Most Valuable Motown Vinyl Records

Led zeppelin led zeppelin 1969 led zeppelin s eponymous debut featured a mix of original material and covers of blues songs including a re recording of the track dazed and confused originally written and recorded by jake holmes which was also covered by jimmy page s old band the yardbirds.

Most valuable motown vinyl records.

Amidst the burgeoning vinyl boom nobleoak an australian life insurance company worked with ian shirley the editor of record collector magazine s rare record price guide to determine the 50. The most valuable vinyl records on earth from the beatles to the sex pistols these droolworthy albums are among the most expensive vinyl records of all time by parker hall april 10 2019. The most wanted pre war. Motown historian and liner notes writer bill dahl presents 10 of the rarest records on the seminal motor city label.

Oddly enough the iconic record was met with mixed reviews rolling stone called. There are many valuable vinyl records out there including perhaps the most expensive motown northern soul 7 inch ever do i love you indeed i do recorded by frank wilson in 1965 and which sold for over 25 000 31 000 at auction in 2009. It was wilson s only single and the majority of demo copies were destroyed which is why it s so collectible. Top dollar vinyl records the rarest of the rare.

It s a 78 rpm record and is rare because it was one of the first records recorded electronically with microphones amplified by vacuum tubes. Motown was small but it was a juggernaut and as the name of their original main headquarters and studio hitsville u s a makes clear the goal was to make hit songs that didn t just appeal to black audiences but that would also cross over to the mainstream. Mods in the north of england created a movement based around non mainstream motown style music called northern soul. We didn t of course and that s because nearly all of the top 100 of the world s most valuable vinyl records are individually cut acetates test pressings pre production not commercially released items that were never formally released or other items that likely would only have been available to record company.

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