Most Valuable Motown Vinyl Records

Motown historian and liner notes writer bill dahl presents 10 of the rarest records on the seminal motor city label.

Most valuable motown vinyl records.

Top dollar vinyl records the rarest of the rare. Amidst the burgeoning vinyl boom nobleoak an australian life insurance company worked with ian shirley the editor of record collector magazine s rare record price guide to determine the 50. Motown was small but it was a juggernaut and as the name of their original main headquarters and studio hitsville u s a makes clear the goal was to make hit songs that didn t just appeal to black audiences but that would also cross over to the mainstream. Valuable vinyl records you might have at home.

There are many valuable vinyl records out there including perhaps the most expensive motown northern soul 7 inch ever do i love you indeed i do recorded by frank wilson in 1965 and which sold for over 25 000 31 000 at auction in 2009. The most wanted pre war. Click here to browse some of the rarest records we have in our store. Oddly enough the iconic record was met with mixed reviews rolling stone called.

We didn t of course and that s because nearly all of the top 100 of the world s most valuable vinyl records are individually cut acetates test pressings pre production not commercially released items that were never formally released or other items that likely would only have been available to record company. Bill dahl we re so accustomed to the image of motown releasing non stop hits during the 1960s that sometimes we forget there were more than a few misses along the way especially during the detroit. There are some clearly divided eras in the life of motown records. It was wilson s only single and the majority of demo copies were destroyed which is why it s so collectible.

It s a 78 rpm record and is rare because it was one of the first records recorded electronically with microphones amplified by vacuum tubes.