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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Yes! Jitterbugging to that Big Band sound is back in style! Well, no, actually, it's not. But it will be someday, and meantime this set of three near-mint, vinyl LPs, each in its own color-coded cardboard sleeve, the whole package then sliding into a "very good" cardboard slipcase (MGM3E9) which is missing one inch from its top edge, is pretty literally a "treasure chest" of American music history of the Depression Era. The three discs (forming a complete set) are numbered E3788, E3789, and E3790. Vido Musso (sax), Ziggy Elman (trumpet), Nick Fatool (drums) and Jess Stacy (piano) also join in on Diga Diga Doo, Three Little Words, Chicago, I Got Rhythm, Space Man, Camel Hop, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm, Twilight in Turkey, Some of These Days, Nobody's Sweetheart Now, etc. Not a book but a complete matched set of three, 12-inch, vinyl, 33-1/3 rpm Long Playing High Fidelity (monaural) LPs from 1959 (tail end of the Big Band Era), in original slipcase, capturing original performances of 1938-39. People in their 40s and 50s grow nostalgic for the music to which they danced when they were in their teens and twenties. But those who danced to this music between 1938 and 1959, if they're still with us at all, are now 80 or older. Which means the stuff is now doing a final promenade through thrift shops and estate sales, rendering the "catalog values" of such vinyl, themselves, exercises in nostalgia. Elvis values are also tumbling; your Beatles records will likely be next. One of these years someone will make a movie and a follow-up TV show about America in the years just before World War Two, and the jitterbug will again be all the rage . . . for a while. By then, most of this original vinyl will be gone to the landfills. Package of three vinyl "Big Band" LPs now reduced from $17.