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The Daily Mirror and other sources reported a Rare Record Price Guide story in April 2015 that a David A. Stewart 'Test' 78 from 1965 was worth £30,000. A copy of Joseph Beuys' 100-only 'multiple' reel-to-reel edition of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee album from 1969 was valued at over £30,000. [21]
In the UK, labels considered collectible, such as Atlantic Records, Sun Records, Motown, and Parlophone , turned into mainstream major record labels later on in the 1960s. In the US, New York's Times Square store is widely acknowledged for feeding the doo-wop revival of the early sixties, attention focusing on them from 1959.
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Another Sun Record, founded in New York City in 1946, was intended as an outlet for Jewish musicians and singers, including the famous Yiddish singer, Herman Yablokoff, whose immensely popular Papirossen [Sun 1050] was the top selling record for the label. Billing itself as “The Brightest Thing on Records,” it was already fading into ...
In 1973, with the imprimatur of Popular Science magazine, Project 3 released a test record to set up and calibrate 4-channel quadraphonic sound. [3] A year later, the label released a quadraphonic test record produced for Fisher Electronics. [4] The liner notes described the unique test disk: This is a most unusual recording.
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Record-Rama was founded by Paul C. Mawhinney, a collector of vinyl records. He opened the store in 1968 in Ross Township, Pennsylvania. [2] According to the store's website, Mawhinney was a significant help in restarting David Bowie's career by getting fellow Pittsburgher and RCA boss Tom Cossie to re-release the album Space Oddity in 1972 after its initial release in 1969 failed to hit. [3]
The records they produced were sold via convenience stores throughout the United States. [1] Prior to HIT, they started Tennessee Records in 1950 and the Republic label in 1952. In 1959, they took advantage of buying up overstocked hits at low prices and selling them cheaply via the racks throughout the country.