Me.....Terrible Tom (demo), £70,Wigan Casino,1978.........l could have bought a house for that back then!

Me.....Terrible Tom (demo), £70,Wigan Casino,1978.........l could have bought a house for that back then!

7th Ave Aviators, $700, sold it on when the pound collapsed at a profit, from an Ebay seller although not from Ebay itself

she contacted me and did a deal outside of Ebay. Some say I shoulda held on just a little tighter........... Don't think

I ever paid more than that for a single, if I did I can't remember. Best buys I ever did were 3 x Trends + 2 x Willie Kendrick

all for $225...........

What does it matter?

Never paid more than $10 for a record (my wife sometimes reads this forum btw)

Not sure of the date but when it was getting big i paid £80 for

Sherlock Holmes - Standing At The Standstill

I think it was early 80s.

then a few copies started turning up and ended up a couple years later selling it for £20.

What a muppet.

Stu.

£400 for sammy lee..what goes around,,,was after it for 15 years...

£2000 for Court Davis

£2000 for Court Davis

Bravo, don't think I could bring myself to spend that amount of money on a record, no matter how good or rare it was, well done.

Me.....Terrible Tom (demo), £70,Wigan Casino,1978.........l could have bought a house for that back then!

In '78? You wuz robbed Mate!

Regards,

Dave

Edited May 25, 201015 yr by littlestanley

Me.....Terrible Tom (demo), £70,Wigan Casino,1978.........l could have bought a house for that back then!

1978

Terrible Tom £5 - £10

House £5,000 - £10, 000

1975 I think, £6 for Shane Martin on Epic. The UK Demo went for £12 the same night. A couple of weeks later I swapped the Shane Martin(that was just getting massive), for Nancy Wilson "End Of our Love" on US. Total Muppetry!!.

Paul

Edited May 25, 201015 yr by Paul r

Me.....Terrible Tom (demo), £70,Wigan Casino,1978.........l could have bought a house for that back then!

Kinnell were you smashed, it was only worth £20 then and it's only worth £75 now!

Lynne Randell STRANGER IN MY ARMS (picture cover ) £25 at Queens Hall Bradford 1982 ..............dont know if i was robbed or not But it took me 3 months to save that up

1975 I think, £6 for Shane Martin on Epic. The UK Demo went for £12 the same night. A couple of weeks later I swapped the Shane Martin(that was just getting massive), for Nancy Wilson "End Of our Love" on US. Total Muppetry!!.

Paul

I think you mean 1974 Paul, for Shane Martin and Nancy Wilson being massive.

Dave.

Especially when you're cleaning chimneys for 1/6 a week!!

No Webby that was Our Dave As he keeps telling us

I was to busy trying to work and bring two little ones up on my own

Now lets all feel sorry for Julie was hard in the dark days

Edited May 25, 201015 yr by julie moore

I think you mean 1974 Paul, for Shane Martin and Nancy Wilson being massive.

Dave.

I,d agree with that.

I remember flogging a Terrible Tom for £70 to a gullible yoof at Wigan in 1978!

£1000........timmie williams........competition

""""""" joseph moore......i can't get to you

""""""" poets..........wrapped around your finger

""""""" herman lewis.....who's kissing you tonight

""""""" brooks brothers......lookin for a woman

Was it downstairs before the all-nighter started........And why the f**k were your fingers all painted white!?

Just winding you up - you daft bugger

Bravo, don't think I could bring myself to spend that amount of money on a record, no matter how good or rare it was, well done.

Sometimes you just got to have 'em.

I think you mean 1974 Paul, for Shane Martin and Nancy Wilson being massive.

Dave.

More like 76 - Nancy Wilson huge early 76, I remember hearing it 2 or 3 times on one saturday night, Shane Martin was at it's biggest in 77 to be honest

More like 76 - Nancy Wilson huge early 76, I remember hearing it 2 or 3 times on one saturday night, Shane Martin was at it's biggest in 77 to be honest

Both big Mecca spins in 74, I was selling (Aug 74)Shane Martin's at about £5 each at the time. (US not UK copies)

I did not get a Nancy Wilson till Dec 74, and it had been around for a while than.

Dave.

Edited May 25, 201015 yr by davetay

GULP!!!

$350 for Kenny Wells - Isn't it just a shame

and $250 for Charisma Band - Aint nothing like your love

I get nervous going up to $150 now for some reason......

I think you mean 1974 Paul, for Shane Martin and Nancy Wilson being massive.

Dave.

I'm sure it was 75. Shane Martin was pretty big, but nancy Wilson was definately a year or so earlier. Could have been late 74.

I've always loved the nancy Wilson Track though.

Paul

ONCE PAID 15,000 UKP FOR A FRANK WILSON, BUT I'D HAD A LOAD O'GEAR AND A GALLON O' BEER, WONDERED WHAT THE HELL I'D DONE NEXT MORNING

BRI PINCH.

Would agree ´75 for Shane Martin and incidently it was my british ISSUE that sold for 12 pounds!!(To john trice from wolverhampton)

Steve

Come to think of it, it was an issue I remember. Just can't remember what I did yesterday.

Paul

Cynthia and imaginary 3 thats what i am £300.00 but sold it for £300.00 a couple of years later. since then i think £200.00 is most i have paid.

mark

lester tipton .and i am not saying but i also got some more very close to the same price

lester tipton .and i am not saying but i also got some more very close to the same price

aaaahhhhhhh , but i know how much you paid,maybe if you lend it me for a few weeks i wont tell

Lynne Randell STRANGER IN MY ARMS (picture cover ) £25 at Queens Hall Bradford 1982 ..............dont know if i was robbed or not But it took me 3 months to save that up

I bought a Jerry Cook demo at the Torch in '72 cost £18, that was like a months wages back then

(played it all day the Sunday non-stop )

Me.....Terrible Tom (demo), £70,Wigan Casino,1978.........l could have bought a house for that back then!

Nothing more than a few quid mesen,i bought what was reasonably priced at the time,let the people with the money pay it.

Webby seem to remember your Dean buying Country Girl at the casino about 80? not sure what price he paid but it was a fooking lot,ask him?.

Nothing more than a few quid mesen,i bought what was reasonably priced at the time,let the people with the money pay it.

Webby seem to remember your Dean buying Country Girl at the casino about 80? not sure what price he paid but it was a fooking lot,ask him?.

I have never really paid mega money for a particular tune , which I suppose comes from being a careful Yorkshireman

I have had most of what are now the big records in my possession at one time or another , and bought them when the price was respective for them , which was between £10 - £50 .

Malc Burton

about 65p in 1972 for Donny Osmond Puppy Love! and no I wasn't robbed!

Would that be the famous Dean Webb that did The Felix cat food ads?

He just text me back.....£30....Where did he get the money from he was still at school?

That's the fella webby,oh and here he is:lol:.

Thanks to Glynis of facebook.

Dean in the black top,damien from Widnes in the yellow top,not sure who the lad in the white shirt is.

Have e-mailed him webby,text him and let him know i have sent it.Pm so i know the email i have sent it to is ok.

don gardner 2 yeas ago !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

larry clinton issue..............................................

don varner 80 at wigan....................................

but lets talk the best value, after all isnt this what we really want. cliff nobles "judge baby im back", i know its not everyones cup of tea, but proper northern soul for 10 quid has to be good value.

"baby cakes"

"mr big shot" (maggie from carlisle loved this)

"baby what i mean" drifters

"somewhere down the line"

"slow fizz"

"i walked away"

"you just dont know" (the broadways)

there must be hundreds......................come on we all have at least one surely.

£90 for Tammy Levon 'Clothes Don't Make a Man' on Nation at Allanton circa '92, i'm sure there was a trade involved as well to make it up to £100,,,,,,,i think.

BoB Wilson Suzys seranade and Luther ingram - exus Trek demos I bought from Keith Minshull £10 each and I earned £12 per week then!!

Webby

Its all relative though isn't it depending upon when.

For example paying £30 in 1980 surely ain't the same as paying £30 today - and so on...

For me I stepped up a gear when I paid Pete Lawson £80 in two installments circa 1986 for Ron Baxters This Is It! That was the first of many serious expenditures for some very nice tunes all of which on todays market are in the mid to high £100's. Wish I still had em.....

Mick

10 quid for a june jackson demo back in '79 or '80, a fiver was usually my limit back then.