 In 1916 he sang an aria from "Der Freischütz" under Beecham for the Royal Philharmonic, and he sang in the July 1922 Centenary celebration concerts for the Royal Academy of Music – again in the Queen's Hall.The earliest recordings by Davies are Pathé brown wax cylinders from the mid-1890s .Davies had an early start among British singers in making gramophone records, beginning in 1901.