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The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Mala591 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:58 am

Is still 'Do I Love You (indeed I do)' written and sung by Frank Wilson

Last sold/bought for £20,000

Only three original copies from 1965 still exist

One of the most popular Northern Soul sounds of all time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvpeYiQwss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:00 pm

Great tune
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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Tricky Trevor » Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:09 pm

Great track but if only 3 still exist could that be the reason vinyl went out of favour?

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by tim_noone » Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:11 pm

Mala591 wrote:Is still 'Do I Love You (indeed I do)' written and sung by Frank Wilson

Last sold/bought for £20,000

Only three original copies from 1965 still exist

One of the most popular Northern Soul sounds of all time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvpeYiQwss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Not big into NS. Great song though...prompted me to Give Bobby Hebb a spin! LoveLoveLove. hairs on my neck standing up. A favourite of mine.
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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Dyched » Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:15 pm

I won’t swap it for my 7” See Emily Play that’s for sure

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Colburn_Claret » Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:28 pm

Mala591 wrote:Is still 'Do I Love You (indeed I do)' written and sung by Frank Wilson

Last sold/bought for £20,000

Only three original copies from 1965 still exist

One of the most popular Northern Soul sounds of all time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvpeYiQwss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Motown didn't want to release it, they thought it wouldn't be a hit.
It probably wouldn't have been if not for the Northern Soul scene.
One of my favourites.

KTF

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Cleveleys_claret » Fri Jul 19, 2019 12:54 pm

Mala591 wrote:Is still 'Do I Love You (indeed I do)' written and sung by Frank Wilson

Last sold/bought for £20,000

Only three original copies from 1965 still exist

One of the most popular Northern Soul sounds of all time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvpeYiQwss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This says you are wrong

https://www.hmv.com/music/the-10-most-e ... -ever-sold" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Chuckypad » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:00 pm

Cleveleys_claret wrote:This says you are wrong

https://www.hmv.com/music/the-10-most-e ... -ever-sold" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It says he's right as Frank Wilson's song is the only 'single' on that list
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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by houseboy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:00 pm

Dyched wrote:I won’t swap it for my 7” See Emily Play that’s for sure
I don't think we want to see Emily play with your 7". :lol: :lol:

Seriously that is a great tune but is it the version backed by Julia Dream? I'm sure that was the B side of SEP. Only ever heard it on A Collection of Antiques and Curios album. It is one of the dreamiest songs I have ever heard (and eerie when Waters whispers Syyyyyd at the end).

Incidentally I have never heard of the track in the OP or the artist - is that because I don't like soul?

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Dyched » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:11 pm

houseboy wrote:I don't think we want to see Emily play with your 7". :lol: :lol:

Seriously that is a great tune but is it the version backed by Julia Dream? I'm sure that was the B side of SEP. Only ever heard it on A Collection of Antiques and Curios album. It is one of the dreamiest songs I have ever heard (and eerie when Waters whispers Syyyyyd at the end).

Incidentally I have never heard of the track in the OP or the artist - is that because I don't like soul?
Hahah :lol:

Nah, Scarecrow is the b-side. Julia is on another I think. SEP was the first single I bought about 10 years back. It was playing in the store and I had to buy it.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Funkydrummer » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:12 pm

"A Collection of Antiques and Curios album."

AKA Relics.

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Post by theroyaldyche » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:30 pm

Cleveleys_claret wrote:This says you are wrong

https://www.hmv.com/music/the-10-most-e ... -ever-sold" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I knew the WuTang Clan had the most expensive VINYL as they made 1 copy.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Zom Zom » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:35 pm

I have an orange vinyl 7" of Gary Numan's She's Got Claws from 1981. It is the only one to have ever surfaced.

The value of it is nowhere near that of the OP, but I have been offered £2,500 for it.

For anyone who may be curious about it, I have included it in the Numan listings on Discogs.
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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Burnley1989 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:37 pm

Mala591 wrote:Is still 'Do I Love You (indeed I do)' written and sung by Frank Wilson

Last sold/bought for £20,000

Only three original copies from 1965 still exist

One of the most popular Northern Soul sounds of all time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvpeYiQwss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Im sure somebody once told me Ginger Taylor has a copy but I could be wrong

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by houseboy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:40 pm

Dyched wrote:Hahah :lol:

Nah, Scarecrow is the b-side. Julia is on another I think. SEP was the first single I bought about 10 years back. It was playing in the store and I had to buy it.
Ah yes, Scarecrow. One of Floyd's more upbeat offerings.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by houseboy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:41 pm

Funkydrummer wrote:"A Collection of Antiques and Curios album."

AKA Relics.
Cheers mate, for the life in me I couldn't recall it's name, only it's sub-title. It must be an age thing. :D

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by claretblue » Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:47 pm

Cliff Richard! ;)

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Post by Jambounchained » Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:23 pm

I've got a copy of ACDC - For Those About To Rock signed by the Youngs and Brian Johnson. The jewel in my vinyl crown.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Funkydrummer » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:01 pm

houseboy wrote:Cheers mate, for the life in me I couldn't recall it's name, only it's sub-title. It must be an age thing. :D
Not a problem pal - I've still got the vinyl LP.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by RingoMcCartney » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:18 pm

I'll raise you -

Love me do - The Beatles acetate. £80000

In spite of all the danger - The Quarrymen £100,000

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:20 pm

Vinyl Richie must be worth more

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Post by houseboy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:26 pm

Funkydrummer wrote:Not a problem pal - I've still got the vinyl LP.
One of Floyd's lesser known really, given it's a compilation. I had the original black and white cover version, a later re-issue had a splash of colour on it.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by houseboy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:29 pm

When I bought my first copy of Wish You Were Here I took it back because it played side two on both sides. How young and stupid was I, it would be worth a lot to a collector now methinks.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Rileybobs » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:30 pm

I’m a collector of rare MP3’s.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:31 pm

Mala591 wrote:Is still 'Do I Love You (indeed I do)' written and sung by Frank Wilson

Last sold/bought for £20,000

Only three original copies from 1965 still exist

One of the most popular Northern Soul sounds of all time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvpeYiQwss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I can confirm that I don't own any of the three copies and if I did I wouldn't for much longer at that price.

Brilliant listening to it again though.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Funkydrummer » Fri Jul 19, 2019 4:13 pm

Rileybobs wrote:I’m a collector of rare MP3’s.
Got many ?

Any swaps ? :roll:

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Post by Rileybobs » Fri Jul 19, 2019 4:27 pm

Funkydrummer wrote:Got many ?

Any swaps ? :roll:
Got a whole cloud-full pal.

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Post by bfccrazy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:47 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Got a whole cloud-full pal.
Reminded me of the Napster
/bearshare and p2p days when you’d download a song you’d been looking for for a while and then get Bill Clinton saying “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” repeated and think “FFS!!! Not again!!” :lol:
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Post by Siddo » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:02 pm

Burnley1989 wrote:Im sure somebody once told me Ginger Taylor has a copy but I could be wrong
No mate, Ginger has a copy of the female version by Chris Clarke.
There are 4 known copies of Do I Love you by Frank Wilson. Kenny Burrell may still have one, an anonymous collector paid £25k for one a few years ago, Berry Gordy has one and supposedly a collector in London has one.
However, only 2 copies have ever been seen. These were stolen from the Motown archives in the mid 70s by Simon Soussan, a bootlegger of northern soul records but also a discoverer of hundreds of recorde in the 70s, which he sold to DJs.
I held one of the copies once. Tim Brown played it at Gingers Kestrel Suite nights as his last record. I was nect on and took his copy off the deck and passed it to him.
I believe he sold his copy for £15k.
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Post by Burnley1989 » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:06 pm

Siddo wrote:No mate, Ginger has a copy of the female version by Chris Clarke.
There are 4 known copies of Do I Love you by Frank Wilson. Kenny Burrell may still have one, an anonymous collector paid £25k for one a few years ago, Berry Gordy has one and supposedly a collector in London has one.
However, only 2 copies have ever been seen. These were stolen from the Motown archives in the mid 70s by Simon Soussan, a bootlegger of northern soul records but also a discoverer of hundreds of recorde in the 70s, which he sold to DJs.
I held one of the copies once. Tim Brown played it at Gingers Kestrel Suite nights as his last record. I was nect on and took his copy off the deck and passed it to him.
I believe he sold his copy for £15k.
Thanks for that reply :D

A nice fact to tell my dad, a Wigan pier regular

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by elwaclaret » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:23 pm

Either some obscure northern or my signed Buster Bloodvessel Record Mirror frexidisc.... appearently the yanks go berserk for them. Thought a few times of cashing the vinyls in but when I hear the crackle...

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Post by Cleveleys_claret » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:35 pm

Siddo wrote:No mate, Ginger has a copy of the female version by Chris Clarke.
There are 4 known copies of Do I Love you by Frank Wilson. Kenny Burrell may still have one, an anonymous collector paid £25k for one a few years ago, Berry Gordy has one and supposedly a collector in London has one.
However, only 2 copies have ever been seen. These were stolen from the Motown archives in the mid 70s by Simon Soussan, a bootlegger of northern soul records but also a discoverer of hundreds of recorde in the 70s, which he sold to DJs.
I held one of the copies once. Tim Brown played it at Gingers Kestrel Suite nights as his last record. I was nect on and took his copy off the deck and passed it to him.
I believe he sold his copy for £15k.
Guessing you mst have been a northern soul fan? Worked with a guy for a few years who wrote a book on his experiences djing and partying during those years. Brian Waterhouse? Think his book was called Going Back, have a copy somewhere he gave me

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Post by Corky » Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:42 pm

Tim Brown bought his off Kev Roberts for £5k. And I thought there were only 3 known copies. Never heard of Berry Gordy having one.

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by dougcollins » Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:03 pm

Isn't there only half a dozen or so copies of the Pistol's 'God Save the Queen' on the A & M label?
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Post by TheOriginalLongsider » Sat Jul 20, 2019 8:27 am

I did have Rock around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets on 78rpm and I think that was around the time everyone was moving over to 45rpm. Anyway someone sat on it and it snapped

I don’t think it was worth that much anyway (surprisingly)

I’ve got a few George Formby 78s in the attic and Rubber Soul by the Beatles on tape - the old reel to reel type

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Post by Siddo » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:22 pm

Cleveleys_claret wrote:Guessing you mst have been a northern soul fan? Worked with a guy for a few years who wrote a book on his experiences djing and partying during those years. Brian Waterhouse? Think his book was called Going Back, have a copy somewhere he gave me
If you read Brian's book, I'm the guy who drove the van to Wigan casino with loads of people in the back. We drove up a steep hill on an icy road and everyone had to get out and push.
We were also stopped by the police but Brian forgot about that bit!

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Post by Siddo » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:29 pm

Corky wrote:Tim Brown bought his off Kev Roberts for £5k. And I thought there were only 3 known copies. Never heard of Berry Gordy having one.
Hope this link works. It's from an article on soul source about the record which tells the way Motown would press 6 copies of records for the quality control meeting.
When the article was written only 2 copies had emerged, but it is now thought that as many as 4 or 5 exist.
https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/ ... -do-r2565/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: The worlds most valuable single (vinyl)

Post by Cleveleys_claret » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:37 pm

Siddo wrote:If you read Brian's book, I'm the guy who drove the van to Wigan casino with loads of people in the back. We drove up a steep hill on an icy road and everyone had to get out and push.
We were also stopped by the police but Brian forgot about that bit!
Conveniently forgot ha ha..... he would never stop talking about his love for Northern soul and every conversation you had with him would always find its way to some story about his pst
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Post by Corky » Sat Jul 20, 2019 2:56 pm

I'm going to a Mecca reunion tonight in London. Levine and Curtis (or Dimond as he now calls himself - well it is his real surname) DJing together. Must say I can't abide Levine but have a lot of time for Curtis. Should be good. Will be on the pop from 18:30 so could get messy on the dance floor.

I'd read the article by Andy Rix(?) and knew about the 6 from the pressing plant and them keeping 3 and 3 going to Motown. I love all the intrigue.

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