Vinyl Records

Most people dumped their record collections when the cd evolved but some shrewdies kept them.

Rock and pop music , all music really , lost something when digital recordings and cds came in
Vinyl was richer , more beautiful

Even the oldest recording from the early part of the 20c even  scratchy and crackly will sound better than a modern digital recording

Do you own any from the early 20c?

: ) 70s mainly ( not the 1870s)

But an analogue recording from 1870s ( did they record then ? not sure )will be better than a modern digital recording

I think the oldest original recordings in my collection are on a Leadbelly compilation, albeit on a CD, not sure they were all released on vinyl.

beautiful anyway

Possibly they were in some form, but you'd have to be a proper serious collector to find them.

I don't own any vinyl pre 60s, I'm not sure what the oldest one I've got is.

Anyone know the date of the first tune recorded on vinyl and the first released commercially?

I have vinyl records from 50s , 60s , 70s , 80s and probably before that can’t remember they’re in boxes in the roof space of my mums house
They’ve been there and I haven’t seen them for years , hundreds of them

Most people dumped their record collections when the cd evolved but some shrewdies kept them

You mean some right tight b$£*$%&s. Bet you've still got the old plastic ones.

Wouldn’t want to sell them ever probably

And therein lies the disadvantage of vinyl; if you have a very large collection you either need a massive house or you bung them all up in the loft somewhere. Same with books. From that POV you can see the advantage of having everything on digital files, but you still get the feeling that the younger generation are missing out in many ways.

I’ve a lot of old books stored there as well : )

Vinyl records and books , I wouldn’t mind if computers had never been invented if it wasn’t for betfair lol

Yeah, I'd love to have everything on vinyl and paper, but I'd need a massive library in the ancestral mansion to store it all.

Wouldn't bother with VHS

I'd have a private cinema next to the library.

Staff of 6.

Projectionist, sound engineer, waiter, cocktail maker, cleaner, french polisher.

And a collection of vintage motorbikes , that would be fine : )
oh well , nite nite it’s too late

7 here Mouse. Same as you but I have an Oberfuhrer to control them.

True aka - His Masters Voice with the wee dug.

lfc could be sitting on a bigger fortune with his collection.

Records going for crazy prices.

It's tough parting with some but everything is for sale at the right price.

I've got 5000 + 7" singles (all 1956 - 1964)!

Rock 'n' Roll, D*o-w*p and 1960s Pop!

Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen - original single with brown paper bag £10,000.

Frank Wilson - Motown single - Do I love You £15,000.

The Beatles - Love Me Do - one sided acetate single £80,000 - demos of same single with Paul`s name spelt "McArtney" £5000 plus.

The Quarrymen - That`ll Be The Day - original acetate £100,000

Elvis Presley - My Happiness - original 1958 copy £200,000 plus

You could be sitting on a fortune Norfolk. Any original Beatles records from 60s are worth a lot.

mouse muldoon    Joined: 05 Jun 03
Replies: 19961 21 Mar 19 00:42 
I think the oldest original recordings in my collection are on a Leadbelly compilation, albeit on a CD, not sure they were all released on vinyl.


I almost posted a youtube link to Leadbelly on the Titanic thread last night. 'Jack Johnson went to get on board...'

i starred in a vhs video when camcorders first came out.

I beleive its still stored my the met police in their evidence room.

I suppose the irony is in 1000 years time vinyl records will still work well, perhaps virtually as good as new, CDrs, CDs I believe, hard drives, magnetic tapes etc will all have failed. Maybe I should get buried with some of my favourite albums, so when some future Alice Roberts digs me up, then can still get an idea of what fantastic taste I have.

mac - Re your post to Norfolk - "Any original Beatles records from 60s are worth a lot".  This is not true, but Norfolk knows anyway.

mac - Re your post to Norfolk - "Any original Beatles records from 60s are worth a lot".  This is not true, but Norfolk knows anyway.

The myth of vinyl being worth fortunes continues at pace  There is some truth in this of course but very little in % terms is worth very much at all, and many of the prices quoted are based on asking prices as opposed to prices realised. The things that are worth money are very specific - demo's, obscures, mint first pressings by initially unsaleable artistes etc etc.

I had quite a few 60s LPs. Searched them online and not worth the effort of trying to sell.
Gave them to a jumble sale.

Or keep them.

I have over 500 vinyl records that are worthless but playing them and listening to them is something special.

Why something that you enjoy has to have value outside your enjoyment is rather strange.

Blackbarn

£2.50p is a lot to a Scotsman

Just reading back through this thread wtf can't you say Doo****.

Perhaps its w o p that is the problem?  Can you get round it with Doowop.

Blackbarn - I have a few old Racing records. I enjoy listening to them when I feel nostalgic.

My mother gave all my vinyl away to some jumble sale. Several hundred LP's & even greater
number of singles. Some really rare stuff, limited editions, coloured vinyl, bootlegs. A hell
of a collection of all genres of music.
I boxed it and left most of it it in their unused garage as i didn't have the room for it all
in my flat.
She told me she thought it was all CD's now & I wouldn't want the vinyl anymore.
I nearly blew my top but bit my tongue and just wept quietly

That was bad luck N. Coloured vinyl were normally limited special editions. It`s the rare limited editions that are worth quite a lot.

@IS I never liked them. Got them when a relative died.
Played them (got his player too) but not a patch on remastered ones.
Philistine I know but there ye go.

Mar 23, 2019 -- 6:55PM, themightymac wrote:

That was bad luck N. Coloured vinyl were normally limited special editions. It`s the rare limited editions that are worth quite a lot.

there was a lot of it back in late 70's early 80's punk & metal stuff but the more poppy stuff dabbled too.
i remember all sorts of stuff in all sorts of colours

I've still got over 3,000 vinyl records/albums in the UK in various friends' lofts.
Keep the really good stuff (imo) at my sister's house.

You may find this website interesting N.

https://www.rarerecords.net/record-info/colored-vinyl-records/

Mar 23, 2019 -- 5:52PM, blackbarn wrote:

The myth of vinyl being worth fortunes continues at pace  There is some truth in this of course but very little in % terms is worth very much at all, and many of the prices quoted are based on asking prices as opposed to prices realised. The things that are worth money are very specific - demo's, obscures, mint first pressings by initially unsaleable artistes etc etc.

Yeh I paid on average 7-10 quid for mine. Most are worth 50p

I got over £500 for a 1967 copy of Deram, Bowie`s first LP.

I have a few picture discs, one fine young cannibals, spies like us from a movie and a ghostbuster ray parker jr one, all worth less than i paid for them in the 80's.

themightymac • March 24, 2019 12:58 AM GMT
I got over £500 for a 1967 copy of Deram, Bowie`s first LP.

David Bowie is the self-titled debut studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 1 June 1967, on Deram Records.

Some charity shops can have piles of them, I'm not sure how much effort they put into pricing them.
If they do .... maybe the valuable ones go "walkies" anyway!

You are right. I doubt that anybody will find any of value in charity shops. They usually have experts going through all items before putting them on the shelves.

.... but one still finds some decent records at value prices if one is just buying for one`s own enjoyment.

A friend of mine sold their complete collection, over 500 lps, to a high street record shop for £100. They went nuts when they revisited the shop to discover that they were selling them for £10+ each.

I find charity shops a bit depressing as you know when some collections of a certain "age" come in, like records, its likely they are from house clearances when someone has shuffled off to the choir invisible.

I was looking at charity shop records and noticed a couple had someone's name written on, I'd guess from the days when people would take their favourite records to the "disco" and wanted it back at the end of the night You don't get to take your Simple Minds 12" through the pearly gates, even if St Peter has a cracking Disco van.

mac - "I got over £500 for a 1967 copy of Deram, Bowie`s first LP. Grin"

Assuming you mean "David Bowie".  Hope you did not sell it for that after he died.

Yes David Bowie produced by Deram. I sold it before he died. Please don`t tell me what is worth now

Are the old racing records worth anything blackbarn?

This is something I posted on Tommy Toes Pub a couple of months ago that is a bit relevant here.


Last week I bought a record player. I've been looking on gumtree for about 12 months. That means I look every two or three weeks. My budget is less than $200. You'd be amazed at the absolute crap people put up for sale and want less than $200 for. 1970s and 80s stereos that can look kind of retro cool but always comes with some kind of caveat at the end of the ad. Like "doesn't work. $150."

I remember those things from my own time in the 1970s and 80s and no I don't want to pay $150 for some old junk and try to figure out how to get it working and spending more money in the process. Anyway I came across an ad for a record player for $55 this bloke said he bought it to transfer his vinyl onto USB. I called him up and he sounded cool so I went to have a look.

He was at the Gypsy Leather store on Parramatta Rd Auburn. I had a look through the window and it was obvious his clientele was exclusively Outlaw Bikers. I went inside and he was talking to a customer so I had a look around. There was at least 500 Harley Davidson T-Shirts on display. When the customer left I went to the counter and said,"maybe you can help me? I'm really struggling to find a Harley Davidson T-Shirt in this city."  He smiled and said 'you're here about the record player?'

I don't know how this guy got into the business of selling accoutrements to outlaw bikers because he was a little nerdy chap about 5 years older than me. Very nice bloke and I would've liked to continue our chat but a customer came in. The record player was as described- nearly new he just never got around to using it. $55 is a great deal.

I'm absolutely loving it. I've dug out a milk crate of albums and been giving them a twirl. It really takes you back. When having an album and listening to music was a physical thing. Holding the cover in your hands and reading the stuff on it and looking at the pictures. Some of my vinyl discs are dead straight and the needle goes over them smoothly but sometimes it's like there's a heavy swell and the needle or stylus or whatever it's called goes up and down like a hand pump.

I love watching the whole process. I wonder why it was replaced by CD's. They told us CDs wouldn't scratch like records. That was a LIE. What about when you had the CD player on in the car and hit a bump and the track jumped? I must admit I have no idea how a record works. I peer at the spinning vinyl and the needle and look at the speaker and listen to the CHOONS but I have about as much understanding of  how it all works as a pre 1788 Aborigine.