Please browse through the categorised list of items for sale set out below.  If you are interested in any of the items listed please contact me by using the email link at the bottom of the page or you can email me directly [scarcesounds@hotmail.com] or by letter [my postal address is at the foot of this page] with the details (record label, catalog number & artist for records or title & author for books, etc) of the items you want.


NOTE that some items may have been sold by the time I receive your order and I will confirm availability & price as soon as possible. The listings are updated periodically but cannot be kept 100% up-to-date.

All records & other items currently for sale are arranged in the following subcategories:

78rpm records (plus some vinyl & a few CD reissues of music from the 78 era)

  1. Acoustic era vocals
  2. 1920s dance bands
  3. 1920s jazz
  4. 1930s-1940s dance bands
  5. 1930s-1940s jazz & swing
  6. 1950s pop/rock recordings
  7. Accordion and concertina
  8. Australiana
  9. British 1920s-1950s dance bands
  10. British 1920s-1950s jazz & swing
  11. Country & Western/Sacred/Square dance
  12. Children's records [also includes a lot of 7" 45s]
  13. Classical records -- piano solo - orchestral - symphonic - light classical
  14. Ethnic/World music 78s (European, Asian, South American, etc.)
  15. European 1920s-1950s dance bands
  16. Female vocal
  17. French vocal & chanson [also includes some 45s & LPs]
  18. German vocal [also includes some 45s & LPs]
  19. Blues, jump, r&b, doo-wop & gospel [also includes some 45s & LPs]
  20. Instrumental recordings (solo & orchestra)
  21. Male vocal
  22. Music hall & comedy
  23. Operatic & classical vocal
  24. Piano (solo popular & jazz piano only - for classical piano see Classical)
  25. Post-War jazz & bop
  26. Spoken word, historical, sound effects, mood music & miscellaneous recordings
  27. Stage/screen related recordings
  28. Topical recordings (Christmas/New Year - Radio - World War I - World War II, etc.)
  29. Violin & cello
  30. Vocal groups

 

Vinyl --- 10" & 12" LPs - EPs - 45s - and a few CDs

  1. Vintage jazz & dance bands [reissues of pre-1950s recordings on vinyl] 
  2. Pre-1950s vocalists [reissues of pre-1950s recordings on vinyl] 
  3. World music - Folk music - Blues - R&B 
  4. Asian pop/teen-beat/garage/rock/vocal 
  5. Classical & Operatic 
  6. 1950s-1970s jazz & pop vocals 
  7. Jazz & popular instrumental 
  8. 1950s-1990s pop/rock/country LPs 
  9. 1950s-1990s pop/rock/country 45s & EPs 
  10. Stage/screen related recordings 
  11. Comedy - Spoken word - Miscellaneous

 

Books, sheet-music, 78rpm record sleeves, record catalogs & other music/film/radio related items

  1. Books & magazines (mainly music, films, photography, radio, television related) 
  2. Record catalogues, listings, etc. [some discographies are in the books section] 
  3. Sheet music (original sheet music from the 1900s to the 1970s) 
  4. Record sleeves (original 78rpm record company sleeves & sleeves from record stores) 
  5. Needle-tins, record dusters & miscellanea.

 

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