Command Performance! - Les & Larry Elgart

 

So Rare

Command Performance!

Les & Larry Elgart

Play The Great Dance Hits

Arranged by Charles Albertine

Cover Photo: Columbia Records Photo Studio - Henry Parker

Columbia STEREO CS 9021

1964

From the back cover: The secret of the Elgart touch is simple: they know the business of making people want to get up and dance. They played as sidemen with Harry James, Charlie Spivak, Hal McIntyre, Bunny Berigan and Woody Herman before 1947, when Les first started a band of his own. Larry as sax player and Les as trumpet player (so good that he was known in the trade as "The Trumpet Player's Trumpet Player") built up major reputations for themselves as instrumentalists, but while they were playing, they were also studying the tricks of the dance band trade – and listening to their audiences' reactions to various sounds. By the time Les went out on his own in 1953, he had developed a new sound that had genuine appeal. He hit immediately with a rich throaty reed-and-brass sound that had smoothness, brightness and sophistication. The term "Sophisticated Swing" was coined to describe the sound, and became the title of the first Elgart recording for Columbia Records (CL 536).

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Song Of India

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