March 15, 2025 • 9 mins
Mighty John lives in the deep woods of Maine where he stores countless vinyl records from the past 70 years. This month, Mighty John spotlights vinyl records worth at least $150
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's been a while since I've spoke with Mighty John.
Are you still living up in the woods up in Maine.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Mighty John, I'm stuck in the woods yet.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
How's life in Maine?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Very nice little chili, but you know, you gotta expect
that up here, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
My wife and I spent time on that island, Cushing's Island,
just off of Portland.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes. Yeah, there are three hundred and sixty five islands
off of Portland. They call them the Calendar Islands because
of three sixty five.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Dude. The like the the war defense systems that they
use way back in the day. Yeah, for ships, you know,
all the other is like. That was fascinating going through
and seeing all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yep. Lots of history in Maine.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, indeed. Well all right, well, I'm glad you're doing
well up in Maine. Your job people, you do a
podcast called Money Music because you like telling people about
the value of their vinyl. Is it still right to
say vinyl or are we supposed to say records?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I think is great? Yeah, no, I still say vinyl. Yeah.
Money Music podcast, and we get YouTube videos too, just
under Money Music, and of course our website Money Music
Dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That's how that goes. So what is your theme for March,
Mighty de.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, you know, these are records that are worth one
hundred and fifty dollars or more. Every month we put
out a new list, and this is the list for March.
We'll start with Great Bob Dylan. He had a forty
five called Positively Fourth Street with its little picture sleeve.
It's currently up to one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But you got to have the picture sleeve. That's the
important part of this.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The picture sleeves on the forty fives are always worth
more than the records. Why is that, Well, less of
them survived. People generally took the forty five, put it
on a spindle or in the record cabinet and tossed
the sleeve, so less of them more value.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Does the Complete Unknown movie increase the value of something
like this temporarily?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It could? It could so there's no real way to know,
but yes, it could. Yeah, I ain't new publicity.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Sidebar for you, Mighty John. What did you think of
that movie?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I loved it because you know Dylan's still alive, but
didn't like the Elvis movie because you know he's gonna die. So,
but then the Dylan movie. Thank god Bob Dylan is
still with us.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I had guy on here with me who was a
neighbor of Pete Seeger when he was a kid. He
came in and told all the stories about living around
there and that whole era, and it was fascinating. And
then he told me, you know how accurate the movie was,
and in the areas where they were like using way
too much poetic license.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, they did that in the Elvis movie too.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
They always too. Speaking of Elvis, isn't he on the list?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He is on the list. Yes, he had a movie
called Blue and White, a big movie for Elvis. Now,
little things can make a big difference. If you have
a copy of the album, look at the label. If
it has stereo printed on the label, up to seven
hundred and fifty dollars, But if it says living stereo
only seventy five.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Dollars, why is that? What's the difference?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Less of the maid in that way depends on where
they printed them, by far, fewer of them with stereo
printed on the label, more of them with living stereo.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, time check me on that was that when Elvis
was like making a comeback, is that what it was?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No, he was big then now. Actually Angela Lansbury, who
starred in the long time running TV series Murder. She
wrote played the mother to Elvis's character in the movie
and at the time he was really twenty six and
she was really thirty six.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
That must have been humbling.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
She always looked old for her age. It worked out was.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
She was some kind of a movie hottie at one time.
I know that from just seeing historical references.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, yeah, great actress.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
All right, but you said seven you said, what did
you say, seven hundred and fifty If it's the Living.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Living stereo seventy five dollars, just stereo, seven hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Dollars, what else you got on your list?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, you want to look for Sammy Hagar. I can't
Drive fifty five. This song came out after they lowered
the speed limit on some highways and he was actually
pulled over and the cops says, you're going to slow down.
He said, I can't drive fifty five. That's the twelve
inch single sent me. Hagar up to two one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
A twelve inch singles. That's kind of rare, though, isn't
it wasn't that like a record company release.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, very popular in the eighties, especially with club DJs.
Twelve inch singles also stood out when sent to radio
stations rather than just a little forty five great way
of saying here, look at me, play me now?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Makes sense? All right? Other albums or excuse me, records
that are worth at least one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, the Fifth Dimension had a big hit with Aquarius
Let the sun Shine In Again. Little things make a
big difference. You have a copy it's black vinyl, twenty bucks,
but if the vinyl is blue, brown, green, or red,
two hundred.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Dollars because of rarity.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yes. And then we have the Beatles. Everything by the
Beatles is worth money. This one, do you want to
know a secret? With its picture sleeve up to two
hundred and fifty bucks, about two hundred of that just
for the picture sleeve.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
What were they doing chopping up dolls and making it
look like meat cleavers?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And that was another album?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Or somebody that was the Yesterday and Today? An original
Yesterday and Today butcher cover could sell up the fifteen
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's astounding. So you have these things or you go
to a flea market or whatever it is, or somebody
in your family leaves these things behind in their estate.
You should really be careful about this.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
A lot of people don't realize what they're worth, end
up in the yard sale for a dime, and somebody
like me comes along and says, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I would say, so, what's your website.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Again, moneymusic dot com?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So that's where they can check on that, all right?
I think the Stones are on your list too, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I can't get no satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That one? Ready for it?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What about this one?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well again, the forty five with picture sleeve? Up to
three fifty three hundred of that for the picture sleeve?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What are they doing on that picture? Sleep?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's just a picture of the stones? Okay, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Special, okay, all right? And then I saw something you
had listed by Genesis, a ridiculous amount of money.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Forty five called the Lamb Lays down on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So this is Phil Collins and Mike rob for the
other guys in here.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And then why is it it's not Phil Collins?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, he's gone by that. That's cool, I enjoyed. Okay, yeah,
why is this so valuable.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, have you ever heard of it before?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
No, I think I've heard this hook now and it's
on the radio.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, Genesis is going to be quite collectable. It's worth
up to one thousand dollars. Their very first forty five,
which is called the Silent Sun, giveself for forty five
hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Interesting. Yeah, I saw one thousand dollars price on this one,
and then the fantast price I saw on your list
comes out in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, the Beach Boys girlfriends got a forty five. They said,
where are your girlfriends? Can't you do something for us? Okay,
so they put out a song called Surfing Down the
Swanee by the Honeys. They were.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
They were literally the girlfriends of like the Al Jardine
and Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
One of them actually married Brian Wilson.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So interesting, I never heard this one before. How much
money you get for this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
One with picture sleeve up to eighteen hundred and fifteen
hundred for the picture sleep.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You probably have three or four of those in the
back room in this radio station. Go boy, Mighty John
appreciates the gold speculating that you're doing for us today.
Thankk you, Jerry, appreciate you ass always. Thanks. That is
Mighty John up in the Woods of Maine. Is His
website is moneymusic dot com and that's where you can
(08:06):
find out what your records are worth. You got final
Grandpaul left it or somebody left it around, and you're like,
and some of them are like those radio station promo copies.
Sometimes those are worth something, usually not, but you never know.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
This is that first Genesis single he referenced from sixty eight,
The Silent Sun.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Was this Peter Gabriel too, Probably because I don't recognize
that voice, Probably Peter Gabriel's dad. Yes, just Gabriel.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Again.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
A website is money music dot com. That was Mighty
John from the Woods of Maine back in a few
on news radio. Wait forty wh chance the tiny song
of Pies from me And I'm just saying that I'm
just outside my goodness out and stream and fear
It's been a while since I've spoke with Mighty John.
Are you still living up in the woods up in Maine.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Mighty John, I'm stuck in the woods yet.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
How's life in Maine?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Very nice little chili, but you know, you gotta expect
that up here, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
My wife and I spent time on that island, Cushing's Island,
just off of Portland.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes. Yeah, there are three hundred and sixty five islands
off of Portland. They call them the Calendar Islands because
of three sixty five.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Dude. The like the the war defense systems that they
use way back in the day. Yeah, for ships, you know,
all the other is like. That was fascinating going through
and seeing all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yep. Lots of history in Maine.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, indeed. Well all right, well, I'm glad you're doing
well up in Maine. Your job people, you do a
podcast called Money Music because you like telling people about
the value of their vinyl. Is it still right to
say vinyl or are we supposed to say records?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I think is great? Yeah, no, I still say vinyl. Yeah.
Money Music podcast, and we get YouTube videos too, just
under Money Music, and of course our website Money Music
Dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That's how that goes. So what is your theme for March,
Mighty de.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, you know, these are records that are worth one
hundred and fifty dollars or more. Every month we put
out a new list, and this is the list for March.
We'll start with Great Bob Dylan. He had a forty
five called Positively Fourth Street with its little picture sleeve.
It's currently up to one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But you got to have the picture sleeve. That's the
important part of this.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The picture sleeves on the forty fives are always worth
more than the records. Why is that, Well, less of
them survived. People generally took the forty five, put it
on a spindle or in the record cabinet and tossed
the sleeve, so less of them more value.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Does the Complete Unknown movie increase the value of something
like this temporarily?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It could? It could so there's no real way to know,
but yes, it could. Yeah, I ain't new publicity.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Sidebar for you, Mighty John. What did you think of
that movie?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I loved it because you know Dylan's still alive, but
didn't like the Elvis movie because you know he's gonna die. So,
but then the Dylan movie. Thank god Bob Dylan is
still with us.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I had guy on here with me who was a
neighbor of Pete Seeger when he was a kid. He
came in and told all the stories about living around
there and that whole era, and it was fascinating. And
then he told me, you know how accurate the movie was,
and in the areas where they were like using way
too much poetic license.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, they did that in the Elvis movie too.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
They always too. Speaking of Elvis, isn't he on the list?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He is on the list. Yes, he had a movie
called Blue and White, a big movie for Elvis. Now,
little things can make a big difference. If you have
a copy of the album, look at the label. If
it has stereo printed on the label, up to seven
hundred and fifty dollars, But if it says living stereo
only seventy five.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Dollars, why is that? What's the difference?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Less of the maid in that way depends on where
they printed them, by far, fewer of them with stereo
printed on the label, more of them with living stereo.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, time check me on that was that when Elvis
was like making a comeback, is that what it was?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No, he was big then now. Actually Angela Lansbury, who
starred in the long time running TV series Murder. She
wrote played the mother to Elvis's character in the movie
and at the time he was really twenty six and
she was really thirty six.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
That must have been humbling.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
She always looked old for her age. It worked out was.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
She was some kind of a movie hottie at one time.
I know that from just seeing historical references.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, yeah, great actress.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
All right, but you said seven you said, what did
you say, seven hundred and fifty If it's the Living.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Living stereo seventy five dollars, just stereo, seven hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Dollars, what else you got on your list?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, you want to look for Sammy Hagar. I can't
Drive fifty five. This song came out after they lowered
the speed limit on some highways and he was actually
pulled over and the cops says, you're going to slow down.
He said, I can't drive fifty five. That's the twelve
inch single sent me. Hagar up to two one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
A twelve inch singles. That's kind of rare, though, isn't
it wasn't that like a record company release.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, very popular in the eighties, especially with club DJs.
Twelve inch singles also stood out when sent to radio
stations rather than just a little forty five great way
of saying here, look at me, play me now?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Makes sense? All right? Other albums or excuse me, records
that are worth at least one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, the Fifth Dimension had a big hit with Aquarius
Let the sun Shine In Again. Little things make a
big difference. You have a copy it's black vinyl, twenty bucks,
but if the vinyl is blue, brown, green, or red,
two hundred.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Dollars because of rarity.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yes. And then we have the Beatles. Everything by the
Beatles is worth money. This one, do you want to
know a secret? With its picture sleeve up to two
hundred and fifty bucks, about two hundred of that just
for the picture sleeve.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
What were they doing chopping up dolls and making it
look like meat cleavers?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And that was another album?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Or somebody that was the Yesterday and Today? An original
Yesterday and Today butcher cover could sell up the fifteen
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's astounding. So you have these things or you go
to a flea market or whatever it is, or somebody
in your family leaves these things behind in their estate.
You should really be careful about this.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
A lot of people don't realize what they're worth, end
up in the yard sale for a dime, and somebody
like me comes along and says, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I would say, so, what's your website.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Again, moneymusic dot com?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So that's where they can check on that, all right?
I think the Stones are on your list too, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I can't get no satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That one? Ready for it?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What about this one?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well again, the forty five with picture sleeve? Up to
three fifty three hundred of that for the picture sleeve?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What are they doing on that picture? Sleep?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's just a picture of the stones? Okay, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Special, okay, all right? And then I saw something you
had listed by Genesis, a ridiculous amount of money.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Forty five called the Lamb Lays down on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So this is Phil Collins and Mike rob for the
other guys in here.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And then why is it it's not Phil Collins?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, he's gone by that. That's cool, I enjoyed. Okay, yeah,
why is this so valuable.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, have you ever heard of it before?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
No, I think I've heard this hook now and it's
on the radio.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, Genesis is going to be quite collectable. It's worth
up to one thousand dollars. Their very first forty five,
which is called the Silent Sun, giveself for forty five
hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Interesting. Yeah, I saw one thousand dollars price on this one,
and then the fantast price I saw on your list
comes out in nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, the Beach Boys girlfriends got a forty five. They said,
where are your girlfriends? Can't you do something for us? Okay,
so they put out a song called Surfing Down the
Swanee by the Honeys. They were.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
They were literally the girlfriends of like the Al Jardine
and Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
One of them actually married Brian Wilson.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So interesting, I never heard this one before. How much
money you get for this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
One with picture sleeve up to eighteen hundred and fifteen
hundred for the picture sleep.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You probably have three or four of those in the
back room in this radio station. Go boy, Mighty John
appreciates the gold speculating that you're doing for us today.
Thankk you, Jerry, appreciate you ass always. Thanks. That is
Mighty John up in the Woods of Maine. Is His
website is moneymusic dot com and that's where you can
(08:06):
find out what your records are worth. You got final
Grandpaul left it or somebody left it around, and you're like,
and some of them are like those radio station promo copies.
Sometimes those are worth something, usually not, but you never know.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
This is that first Genesis single he referenced from sixty eight,
The Silent Sun.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Was this Peter Gabriel too, Probably because I don't recognize
that voice, Probably Peter Gabriel's dad. Yes, just Gabriel.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Again.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
A website is money music dot com. That was Mighty
John from the Woods of Maine back in a few
on news radio. Wait forty wh chance the tiny song
of Pies from me And I'm just saying that I'm
just outside my goodness out and stream and fear
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