SAUTER-FINEGAN ORCHESTRA old ‘LSP 1497’ US press 1958

$

30

This is 1 of 14,420 Jazz records I have access to. At the moment, every TUESDAY and THURSDAY between 7:30 pm and 9 pm (European Time) I will offer 100 records. Sorry, I do not reserve records. The real postage costs are mentioned below. For more info, feel free and click on the following symbol 

Artist: SAUTER-FINEGAN ORCHESTRA   (Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan)

Title: Straight Down The Middle

Label/Catalogue Number: RCA/Victor (LSP 1497)

Released: 1958 (‘Made In USA’ pressing)

Record Format: 12”

Condition: sleeve and vinyl are still excellent.

Comment/Label Description: very old US pressing, in b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l picture sleeve. This rarity is worth the price just for the wonderful jacket !!!. You are bidding on a really old US pressing in superb cardboard sleeve. This album was released in 1958 and features only winners. I found the following TOP information about Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan at the internet:

Considered two of the best arrangers of the big band era, Sauter and Finegan joined forces in 1952 to form a group whose unusual instrumentation, arrangements, and material set it apart from just about everything else at the time--yet also ultimately led to its commercial downfall. Yet in the recordings of the Sauter-Finegan orchestra, you can hear the roots of a style that would burst forth a few years later in the stereo spectaculars of Esquivel, Enoch Light, and others. Sauter and Finegan followed parallel but separate paths for the first two decades of their professional lives. Sauter started on drums and then switched to trumpet and began playing with dance bands in his late teens. He joined vibraphonist Red Norvo's band in 1935 and soon became the lead arranger for Norvo and his wife, singer Mildred Bailey. In 1939, Benny Goodman hired him away and Sauter's arrangements of current hits as well as original compositions like "Benny Rides Again," and "Clarinet ala King" provided Goodman with some of his biggest hits. In the 1940s, Sauter worked for Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and Ray McKinley, and reunited with Goodman to arrange for one of the very first 12" LPs released by Columbia, 1951.

Finegan also started out playing in various big bands, but his big break came when he was hired as a staff arranger by Glenn Miller in 1941, when the Miller band was hitting its commercial zenith. Although Miller was notorious for being a humorless and strictly business-minded bandleader, he was so impressed by Finegan's abilities that he soon gave him the freedom to write and arrange whatever material he wanted. After Miller's death in 1944, the Miller band was kept together, but it fell back onto recycling old material, and Finegan moved on to work as a freelancer through the late 1940s.

Airmail Postage/Packaging:

EUROPE (all countries): 1 LP ($8)  2-3 LP ($12)  4-7 LP ($21)  8-22 LP ($27)

OUTSIDE EUROPE (all countries): 1 LP ($13)  2-3 LP ($19)  4-7 LP ($41)  8-22 LP ($50)

GERMANY: 1-7 LPs (5,50 or 7,50 Euro)  8-36 LPs (7,50 Euro)

Payment: Europeans via paypal or by bank transfer. Overseas via paypal only. German customers should send their payment to my bank account. All orders which exceed a value of $50 will only be sent by registered mail outside Germany. This requires the buyer to pay an additional $3. This is a condition of sale and I am afraid is non negotiable.

Mailing: I ship everything in new mailers. The record(s) are removed from the jacket to avoid seam splits. Two cardboard paddings (the best) will be used to avoid bending. I recognize that these are objects of art, and I will make every reasonable effort to assure that they arrive at your place in the same condition as they were when they left me.