Sold Date: September 28, 2015
Start Date: September 14, 2015
Final Price: $69.85 (USD)
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The Franklin Mint "The Greatest Recordings of the Big Band Era" Archive Collection Volumes 1-42 on 42 LPs. 

This beautiful deluxe boxed set of archive recordings includes works by big band and jazz greats including Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Kaye, Cab Calloway, Buddy Rich, Guy Lombardo, Gene Krupa, and dozens more. 

Each LP is pressed in dark red vinyl and is in its original sleeve; each double volume set is contained within its own decorative archive protective box accompanied by extensive liner notes and photographs.

All LPs are in excellent condition. Liner notes and photographs are in excellent condition as well. Album sleeves vary in condition from excellent to acceptable – some of them are wrinkled. Please see photographs for more detail on condition.

Also included is a Cross Reference Index for volumes 1-24. 

Contents of each volume are as follows:

1/2 - GLENN MILLER, WILL BRADLEY, ORRIN TUCKER, DON REDMAN

3/4 - HARRY JAMES, HORACE HEIDT, JACK JENNEY, CLAUDE HOPKINS

5/6 - VAUGHN MONROE, BOYD RAEBURN, LARRY CLINTON, GUS ARNHEIM

7/8 - DUKE ELLINGTON, FRANKIE CARLE, BOB CHESTER

9/10 - TOMMY DORSEY * THE MANY SIDES

11/12 - BENNY GOODMAN, SHEP FIELDS, TED WEEMS

13/14 - JIMMY DORSEY* ERSKINE HAWKINS, TED LEWIS, LES ELGART

15/16 - GUY LOMBARDO, OZZIE NELSON, CAB CALLOWAY

17/18 - COUNT BASIE, CHARLIE SPIVALK, XAVIER CUGAT

19/20 - CHARLIE BARNET, HAL KEMP

21/22 - GENE KRUPA, WAYNE KING, RED NHICHOLS, WILL OSBORNE

23/24 - LOUIS ARMSTRONG, DICK JURGENS, ELLIOT LAWRENCE

25/26 - LES BROWN, LOEO REISMAN, JAY MCSHANN, BUDDY ROGERS

27/28 - ARTIE SHAW, DIZZY GILLESPIE, ROGER W KAHN, ART MOONEY, SI ZENTNER

29/30 - BUNNY BERIGAN, JAN GARBER, CALIFORNIA RAMBLERS, LES HITE

31/32 - WOODY HERMAN, ANDY KIRK, JOHNNY LONG, TOMMY TUCKER

33/34 - BOB CROSBY, BUDDY RICH, NOBLE SISSLE, FRED WARING

35/36 - SAMMY KAYE, HAL MCINTYRE, HENRY KING, FRANKIE MASTERS, MUGGSY SPANIER

37/38 - STAN KENTON, RAYMOND SCOTT, BILLY BUTTERFIELD, ART JARRETT, JERRY WALD

39/40 - LAWRENCE WELK, BUDDY MORROW, DEAN HUDSON, CHUCK FOSTER, CARL HOFF

41/42 - CLAUDE THORNHILL, TONY PASTOR, MITCHELL AYERS

This collection is from a smoke free home.

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