Lot 93SINATRA, FRANK - A SWINGIN' AFFAIR-1957-FIRST PRESS (MONO) USA-CAPITOL-NMINT/NMINT

PRESLEY, ELVIS-CLAMBAKE-1967-THE FIRST PRESS (MONO) UK-RCA-RD-7917. A rare British original of the King of rock and roll. Clambake is the sixteenth soundtrack album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3893, in October 1967. This is the soundtrack to the 1967 film of the same name starring Presley. He entered RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee on February 21, 1967 for recording sessions for his twenty-fifth film. Additional sessions of materials were held on September 10 and 11, 1967. It peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200. ...more

AQUARIUM-SANDS OF ST. PETERSBURG-1994-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-TRIARIUM-M-0031. A very rare original on vinyl. "Sands" is the ninth "natural" album of the group "Aquarium", consisting mainly of songs from 1975-1986, recorded in 1993. When in the autumn of 1992, "Aquarium" had its own studio at Fontanka, 39, the group had the idea to recreate some songs written by Grebenshchikov in the late 70s-early 80s in their spare time from recording the album "Favorite songs of Ramses IV". Most of the songs of that time were already included in the albums "All Brothers — Sisters" and "Acoustics", but many of them remained unrecorded. And it was decided to extend their life in the "parallel past". ...more

ALEXEY RYBNIKOV-ROCK OPERA JUNO AND AVOS-1980-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-MELODIA-C60-18627. "Juno and Avos" is a rock opera by Alexey Rybnikov (music) and Andrey Voznesensky (libretto). The premiere, directed by Mark Zakharov, took place on July 9, 1981 on the stage of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater, where the performance, which has become a kind of business card of Lenkom, took place In parallel with the work on the performance, an audio version of the opera with other performers was recorded in Lenkom in 1980. The first public listening of the recorded work took place on December 9, 1980 in the Church of the Intercession in Fily (Moscow). However, due to censorship obstacles, the album of two stereo records was released by the company" Melody " only in 1982 (number C60 18627-30 (2LP)).  ...more

FITZGERALD, ELLA-JEROME KERN SONG BOOK-1964-FIRST PRESS UK-VERVE-VLP9080.A rare British original of the cult album. .Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book is a 1963 studio album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. The album is dedicated to the songs of the composer Jerome Kern. This was the second series of collections of Fitzgerald songs organized by Riddle; their previous joint project was her book of George and Ira Gershwin songs in 1959. Fitzgerald and Riddle also recorded two albums of standards in 1962: "Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson" and "Ella Swings Softly with Nelson". It was the seventh and penultimate album in a series of Fitzgerald songs written by musical theater composers; it was preceded by the 1961 album "Ella Fitzgerald sings a Book of Songs by Harold Arlen", and then "Ella Fitzgerald sings a book of songs by Johnny Mercer" in 1964. Awarded four and a half stars by Down Beat magazine in 1963. ...more

SINATRA, FRANK-STRANGERS IN the NIGHT-1966-FIRST PRESS (MONO) USA-REPRISE-F1017. Rare American original of the cult album. At the 1967 Grammy awards, Sinatra won two Grammy awards for his efforts on this album, including Record of the year for the title track, and best male vocal performance for the same song. (In the same year, he won another Grammy award - "Album of the year for a man and his music"). Ernie Freeman's arrangement of the title track earned him a Grammy award for best arrangement accompanied by a vocalist or instrumentalist.this is the last album Sinatra performed with longtime arranger / conductor Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. "Strangers in the Night" went platinum for one million copies sold in the United States. ...more