF) (name index).
4. (updated October 15, 2022). Vol. 4 (Issues 131–213). (subject index).
3. "Abbey, Wag". Vol. 53 (210). Spring 2021.




• Nott, James J. (2002). Music for the People – Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain. Oxford University Press – via Internet Archive (Arcadia Fund). LCCN 2002-538873; ISBN 0-1992-5407-9; OCLC 50101450 (all editions).




• "UK Naturalisation Certificate" → "Naftaly Hirsch Starysoller or Grün, Known as Charles Nat Star." Certificate of Naturalization (index card) (Archival Reference: HO 334/131/2585 – Certificate Nos. AZ 2501 – AZ 3000. Home Office Reference: 266697. Certificate AZ2585 issued February 14, 1933.). submitted March 16, 2016, to Ancestry.com by roystar20 → attached to "Nat (Charles) Star (Starsolla)" (family tree) – via Ancestry.com & The National Archives, Kew. C11739151.




• Thomas, Michael (compiler) (born 1958). "Stan Greening." Dance Band Encyclopaedia (blog of Michael Thomas of Harborne). Retrieved October 17, 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  Thomas attributes his compilation to notes written by Charles Hippisley-Cox, and assisted by Steven Walker. Thomas also thanks (i) Bridget Palmer of the Royal Academy of Music for tracking down information on Greening's scholarship, (ii) Stephen Paget for providing original photographs & documents, and John Wright and Roy Star for providing information about Nat Star.</ref>







• The Premier Book of Drums (PDF) (re: Wag Abbey → endorsement of the Premier Pedal Tympani). London: Premier Drum Co., Ltd. n.d. p. 38 (pdf p. 23). – via www.drumarchive.com.

Discography

LCCN 74-488

ISBN 0-8700-0272-4

• Barr, Steven C. (1992) [1979, 1st ed.; 1980, 2nd ed.]. The Almost Complete 78 RPM Record Dating Guide; II. Huntington Beach: Yesterday Once Again – via Internet Archive (ARChive of Contemporary Music) . LCCN 2001-537709; OCLC 28504525 (all editions).

• "The Gramophone". Vol. 4. 1926. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

1. M.W.W. (December 1926). "Dance Notes" (Victor Stirling's rendition of "I Never See Maggie Alone"). Vol. 4 (7). p. 309 – via Internet Archive .
2. M.W.W. (December 1926). "Dance Notes" (Victor Stirling's rendition of "I Never See Maggie Alone"). Vol. 4 (7). p. 309 – via Google Books (limited preview).

• Hillandale News (The) (August 1972). "Letters to the Editor". Official Journal of The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society. No. 56. p. 132 – via Internet Archive.

... and some more information on World Record personnel in a note from Steve Walker of Chesterfield ...
"Re the other 'named' dance band on WORLD – Wag Abbey’s Dance Orchestra was led by Charles Frederick 'Wag' Abbey on drums, and, I suppose may conceivably contain members of Jack Hylton's Queen's Roof Orchestra, viz: Bert Neath (trumpet), Bernard Tipping (trombone), A1 Jenkins (clarinet & alto), Dick de Pau (violin), Claude Ivy (piano), Bert Bassett (banjo). Wag Abbey (drums). Abbey was, like Vorzanger, a Vocalion artist and recorded for that company's Scala label".

• Introductory Record. Part 1: "Aco Records, November 1922 – August 1927" → Beginning with "G15000". p. 39 – via fliphtml5.com.

• 1923 Catalogue of "His Master's Voice" Records – via Internet Archive .

• Rust, Brian Arthur Lovell (1922–2011); Walker, Edward S. (1973). British Dance Bands, 1912 to 1939. London: Storyville Publications.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) LCCN 2015-561631; OCLC 755172085 (all editions).

• Rust, Brian Arthur Lovell (1922–2011) (1987). British Dance Bands on Record, 1911 to 1945. Harrow, London: General Gramaphone Publications.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ISBN 978-0-9024-7015-6, 0-9024-7015-9; OCLC 17951884 (all editions).

• Rust, Brian Arthur Lovell (1922–2011) (1989). Supplement to British Dance Bands on Record, 1911 to 1945. Harrow, London: General Gramaphone Publications.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ISBN 978-0-9024-7023-1, 0-9024-7023-X; OCLC 38611071 (all editions).

• Rust, Brian Arthur Lovell (1922–2011) (1989) [1986]. British Dance Bands on Record, 1911 to 1945, and Supplement. Harrow, London: General Gramaphone Publications (reprint of the original 1986 ed., plus a 72 page supplement).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ISBN 978-0-9024-7022-4, 0-9024-7022-1; OCLC 20652621 (all editions).

• Rust, Brian Arthur Lovell (1922–2011) (2001). Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897–1942.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) LCCN 2002-108671; OCLC 51034976 (all editions).

1. Both Vols. Combined (2 vols. combined into 1 and place in the public domain) (6th ed.). Mainspring Press – via Internet Archive .
2. Vol. 1 "A–K" – via Google Books (University of Michigan Library) .
3. Vol. 2 "L–Z / Index" – via Google Books (University of Michigan Library) .

• Rust, Brian Arthur Lovell (1922–2011) (1978). Jazz Records, 1897–1942.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) LCCN 78-1693 ISBN 978-0-8700-0404-9; ISBN 0-8700-0404-2; OCLC 3649797 (all editions).

1. "Peerless Orchestra" → "Red Pepper Rag Time". Vols. 1 & 2 (combined) (6th ed.). Mainspring Press. 2001. p. 1324 – via Internet Archive .
2. Title Page. Vol. 1 (4th and enlarged ed.). Arlington House Publishers – via Internet Archive (ARChive of Contemporary Music).
3. "Peerless Orchestra" → "Red Pepper Rag Time". Vol. 2 (4th and enlarged ed.). Arlington House Publishers. p. 1217 – via Internet Archive (ARChive of Contemporary Music).
4. Title Page. Vol. 2 (4th and enlarged ed.). Arlington House Publishers – via Internet Archive (Kahle/Austin Foundation).

• Zonophone (September 1924). Complete Catalogue of Zonophone Records. Including Supplement No. 7 – via Internet Archive.

1. "The Manhattan Jazz Band". p. 11.
2. "Mad Jazz Razz". p. 64.

Copyrights

• Catalogue of Copyright Entries. "Part 3: Musical Compositions." "New Series".

1. Vol. 6. January 1911. Nos. 1–4. "Red Pepper." Henry Lodge (music); ©19 December 1910; E246579; M. Witmark & Sons. p. 1419 – via Internet Archive .
2. Vol. 13. Part 2. Second Half of 1918. No. 13 – via Google Books .
3. Vol. 14. Part 1. First Half of 1919. Nos. 1–7 – via Internet Archive .
4. Vol. 14. Part 2. Second Half of 1919. No. 8 – via Internet Archive .
5. Vol. 14. Part 2. Second Half of 1919. Nos. 5–8 – via Google Books .
6. Vol. 14. Part 2. Second Half of 1919. Nos. 8–13 – via Google Books .
7. Vol. 14. Part 2. Second Half of 1919. No. 13 & "Annual Index" – via Google Books .
8. Vol. 15. Part 1. First Half of 1920. Nos. 1–7 – via Google Books .




9. Vol. 17. March 1922. No 3. "Turque." Pierre de Caillaux & J. Paul Wyer (words & music); ©16 September 1921; E527083; Frederick Allandale (1872–1921), London.
10. Vol. 19. May & June 1924. Nos. 5–6. "Go'long Mule." Henry Creamer & Robert King (words & music); ©7 June 1924; E591016; Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. p. 428 – via Google Books .