If You Have Any Of These Classic Vinyl Records, You're Actually Holding On To a Small Fortune

Tommy Johnson, Alcohol and Jake Blues

In 1930, Tommy Johnson released Alcohol and Jake Blues with Paramount. It's an incredibly rare blues record, and the master tapes no longer exist. That means every single copy of the record that does exist that much more valuable. In 2013, one version of the vinyl sold for $37,100.

Advertisement

Next Page →

The More You Know

  • Donkeys and dolphins are sometimes used as guard animals.
  • There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
Next Page →