Frank Sinatra 1st record Brunswick 8443 Harry James Melancholy Mood Jul 1939

$

500

FRANK SINATRA with HARRY JAMES and his ORCHESTRA

-  B25057 From the Bottom of My Heart 

- B25059 Melancholy Mood

Brunswick  78:    No 8443

Recorded on July 13th, 1939- This is the last Harry James Brunswick- subsequent releases were on Columbia.

see below for condition...Important!!

from Wikipedia:

In 1938, Sinatra found employment as a singing waiter at a roadhouse called "The Rustic Cabin" in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for which he was paid $15 a week. The roadhouse was connected to the WNEW radio station in New York City, and he began performing with a group live during the Dance Parade show. Despite the low salary, Sinatra felt that this was the break he was looking for, and boasted to friends that he was going to "become so big that no one could ever touch him". In March 1939, saxophone player Frank Mane, who knew Sinatra from Jersey City radio station WAAT where both performed on live broadcasts, arranged for him to audition and record "Our Love", his first solo studio recording. In June, bandleader Harry James, who had heard Sinatra sing on "Dance Parade", signed a two-year contract of $75 a week one evening after a show at the Paramount Theatre in New York. It was with the James band that Sinatra released his first commercial record "From the Bottom of My Heart" in July.  Further records released with James through 1939, such as "All or Nothing At All", also had weak sales on their initial release. 

Condition:  E- : EXCEPT FOR A SMALL NEEDLE DROP at the end of 'From the Bottom of My Heart" that tracks through no problem but clicks four times. The record has no cracks, no edge chips, no writing on label...an exceptional copy!                      

Great sound quality- Record plays loud and clear with low surface noise

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Record can be returned  in the same condition for full refund if you feel that I have significantly misrepresented the condition.

Shipping: I will send this rare record strongly packed and with tracking to ensure that it arrives safely.

Shipping with tracking to the US is $10.00 mailed from the US.   Shipping to Canada is  around $25.00 

Shipping to the rest of the world is 30.00.