Hooked on Swing Gold Record, Framed in good condition; Album states: Presented to Larry Elgart to commemorate the sale of over 50,000, units of the RCA Album, Hooked on Swing, January 1983. Certified Gold, Canadian Recording Industry Association. On the Album’s label three songs are listed: Hooked on Swing 6:34; Hooked on Big Bands 6:50; Hooked On A Star 6:39. Size: 20 x 16 in. #1326 . Lawrence Joseph Elgart (March 20, 1922 – August 29, 2017) was an American jazz bandleader. His Name was Larry Elgart. And the name of his game - was music. Good Music. Music that you could dance to and music that hooked you got hooked on. His Hooked On Swing recording climbed and crossed over many charts as people became hooked on this clever and contagious medley of swing standards that had many swinging and dancing in the dance clubs and discos all over America. Elgart's “Hooked on Swing” was a smash success, a clever compilation and instrumental medley of swing jazz hits that included - "In the Mood", "Cherokee", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree", "American Patrol", "Sing, Sing, Sing", "Don't Be That Way", "Little Brown Jug", "Opus #1", "Take the A Train", "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart" and "A String of Pearls." The song became so popular so popular it even cracked the US Billboard Pop Singles chart (at No. 31) and Adult Contemporary chart (No. 20). Moreover it earned Larry Elgart Gold Records for the successful sales and originality exemplified and amplified in his Hook on Swing recording. Elgart’s Four Gold records are proudly presented and offered in the Sarasota Estate Auction taking place November 4th and 5th 2023. For many, four gold records would be the top of the mountaintop of career, but for Larry Elgart, while it was something to be proud of, what gave him great joy was that he created music that he wanted to play and played it for so long. In a storied and prolific career, this jazz musician born in 1922 in New London, Connecticut in 1922, played the Alto saxophone and was a bandleader from the days when nightclubs flourished. From his first recording -Impressions of Outer Space (Brunswick, 1953) to his last Bandstand Boogie (2003) Elgart enjoyed success and recognition in the recording industry, receiving a Grammy nomination for His 1959 album, "New Sounds at the Roosevelt." But to Larry Elgart what gave him true joy was creating beautiful, catchy and music that you could dance to and be hooked by. No greater case can be made for that the little tune he created with his brother Les, when he recorded "Bandstand Boogie," the theme to the long-running dance show American Bandstand- for the legendary television show originally hosted by Bob Horn, and two years later, by Dick Clark. Location B WALL