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    Posted: January 22 2024 at 06:27

This thread should please vinylphiles, and the oldest copy of a vinyl release I own is 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland, Polydor 1968 D - 55 years old.

What's yours?  Tongue




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David Bowie - David Bowie (Space Oddity) on the Phillips label. (November 1969).


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JD Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2024 at 06:58
Bozo the Clown (Larry Harmon) - Dream Along with Bozo 1962
That's an OG I got for christmas as a kid.

But if you're talking music, and/or more specifically, rock music then...

Serge Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf - Pro Musica Symphony Vienna Hans Swarowsky Conductor, Narrator - Brandon De Wilde 1955 (1958 Repress)

The Doors - The Doors & Strange Days 1967
Moody Blues  - Days of the Future Past 1967

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I've got plenty of older shellac, but as for oldest vinyl (all 10"s) that I know of while sitting here:

Sidney Bechet, Claude Luter Vol. 1, 1951 (Vogue, France)

...ten more:

Kathleen Ferrier - Alto Rhapsodie /Four Songs (Brahms), 1953 (Decca, UK)
Kathleen Ferrier - A Recital of Bach Arias, 1954 (Decca, UK)
Yma Sumac - Voice of the Xtabay / Inca Taqui, 1954 (Capitol, US)
Eartha Kitt - That Bad Eartha, 1954, (RCA Victor, US)
The Modern Jazz Quartet - Modern Jazz Quartet, 1955 (Prestige, US)
Duke Ellington - "The Duke", 1955 (Coral Germany)
Eartha Kitt - Down to Eartha, 1955 (RCA, US... I think... don't have it here)
Lionel Hampton – Lionel Hampton - Vol. 1, 1955 (RCA, France)
The Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Ahmad Jamal Trio, 1956 (Epic, US)
Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea, 1956 (Columbia, US)

To my knowledge none of these are particularly valuable. I just bought them (cheap) because I like the music. But I've got some undated 1950's classical Telefunken etc... releases that people buy for over 200$. If one has an eye for rare and unique classical releases/labels - that's where you can still stumble over treasures basically for free.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jeffro Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2024 at 08:16
I've got some 78s kicking around here somewhere that my grandfather had. 


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I have some more from 1968:

No To Co  (PL)  -  Nikifor , Pronit 1968 PL

Procol Harum  (UK)  -  Shine On Brightly , A&M 1968 CAN

Ravi Shankar  (India)  -  Charly , World Pacific 1968 USA

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Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet (episode narrated on either side) from about 67 or thereabouts.

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I threw out a lot when I moved out of the family home back in the 90's. Could well be that Aphrodite's Child - 666  is now the oldest I own in terms of when issued although I'm sure I owned a copy of King Crimson's debut at one point.
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Sadly I got rid of all my vinyl a few years ago.

But when I still had it, the oldest album I had was Pilgrimage by Wishbone Ash (1971).
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2024 at 08:05
I guess the two I had from my dad

Jethro Tull Stand up

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Hair's OST (from the musical)


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I'm a record collector and record trader, I have jazz 78s that go back a ways. As far as records that are on this site, I have some of Miles' very early records.
I don't have a 78 player, but if I can get my hands on some collectable 78s, I will trade them for LPs.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JD Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2024 at 10:05
I used to have a whack of 'super oldy' discs that were my folk's and maybe from theirs before that??. But they sat on the floor in my office and we had a wee flood. Every one got wet, so to the dump they went. Cry
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2024 at 03:34

Any other vinylphiles around here to tell about your oldest copy of a vinyl release? Tongue
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Last month my boyfriend gave me an original pressing copy of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Works, Volume 1. Heart
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2024 at 12:44
Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Last month my boyfriend gave me an original pressing copy of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Works, Volume 1. Heart

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I sold most of my collection back in the 1990s and retained anything I thought (at that time) would be worth holding onto, like several bootlegs. I only have about 50 records left.

The oldest one I have is:
Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty (Disneyland DQ1228, 1964)

That one I saved from a dear friend that passed away last year who was into a lot of Disney stuff. He also had a bunch of Sesame Street albums, plus soundtracks from Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, and Doctor Who. I saved all those.

The oldest prog related one I still have is:
Syd Barrett's Barrett (Harvest SHSP4007, laminated version, 1970)

I bought that back in the 1980s for $9.99 (still has the price tag on it) at a place called the Record Cellar on Bustleton Avenue in Philadelphia.

I thought my copy of Ummagumma might be from 1969, but it's the 1973 reissue where the Gigi soundtrack has been airbrushed out.


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Got a bunch of 78's myself somewhere, containing everything from Christmas music to accordion waltzes, plus two gramophone players.. 

As for vinyl, I have some old classical records from the late 50's to about mid 60's. I think one of the oldest ones is a 1958 copy of Brahms 'Violin Concerto in D Major', but I have to look through them all again. I also have a worn Norwegian 1965 copy of Beatles' 'Rubber Soul' and an equally beat up early UK 1967 'Sgt. Pepper', but also a decent copy of Little Boy Blues' 'In the Woodland of Weir' (1968). For prog, an US original Soft Machine 'Volume 2' (1969) is my overall oldest Thumbs Up



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Possibly my copy of Take My Heart by Jukka Kuoppamaki which was pressed in 1972
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I think my copy of MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN was the one LP that took the cake ... I might have others, and I think Sgt Pepper's was one, I finally dumped a few years back (the American version because it was a horrible copy of the original with some effects muddied and downplayed) ... as I had gotten the IMPORT of the Sgt Pepper's way back in 1974, which is when I found the incredible difference between the American and English albums ... and guess what ... the same thing happened for Dark Side of the Moon ... which I bought the import within a year (posters were different too!!!) and got rid of the American album ...

So, this made sense for American listeners to get the remastered PF albums, up to DSOTM ...  I never checked the next album, but THE WALL seems to have been released properly in both countries. I think after the attention Allan Parsons got, that some folks did not want to be accused of being jerks ... what happened to those albums earlier was a travesty and those folks should have gone to jail!
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Off the top of my head...
Incredible String band: 5000 spirits or the layers of an Onion (1967) and Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968) both Mono, red Elektra label. 
The Doors 1st lp (1967), US Mono gold Elecktra label 
Love 1st lp (1966) Mono red Elektra label
Roy Harper- come out fighting ghengis smith (1968) Mono orange CBS label
Moody Blues magnificent Moodies (1965) Mono, red Decca label

The Watersons: Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ceremonial Folk Songs (1965) Topic label, Mono, Blue/silver label



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