Mainly on the strength of this Dreamers recording (though there are other terrific songs as well, including an early song by Black Flag), The D.I.Y. Album brought $50 at auction on eBay in 2006 (I paid maybe half that much myself!), according to popsike.com – a great resource if you are interested in what original vinyl recordings have been bringing at auction and in private sales.
(August 2013)
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“Could it Be” appears on a British compilation CD called Northern Soul Satisfaction that is subtitled “30 Tracks from Northern Soul’s Golden Era”. The song is also on a 2013 CD on Kent Records called Pied Piper Presents A New Concept In Detroit Soul. The website popsike.com lists numerous auctions of this Mikki Farrow 45 at prices as high as $1,111.
(July 2014)
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“The Trip” by Kim Fowley is a monologue about the psychedelic experience with an appropriate musical accompaniment. The single was released in 1965; according to popsike.com, a copy of the original US pressing on Corby Records of the 45 sold at auction on eBay in 2007 for $185.
(January 2015/1)
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Like the band’s first record, the Primitives’ second single for Pye Records, “You Said” b/w “How Do You Feel” did not chart at all in the U.K. About the flip side, Bruce Eder notes: “[A] bluesy cut with a nice, choppy rhythm part, similar to what the Yardbirds did with ‘Here ’Tis’ or ‘Good Morning Little School Girl’ on-stage, only with better singing.”
Years later, word got out that, on both of the songs on this 45, the band’s lead guitarist Geoff Eaton was replaced with future Led Zeppelin star Jimmy Page, who was a prolific session guitarist in the early part of his career. As reported on popsike.com, the single has sold on eBay several times recently – for the equivalent of nearly $600 in one case – but oddly, this fact is not mentioned on any of the several items that I looked up on the website about this single.
“You Said” is included in the four-CD box set, Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964–1969.
(May 2015)
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According to the website popsike.com, the original 45’s by the Human Expression are among the most valuable of any garage rock or psychedelic rock band, selling at auction on 15 occasions at prices above $1,250 (and as recently as July 2015), with “Optical Sound” bringing as much as $2,650 and “Love at Psychedelic Velocity” selling as high as $2,500.
The sole album by the Human Zoo, The Human Zoo came out in 1970 on Accent Records, the same label as the Human Expression. Only a small number of copies were produced, with limited sales. Accent might have anticipated that a major record company would pick up the album, but that didn’t happen. Over the years, the album began to attract attention from psych fans, with the website popsike.com reporting that the original 1970 album sold several times in the early 2000’s for more than $300; one sealed copy of the album brought $900.
(July 2015)
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