Vinyl records

Les Elgart vinyl records

2 albums with 22 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Lester Elliott Elgart. American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter. Born August 3, 1917, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. - Died July 29, 1995, Dallas, Texas, USA. During the 1940s, Les was a member of bands led by Raymond Scott, Charlie Spivak and Harry James, sometimes finding himself alongside his brother saxophonist . He and his brother formed their own orchestra in 1945. Elgart charted with the song "Main Title (Man with the Golden Arm)" in 1956, which hit #56 on the U.S. charts.