Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales

Week Ending 10/18/2008

1. LP - Velvet Underground & Nico Verve Mono Promo - $4,050.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 19

2. 10" - Bob Dylan studio acetate "Gospel Plow" - $3,500.00 Start: $3,500.00 Bids: BIN

3. LP - Richard Marrero & The Group "A Taste" TSG - $3,449.00 Start: $24.99 Bids: 26

4. 45 rpm - Flowers "For Real (Vocal)" / "For Real (Instrumental)" - $2,750.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 21

5. LP - Johnny Burnette "Rock 'N Roll Trio" Coral Canadian Pressing - $2,500.00 Start: $2,500.00 Bids: BIN

A promo copy of the original Velvel Underground & Nico LP with Warhol banana peel tops the list this week at over $4k. This sale closes at $100 less than a similar copy sold for in 2005. A one-of-a-kind takes the #2 spot, John Hammond's own acetate from Dylan's first album recording sessions, selling at its asking price of $3.5k on a Buy-It-Now.

Next, a rare Jazz-Funk LP from the seventies bids up past $3.4k, and in the #4 spot a modern soul 45 from Flowers sells for more than $2.7k.

Last, another Johnny Burnette "Rock 'N Roll Trio" LP, a list topper from two weeks ago, gets it asking price at $2.5k, this one a Canadian pressing.

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Week Ending 10/11/2008

1. 45 rpm - Junior McCants "Try Me For Your New Love" / "She Wrote It - I Read It" King 6106 WLP - $15,099.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 25

2. 45 rpm- The Primers "How Does It Grab You" / "Roll Around Heaven" Hale 101 - $5,310.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 27

3. LP - Jackie McLean "New Tradition" Ad Lib - $2,501.00 Start: $20.00 Bids: 12

4. LP - The Chantels "We Are The Cantels" End - $2,326.99 Start: $750.00 Bids: 11

5. 45rpm- Elvis Presley "Good Rockin Tonight" / "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine" Sun 210 - $2,150.00 Start: $2,150.00 Bids: BIN


Wall Street sucks, The City strains, but we got soul! The highest selling record of the year closes a dollar below $15.1k the week that the worlds economy chokes on its own vomit. As my grandmother used to say, "There'll always be somebody with money."

The top spot this week goes to 100 club member Junior McCants with his legendary "Try Me For Your New Love" King 45. The story, and those outside Northern Soul circles likely don't know it, is that Junior McCants died suddenly of a brian tumor, causing King to pull this record before it was ever released, it some years later becoming a club rarity.

Next, another Northern Soul 45 from The Primers gets a good price at over $5.3k. A jazz LP from Jakie McLean places in the #3 spot closing a dollar over $2.5k.

The Chantels "We Are The Chantels" LP bids up over $2.3k for the number 4 spot. On a Buy-It-Now, an Elvis Sun 45 sells for halfway over $2.1k and gets the number 5 spot.

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Week Ending 10/04/2008

1. LP - Johnny Burnette "Rock 'N Roll Trio" LP Coral US Pressing - $2,830.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 26

2. 45 rpm - Devotions "Do Do De Dop" / "Can You Explain It" National - $2,225.00 Start: $999.00 Bids: 7

3. LP - The Beatles self titled 'White Album' UK Parlaphone (for export) - $2,025.00 Start: $999.00 Bids: 8

4. 45 rpm - David Bowie "Changes" / "Andy Warhol" Japanese Picture Sleeve - $1,850.00 Start: $1,850.00 Bids: BIN

5. 45 rpm - Wayne Williams "Red Hot Mama" / "Tell Me What To Do" Sure - $1,580.00 Start: $9.99 Bids: 18

A popular LP collectible tops the list this week, Johnny Burnette's "Rock 'N Roll Trio" in near mint condition sells for over $2.8k. This record is not all that rare, as the graph shows, however manufacturing practices at Coral in the fifties make a near mint version like this one (and others on the top peaks of the graph) a rare and valuable find. By comparison, UK versions in near mint condition tend to sell at about two-thirds their US counterparts, as UK jackets used glossy material and wide tabs to hold the jacket together.

In the #2 spot a Northern Soul 45 from Devotions closes past $2.2k.

The #3 spot goes to a Beatles' White Album, this one a UK pressing on Parlophone. The Parlophones of Apple days are pressings that got exported to Commonwealth countries. This one sells for a little over $2k. Just to note, the rarest of these Parlophone pressings is Yellow Submarine, which typically fetches $10k.

A David Bowie Japanese 45 gets the #4 spot, selling on a Buy-It-Now for over $1.8k and the #5 goes to another Northern Soul 45. This one from Wayne Williams, and it sells for over $1.5k.

SOURCE: As always, I want to thank Brian over at http://ccdiscoveries.blogspot.com/for this valuable information.