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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/27/2008

Top 5 List:

1. LP - Ricard Marrero & The Group "A Taste" TSG - $4,196.85 - Start: $143.00 - Bids: 19

2. LP - Pink Floyd "Dark Side Of The Moon" Toshiba-EMI Japan alternate cover - $3,899.99 - Start: $3,899.99 - Bids: 1

3. LP - Leonid Kogan "Lalo Symphonie Espagnole" EMI-Columbia UK - $2,347.00 - Start: $9.99 - Bids: 23

4. LP - The Beatles "Yesterday And Today" SEALED MONO - $2,010.00 - Start: $19.99 - Bids: 44

5. 45 - Buddy Cantrell "You Ain't No Good" / "Why Did You Leave Me" Tuska - $2,000.00 - Start: $500.00 - Bids: 8

This week a real oddball item tops the list, a jazz funk LP from Richard Marrero on the TSG label bids up to almost $4.2k. This is the second record from the TSG label to appear this year. Now after more than twenty years as a collector and almost a decade behind me as a dealer, I know some history of most of the top 5 items. But the TSG label is a mystery to me. The only information I could find was here. It appears to have been a kind of bootleggy tax scammy steal the master tapes kind of operation from the 1970s. If anyone knows more history please send a comment.

In the #2 spot a DSOTM from EMI Japan gets its asking price at a penny less than $3.9k. This record, with alternate cover art, was to have been made available only through mail-order, but was pulled by the label over internal conflicts about the cover art.

A classical LP of performances by Leonid Kogan, out of the UK, sells for more than $2.3k and gets the #3 spot. Next, a sealed mono Yesterday and Today #4 sells for $2k without revealing if its a paste-over butcher cover.

And last, a Buddy Cantrell 45 on the Tuska label bids to exactly $2k.

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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/20/2008

Top 5 List:

1. 45 - Larry Clinton "She's Wanted" / "If I Knew" Dynamo Promo - $5,000.00 - Start: $9.99 - Bids: 13

2. 45 - Elvis Presley "That's All Right, Mama" / "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" Sun 209 - $4,450.00 - Start: $9.99 - Bids: 50

3. 45 - Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run" / "Meeting Across The River" CBS Greece Promo - $3,926.00 - Start: $499.00 - Bids: 9

4. 45 - Dennis Edwards "Johnnie On The Spot" / "I Didn't Have To" International Soulsville - $3,300.00 - Start: $1,999.99 Bids: 4

5. 45 - Elvis Presley "That's All Right, Mama" / "Blue Moon of Kentucky" Sun 209 - $2,999.99 - Start: $2,999.99 Bids: BIN

All 45's this week on the top 5, Larry Clinton's rarest Northern Soul 45, "She's Wanted", on the Dynamo label sells for exactly $5k. In the #2 spot, the first of two "That's All Right, Mama" Elvis 45's on Sun that appear on this week's list, this one a near mint copy, sells for halfway past $4.4k.

Next, a CBS promo of Springsteen's "Born To Run" from Greece bids up past $3.9k. Reportedly, CBS pressed only 200 copies of this 45 for promotion in Greece, and never released it in the country commercially .

Another Northern Soul treasure takes the #4 spot, Dennis Edwards "Johnnie On The Spot" gets exactly $3.3k.

And last, the second copy of "That's All Right, Mama" to make the list this week, this one in VG-ish condition, sells on a Best Offer for a penny less than $3.3k.

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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/13/2008

Top 5 List:

1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK STEREO black & gold label matrix 1R/1G - $4,610.94 - Start: $1.50 Bids: 40

2. 45 - David Bowie "Janine" / "All The Madmen" Mercury 73173 - $3781.85 - Start: $5.00 Bids: 15

3. LP - Uncle Funkenstein "Together Again" Private Press - $3,383.33 - Start: $9.99 - Bids: 27

4. LP - Dynamic Five "Love Is The Key" Manhattan/UA - $3,333.00 - Start: $999.99 - Bids: 10

5. 12″ - Led Zeppelin “Road Box” - $3,322.62 Start: $75.00 Bids: 37

Lots of old friends and reappearances this week: First, a Beatles' "Please Please Me" UK Stereo first press sells for over $4.6k. This record, in various iterations, has appeared several times over the past few months. This particular record is one of 900 stereo edtions on Parlophone made from the mother stampers designated 1R and 1G.

David Bowie is here again. In the #2 spot, the original Mercury U.S. 45 from "Man Who Sold The World" bids past $3.7k.

The next two entries are new to the list and both are very rare soul and funk LP's. The first, a private press LP out of Indiana from Uncle Funkenstein sells for almost $3.4k. In the #4 spot, the never released Dynamic Five promo LP peaks a third of the way past $3.3k.

Lastly, another recent visitor to the list, Led Zeppelin's entire catalog on 12" 45 RPM 200 gram records, "The Road Box" sells for a little more than $3.3k

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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/06/2008

Top 5 List:

1. 45 - David Bowie "The Prettiest Star" Japan 45 RPM EP - $5,100.00 Start: $3,899.99 Bids: 6

2. LP - Pink Floyd "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" Odeon Japan Red Vinyl - $4,828.00 Start: $3,999.00 Bids: 4

3. LP - Walter Strerath "Trio - Quartet - Quntet" Jazz Groove - $3,506.00 Start: $9.00 Bids: 20

4. 45 - Tamala Lewis "You Won't Say Nothing" / "If You Can Stand Me" Marton - $3,230.00 Start: $899.99 Bids: 22

5. LP - Elvis Presley "Aloha" Chicken Of The Sea Promo - $2,375.01 Start: $1,500 Bids: 14


Rock gods stomp all over the list this week, with a David Bowie 45 from Japan selling for $5.1k.
A first press of the first Pink Floyd LP on red vinyl, also out of Japan, bids up over $4.8k

In the #3 spot, a rare Jazz LP from Walter Strerath closes a little over $3.5k. A Northern Soul 45 from Tamala Lewis gets more than $3.2k.

And last, the Chicken Of The Sea promo Aloha record given to employees of the company sells for close to $2.4k.

Eating Crow and Picking White Albums off the bottom of a tea cup

First of all, I should have been paying attention. And, I often am. Just not the week the #5 White Album sold on eBay for close to $30k. So, here is a note, mostly for myself to include this in the year-end tally on Record Store Day.

I could use the convenient excuse that the seller miscategorized the record in "music memorabilia" and did not list it in "records", but then is there really ever an excuse to miss the 0000005 White Album plucked off of John Lennon's dining table by an unnamed musician. Not if I want to consider myself a professional, and I do, insofar as record collecting can be considered a profession and not the occupation of those of us unable to earn our living at the race tracks or black jack tables.

So, may I in the future read the tea leaves of the internet more accurately in maintaining the Top 5 list.

Audio For Feature Reports For Week Of November 30th

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