Sold Date: March 20, 2016
Start Date: March 15, 2016
Final Price: $19.15 (USD)
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Says Wikipedia: “The Comedian Harmonists were an internationally famous, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II.”   Because of increasing Nazi oppression – several of the group’s members were Jewish – they left Germany in 1934 and gave concert in the United States.  This Victor probably contains material that was recorded when they were yet in Germany but issued here in 1935 in response to their visit.  Not sure when these were recorded, possibly early 1930s for “Creole Love Call” and 1933 for “Night and Day.”  Some wear, light scratches.  Condition V+

NOTE:  I grade records by a rating system that has been standard in the industry for decades.  Still, it can be a subjective undertaking.  I am more likely to grade by how the record reproduces aurally (I use a 78 Shure cartridge with a 1950s Voice of Music turntable that has been fit into a 1946 Magnavox Belvedere radio-phonograph) than by how it looks visually.  Sometimes a record that appears substantially worn plays very well and sometimes the opposite is true.