while looking into the Merrick. Now this database (also) looks very interesting (I like the ones I listed in a thread in the other subfora - though not primarily musicals*...er... discography sites) - too
CHARM (http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/discography) (Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music) supported by AHRC.
*sorry, side-reference to a joke from a Tom Lehrer revue.