**SWING ERA* 9 BOX SETS – 27 LPs & BOOKS – OOP JAZZ / TIME LIFE RECORDS**NICE*

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Up for auction are 9 LP Box Sets of, The Swing Era.  Three vinyl discs in each box (total of 27 albums), plus 9 fully illustrated hardbound books featuring rarely seen archival photos and historical text.  All records, inner sleeves, books and slipcase covers are presents.  Vinyl looks to be in excellent condition as are the books; some wear to the outer boxes. 

Includes tracks by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Stan Keaton, Woody Herman, Nat King Cole, Les Brown, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Billy May, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Charlie Barnet, Erskine Hawkins, Larry Clinton, Jimmy Dorsey, Bob Crosby, Andy Kirk, Raymond Scott, Jimmy Lunceford, Chick Webb, Bunny Berigan, and others. 

Overall, a beautiful, out-of-print jazz box sets. 

The sets include:

The Swing Era 1936-1937:  The Movies:  Between Vitaphone and Video – Bugle Call Rag/Gin Mill Blues/Marie/Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!/Down South Camp Meetin’/One O’clock Jump/It’s Been So Long/Toy Trumpet/Organ Grinder’s Swing/Moten Swing/ I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You/Stompin at the Savoy/Topsy/Moon Glow/Parade of the Milk Bottle Caps/Royal Garden Blues/You Turned the Tables on Me/Song of India/Remember/Swingtime in the Rockies/Caravan/Walkin’ and Swingin’/My Blue Heaven/Stop Look and Listen Part I and 2/Christopher Columbus/Goodbye/In a Sentimental Mood/Goody Goody/Prisoner’s Song

The Swing Era 1937-1938: Vintage Years of Humor - Don't Be That Way/Sleepy Time Gal/Annie Laurie/Summertime/Every Tub/Blue And Sentimental/What Is This Thing Called Love?/The Dipsy Doodle/Sing, Sing, Sing, Part I/Sing, Sing, Sing, Part II//John's Idea/Coquette/Liza/Nightmare/March Of The Bob Cats/Back Bay Shuffle/Smoke Rings/Little Rock Getaway/I Can't Get Started/Quaker City Jazz//For Dancers Only/Music, Maestro, Please!/Powerhouse/I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart/Changes//Boogie Woogie/Twilight In Turkey/Margie/Roll'em/South Rampart Street Parade

The Swing Era 1938-1939: Where Swing Came From - Begin The Beguine/Swingin' The Blues/My Reverie/Undecided/Pavanne//Woodchopper's Ball/What's New/Piano Man/Embraceable You/Hawaiian War Chant//Jumpin' At The Woodside/Lullaby In Rhythm/Cheatin' On Me/In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room/Big John's Special//Wrappin' It Up/Memories of You/Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise/Big Noise From Winnetka/John Silver//Floyd's Guitar Blues/Carioca/Anitra's Dance/Copenhagen/'Tain't What You Want/Boy Meets Horn/Honky Tonk Train/Melancholy Lullaby/Octoroon/And Angels Sing

The Swing Era 1939-1940: 1939: A Real Dream of a Year - Pennsylvania 6-5000/All The Things You Are/Huckleberry Duck/Harlem Nocturne/Celery Stalks At Midnight//Don't Get Around Much Anymore/Boogie Woogie Maxine/Ain't She Sweet/Seven Come Eleven/After Hours//No Name Jive, Part I/No Name Jive, Part II/Cotton-Tail/Slow Freight/Shorty George//March Of The Toys/Day In Day Out/The Gal From Joe's/My Inspiration/Farewell Blues//In A Persian Market/G.T. Stomp/Think Of Me Little Daddy/Concerto For Trumpet/When Buddha Smiles//Honeysuckle Rose/Jack The Bear/Opus 5/Uptown Blues/Symphony In Riffs

The Swing Era 1940-1941: How It was to Be Young Then - In the Mood/You Made Me Love You/Frenesi/Bizet Has His Day/Deep River//Temptation/Tuxedo Junction/Blues on Parade/Cherokee/Boogie Woogie on St. Louis//Stealin' Apples/Stardust/Little Brown Jug/Well All Right Then/Two O'clock Jump//Sunrise Serenade/Redskin Rhumba/Lonesome Road : Part I/Lonesome Road : Part II/Ciribirbin//Swanee River/Music Makers/Let's Dance/Pompton Turnpike/720 In The Books//Take The "A" Train/Snowfall/Moonlight Serenaden/Anvil Chorus: Part I/Anvil Chorus: Part II

The Swing Era 1941-1942: Swing as a Way of Life - A String of Pearls/Don't Sit under the Apple Tree/Warm Valley/Swing Low, Sweet Chariot/Flying Home//Jersey Bounce/I Cried for You/Basic Boogie/Charleston Alley/Air Mail Special//9:20 Special/The Man I Love/Summit Ridge Drive/Aidos/Golden Wedding//Beyond the Blue Horizon/Chattanooga Choo Choo/Autumn Nocturne/Benny Glides Again//The Mole/A Smo-o-th One/Blue Flame/Well, Git It!/Perdido//Song of the Volga Boatman/Contrasts/Strictly Instrumental/Dancing in the Dark/American Patrol

The Swing Era 1944-1945:  The Gold Age of Network Radio – Opus One/Oh, What a Beautiful Morning/Taps Miller/It’s Only a Paper Moon/’S Wonderful/Carnival/Sentimental Journey/Wildroot/Sweet Loraine/Things Ain’t What They Used to Be/Eager Beaver/Begin the Beguine/It’s Been a Long, Long Time/Tippin’ In/Northwest Passage/Apple Honey/On The Sunny Side of the Street/Slipped Disc/Poinciana/Leave Us Leap/Skyliner/Twilight Time/Tampico/Malibu/Hamp’s Boogie Woogie/Leap Frog/I’m Beginning To See The Light/Clarinade/Southern Scandal/Goosey Gander

The Swing Era Into the ‘50s:  How Sex Was Invented – The Kid from Red Bank/Satin Doll/Swanee River Boogie/Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’/All of Me/April in Paris/The Continental/Early Autumn/The Champ/So Rare/St. Louis Blues March/The Peanut Vendor/Li’l Darlin’/Tango Blues/Caravan/Four Brothers/V.I.P’s Boogie/Across the Alley from the Alama/Bingo, Bingo, Boffo/Lean Baby/Hot Toddy/The Doodletown Fifers/Interlude/Cute/Pussy Willow/Artistry Jumps/Night Train/Keen and Peachy/Star Burst/Benjie’s Bubble

The Swing Era:  Music of the Postwar Years – A Clutch of Characters – Chicago/September Song/High on a Windy Trumpet/Midnight Sun/Intermission Riff/Tenderly/Chloe/Dream/Concerto to End All Concertos Part 1 and 2/I’ve got My Love to Keep Me Warm/I Should Care/Hamp’s Walkin’ Boogie/Afternoon in August/Sherwood’s Forest/At Sundown/Rachel’s Dream/The Man with the Horn/Bijou/Artistry in Rhythm/Lover/Then I’ll Be Happy/Blowin’ Up a Storm/Happy-Go-Lucky Local Part 1 and 2/The Good Earth/Autumn Serenade/Route 66/Carnegie Blues/Lover’s Leap