[78-L] Hey! Hyperbole!

[Glenn Longwell]

I've seen this link before.  Who could believe that an artist as popular as Burr would have only one known existing copy of a record, on a label that turned out to do rather well?  Am I missing something?  These vertical cut Okeh's aren't plentiful but there are enough of them around to make this record far from rare or unique.  I think the first time I saw it was when someone on Ebay pointed to this link and said they had the 2nd one so tried to charge a lot.

--- On Thu, 8/18/11, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Hey! Hyperbole!
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Thursday, August 18,
 2011, 6:02 PM

I always cringe when I see somebody talking about the "book value" of a 
78...like they were used cars or gold ingots or something.  Makes me want to 
"throw the book at them."

Over the years,  I've discovered lots of books of which there seems to be 
only one copy...and most are worthless.  Scarcity by itself doesn't mean 
something has value,  be it a book,  record,  painting,  etc.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lewis" <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com>
To: "78-l" <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:56 PM
Subject: [78-L] Hey! Hyperbole!


>
> http://www.megocollector.com/vinyl-records/okeh-1007-the-worlds-rarest-record-discovered/
>
> The world's "rarest" record? That's like saying it's the world's smallest 
> grain of sand. Heck of a nice record, not the world's rarest, but still 
> the lone copy of a record that would be worth nothing if it turned up on 
> Columbia.
>
> If you've got it, flaunt it, I guess.
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
> uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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