What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?

Subject: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Azoic
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 01:06 PM

Do you have a CD or LP that you are eminently proud to own because of it sentimental or intrinsic value?Or possible it is simply hard to find?Maybe never re-issued and long OOP?List it here.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Azoic
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 01:21 PM

"Stagfolk-LIve" LP .

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 01:39 PM

I've still got it somewhere but I'm not sure where but a folk club tape of things, actually the good things rather that off bits, that worked really well. I was in hosptial when it was made.

On it are a couple of tracks of a young Irish girl we knew as "Irish Audrey" who came from Carlow way (Bagenalstown?) and sang "Red is The Rose" and "Only Our Rivers" quite brilliantly and some of Mike Hand (RIP) who really could have turned pro,

Another would be Father Liam Corish and from when he was ill in Llandudno Hospital, entertaining other patients with "Rambles of Spring", "Bread and Fishes", "(Don't you let nobody) Turn You Round etc.)

Only snippets (although the songs are complete) really but put time/place and uninqueness into it and they are more than commercial CD can ever be...

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 01:42 PM

"Four Green Fields" was another I seem to remember Audrey did.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 01:44 PM

Ooh let's see now - I gave my copy of Noah's Ark Trap to Ship Dawdler a year or so back, but there's any amount of old Leader and Trailer stuff which isn't rare as such, just the rest of it lies buried in Harrogate somewhere... I do own several very rare Sun Ra Saturn albums, but I guess my most TREASURED slab of ULTRA RARE SOUGHT AFTER CULT vinyl is a copy of the original yellow-label Blakey edition of the first Back Door album with which I would not part for all the tea in ASDA. That it's also one of the finest albums ever made is a consideration too of course...

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 01:44 PM

I have a copy of U.Utah Phillips' 1st record on Prestige, produced by Ken Goldstein, NOONE KNOWS ME. The reason it's so rare is that Bruce would break every copy he found. People he stayed with knew to hide their copies when he was due to arrive. I found it on E-bay for 27 bucks, and then called him up to tell him about it. Bruce asked, "What are you going to do with it?" I told him that I was thinking of making bootleg CD's. He said, "I'd have to kill you."

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 01:46 PM

Steeleye Span's "Please to the King" and "Below the Salt" - among the greatest albums ever recorded in any popular genre.

Also treasured: the Folktrax CDs of 19th century shantymen, even if you can't understand half of what they're singing!

Close to the top is Judy Collins's "Maid of Constant Sorrow."

Cash value of all five together, used: maybe forty bucks. Sentimental value: priceless.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Azoic
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:07 PM

A Folkweave radio broadcast of June Tabor at Sidmouth circa 1976 on LP.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:08 PM

My most valued LP is Ewan MacColl's 'The Manchester Angel' - in my opinion the greatest folk record ever - a masterpiece!

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:13 PM

An impossible question!

The Copper Family 4 LP set may be one of the hardest to come by: I seem to recall Topic and C# house had some trouble finding a set a few years back

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Azoic
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:20 PM

June Tabor "On Air-BBC Sessions" on CD.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,David E.
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:24 PM

"a copy of the original yellow-label Blakey edition of the first Back Door album"

I have a copy of that as well. Brilliant album. Thankfully it's been issued on cd so I don't have to play it! For purely sentimental reasons I would never part with my Transatlantic copy of Bert Jansch's Birthday Blues album. Bought that on the day I met my wife.

David E.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:26 PM

Hearty And Hellish, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:27 PM

I gave my copy of Noah's Ark Trap to Ship Dawdler a year or so back

Indeed he did, and a fine and generous act it was.

I borrowed my mother's copies of Amaranth and For as many as will in the summer of 2005, saying that I'd put them on CD for her. I didn't have much experience with ripping and burning at the time, so I still hadn't done anything about it when she had a stroke in October and went into hospital. After Christmas she was discharged into a residential home, mobile but a bit confused. I got the various bits of audio hardware & software sorted out, and ripped Amaranth - to two 20-minute files - in February. In March she had another stroke and never came round.

SoAmaranth those two albums - the "Anthems in Eden" suite on Amaranth in particular - have meant an awful lot to me.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:27 PM

Should have been "So for the last five years those two albums" (etc).

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:30 PM

Gordon Bok's first LP on Verve Folkways.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 05:36 PM

Yeah, "The Manchester Angel" probably is MacColl's best LP - which is saying a lot.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 05:41 PM

Helen Schneyer,
Jody Stecher and Krishna Batt "Rasa" A fine example of "Country and Eastern" music!

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 07:17 PM

"Fountain of Snow" by Shirley Collins is high on my list. "Galway to Graceland" by Alias Ron Kavana is up there too. I have a beaten up copy of a copy of a copy of "Noah's Ark Trap" on cassette. One day I'll win the lottery and make Bulmer an offer he won't be able to refuse.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: pdq
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 08:19 PM

Shel Sliverstein's record called "Hairy Jazz" done live in 1959.

He is backed by the Red Onion Jazz band, somthing Dave Van Ronk did a few years later. Actually, there are a few song usually associated with Van Ronk on this record.

CD came out recently and seems to be pretty cheap if you look for deals.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 09:04 PM

The Newport Folk Festival, 1965 (VRS-9225). Yeah, I have it in mono -- at the time I bought it, I thought stereo was a fad (still do, in fact). I doubt if it's rare, but for me it lives. I especially like Eric von Schmidt getting kicked under the table, or whatever, before he dares rhyme anything with "front", and Mel Lyman going into a trance and playing "Rock of Ages" over & over till they had to fade him out.

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From: Bobert
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 09:13 PM

Bloodwyn Pig with the "target & pig" album cover...

B~

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 11:39 PM

Threadbare Consort "Wearin Thin" deleted almost immediately after release due to naff pressing.
As regards "Rasa" (see above) Have discovered that the Master tapes and remaining LP's were destroyed in a fire some time ago. Makes my copy even more precious. There is one track "Jelebi Song" on You tube, if you want to get a taster. It's in Hindi, and is very silly.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Surreysinger
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 07:26 AM

Re Ralphie's reference to Jody Stecher and Khrishna Bhatt's "Rasa" , herewith the link to The Jelebi Song

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 07:51 AM

My signed copy of the Paul Simon Songbook "To Bill and Rog: Thank you for the bed, the meal and the conversation" from 1965 just before he went back to the US and global fame I must have bought it just a few weeks before he stayed with us.

The album was released in 1965 and was deleted when S&G made it big. I think that it had a very limited release in the US before being withdrawn. Finally made it to CD in 2004.

Just reminds me of a time when I was eighteen and was sharing a flat with my friend Bill who I haven't seen now for about 40 years after he moved to Africa.

I still have the album but it is very worn through much playing.

Roger

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: oldhippie
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 09:47 AM

"Scarlet Ribbons" - early Carolyn Hester LP - took a long time to locate a copy.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 10:50 AM

Several Richard Dyer-Bennett 10" LPs
A Mercury LP in a paper sleeve with Dyer-Bennett on one side and Tom Glazer on the other, both singing "Olden Ballads"

The first Paul Clayton LP...and one called "Timber-r-r" of Paul doing lumberjack songs.

A 10" Electra LP with Frank Warner singing "Songs and Ballads of America's Wars."

Several other 'old', though not necessarily rare of Jean Richie, Jean Redpath,...etc.

Teasured? Gotta be the Mike Seeger "2nd Annual Farewell Reunion" album with both Pete & Peggy included on it....which I managed to get all 3 of them to sign at the last concert they did together before Mike's untimely death.

and one which 'may' be rare, as I haven't seen another copy..."Uncle Bob Pavitt Sings Ballads of Alaska,"

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 10:55 AM

Is there such a thing as a rare or highly sort after CD? Second hand they look like pieces of junk.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Sidewinder.
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 11:21 AM

Pinky & Perkys Greatest Hits.Got it for Christmas, back in the day, & have never stopped playing it.Funny, but it seems more relevant today than ever before.

Regards.

Sidewinder.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Sailor Ron
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 11:27 AM

Shirley & Dolly Collins 'Love Death & the Lady' & ' Frost & Fire' by the Watersons. These two LPs made me a 'folkie' [for want of a better word.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 11:53 AM

Probably an Ace of Hearts LP of Michael Coleman, which had the most awful bejasus artwork on it you could ever imagine. It got supplemented, but never quite replaced in my affections, by Gael Linn's superb double CD of Coleman which they released in the 1990s, and which was recently re-released. The beauty of it is that the Ace of Hearts has several tracks which never made it onto the later compilation.

Then there's the very first blues LP I ever owned; Back Country Blues by Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry.

The Manchester Angel. Yup. Definitely MacColl's masterpiece.

Kingdom of the Sun. A marvellous LP of Peruvian music on the Nonesuch label, which no record of Peruvian music I've come across since has quite been able to match.

John Doherty. Pedlar's Pack. An LP from the EFDSS Folk Classics stable. For all the controversy surrounding Peter Kennedy, and the way he treated his informants, this one breathes more life into Doherty than all his other records put together.

Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's. A 2 LP release of music from Doc Watson, Fred Price, Clint Howard, Clarence Ashley, Tex Isley and several other good guys from the North Carolina/Tennessee border. reissued on CD as Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley; 1960 through 1962.

The Best of Muddy Waters. Sublime, mate. Totally sublime.

Harry Cox Sings English Love Songs, and English Folk Singer. Two LPs which came out around the same time and which complimented each other magnificently.

Grand Airs of Connemara. The LP which first opened my eyes to the wonders of Irish sean nós singing.

Just about anything in the Living Tradition series of ethnic music LPs, which Argo released from the collection of Deben Battacharya.

Fred McDowell. I do not play no Rock 'n Roll. That was the one I managed to snaffle from the tighest dealer in the busines, for a mere £3.75.

Hedy West. Old Times and Hard Times. The first, and for my money the best, of three LPs which she recorded for Topic in the 1960s. All three have just been reissued on an unmissable Fellside double CD.

The Muckle Sangs. A double LP of some of the finest field recordings of Scots Child ballads ever assembled.

From the same stable (Scottish Tradition) Music From the Western Isles, Bothy Ballads and Gaelic Psalms from Lewis. There have been many more in the series, but those are the ones I definitely wouldn't be without.

There's quite a few others as well. But they'll do for now.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Deckman
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 11:53 AM

An autographed copy of the ten inch LP ... "Jesse Fuller - Working On The Railroad", produced by "Word Song" (WS-1) bob(deckman)nelson

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Lghter
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 12:13 PM

"Frost and Fire" and "Jean Redpath's Ballad Book" are also in my top five or six. Both have worn well, but they were quite astonishing when they appeared.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: JohnB
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 01:13 PM

Without looking, as I have not played any vinyl for a while, I would have to say All my Steeleye Span plus a compilation called "Electric Muse" which I used to play the living daylights out of.
My most hated would have to be "Tubular Bells" which I have, but came to hate when my neighbour played it Very Loud in the Semi next door, EVERY Saturday morning, SEVERAL TIMES through.
JohnB

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Wayne, near Baltimore
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 01:34 PM

Gibson and Camp At The Gate Of Horn, not so much for the music as for the liner notes by Shel Silverstein. "I'll tell you a litle bit about the old Gate Of Horn..."

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Azoic
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 01:40 PM

Vivian Stanshall's "Sir Henry At Ndidi's Kraal".

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 01:45 PM

it's over 30 years since I last saw my vinyl...

so provided the boxes stored at my dear old mum's house
have survived damp and mildew..

Off the top of my head.. possibly.. "Spring" Neon Label 1971 triple gatefold sleeve ???

Our bands single that got played on Radio 1 around 1979
was going for 50 quid on ebay last time any of us bothered to look..

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 01:56 PM

Live Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,SRD
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 04:45 PM

My copy of Alice Cooper's 'School's Out' still has the original pair of paper knickers wrapped round it and I've got a complete, though somewhat worn, Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour' double EP including booklet, both of which are worth a couple of bob. I've also got some early Blue Note 45s that I acquired from a DJ who was giving up the business that are possibly worth a bit.

As far as Folk music is concerned; I've still got a gatefold 'My Boys Can Play Anything' from Skinners Rats (plus lyric sheet) and The Shanty Crew's first album.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Ken Brock
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 07:01 PM

I used to have John Denver Sings, from 1966 (only 200 to 250 copies were pressed), but sold it on ebay 11 years ago.

I still have a copy (not a bootleg) of The Beatles Christmas album (a 1970 compilation of their 7 Christmas singles for the fan club), that is in terrible condition and the cover rotted away from water damage.

Among folk, I have the cover (the 78's broke years ago) of The Alamanac Singers Whaling and other songs, which Pete Seeger signed for me in Williamsburg, VA in the 1980s.

I also have 3 letters from Tom Lehrer, the first of which was principally to thank me for sending a copy of the play script to the 1927 version of the George and Ira Gershwin - George S.Kaufman STRIKE UP THE BAND, which has never been published. I figured America's greatest satirist of the 1950s and 1960s would be interested in the work of the greatest American satirists of the 1930s, and I was right.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 07:08 PM

I find the whole concept alien, I'm afraid. LPs and CDs are made of plastic. How can they be of value? Much like photographs - They may be meaningful to you but of no 'value' whatsoever.

Why people pay good money for them is beyond me.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Deckman
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 07:10 PM

Dave/Gnome ... as an archivist, I dissagree.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 07:20 PM

As an archivist I would disagree too, Bob. But are we talking about archives here? It says 'What is YOUR rarest' etc. A personal collection, not an archive.

I would certainly keep anything rare on either vinyl or plastic in an archive but, once it is archived, why should I treasure it? The song holds the memories. Not the album!

Not that I am saying people shouldn't enjoy collecting the vinyl. Just that I don't undestand it. Maybe I am just thick!

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Deckman
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 08:01 PM

I've got TWO signatures of Jesse Fuller ... "Lone Cat Fuller." One on the record and one on the record cover. And I remember his words as he signed them. bob

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Reinhard
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 11:19 PM

Is there such a thing as a rare or highly sought after CD?

Sandy Denny, The BBC Sessions 1971-73. It was available for one day only because of a legal dispute. Another student of my faculty was lucky to buy it and he made a CDR copy for me. But I was so happy when I finally found a copy of my own many years later, albeit for much more money...

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Wolf
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 03:53 AM

My rarest LPs are probably a recording of Indian street music from Bengal, and a copy of a Gypsy Flamenco album recorded by Manitas de Plata (Little Hands of Silver). I found that one stashed in a cardboard box in the corner of a book store. When I saw it, I grabbed it and raced for the check-out desk!

I also value my 3 recordings by Steeleye Span, as several people here have already mentioned them.

For sheer sentimentality, my copy of Steppenwolf Double Live, the first LP I bought with my own money. My first 45 rpm (rememeber those) was Jan and Dean's Little Old Lady from Pasadena.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Roger Knowles
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 04:01 AM

A 10" LP of Ramblin' Jack Elliott - 'Jack Takes The Floor" - I just like it!

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: I don't know
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 04:09 AM

Three albums from me. Open Road by Stained Glass, shame the band never got more reconition. Roundabout by Alex Atterson (signed) this was the first album I brought at a folk club. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan, if it had not been the raffle prize I won that my husband wanted we would not have got together 34 years ago.
CD would be all my Jackie Leven, John Wright & Kieran Halpin.
All the above & the rest of my collection hold memories for me, so to me are valued, nobody else might think so.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 06:14 AM

For pure sentimental value, I'd say 'Fotheringay' (an old pink label copy from 1971), 'On The Shore' by Trees (which I got for my 14th birthday), 'Please To See The King' and 'Hark The Village Wait' (both original labels), 'Sound of Silence' and 'Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme' by S & G, 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell, 'Threshold Of A Dream' by the Moody Blues', the first Planxty, Boys of the Lough and Bothy Band albums, 'Chemins De Terre' by Alan Stivell and some daft stuff that I don't even listen to but it just carries memories like the first Horslips album with the daft concertina cover. Never been as sentimental about CDs - maybe they're just not such nice things. Also I'd hate to lose any of the dozens of tapes I brought back from Cape Breton in the late 80s.

Subject: RE: What is your rarest/most valued CD/LP?
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 06:22 PM

Bought or given new:
Unto Brigg Fair - Joseph Taylor and others
The Border Minstrel - Billy Pigg
Muckram Wakes - A Map of Derbyshire
Sandy Denny - the BBC Sessions (there it was on the racks in Virgin Records in Leicester!)
Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney (original vinyl)
Liege & Lief - gatefold, signed by Suibhne Astray (I lied about the signature)
The (original vinyl) Electric Muse box set
The dark blue Sandy Denny vinyl box set
The 19 CD Sandy Denny box set
The black Nottingham Folk vinyl album

Bought for under a quid:
The Druids - Burnt Offering (and the sleeve's rather like one!)
Davy Graham - Folk Blues & Beyond
Trees - On The Shore on vinyl, led a hard life

Bought for 30 quid:
The Bunch - Rock On, vinyl, complete with free flexidisc

Bought for 7 quid:
Beatles "Twist & Shout" EP, perfect but creased sleeve