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The Quarrymen – "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger" (UK 78–rpm, acetate in plain sleeve, 1958). Only one copy made. The one existing copy is currently owned by Paul McCartney. Record Collector magazine listed the guide price at £200,000 in issue 408 (December 2012). McCartney had some "reissues" pressed in 1981 on UK 10-inch ...
Do Not Sell At Any Price was widely and favorably reviewed. [4] [5] [6] Randall Roberts described the book in the Los Angeles Times as a "thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records."
Record Collector is a British monthly music magazine focussing on rare and collectable records, and the bands who recorded them. It was founded in Sept 1979 and distributes worldwide. [ 1 ] It is promoted as "the world’s leading authority on rare and collectable records" and claims to be currently "the UK’s longest-running music magazine".
An incoming donation of 78 rpms gathered in Denmark. The bulk of the project's singles are sourced from private collections, some which had previously been donated to libraries or even abandoned. These include: [4] The Joe Terino Collection, a collection of 70,000 78 rpm singles stored in a warehouse for 40 years.
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of swing and jazz music recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938. First issued in 1950, the landmark recording captured the premiere performance given by a big band in the famed concert venue. The event has ...
One of the company's products was the "Recordio", introduced in 1939. It enabled the consumer to make home 78 rpm phonograph records, even recording off-the-air radio programs with the included AM radio. In 1948, Wilcox-Gay introduced the "Recordette", a portable version of the combination recorder, radio, and phonograph. [39]
The Gramophone Record Library. London: Grafton & Co., 1951. 123 p. N.B.: This book is aimed at sound recordings collections in libraries, but much of the advice may be of some use to the private collector. Petrusich, Amanda. Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records. New York: Scribner, 2014. Rees, Tony.
They are best known today for their recording of "Stormy Weather". "Stormy Weather" is today considered one of the most collectible doo-wop singles ever released. [1] According to the Acoustic Music organization, this version of the song [2] "is one of the rarest of all R&B records. Only three 78rpm and no 45rpm copies are known to exist".