Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales

Week Ending 09/13/2008


1) 45 rpm - Elvis Presley RCA EPB-1254 with alternate picture sleeve - $2,483.00

2) 45 rpm - The Idols "Check Her Out" / "Why Am I So Blue" USA - $2,125.00

3) LP - Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus" Prestige 446 - $2,025.00

4) 45 rpm - Bobby Kline "Taking Care Of Business" / "Something Nice To Say" MB - @$1,727.00

5) LP - The Brigade "Last Laugh" Band 'n Vocal - $1,725.00 Start: $9.99

This week we go back down in the middle ground between zilch and $5k, with the highest selling record being 1/2 of an Elvis EP. This is a radio station copy of one record of the EPB-1524 EP set on RCA with an alternate sleeve, the commercial sleeve sporting the famous pink and green typeface and commonly selling for around fifty dollars. This alternate sleeve shoots the price up to a few dollars below $2.5k.

Next, a Northern Soul 45 from the Idols sells for over over $2.1k. A Prestige jazz LP from Sonny Rollins takes the #3 spot bidding up past $2k.

Another Northen Soul 45 gets the #4 spot, this one by Bobby Kline and selling for more than $1.7k. And last, a Psych LP of a 100 copy run from The Brigade closes $2 under its fourth place companion.

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Week Ending 09/20/2008




1) LP - Johanna Martzy "Bach: The unaccompanied Violin Sonatas" Columbia Box set - $4859.99

2) LP - Beatles "Let It Be" Apple Canada - $3,000.00

3) 45 rpm - Johnny Rodgers "Make A Change" / "Soul Food" Amon 4619 - $2,900.00

4) LP - Cressida self titled Vertigo - $2,200.00

5) LP - Leonid Kogan "Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 61" Columbia Sax 2386 UK Pressing - $2,051.00

A rare classical set of Bach sonatas performed by Johanna Martzy takes the top spot but does not break the $5k mark, the boxed set closing over $4.8k. Still, this sale is close to double what the set sold for over 2 years ago. Next, a Canadian "Let It Be" in its original box set sells for exactly $3k. The Canadian version box edtion is the rarest of them all, having had a very low press run.

In the #3 spot, a Northern Soul 45 from Johnny Rodgers on Amon closes at $2.9k. Next, the rare Psych LP on Vertigo from Cressida goes for $2.2k.

In the last spot another classical record on Columbia, Beethoven's Violin Concerto performed by Leonid Kogan sells for a little over $2k.


As always a special thank you to Brian over at http://ccdiscoveries.blogspot.com for the excellent information