A RARE 78rpm recording of Frank Sinatra has come to light in Redditch, and is to go on sale this Saturday, December 12 – the centenary of the birth of Ol’ Blue Eyes.
The rare 10” double- sided acetate has the legendary singer performing ‘You’re Cheating Yourself If You’re Cheating On Me’ and ‘Something Wonderful Happens in Summer’ produced in New York in 1956.
Sinatra made over 1,200 studio recordings between 1939 and 1993 during which time he spent more than 1,000 weeks in the Top 75 of the UK charts (427 weeks on Singles Chart and 613 weeks on Album chart).
The record will go be on sale at Vintage Trax record shop on Birchfield Road in Headless Cross.
Business owner, Ros Sidaway, who is selling it on behalf of a customer, said: “The item was valued for auction by Bonhams of London in December 2010 at between £400 and £600. The acetate itself is in excellent condition and still has its original ‘Audiodiscs’ brown kraft paper sleeve.”
“It is unusual for more than a dozen acetates of a recording to be manufactured, so from a collector’s viewpoint an acetate is a rare find!”
Anyone interested in buying the recording can find out more at the shop on Friday or Saturday or by calling Ros on 07887 525107.
An acetate is a transitional stage between the master tape and the finished vinyl record. Although it looks like a normal record, it is actually a metal plate covered in a layer of acetone, and has a second off-centre hole near the middle of the disc, and handwritten labels.
