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I need a few reference sites that might contain some kind guidelines for spoken word albums, mostly on the Caedmon label, although I also have a few on mainstream labels.I scrounged these records from a throw away spring cleaning at the local high school, and can only feel pity for the young souls who would have had to feign interest to what seem to be mostly deadly dull, anti teenaged sensibility recordings.
A few seem to have some worth, so I grabbed the stacks and am now going through them.
I've been trying popsike and found one result for an album with an Andy Worhal cover, but nothing about any of the others. Whoever was teaching this mess seemed to like EE Comings and Dylan Thomas, as there are a lot of those poems read by author.
I surprisingly found an old Columbia six eye One o'clock jump by Count Basie, again, nothing listed about the record on the site I was using. A good find for me, and probably the only one, so far, I will not take to the library record drop.
I think some of these finds should go to recycling (trash style) but I think some might be of value to others, and want to do my bit for posterity.
After all, someone might value Earnest Hemingway reading "Saturday Night at the Whorehouse in Billings Montana", or "Harry's Bar in Venice" enough to want to keep the thing.
Please hit me with some suggestions.
Follow Ups:
I really appreciate all the help.Going to gem helped me understand that some other people value albums I would have discarded. I had never visited there before.
I also think the advice about posting them on ebay for cost a good idea, it would let those that care gain access to the stuff.
I am not really concerned about fictional values posted by hopeful sellers on gemm. I figure the whole undertaking will probably only be time consuming, but worth it if others find happiness and I can reduce landfill in honor of earth day. Of course, It would be fun to unearth a monetary score, but I don't think the condition of records played at high school will ever qualify for the upper tiers of collector interest.
That Hemmingway album I singled out was listed for sale at over seventy bucks on gemm, even though on the backcover it describes Hemmingway's lack of interest in the project, done on wire recording, mailed from home. I think the price more than optimistic myself.
Check www.gemm.com too. Take the values with a grain of
salt but at least it might give you the idea on potential
value if you cannot find a similiar lp (label, condition,
issue, etc.) on popsike or ebay.
There are things that go under the radar of popsike and ebay, but a lot of that stuff goes between private collectors and you'd have to know the right people or make a big effort , anyway. One example of this is opera 78's. A lot of the better private label stuff is sold by dealers off ebay. It just seems like the kind of thing that people who collect it like to go elsewhere.
If they aren't showing up in popsike, then they are probably of little monetary value.If you want to get the records to people who will find personal value in them, I suggest listing them on eBay for $0.99, no reserve, and at-cost shipping. There they will get the greatest exposure, and people who are interested in them will find them.
popsike.com
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