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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 ...
Because it ran 7m 57s, longer than both sides of a standard 78 rpm 10-inch record, it was released on Columbia's Masterwork label (the classical division) as two sides of a 12-inch record. [ 47 ] In the 78 era, classical-music and spoken-word items generally were released on the longer 12-inch 78s, about 4–5 minutes per side.
Carlos Martín Ballester (born 1974): 75,000 78 rpm records (carlosmb archive) plus 5,000 78 rpms records and 200 cylinders (private collection). [27] It is the largest collection of 78 rpm records pressed in Spain. Part of the archive is on sale and new items are added regularly. [28] Elton John (born 1947): 70,000 items. [29]
Released in limited quantities, the CD is considered a rare gem among collectors, with prices ranging from around $50 to over $150 for a single copy. Fun fact: Prince believed the album was ...
The only known copy of Presley's first recording—a 78 rpm acetate from 1953 featuring "My Happiness" backed with "That's When Your Heartaches Begin"—sold for $300,000 at a Graceland auction in 2015.
An incoming donation of 78 rpms gathered in Denmark. The bulk of the project's singles are sourced from private collections, some of 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.
Oct. 13—Richard Hinds settles the tonearm gently into the grooves of the 78 record, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers rises from the rotating disc and buzzes the room.
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.