Charlie Spivak - The Chart Decade 1941-51Charlie Spivak was a trumpeter and bandleader of Ukrainian heritage, who played with a string of well known bands during the 1920s and '30s, including those of Paul Specht, Ben Pollack, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Ray Noble and Glenn Miller, and it was with Miller's backing that he started his own orchestra in 1939. He was known as "The Man Who Plays The Sweetest Trumpet In The World", playing powerful lead melody parts, although he was not especially

He has no equal

Columbia and ABC-Paramount labels which were credited with chart positions

This great-value 74-track 3-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on the MGM

Playing the bandoneon

Tonton Macoute) side by side

and in both concerts

or were hits for other artists

They decided to change their name after their first hit from The Robins to The Coasters as they switched from Leiber & Stoller's Spark label to the Atlantic subsidiary Atco

The music swung

we also feature three studio tracks which this line-up had recorded at their first session together in November 1954

Born in 1999 in the Chinese province of Gansu

and it's a must for collectors of our completist chart-based anthologies