To Jim Cooper of Hip Cat Records, when it comes to buying and selling records, it's the little things that matter.

Even something as mundane or seemingly trivial as an address can have serious implications when it comes to price. As an example, he cites two interesting cases of some Atlantic Records releases, including a famous Led Zeppelin album.






"Now sometimes, the price guides will mention Atlantic Records, that earlier issues have the address 1841 Broadway and the later reissues will say 75 Rockefeller, even though it may still have the original catalog number," says Cooper. "They'll change the address of where the company is located. And in some instances, that makes a big deal in the value because in 1973, when they changed [addresses], albums like Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy came out in '73, [and] there was a very brief window when Houses Of the Holy said 1841 Broadway on the label. Almost all of them would say 75 Rockefeller, so there was just a few months when they actually used the 1841 address on that. And that's pretty much true for anything that Atlantic or Atco or Atlantic distributed labels did — anything in '73, if it's got the 1841, it's even worth more than earlier issues which had a longer time span and larger quantities printed that way."

Cooper has some experience with this sort of thing.

"Now, get this: In my collection, I have a Houses Of The Holy — one side says 1841 and the other says 75 Rockefeller. So I have an exact transition album with the label, which is really cool," says Cooper.

And Houses Of The Holy isn't the only Atlantic release that has these kinds of issues.

Cooper says, "Another cool thing is Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway came out in 1974, and it even says on the cover, 75 Rockefeller. I actually came across one that said 1841 Broadway. So somehow, they put the old address by mistake on some of the pressings, and I've only seen one of those, so that's in my collection. So little things like that for me make a big difference."

Anybody come across the same sort of thing? We at Goldmine would love to hear about it. Feel free to leave me a note in the Comments section or send me an e-mail at peter.lindblad@fwmedia.com