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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 01/24/2009

Top 5 List:

1. LP - Jutta Hipp "with Zoot Sims" Blue Note 1530 - $4,650.07 - Start: $19.99 - Bids: 15

2. 45 - Nirvana "Love Buzz" Sub Pop #47 / 1000 - $2,450.00 - Start: $2,450.00 - Bids: 1

3. LP - Led Zeppelin I Atlantic UK First Press Turquoise Lettering - $2,118.70 - Start: $0.99 - Bids: 36

4. 45 - Tommy Ridgley "My Love Gets Stronger" / "Fly In My Pie" International City - $1,999.99 - Start: $99.99 Bids: 16

5. LP - The Beatles "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" Captiol MAS 2653 Mono SEALED - $1,775.00 - Start: $9.95 - Bids: 21

An original Blue Note LP from Jutta Hipp tops the list this week, bidding up a little more than halfway over $4.6k. Next, the "Love Buzz" 7" from Nirvana gets it asking price with one bid exactly at the mid-point past $2.4k. This record is probably the most frequent visitor to the top 5, and as its been pointed out before, has an extremely stable value at between $2k - $2.5k.

In the #3 spot, a UK first press of Led Zeppelin's first LP sells for more than $2.1k. A Northern Soul 45 gets the #4 spot, this one from Tommy Ridgley and it bids to a penny under $2k.

And last, a sealed Sgt Pepper mono pressing sells for well over $1.7k.

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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 01/17/2009

1. LP - Pink Floyd "Meddle" EMI Columbia Blue Vinyl Pressing - $12,000.00 - Start: $1,500.00 - Bids: 48

2. LP - Michele Auclair "Sonates pour clavier et violin" Les Discophiles Francais - $5,500.00 - Start: $499.00 - Bids: 17

3. LP - Pink Floyd "self titled" Odeon Japan Promo - $4,300.00 - Start: $499.00 - Bids: 20

4. 45 - Elvis Presley "self titled" EP RCA SPD-23 - $4,250.00 - Start: $10.00 - Bids: 23

5. 45 - U2 "I Will Follow" / "Boy/Girl" CBS Ireland tan vinyl - $2,650.00 - Start: $0.01 - Bids: 17


2009 gets its first break of the $10k mark this week, with a rare blue vinyl "Meddle" selling for exactly $12k. The $10k mark was broken only three times last year, once by the #5 White Album, and twice by Northern Soul 45's.

In the #2 spot a French Bach LP set of Bach Sonatas bids up to $5.5k. Next, another Pink Floyd record makes the list, this one a Japanese promo which contained tracks from early Pink Floyd albums Saucerful Of Secrets through Atom Heart Mother, as well as a few singles and B-sides.

Elvis Presley's three EP set, simply titled "Elvis Presley" bids up halfway past $4.2k.

And last, a tan vinyl "I Will Follow" from U2 sells for halfway over $2.6k.

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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 01/10/2009

Top 5 List:

1. 45 - Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers (The Beatles) "My Bonnie" / "The Saints" Decca
(commercial copy) - $5,500.00 - Start: $5,500.00 - Bids: BIN

2. LP - The Sevens "self titled" Layola Switzerland - $2,410.00 - Start: $9.99 - Bids: 39

3. LP - Lightnin' Hopkins "Lightnin' And The Blues" - $2,125.00 - Start: $20.00 - Bids: 29

4. LP - Lee Morgan "Candy" Blue Note BP-1590 - $2,114.00 - Start: $499.00 - Bids: 13

5. LP - Linda Hoyle "Pieces Of Me" Vertigo UK - $1,722.44 - Start: $637.00 - Bids: 11


The first of the Tony Sheridan 45's, backed by the Beatles, tops the list this week, selling on a Buy-It-Now for $5.5k. This is the commercial, black label, Decca 45, the rarer of the two versions, the second being the pink promo release. The Beatles changed their name to the Beat Brothers for this and other Tony Sheridan records, as the primary audience was in Germany, and "Beatles" sounded very close to a German slang word for penis.

In the #2 spot, a Swiss Pysch LP from The Sevens bids past $2.4k. Next, a Lightnin' Hopkins LP on Herald sells for one quarter past $2.1k.

The #4 spot goes to Lee Morgan's "Candy" LP on Blue Note, which closes over $2.1k. And last, a jazz fusion LP from Linda Coyle, her first solo record after being a member of Affinity, bids up past $1.7.

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Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 01/03/2009

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1. 45 - The Fingers "Isolation" / "Wanna Go" "Work It Out" Paradox - $4,895.00 - Start: $3,000.00 - Bids: 6


2. LP - Led Zeppelin "IV" UK 1st Press w/ label errors - $3,175.23 - Start: $122.00 - Bids: 18


3. 45 - The Fix "Vengence" / "In This Town" Go Rekords - $3,150.00 - Start: $1,000.00 - Bids: 13


4. LP - Damon "Song Of A Gypsy" Private - $2,999.00 - Start: $9.99 - Bids: 23


5. 45 - Olivia Newton John "Mon Amour, Mon Impossible Amour" / "Home Ain't Home Anymore" EMI French Picture Sleeve - $2,550.00 - Start: $9.99 - Bids: 21

A rare punk 45 by The Fingers gets the #1 spot, bidding up to almost $4.9k. Next, a UK first press of the Zoso album, repleat with label errors, sells for close to $3.2k.

Another punk 45 gets the #3 spot. This one by The Fix goes halfway past $3.1k. A private press Psych LP from Damon bids up to one dollar less than $3k. And last, something that may be a sign of the apocalypse, or at least a breach of space and time, an Olivia Newton-John 45 makes the list. This 45 with picture sleeve was released in France, and contains "I Honestly Love You" sung in French. It sold for halfway over $2.5k.