My point on the Martha Reeves (as a comparison to the Tommy Tucker on U.K. London) was not what it should be worth, the bookprice, or how many copies exist....but the true value it fetches when its put up for sale or auction.
For some reason I seem to remember Pete saying it should be a £25 record about a year ago cus I'm sure I remarked on it and added that it was worth more....I'm aware that Pete listed one recently for the kinda price I believe it to be worth.
Hence me mentioning it as a comparison.
I may be wrong here, and I can't be arsed to search the site for the old threads, so apologies if I am....but my point goes back that it's very easy when asked what a tune is worth on here for some-one else to come back and dispute it one way or another...I know what I was willing to pay for Tommy Tucker when I was after it, and I know what other R&B collectors chasing it now are willing to pay......whereas to a northen collector it may have little value, to an R&B collector it is quite a desirable item.
If it had been released on U.S. Festival, in the same quantities as, say 'That's how much' it would fetch more than £80, but it wasn't, and the U.K. release is quite hard to find nowadays (as I said, if anyone know different post 'em up at £50 each and I'll buy 'em up!)
The facts, like 'em or not are....
Martha Reeves fetches a solid £75 - £100
Tommy Tucker would fetch £100 easy...maybe as much as £150 nowadays
Whilst everybody has their own valued opinion to what a tune may, or should be worth, that is only a personal opinion....in reality they shouldn't be worth what any of us pay cus we are all as mad as f*ck paying what we do for bits of round plastic