Sold Date: April 17, 2021
Start Date: April 10, 2021
Final Price: $20.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 1
Seller Feedback: 615
Buyer Feedback: 124

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Here's FLETCHER HENDERSON AND HIS CONNIE'S INN ORCHESTRA in full cry on these two 1931 sides, re-issued from Crown:  

"TIGER RAG" and "YOU RASCAL YOU."  

The band features the usual blisteringly hot soloists: BOBBY STARK (trumpet), REX STEWART (cornet), J.C. HIGGINBOTHAM (trombone), COLEMAN HAWKINS (tenor sax), JOHN KIRBY (tuba), and those pace-setting Fletcher Henderson arrangements.  

This original 1939 Varsity 6016, a cross-coupled reissue of 1931 Crown records 3180 and 3107, is in E- condition. It's excellently dubbed (from the metal parts, I am told), with surprisingly little sonic loss.  It's been knocked around a bit, with some scuffs and a barely-audible two-inch hair crack (stabilized at the rim), and some of the gold leaf flaked off the label.  BUT hardly any needle wear - it plays great!   

*****

These records come from my private collection, which I have been accumulating since 1967, and now am downsizing!  My highest priority in these eBay auctions is to give you the best possible idea of a record’s true condition and aesthetic value.  I always post at least four clear images, showing the record fore and aft, a close-up of the label, and the whole disc, warts and all.  If my purple prose won’t cut it, the pictures will!  Shipping is done with expert care. Your record will brave Media Mail in a stout corregated box, between four sheets of cardboard and a couple of “packers.”  I hope you are amused by these descriptions, and by the quality of service being offered.