Most expensive record ever broken?

[Frankie Crocker]

I think this applies, .....bought a copy of Soul Incorporated- My Proposal about 2 1/2 years ago from Ebay, came from the states and (delivered)!! by FedEx....this is the fist time ive posted photos of it since that day....Painful don't come close, arrived in 2 pieces.....the good news is I got a full refund....these photos may be too much for some lol

I share your pain. This is absolutely awful. Fortunately, I am on holiday otherwise I would phone in sick... It looks like it was folded in two. I always ask the sender to use multiple cardboard stiffeners taped together in a 7 inch record mailer to improve the chances of safe arrival. 

[hovis09]

hi

years ago i was at the blue rooms in sale with dave mccaddam and richard searling was the star dj that night 

At the time The Jades I'm Where its at was a monster and Dave borrowed it off him  till the following wigan nighter

on our way home we popped into the chippy and yes he put it on the warming counter while ordering and when he looked back it had melted and bent in half i don't know how dave explained it away but they were still talking 

[Jim Elliott]

Totally mint copy of Bobby Lee Fears " Exodus" turned up in its original sleeve...I'd never seen such a clean record.

One play, tried to prise the adaptor out.....

 

CRACK!!  all the way through. The language was horrific.

Luckily Ivor came to my rescue shortly after.

[snooky]

Dave Greet had to replace a copy of Al Williams.....someone sat on it...

[Mal C]

thats Soul Inc is dam hard to follow...

Remember having just bought Rotations - Dime on D9 at the 100 club, took it out the sleeve, and it flew out of my hand,  rolled about 3/4 feet from me, then in a circle till it came to a stop.. the frightening thing was there were people everywhere, I thought it was going to get stamped on, luckily I picked it up sharpish, and no harm came to it.. Phew....!!

Mal

Edited July 29, 2015 by Mal C

[eastrob]

i bought a Natural Four at WC. A minter ABC issue,put it in my mates girlfriends bag for safe keeping.

came out on the bus home in 3 pieces. 

[KC Jr]

Jock Mitchell - Not a chance in a million, was a nice ex issue which I bought for 200 GBP a year back... Everybody was drunk at a record session. Was showing it to somebody and a friend bumped into me... It fell on the stone floor and a chip of the first 10 sec. broke out and it cracked from run in to run out! Still playing it without the intro... Very, very bad day for me but my insurance paid 400 GBP...

[clevesoulie]

Due to improper storage, my copy of Cynthia and the Imaginations on Blue Rock broke in two, as did my copy of Getting Mighty Crowded by Betty Everett. I also broke a promo of A New Day Begins by the Parliaments with my foot (don't ask)

Best,

Mark

 

 

[Rick Cooper]

I sometimes took a few records to sell to the Blue Rooms in Sale back in the 70s. One night I had a copy of The Glories- I Worship You Baby on Date when it was quite an expensive record. Someone picked it out, asking how much it was, but he seemed to get annoyed at the price and the fact that I wouldn't take a lot less for it. Later on he came back and asked if he could show it to his mate. Five minutes later he gave it me back. When I got home I found the record had a crack from the edge to the label            ........ right on soul brother, KTF......

 

Rick

[Guest enchantedrythm]

Got to be Johnathon Woodliffe who having just paid £325 fot Frank Wilson, subsequnently visited the local chip shop, armed with Frank and while having his chips handed over put Frank on the Fryer range top, It warped and would only play on certain turntables after that, hence he used to play "Sweeter as the days go by" instead

 

Had a Salvadores sticking up in my record box when the lid came down, chipped the run in groove to the actual start

 

Robm Smith D.J ing somewhere a couple of years ago, put a bunch of discs, mainly British release raritys and some usa 100 pond + discs on a radi

ator, that was sited close to where his boxes were.........Warped every disc , some 60 records in total with values up to £500, he has a great box with just those warped jobs in. fantastic

 

[Keeper]

  I think we could add: "Don't use cement blocks to hold up shelves made of loose boards, and nail your shelving to your walls with railroad spikes!"  And,for good measure, put all you most valuable records on your lowest shelves. 

As Bobby Williams once said ...."I've only got my shelf to blame ".....sorry 

[Chalky]

I once saw a Larry Houston which I thpught was worth a fiver a so at the time go for summat daft.  Got one out of the cupboard to flog and snapped it in half whilst cleaning.  I was Djing in Glasgow and went in the box to get the Attractions " Why Shouldn't A Man Cry" out and it came out in two pieces.  Got a few others somewhere that are cracked etc.

Know of a Classics on Yan G that got broken.

[Guest smudgesmith]

I was record hunting in the US with a very well know collector,amongst our haul were 2 copies of Ray Pollard on Shrine.

On arriving back in the UK these were passed to a dealer,one copy sold.When it was being packaged he snapped it,he did exactly the same with the second copy.The customer received the dealers own copy as his purchase.

 

Names have been omitted to protect those involved but Gary Spencer knows he did it ?

[Chris L]

For me Duke Browner - Crying over you, snapped in two, sold on Soul Source for £30.00. I do hope buyer was able to make some playable record from it.

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/forums/topic/322041-duke-browner-crying-over-original-£3000-read-on/#comment-2144299

[Guest manusf3a]

In the last year two thumb snaps resulting in a crack right through to the middle one one side of each record but they still play ok,Lou Johnson ...Unsatisfied  James Carr .....That what I want to know.. on Big Top and Goldwax issues...   not really expensive but still gutted when it happened  still the fact they still play ok  is a bonus for me.No other breaks fingers crossed but hey there time in front of me hopefully a fair bit.My mate Rug r.i.p bought a job opening back in the later seventies that had a crack of the same type in it all the way to the centre on one side,that played ok too,he got it at a little venue all dayer in melton mowbry one Sunday after a st ives all nighter.

Edited August 4, 2015 by manusf3a

[Alan Walls]

My worst case saw the lid of my box fall on the one tune sitting up. Sitting on my bedroom floor with my girlfriend, box right in front of us, lid leaning back on the side of my bed: for no apparent reason the lid just started to close, seemingly in slow motion, only a few inches away from me but I was transfixed. I heard the crack. Took it out, one clean break halfway through and under the label. I thought of blaming my girlfriend, saying she must have nudges the box by accident, but I couldn't, she was horrified too, not least of all 'cos she knew how much I loved the record and how pleased I was to have tracked it down only a few months earlier.

I have a sense of humour that can seem me laugh at most things but it took at least a decade before I could raise  a wry smile at the irony that the record in question was Kenny Wells - Isn't It Just A Shame!

[Mrtag]

I think this applies, .....bought a copy of Soul Incorporated- My Proposal about 2 1/2 years ago from Ebay, came from the states and (delivered)!! by FedEx....this is the fist time ive posted photos of it since that day....Painful don't come close, arrived in 2 pieces.....the good news is I got a full refund....these photos may be too much for some lol

I Heard about this a few years back I believe it came from one of Dick Hughey's (guitarist in band) Sisters! I do believe that you got a better copy! via S.G.

Edited August 7, 2015 by mrtag
wrong info

[Guest Andy Kempster]

Not quite broken but AWOL. The sound guy from the 100 Club rang to tell me he'd found some records down the back of the stage so I popped down expecting to find some cheapo sales someone had forgotten about and found a dozen of my best oldies, Charades, Marie Knight, Frank Beverly etc!

sounds familiar Ady, I did a soul night at a local club in my hometown who have their own equipment, 3 months later I was due to do another night in another town but was having problems with one of my decks running slow so I asked the guy who owns the club local to me if he would mind if I borrowed a deck for the night, he was more than happy to help out so when I went to collect it on the afternoon of the gig I unplugged it and lifted it to take it home. lo and behold there was my copy of Johnny Sayles under a film of dust. Hadn't even noticed it was missing but lady luck was definitely smiling that day

[Andreas B]

Took chunks out of two good ones in the last year, one dropping on a concrete floor and the other in the hands of a drunken DJ mate. Luckily both weren't too expensive, but hurts all the same. Scientists Of Soul on Kashe and Lil' Soul Brothers on D-Town. 

[Guest turntableterra]

 

was it this one Dave that someone  sold me and then accused me of swapping it..............CRACKED GLUED AND COLOURED IN BLACK FELT PEN

 

 

Edited August 8, 2015 by turntableterra
WRONG PIC

[Guest turntableterra]

Yes, that one went to Barry Simpson in Perth from Mr Manship!!

SADLY WAS, cant believe it was 10 years ago. but it was rare in those days. easy to talk about as it was dealt with perfectly by THE MAN Mr J Manship a refund of $25,000  was given without question.

[Dave Rimmer]

I've actually bought The Steinways on Oliver twice, and never managed to get home with a copy.

The first one I snapped a chunk out of the edge putting it in my box, and the second one someone offered me twice what I'd paid for it five minutes earlier. So I sold it !

[Eddie Hubbard]

One of the most famous incidents must be the story of Dave McCadden[ RIP ]  loaning Richard Searling's then one off copy of The Jades -I'm where it's at , to photo copy the label " Nite Life " for his new fanzine of the same name .He took it ,along with a pile of pressings to a chip shop , before heading for the bus home .He left the records in the chippy by mistake , and on realising his mistake , returned to the shop where the owner had put the records on top of a hot plate for " safety " .Guess which record was on the bottom , yes The Jades ,which with the  heat wasn't broken ,but had grown to twice it's size !! I would have hated to be in his shoes ,explaining to Searling what had happened ....

[Ik001]

I've just gone and snapped an Eddie Sull I sold on ebay over the weekend whilst cleaning it ready for packing, and my partner's tried wiping my tears away with "At least it was only a cheap one - can't see the buyer being too happy, either." she says 

True, but it was also lovely looking (a perfectly clean, yellow 'MARC' which I always thought looked quite classy...bit like the tunes) 

Got me thinking though, these things are 50-60 years old now, you all must have snapped some previously - any horror stories to share..........

Well you could always tell them slight crack definitely affects play. Sorry absolutely no offence intended my heart goes out to you.

  

[Driveller]

Think it was the Cavaliers or the Counts, one towards the end of the discography.

It was definitely The Counts.  At the time it was a 'none-off', because all that was known of it was the master tapes of "You're My Only Love" (full with inst and vocal) and the band track only for "Peaches Baby", with no vocal.  The band track suggested that "Peaches" was likely to be a cracker, so obviously there was a lot of interest in finding out what the full deal with vocal sounded like. Andy managed to track down a member of the band who amazingly either had one or was able to locate one from his family/friends and got him to send it over.  After a few weeks it still hadn't turned up, so Andy rang him and asked him if everything was still going to plan, and the group member said 'it was a bit scratched up so I kind of felt it wasn't good enough to send you, so I threw it in the bin".  Andy 'explained' that it would still be nice to hear it and could he have a try at finding another one, please.   Nobody was holding out very much hope of that; one copy, impossible, a second copy - forget about it!  BUT, the band member achieved the impossible and turned up a second copy within a few weeks - and this is the one that arrived in a cardboard-free jiffy bag in approximately 8 pieces.  I still remember Andy ringing me up and rattling it down the phone to me...absolute horror.

[nij flood]

We used to live in N London in the late 80s and Keb was a regular visitor. He would often leave his playbox at ours. After one particularly messy party I woke up hung over & went into the living room and knelt down to pick up a few records & other debris. I lost my balance & put my knee down straight onto the Mark IV "If you can't tell me something good" on Brite-Lite which he had recently picked up. Broke it clean in half....he took it in his stride and I gave him what he paid for it. It might have been around a ton, I can't quite remember, but it was cock all compared to today's money. One of the reasons I have a soft spot for the wee chuchter.....

[Guest Jolly]

 Marie Knight" that's no wat to treat a girl" musicor. I had just got it the week previous,  I had hunted for it for ages , but had never managed to find a copy. To say I has delighted to have a copy was an understatement I had just played it at the Clouds all nighter in Edinburgh while putting another record on had layer it down, Kev Joss was up talking to me and must have lent on it. As I put it into its sleeve it was in two pieces, held together by the label.

i pointed out to Kev what had happened, who me he said! I never lent on it! These things happen, and I put it down to bad luck, 

went down to the Casino the following week. The first person I bump into is Mr Joss, with a mint copy of Marie Knight! I owe you this he says!

a true gentleman!

also managed to split a copy of Bobby Thurston Very last drop LP. It's now in Germany!

And how about this for a bit of woman's logic!

i was playing some singles and had them lying at an angle in the box. My then partner managed to lean over an snap one in two. Not an expensive record, but being a bit mischievous I decided to tell her that it was worth £150!

Well, you should take better care of them then, came the reply!!!

Edited August 21, 2015 by Jolly

[Andy Rix]