On Jan 17, 2008 04:37am, Bob Ackley wrote to Shawn Highfield:

 BA> to find (and grab) five copies of 'Introducing the Beatles' on the
 BA> VeeJay label.  The

  Woooo!

 BA> clerk asked me why I was buying five copies of the same record and I
 BA> said 'That's all you had, just ring it up.'  He rang them up - $2 apiece
 BA> - and put them in a bag for me,
 BA> and then I told him that the records were worth about $200 apiece

  That was in the late 70's too!  Out of curiosity what's the value on those
now?

 BA> (VeeJay issued several Beatles records in the US, but Capitol had an
 BA> *exclusive* contract to do that; Capitol sued VeeJay and ran the
 BA> company out of business; Beatles records on VeeJay labels - primarily
 BA> VeeJay and Swan - are generally worth more than the Capitol recordings,
 BA> if you can find them).

  I am going to go through my box of 45's here one day very soon and double
check that.  I have a vauge feeling I have done it before, but I want to be
sure.   I was lucky that my Mother was a huge music nut and kept good care of
all her records and gifted them all to me when she didn't want to move them.

 BA> I think it was one production run of 45s on the Swan label had the group
 BA> labelled as 'Beattles' - two 't's - and those are *really* worth some
BA> money today.

  I bet!

Shawn
Written on: Friday, 01/18/2008, at 11:36:36

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