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was wallowing in nostalgia on the music thread n reminded me of a story. i was saving up in 62 to buy my first motor bike (triumph terrier) so i sold me dansette record player n a box of me records to the second hand shop on Burnley Rd. many years later was on holiday with me family in blackpool n bought a Record Collecter Magazine to read after the evening meal,one evening was reading an article on the value of old records and was Gobsmacked to read that one of my old 45s in Mint Condition was valued at £750,n realised this record was in that box. have never been as sick in my life. anyone else done summat as dumb? Hindsight is a wonderful thing. P.S.the second hand shop gave me a £5 for everything.:(

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i don't think it would be worth £45... but I bought an ep.. david jones (bowie) for 5p at a junk shop in ossy around 1973.. of course lost at a party or slung in the bin..I did buy some jimi hendrix boot leg albums late 60's stuff for a couple of pints and lost them.. maybe they will turn up somewere

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I lent 90% of my vynil to someone and never got them back. :(

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vinyls!!, my god my mother has loads of elvis one and 50's and 60's, wonder if they are worth anything??:rolleyes:
I still have mine from the 80's...but I doubt they are worth out!:p :Banane34:

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I still have my stash of vinyls too, haven't the heart to get rid of them but probably not worth anything anyway apart from maybe the soundtrack from a film called 'Lemon Popsicle' which is made from yellow vinyl

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aye...there nowt better than the sound of a crackling vinyl.....:rolleyes: and jumping of the needle!!...lol

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How come I suddenly can't spell vinyl?

I remember once chatting to a young lad at work about 60s music and telling him he had no idea what it really sounded like because he'd never listened to it on an old crackly tranny! :D

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isn't it embarrasing when your child comes up to you whilst rooting through your stuff and asks 'mum what are those round black things that look like frisbies?'

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mtheads still got loads of 80's vinyls and picture discs ...... might see how much I can flog 'em for without him knowing :D

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mine ended up wonky because i left them near the radiator :o , also made fruit bowl out of one too!!:cool:

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most records are not worth much especially those that were big sellers, obscure stuff n early stuff relating to people who become big stars later,thats summat else.

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My dad, who is in his 80s now, gave away all his mint condition baseball cards and his "Big and Little Books" (not sure what they were but worth alot now). These all would have been items from the 1930s and I guess he gave em away as he grew from childhood.

Thankfully he's still got his 1930ish Lionel Train set which has all the cars and still runs well. That's despite me and my siblings playing with it alot!

Brian

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One day in 1966, I was mooching around in Bandbox (a long-gone record shop opposite the market hall) when I came across a box of singles marked down to 1/6 from their usual price of 6/8. One that caught my eye was called Liza Jane by Davie Jones & the King Bees. Decided to take a gamble and bought it unheard. Got it home, bunged it on the Dansette, dismissed it as garbage and promptly chucked it. It now turns out that it was Bowie's first ever record and it's worth £1,000 in mint condition. Doh!

What was your lost gem, Mr C?

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My brother Kevin, has still got Johnny B Goode, ( LONDON, AMERICAN ) Only make believe, Conway Twittie, ( MGM ), Hound Dog b/w Blue Suede Shose, His Masters Voice. All on 78s. in his Cot loft. Also a 78, about Manchester United, and the Busby Babes. I think he might have Johonny Duncan, footprints in the snow and Diana. Paul Anka, both on Columbia, A green label. He wont let go of them.

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Yea I realise that Cashman, they're really just sentimental value - it was just that the yellow one was a limited edition but it's probably warped now anyway :)

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Ah! But has anybody got any 78’s?

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Has your brother ever considered getting his old 78’s put onto CD’s?

I’ve just digitised mine and stored them on a DVD for the time being until I can get round to making a few CD’s.

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Went to see Johnnie Duncan and the blue grass boys at the Nelson Imp....i loved that song ,I traced her little footprints in the snow,,,,,

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I still buy 78s (on ebay)! There's nothing quite like plonking a piece of shellac down on the old turntable and watching it whizz round ten to the dozen, as you lower the needle into the grooves and hear that familiar frying bacon sound!

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got rid of my 78s many years ago, not worth much,also weight n storage was a factor.plus they break easy n the kids were little.;)

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Can you still get the steel needles?

That’s why anyone who has them should think about digitising the music cashy. I know that old records may be valuable in their own right but so is the music.

Anyone got any of the single sided 78’s or even the 12” ones?

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Don't think you can get steel needles now. I play mine on a little portable record player with a needle which plays either vinyl or shellac.

To be quite honest, 78s are an inconvenient way to listen to music - they're heavy, unwieldy and very, very fragile and the sound quality's usually not up to much. I just like 'em!

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I’m disappointed Wynnonie Harris! I thought you played your 78’s on a windup gramophone with a horn and everything and maybe even little Nipper listening with you. Think of the exercise that you could get winding the handle. To those who haven’t a clue what I’m on about, Nipper was the name of the dog as he listened to His Master’s Voice on the gramophone. Used as the HMV logo. See picture.

The sound quality may not be a patch on the sterile sounds from modern record players but it had that special olde worlde character about it that makes 78’s music so special. Well it does for old gits like me. And that is why I sampled all of my 78’s and turned them into digital sound, to preserve that sound. Apart from that the fragility of 78’s means that they are always liable to be broken accidentally and once broken that is that. Except that is not necessarily so. I have a Beniamino Gigli 78 that is cracked from the hole in the centre right across the record so there are about 200 loud licks as the stylus crosses the crack. But I have been able to eliminate each one so that you cannot hear it. Well I haven’t actually finished yet but those clicks that I have sorted, you can’t hear. They are still there, it’s just that you can’t hear them. I should finish it any year now.

The needles that were mentioned weren’t referring to styli for turntables WillowTheWhisp. You can still get those at any decent record shop. These were actual steel needles – a bit like a very fat pin without the head that got clamped in the diaphragm of the pick-up arm. Believe it or not after a number of plays of the old 78’s the steel needle had the point worn off and you had to replace it with a new one. All gramophones had a small well in the unit that held spare needles.

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It's odd how I can remember such an annoying sound at the time with fondnous. I especailly like to pull out old cassette tapes of songs from various records and 8 track tapes. It's got the popping and all. I remember 100 years ago when I taped the songs how I tried so hard to minimize the "frying bacon sound!":rolleyes: :p

Thank Wynonie!

Brian

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When I was a teenager, in the 50s, I had loads of 78s, Elvis, Little Richard, Buddy Holly etc., etc., all the rock'n'roll hits. I got married in 1962 and didn't have a record player, or much storage space, in my new home so I left the records in my parents' attic.

In 1964 my parents moved to Feniscowles and, without a word to me, gave my collection to a jumble sale. :eek:

My son assures me that the collection I had would now be worth over £500. I never quite forgave mum and dad. :(

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Somewhere I've got an old wooden box with "Perophone" indented into the lid. It used to contain gramophone needles and is all I have left now of an old windup gramophone with horn that I used to have. I kept it at my Gran's in the 'glory hole' where I used to play my 78s on it but when she died it was chucked out along with the rest of her stuff :(

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JamButty, I am listening with a little nipper (7-year-old grandson) and he's just managed to put a large chip in one of my best Wynonie Harris's! Doh...back to the modern convenience of 45s!