Charlie Shavers Quintet "Musicomania" 1946 78RPM Single Vogue Picture Disc (EX)
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Vogue Records was a short-lived United States-based record label of the 1940s, noted for the artwork embedded in the records themselves. Founded in 1946 as part of Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan, the discs were initially a hit, because of the novelty of the colorful artwork, and the improved sound compared to the shellac records dominant at the time. The discs were manufactured by first sandwiching printed illustrations around a core of aluminum, then coating both sides with clear vinyl upon which the grooves were stamped.
The company went out of business the following year, having released between 67 and 74 double-sided 78 rpm gramophone records. Some of the Vogue issues were re-releases of recordings originally issued by other companies. The colorful artwork on the records have made Vogue Records a collector's item.
Charles James Shavers (August 3, 1920 – July 8, 1971), known as Charlie Shavers, was an American swing era jazz trumpeter who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, and Billie Holiday. He was an arranger and composer, and one of his compositions, "Undecided", is a jazz standard.
Charlie Shavers' was from the prominent Shavers family of Key West, Florida, and Charlie was a cousin of heavyweight boxer Earnie Shavers. Born in New York City, he took up piano and banjo before switching to trumpet.
In 1935 he played in the trumpet section with Dizzy Gillespie and Carl (Bama) Warwick in Frankie Fairfax's Campus Club Orchestra. In 1936 he joined John Kirby's Sextet as trumpet soloist and arranger (he was only 16 but gave his birth date as 1917 in order to avoid child labor laws[ – many biographies still list this date.
This Record is Vouge R756 by the Charlie Shavers Quintet. Vogue Record R756 is one of the Rarest Vogue Picture Discs and was released in only limited quantities resulting in it's being hard to find.
A-Side Musicomania by The Charlie Shavers Quintet with Matrix # P96.
B-Side If I had You by The Charlie Shavers Quintet with Matrix # P97
The Record is in Excellent (EX) condition with a few needle marks on the surface but they do not significantly affect the sound. The record plays all the way through without problems on my turntable,but there is a little more surface noise on the A- Side than I would really like. B-side surface noise is greatly reduced, in fact nearly non-existent. The pictures on both sides are clear and bright with no yellowing or clouding of the surfaces. This record comes in a heavy gold paper sleeve.
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