RARE JAZZ Billy Krechmer " Tonight My Sweet / Penn State Hop " Collectors Club

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Billy Krechmer 78 " Tonight My Sweet / Penn State Hop "Collectors Club #1003 78 RPM  1954. Scarce New Jersey label. The labels have Lee Vincent Orchestra Featuring Billy Krechmer. The B side has the same with the addition of vocal by Mickey Caruso .NOTE: Krechmer wrote the A side track. RARE and hard to find. One of only three recordings by him I believe. See info about him listed below that I found on another site. Instrumental on the A side and a vocal on the B side (best side). The record is still shiny.It has some scattered scratches and scuffs. Most are surface only but a few can barely be felt. Some smudges and soiling down in the grooves. (It could use a good cleaning. I gave it a brief one. A thorough cleaning may remove most iif not all of the soiling/smudges). The labels have some wear and ring wear.  It plays with some crackling/sizzling in spots but the instruments (and voice on one side) come though fairly loud and strong. Again, a good cleaning will probably improve the sound a bit. It is already OK for a 78. . Buyer pays priority shipping to be determined by your ZIP. Or I will mail it by Media Mail if you wish. Foreign to be determined.. On some items, tracking information is REQUIRED, especially on foreign items paid for with PayPal. I reserve the right to refuse payments byPayPal to certain countries or individuals. Please email me if you have any questions about any of the above.  International Buyers – Please Note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying.  "Although known for years among jazz musicians from coast to coast, Billy Krechmer was hardly remembered by anyone outside of Philadelphia when he passed away on March 11, 2002, at the age of 92. Krechmer was born in 1910 in Millville, NJ, by the banks of the Maurice River near Union Lake. He studied music at the Curtis Institute and started performing professionally in 1926. During the late '20s and much of the 1930s he worked in bands led by Herb Gordon, Red Nichols, and Ted Lewis, touring the U.S. and Europe before settling down in Philadelphia, where he racked up many hours of experience as clarinetist in a burlesque house and in the orchestra pits of the Earl and Mastbaum theaters.   Although known for years among jazz musicians from coast to coast, Billy Krechmer was hardly remembered by anyone outside of Philadelphia when he passed away on March 11, 2002, at the age of 92. Krechmer was born in 1910 in Millville, NJ, by the banks of the Maurice River near Union Lake. He studied music at the Curtis Institute and started performing professionally in 1926. During the late '20s and much of the 1930s he worked in bands led by Herb Gordon, Red Nichols, and Ted Lewis, touring the U.S. and Europe before settling down in Philadelphia, where he racked up many hours of experience as clarinetist in a burlesque house and in the orchestra pits of the Earl and Mastbaum theaters.  Billy Krechmer is known to have recorded only thrice. Two sides were waxed for the Gotham label in New York on April 13, 1950, with Freddie Thompson, guitarist Joe Kuhn, bassist Frank Szetek, and Harold "Doc" Bagby (talent scout and A&R director for Gotham) playing the novochord, an early electronic keyboard instrument. Krechmer recorded again in 1954 with a band whose personnel have not been identified. Six titles were waxed on this occasion, including two Dixieland standards, issued on the Collector's Club label, and four original compositions, at least two of which were briefly made available to the public on 20th Century Records. Krechmer's repertoire combined Dixieland and swing tunes with pop melodies and pleasant jazz modes of his own devising. He recorded and produced his own LP,Billy Krechmer + 5, during the early '60s, releasing it on his own Ranstead record label, which he named for the street on which his club was in operation until it closed its doors forever in 1966. Krechmer's entire recorded output would fit nicely onto one compact disc if someone would only take the time to compile a tribute album. "