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RE: Cost of avg 7o's pre-recorded reel tape, back then ?

Posted by Dave Pogue (A) on October 6, 2015 at 04:38:33

In Reply to: Cost of avg 7o's pre-recorded reel tape, back then ? posted by nonspex on October 5, 2015 at 16:55:32:

Quite a lot of mine from the 1950-80s carry an MSRP of $7.95 or thereabouts. I believe the Barclay-Crockers were higher priced but can't remember the exact figures. When reel tapes started disappearing, they went for ludicrous prices. More than a few early RCA's -- 2-tracks, yet -- went for sticker prices as low as 99 cents (I've removed those stickers from mine :-)

Now that new tapes HAVE largely disappeared, you routinely see three-figure Ebay sale prices on such tapes as Brubeck's "Time Out" and Miles' "Kind of Blue," and that's for 4-track versions. I remember one TWO-Track of "Kind of Blue" going for $2,100 last year, and since the 2-track has only 3 of the original 5 tunes, that works out to $36 per MINUTE.

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