This Month's (Not Quite Thrift Store) Vinyl Sharity

The Dukes of Dixieland, Breakin It Up on Broadway (1961)

My late father-in-law, despite owning quite a few computers for god-knows-what-reason, had one of those expensive CD-R recorders that you hook up to your stereo, and he copied a number of his old LPs. Most of them aren't quite along the sharity line, but here's a fairly rare one.

Frank Assunto's Dukes of Dixieland were stereo LP superstars on the Audio Fidelity label. This Columbia album, however, appears during the band's "pop" period in which the Dukes give standards (or sub-standards, depending on the song choice) the ol' Dixieland treatment. The album is certainly up-tempo.

A version of the band continues to perform today.

The album, with some versions of the cover art, is here as .zip files at rapidshare: one and two.