Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 02/02/2008

Top 5 List:

1. 45 - Elvis Presley "That's All Right Mama" / "Blue Moon Of Kentuck" Sun Sample - $2,026.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 27

2. 45 - Vikki Styles "The Tears Won't Stop Falling" / "If I Didn't Love You" ODEX - $1,999.99 Start: $999.00 Bids: 3

3. 45 - Beatles "Noregian Wood" Greeny Vinyl 45 - $1,530.00 Start: $0.99 Bids: 13

4. 45 - Anthony Ellis Blank 45 RPM 7" Reggae Ska Instrumental - $1,501.00 Start: $400.00 Bids: 8

5. LP - Beatles "Yesterday & Today" Butcher Cover LP - $1,499.99 Start: BIN

This week is almost all 45's on the eBay Top 5. A "sample", or promo, copy of Elvis' "That's All Right" 45 on the Sun label makes the top spot this week. Next, coming just under $2k, is a Northern Soul 45 by Vicki Styles. A European 45 of The Beatles "Noregian Wood" gets the #3 spot. This record had been distributed as part of a mail order promotion. In the #4 spot comes a one of a kind test pressing 7" record from Anthony Ellis. And the only LP to make the list, a Beatles butcher cover gets just under $1.5k and the #5 spot.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 01/26/2008

Top 5 List:

1. 45 - The Misfits "Horror Business" (Signed) - $14,301.38 Start: $4,999.99 Bids: 18

2. 45 - Ray Pollard "This Time (I'm Gonna Be True)" / "No More Like Me" Shrine 103 - $3,060.00 Start: $4.99 Bids: 32

3. LP - Bob Dylan "Vol. 4" Japan White Label Promo w/ OBI - $2,799.99 Start $2,799.99 Bids: 1

4. 45 - Willie Wright "Right On Darkness" - $2,716.00 Start: $129.99 Bids: 22

5. LP - Vashti "Bunyan" - $2,300.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 23


Topping the list this week is the first press "Horror Show" 45 from the Misfits, which had a pressing of 25 copies. Though one was auctioned in 2004 and brought bids in excess of $8k, this possibly one-of-a-kind signed (by Glenn Danzig) copy sells for over $14k. Way down the scale in the $3k Northern Soul zone is Ray Pollard's "This Time (I'm Gonna Be True)". A rare Japanese white label promo gets its asking price at a penny less than $2.8k and the #3 spot. At #4, rare soul orginal Willie Wright's "Right On Darkness" closes just over $2.7k. A rare UK Pysch record from Vashti comes in at #5 receiving $2.3k.