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Goldmine Standard Catalog of Rhythm & Blues Records (Goldmine Price Guide to Collectible Record Albums)

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Goldmine is to Music like what sports Card Magazines are to there Sports.very detail&tell you what to look for&how certain covers or records are more valuable than others.I've always dug Goldmine&this along with other collections from them is a must have.

being that there are no other books of this type out there to choose from, this book is essential for the discography information. gripes: 1st: there's too much recent muck listed in with the good stuff . 2nd: as usual, some of the prices these guys come up with are extremely debatable - but then, these guides are SUPPOSED to be a rough "guideline" to appraise lp's . 3rd: didn't find much on the rare soul and funk 45's & lp's i bought this book for. 4th: got a question: why are EXTENSIVE elvis presley and beatles discographies in every one of these price [...]guide books? geez! get over it already! both of those artists ALREADY HAVE THEIR OWN PRICE GUIDES and tons of books out there already covering every thought in their drug addled brains. i would have rather seen reproductions of some rare or unusual picture sleeves or lp covers. thank you. p.s. wouldn't all the price guide books be excellent if they were just music discography books instead of [...]price guides? yes, they would.

finally a book thats afordable about soul and real r&b recvords?
welp..almost.
not quite enough though because somhow towards the end of the listings it makes disco and hip hop rhythm and blues thereby scarring any well meaning attempt to show wonderfull people like ray charles,the robins and maybe even the hollywood flames respect.
no real r&b artist deserves to be scraped into a book with all that crap.
but neely did aGREAT!!! job on the early and scarcer records.
unlike the kreiter guide which is nearly impossible to find and usually trashed,this bbook is more afordable and gives good insite to the music.(untill like i said..disco hits home).
but its a good start.thanks tim!