Popsike is nothing more than prices realized on eBay, the place where any two idiots with no sense and too much money can drive prices way beyond reality. Sorry if I sound sour, but I really can't stand eBay, I used to enjoy selling there once in awhile if I came up with something nice that wasn't in my collecting range, but ignorant buyers and eBay policies favoring them no matter what drove me and many others away, which is fine, I've never cared about how much any record is "worth", I know it very well from being around them and the market for decades, but it's no fun when money gets priority.78recordpicker wrote:if you go to popsike.com, you can get a few free searches, I put in Caruso 12 inch and saw 67 sales hits at 20 bucks or more, but the site archives back quite a few years, so....its possible you have a few sellable 20 dollar ones, etc if you were so inclined
That said, there are certainly a couple of Caruso 12 inch discs that are not at all common, but these are so few they aren't worth mentioning. I've been at the classical record game for 36 years now and trust me when I say none of his 12 inch Victors that are rare. None. I have at least 300 dupes of his currently that get handed off to anyone that visits here and wants them. I have another 300 or more I keep in machines to play, then there's my "archive" of his that will never see steel as long as I live, because they're the mintiest copies you'll ever see, but alas, even those aren't worth much, but I enjoy them more than the Marston CDs.
I'm sure there are even more of his lurking in boxes from a huge collection I bought years ago that I still haven't finished dealing with, but that's another story.
As to Caruso on Edison, I seem to remember in one of the books that published TAE's comments about singers, he couldn't stand Caruso's singing....
Sean