Tuesday, July 27, 2010

top 25 78's on eBay last week

Here's this week's high priced 78's on eBay:

Columbia 14439 Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie When The Levee Breaks 3549
Victor 21066 Memphis Jug Band Beale Street Mess Around 1702
Paramount 12594 Dixieland Thumpers Oriental Man/Sock That Thing 1676
Gennett 6056 Tony Preer & the Cotton Club I Found A New Baby 1335
Okeh 8959 Charlie Burse w/Memphis Jug Insane Crazy Blues Go 971
Okeh 8889 Bo Carter Howling Tom Cat Blues 789
Melotone 07-06-7 George Noble Seminole Blues 783
Vocalion 1094 Henry Thomas John Henry 750
Vocalion 15728 Joe Mannone & Club Royale FareThee Well Foxtrot 750
Victor 221/222/223 Winnie The Pooh Winnie the Pooh Story Book 700
Victor 23342 Bennie Moten Kanas City Band Small Black – stomp 687
Columbia 14426 Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill Chitlin' Supper 676
Okeh 45468 Walter Jacobs & Carter Bros. Dear Little Girl 622
Edison 52646 Eva Taylor West End Blues 611
New Bourbon Finocchio's World's Foremost Female Impersonators 562
Mercury A-22 Frankie Laine Wrap Your Troubles In Dream 537
Sun Elvis Presley That's All Right/Blue Moon 511
Vocalion 15819 Jimmie Noone & Apex Club Ain't Misbehavin' 500
JVB 34 Gales Killer 462
Victor 38145 Missourians Two Hundred Squabble 450
Columbia 14358 Johnny Dunn You Need Some Loving 450
USA Radio R Elvis Presley What I'd Say/Nothing 441
Columbia 14203-D Blind Willie Johnson Dark Was the Night 411
Meteor 5035 Wayne McGinnis Rock Roll & Rhythm 404
Okeh 8772 J.C. Higginbothan Higginbothan Blues 400

Look for my 78 rpm price guide coming out next month - based on sales figures...not "I'd like to get this for my record".

Friday, July 2, 2010

this week's roundup of the top ten selling 78's

Roundup of the top ten 78's on eBay last week...

1)Sun 184 Big Memphis Marainey Baby No No $3056
2)Paramoun 12955 Arnold Wiley Spider In Your Dumpling/Jumping Blues 2083
3)Okeh 45289 Carter Brothers & Son Old Jaw Bone/Fiddler a Dram 1252
4) Brunswick 7087Jabbo Smith Rhythm Aces Lina Blues/Croonin' the Blues 954
5)Okeh 8960 Memphis Jug BandMary Anna Cut Off/Memphis Showdown 954
6)Black Patti 8040 Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon Can't You Wait til You Get Home/I'm Gonna Steal You 811
7)Victor 40324 Grayson & Whitter I Saw a Man at the Close of Day/I've Always Been A Rambler 787
8)Brunswick 7132 George E. Lee OrchestraPaseo Strut/If I Could Be With You 750
9)Melotone 5.11.58 Buddy Moss See What You Done Done/Going to Your Funeral in a Vee Eight Ford 711
10)Sun 209 Elvis Presley That's All Right/Blue Moon 625


Speaking of Sun & Elvis, a lot of all 5 Elvis Suns went for a shade over $2000...prices have dropped. I sold a Sun 209 about 12 years ago for 2600 in excellent condition.

Also note, I have excluded classical 78s from the above list, as I know very little about classical 78s.