Sold Date: April 16, 2016
Start Date: March 19, 2016
Final Price: $26.25 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 72
Buyer Feedback: 29

HEAR then entire Moonlight serenade in unfiltered HD, CD quality streaming audio. 
From a recent purchase of archived records from the old KWK AM record catalogue of 78's. Very cool swing jazz from 1939, a great player and the rare original pressing of the first big seller for Glenn Miller and also featuring an original composition…  Some very mild fine paper scuff from storage and a single hairline on the "sunrise" side, and a very tiny chip at the outside of the disc on the "sunrise" side (pictured), but the grooves don't show greying, rather nice condition around VG by goldmine standards, E- by 78 standards, with much of its' original fidelity in tact, much of the original gloss still there, and it was kept with the collection in sealed cabinet in heavy green card stock covers. The labels are clean and glossy too. 
 At the bottom of the page you'll find a link to an audio files or both sides in HD, unfiltered, from the disc, using the proper stylus after a careful cleaning.  I mastered at full frequency as you rarely ever hear the high end information in these pressings on the reissues, when in reality they were there, but when remastering they would rather sacrifice tone and parts of the signal to ensure it's entirely devoid of surface noise, so they roll off the high frequencies way down to the midrange. If you compare the spectrum of this recording to the typical RCA released reissue, you will see that this recording actually has frequencies way up in the 12K treble range and the RCA reissue rolls off around 4K. I've heard that they don't have any first generation masters left from this era and that they often used them up when a single sold as much as this one did, in 1939. Granted the frequencies heard are primarily from the muted trumpets… but they do make for a nicer rounder more modern sound, and you can hear them to a lesser degree in the clarinet solo and woodwinds… plus the freshness of the signal being first generation means a lot when you're dealing with analog transfers way back then! 
It's sad that the masters are long gone or in most cases not even usable, so now these recordings are the best examples of these famous recordings, sounding better than the reissues, surface noise and all. In this instance, I have had a great many reissues of these songs and can tell you that this version sounds heads and shoulders above the reissues, with high end information never heard unless you have an original like this. 
It's my pleasure to bring you this supreme early swing collectible! Thanks for looking and happy listening! You can hear side A in  CD quality, streaming audio from the link below.  Happy listening!