This is a rare group of original pressing vinyl records featuring WC Handy's 84th birthday tribute dinner in 1957 held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. From the estate of the family of Morton Metzler, an executive at American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in the mid century. The recordings feature Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Eubie Blake, Ed Sullivan, Paul White, Vera Duke, LaVerne Hutcherson, Betty Madigan, Cab Calloway, and many more.

There is a skip on the fourth record side along with an intermittent noise.