MOONDOG'S SYMPHONY PART 1,2 RARE JAZZ 78
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Moondog's Symphony on SMC Pro-Arte1 & 2. This is a 3 Day Auction so do not get caught sleeping. Very rare 78 that rarely comes up fpr sale. Here is your chance to own this piece of history. Plays well, has good gloss but does have some scratches. Plays with some background noise, without any skips. I am listening to it right now and it sounds great. The photos were taken with a very good camera and the item photographed is the item for sale.
Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. Moving to New York as a young man, Moondog made a deliberate decision to make his home on the streets there, where he spent approximately twenty of the thirty years he lived in the city. Most days he could be found in his chosen part of town wearing clothes he had created based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Odin. Thanks to his unconventional outfits and lifestyle, he was known for much of his life as "The Viking of 6th Avenue".
In 1954, he won a case in the New York State Supreme Court against disc jockey Alan Freed, who had branded his radio show, "The Moondog Rock and Roll Matinee", around the name "Moondog", using "Moondog's Symphony" (the first record that Moondog ever cut) as his "calling card". Moondog believed he would not have won the case had it not been for the help of musicians such as Benny Goodman and Arturo Toscanini, who testified that he was a serious composer. Freed had to apologize and stop using the nickname "Moondog" on air, on the basis that Hardin was known by the name long before Freed began using it.
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