Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 07/30/2011

A Bach classical set tops the list but at $4k less than its selling price in February of 2010. Two Northerns show up on this week's list; the Larry Clinton 45 sold last week as well, and the Al Scott shows up for the first time since 2007.

1. LP - Annlies Schmidt "Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Alone" Ducretet-Thomson 300 C 043/4/5 - $7,120.00

2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black Stereo - $5,274.14

3. 45 - Al Scott "What Happened To Yesterday" / "You're Too Good" Genuine 150 - $4,200.00

4. LP - Mozart a Paris Oubradous Pathe 7 LP Box Set - $4,139.98

5. 45 - Larry Clinton "She's Wanted" / "If I Knew" Dynamo 300 - $3,728.99

More on this week's Top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 07/23/2011

Two "Please Please Me" LPs make the list this week, including taking the #1 spot. One of the last records to be released on the plum colored Atlantic label, Led Zepplin's "III" ties with one of "Please" records for #2. 45's take the rest of the list, with a Third Man opening night test/promo package beating Northern and Doo-Wop rarities.

1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black Stereo - $4,951.02

2. LP - Led Zeppelin "III" Atlantic Plum Label UK First Pressing - $3,349.70

2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black Stereo - $3,349.70

3. 45 - Dead Weather "Giant Eagles . . . Tiny Elephants" / "Walking All Over Creation" Test Pressing "Opening Night" $3,056.66

4. 45 - Larry Clinton "She's Wanted" / "If I Knew" Dynamo 300 - $2,605.00

5. 45 - The Celtics "Send Me Someone To Love" / "Can You Remember" Al Jack's 0002 - $3,075.00

More on this week's Top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 07/16/2011

There is no Top 5 for this week. I refuse to sift through turds to come up with the ingredients for a good meal. No one wants to eat from a dung heap or cook from it. This ain't sports collecting. Aside from my admitted bias that the average record collector has a few dozen more IQ points than the average sports collector, we play our artifacts, not encase them in plastic. So by the very reality that the items we purchase will most likely be degraded by our use and human frailty before we pass them on, we are forced to become a more savvy and knowing bunch.

So when the top of the spectrum is filled with records that have the same handful of bidders jumping the price from tens or hundreds of dollars to around $10,000.00 dollars, I'm going to figure I know what's going on, and this tactic hasn't yet worked for the red label Pressley 45 so it ain't going to work for a handful of Northern European death metal records.

This is only the second week in four plus years that does not have a Top 5 on this blog.

More on this week's Top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Daniel Edlen - "Circle Skirt" on Tobi Legend "Time Will Pass You By"

Daniel Edlen - "Wigan Interior" on Jimmy Radcliffe "Long After Tonight Is Over"

Daniel Edlen - "Back Drop" on Dean Parrish "I'm On My Way"

Daniel Edlen - "Wigan Exterior" on Frank Wilson "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)"

Rebroadcast of VRT Today, Same Time, 8pm ET / 5pm PT

It's all Malice Cooper's fault! Oh hell, Internet Radio is a labor of love of all sorts of weird and unpaid people, and we jumble it all together and sometimes it don't work. So a scripting error caused our show to cut off after a few minutes and also Ralph Greco and Nick Tann's shows. So Radio Dentata will be rebroadcasting Tuesday's music schedule tonight.

And Malice Cooper's show is very cool, and who can get mad at a woman who looks like this (or who would dare):

New Yes, It Is A New Vinyl Record Talk Tuesday July 19th 8pm ET/ 5pm PT

New show today as we regain our balance from a week at the farm and a night on Cult-Radio-A-Go-Go.

Help us solve the Lewis Carroll like riddle - Why is a dog like an iPhone? And find out the tragic irony or Norm's life!

No poll, news or top five, but Norm has programmed a Prog Rock set with Hawkwind and King Crimson - great way to fill 20 minutes.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 07//2011

Warhol beats Elvis and the Beatles!! What is going on around here!

1. LP - Margarita Madrigal "Madrigal's Key to Spanish" Warhol Cover - $3,750.00

2. 45 - Johann strauss Jr "Waltzes By" Camden Warhol Cover - $3,500.00

3. 45 - Elvis Presley "self titled" EP SPD-23 Triple Pocket - $2,250.00

4. 45 - The Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That" Pye Acetate - $2,125.00

5. LP - The Beatles "White Album" #00000669 Mono UK Top Loader - $2,124.35

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Daniel Edlen Will Be Joining Us On CRAGG Sat 6pm PT

Artist Daniel Edlen will join Terry and Tiffany, along with Jane and Norm on Cult Radio A Go Go this Saturday 6pm PT (www.cultradioagogo.com). Daniel Edlen will be discussing his current work with the David Lynch foundation as well as the Northern Soul art he's created for Norm and Jane (shown above). This series is based on the 3 Before 8 and the last song played at Wigan Casino.

Jane and I on CRAGG this Sat, no new VRT this week

Jane and I are spending a much deserved week where the most important thing to remember is to strain the goat milk.

No new VRT this week. We are very excited that we will be on Cult Radio A Go Go this Saturday for the full 4hrs with Terry and Tiffany DuFoe. There will be video simulcast on the CRAGG site, where we will discuss many objects strange and rare. Terry and Tiffany are archivists and currators of horror, cult and camp films. More knowledge about lost pop culture history will be in one room than may be safe for space and time. Disaster begins 6pm PT Saturday.

Here's my view until then.

New Vinyl Record Talk Tuesday July 5th 8pm ET/ 5pm PT

Want to hear what $8000 dollars sounds like? Norm and Jane play a repress of this week's #1 on the Top 5, J D Bryant's Shrine 45 "I Won't Be Coming Back". Plus original vinyl pressings from Thirteenth Floor Elevators and The Unchained Mynds.

We also play a very bizarre find, a sort of modern soul, sort of early-rap 45 that we cannot find a shred of information about - Toto Lotto "Superman" on the Albedo label from 1978.

Plus Jim Morrison's 40th death annivsary in the news, and we ask which rock icon likely faked his own death in this week's poll.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 07/02/2011

Two singles from the legendary Shrine label made it out into the world and to the top of the list this week. All but about 50 copies of the first and only run of singles pressed by Shrine survived a warehouse fire that destroyed the complete production run and the label itself.

A rare Prog LP on the Vertigo label gets the #3 spot, and a Kogan violin concerto makes the list for a second week in a row. The #5 spot goes to a rare Rockabilly 45.

1. 45 - J D Bryant "I Won't Be Coming Back" / "Walk On It" Shrine 108 - $8,001.00

2. 45 - Bill Dennis "I'll Never Let You Get Away" / "Poor Little Fool" Shrine - $7,866.00

3. LP - Dr Z "Three Parts To My Soul" Vertigo - $2,810.00

4. LP - Leonid Kogan "Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto" SAX 2323 UK Pressing - $2,422.95

5. 45 - Jimmy Johnson "All Dressed Up" / "Woman Love" Starday 561 - $2,391.16

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 06/25/2011

Birthed from the tar pits of Beverly Hills High School in the late sixties, the rare garage 45 from The Sloths, including the much rarer picture sleeve, makes the top of the list this week. Two classical LPs follow, both original Columbia UK Pressings. A funk 45 out of the Carolina's and a "Please Please Me" round out this week's Top 5.

1. 45 - The Sloths "Making Love" / "You Mean Everything" Impression 104 w/ Pic Sleeve - $6,500.00

2. LP - Johanna Martzy "Bach: The unaccompanied Violin Sonatas" Columbia Box set UK - $4,573.11

3. LP - Leonid Kogan & Elisabeth Gilels "Sonatas For Two Violins" Columbia SAX 2531 UK Pressing - $3,847.83

4. 45 - Carleen and the Groovers "Right On" / "The Things" Music World - $3,716.00

5. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black Stereo "Dick James" - $3,610.35

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.