Replying to a message of Shawn Highfield to Bob Ackley:

 SH> 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

 SH>   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
 BA>> apiece - and put them in a bag for me, and then I told him that the
 BA>> records were worth about $200 apiece

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

I have no idea.  Since they were worth (according to the record catalogs printed
at the time) about $200 apiece then I would imagine that they'd be worth
significantly more today.

 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 -
 BA>> primarily VeeJay and Swan - are generally worth more than the
 BA>> Capitol recordings, if you can find them).

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

Good luck.  I rarely buy 45s any more (I don't think they've been made since
the late 1980s or thereabouts) - because I have nearly 17,000 of them and
chances are that most anything I get is going to duplicate what I already have.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+