Beatles Record Collecting

[Harbidge]

I have a few rarities lurking in my Beatles collection. I was wondering whether anyone could tell me how much they are, or where I could find out (In England by the way. Not America):

A gold-on-black label copy of Please Please Me in fair condition.

A copy of Beatles Oldies but Goldies with the label for side 1 on both sides of the record. The record plays the different sides though.

The single All You Need Is Love without the TV credit.

An original Polydor EP release of Tony Sheridan with the Beatles with My Bonnie, Cry for a Shadow, Ain't She Sweet and Searching on it.

I might have more. I'll keep you posted.

I can't thank you enough for a good responce.

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I also have a copy of the White Album with inserts in very good-excellent condition (the poster and photos are immaculate) in the MONO format which I've been told is a very rare album. It can't be that rare as I've got 2 of them!

[This message has been edited by Harbidge (edited June 24, 2000 at 03:15 PM).]

[Jerry]

That's some pretty impressive stuff. I would bet that the Oldies LP with the double label is worth a lot. There must be a web site out there that can give you more information. Why don't you try looking at this website under Memorablia? I have a pretty big collection myself. I was a vinyl junkie about 10 years ago, and I stopped counting how many I had somewhere between 400 and 500. That's Beatles and solo stuff only, including bootlegs. Then there's the CDs...

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[Azing Moltmaker (author)]

Hi,
The gold parlophone label album is the rares, pressings with a wrong label, are found many times, in my collection I own a BEATLES GREATEST with labels pressed in the grooves itself, I did publised that one in my book ACROSS THE UNIVERSE 1. Many of these mispressings are made on the yellow vinyl single tropical island hum of Paul. They are made with double labels, or no labels at all, a good one with corect labels..thats rare.. By some copys of the Dutch Beatles Greatest albums they used the same A or B matrix, so, some play side A on both sides, or side B , I own a Abbey Road CD with the music of Edit Piaff, as you see, many are around

[Harbidge]

The gold parlophone label album is the rares, pressings with a wrong label, are found many times
Which 'gold label' variation are you referring to, because there are 4 different mono and 4 different stereo label matchings out there. The standard two are Dick James / Dick James credits or Northern Songs / Northern Songs on either side. Recently. Dick James / Northern Songs and Northern Songs / Dick James variations have been discovered.

By some copys of the Dutch Beatles Greatest albums they used the same A or B matrix
You mean the Eskimo cover, yea? You have to be careful because this cover and disc have been counterfeited. Originals have a more realisticly coloured front and a flip-back sleeve whilst fakes have a washed out front and no flip-backs. The disc also does not have a ridge - something authentic copies do.

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God, only 4 years ago and that was my rarest stuff. How that's changed. Now my rarest stuff list looks like:

A stereo west coast 2nd variation copy of the US LP 'Meet the Beatles'. So rare that Bruce Spizer needed to create a computer generated mock-up for his Capitol book. To date, only 5 copies have surfaced, one of which is mine.

An all-black brackets logo version 2 copy of Introduding the Beatles. Only a few hundred were ever pressed at Southern Plastics before production ceased. My copy is only one of 10 copies known to exist.

A version 1 brackets logo copy of Introducing the Beatles. Only 4,925 copies ever pressed and only 20 copies believed to exist today.

A Tollie promo of the Beatles single Love Me Do / P. S. I Love You

That's my utmost rarest stuff. I've got other really rare things like a Gold label PPM (I know have a VG+ copy, the Fair conditioned one is currently hanging on the wall in my record shop), 5 Butcher covers, a 606-1 copy of Revolver etc. I could go on, but I'm tired.

[forumguy13]

I found a new website www.dougsqccollectibles.com The guy has over 100,000 records, not all are listed just yet, but he had everything I emailed him about, including a lot of Beatles records. He has ton of other Beatles collectibles as well. Give it a look.


www.dougsqccollectibles.com

[Harbidge]

Wow, 8 years ago almost! I've gained quite a few years experience since then!

[El Gos Coix]

Wow, 8 years ago almost! I've gained quite a few years experience since then!

I, on the contrary, am a newcomer to the world of vinyl collectors. I wish I had more money... Because until now all I've got is rather common. The only thing that may be a little rare, and I don't know how much, is a copy of "Revolver" from the Dominican Republic I bought on Tuesday. It was cheap, and it looked kind of funny to have a record from that country.

I've got a few books about this, namely, several by Bruce Spizer about the US releases, a price guide for American records (by Perry Cox and Frank Daniels), the two books by Cristoph Maus about worldwide releases and a small guide about Spanish 45-rpm records. Is there any other book I should have? I've read high praises about Azing Moltmaker's books, but they don't seem to be available any more (at least at Amazon). Is there any other must I haven't got? Or any expert over here?

[Harbidge]

It is currently the time to buy, at least it is over here in the UK. Record prices are really down. Whereas before you could sell a £300 record full value, unless it's absolutely immaculate it'll currently sell for more around the £40 mark.

[El Gos Coix]

That's good news for us who are in the buying, not selling, stage.

Just one question, is it normal to ask to listen to a record in the shop, before buying it? I've got a single that looks very good, with now important scratch, but nevertheless the needle jumps always in the same place. Or is it a matter of putting more or less weight? I don't know anything about turntables!