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In Reply to: RE: Can you tell if a vinyl collection has been cherry picked? posted by violinist3 on December 24, 2016 at 00:49:12
If a Classical collection: No Mercury label LPs at all. No RCA shaded dogs
All the LPs are stupid label brands you have only vaguely heard of.
If Rock: No Beatles, Led Zepplin, Or any other artists you might want
Jazz?? Jazz. if ll that is left are 1950's Dixieland, and some Mantovani plays Gershwin
If you DO find:
Classical: Mercury SR900000 LPs.. YOU KNOW no one has cherrypicked.
Rock: Led Zepplin, DSOTM stone mint, Original Beatles, Early Bob Dylan
Jazz if anything by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, or early or even average mid 50's 60's Blue Note label, or Riverside.. at all.. You KNOW no one cherrypicked.
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In many cases, those who know something but not a lot will take the RCAs and the Mercs, and leave everything else.
I once was hired by a record dealer to pick through a collection he had purchased, a classical musical library on vinyl from a minor-league college. There were many records from the 1959-64 period, but none of them were stereo Mercs or RCAs, and there weren't any mono ones either. Very suspicious!
Nevertheless, the picker must have been a fairly simple soul, because I was able to find a nuuber of good records to sell on eBay. The Telamanyi Back Violin sonatas with the Vega Bach bow, the Nelsova Beethoven Violin Sonatas on London, and the Clara Haskil Scarletti Sonatas on green-label Westminster were still there. He got nearly $1000 on eBay just for those three.
I took my fee in vinyl, some nice stuff to listen to, but not too valuable.
And that picker may have been a "simple soul", but he's not alone. To this day, there are collectors who sweep the Salvation Army and other thrift shops for the classical RCA shaded dogs and Mercs, even the most common ones, and ignore far more valuable ones on other labels.I'm nowhere near the collector you are, and I can think of two Westminster monos I got from thoroughly picked over thrift bins, both NM, one (Leonid Kogan) sells for an average of $84 on ebay, the other (Erica Morini) $117. Some good London, DG and Capitol, too.
Edits: 12/25/16
Sing Along With Mitch, Ray Conniff, Mantovani, Mario Lanza, The Lettermen, The Kingston Trio, Johnny Mathis, Jim Nabors, Barbra Streisand, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Robert Goulet, Glenn Campbell, Andy Williams Christmas, Christmas with the King Family, Christmas with Everyone Else Imaginable, cast albums for The Sound Of Music and The King And I, and Christian singing groups, and for classical, mono versions of 60s LPs that were also issued in stereo, E. Power Biggs organ recitals, opera highlights, Pavarotti, Funk & Wagnalls Family Library of Great Music, budget labels like Sine Qua Non, Parliament and Richmond, etc., etc, ....
Now, I'm not saying all of the above is inevitably bad, just that it is in oversupply and tends to be left over the more a collection is picked over. Kierkegaard was an existential philosopher and AFAIK not a musician. His name is there so I can easily find this post again, since this question seems to come up a lot.
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