What We Don't Buy
Thank you for considering Paul Solarski Rare Records. We hope the information on this page is useful to you. If you have any questions, please contact us!
Records we are looking for are those that are scarce, obscure, and sought-after. It is important to note that just because 78’s are “old” doesn’t make them valuable. In fact, most records encountered have little or no value.
typical household accumulation
There are many millions of 78’s still in existence and most of the inquiries we receive which we must say "No" to concern the typical household accumulation of mass-produced records that were played at home and on the radio.These are shown below in the lists of Artists We Do Not Buy.
We do not buy any of these 78 RPM album sets:
• Big Band, Easy Listening, Pop, Classical, Opera, etc.
• Soundtracks, Broadway Show Tunes, Original Cast
• Comedy, Children’s, Travel, Box Sets such as Reader's Digest or Time-Life, Foreign language, or Exercise
• Country, Gospel, Easy Listening, Big Band, Dixieland, Greatest Hits
AND AS FAR AS ALBUMS: WE do not buy any 70’s, 80’s, OR 90’s Pop artists
No ABBA, Air Supply, Alabama, Alice Cooper, Barbra Streisand, Beach Boys, Bee Gees, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Boston, Bruce Springsteen, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Brown,, John Denver, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Olivia Newton John, Queen, etc. etc.
For your convenience, we have complied the following LISTS OF ARTISTS THAT WE DO NOT BUY.
Exception 1: We don’t buy the artists below unless they are part of a collection or accumulation that includes some of the rare records described elsewhere on this site.
Exception 2: We buy records from the artists below on labels other than those shown in parentheses. For example, with Louis Armstrong, we do buy his records on the OKeh and Columbia(Black) labels, or with Jimmie Davis, we do buy his records on the Bluebird and Victor labels.
| Larry Adler | Four Preps | Vera Lynn |
| Ames Brothers | Judy Garland | Johnny Maddox |
| Andrews Sisters | Arthur Godfrey | Charles Magnante |
| Louis Armstrong (Decca, RCA) | Al Goodman | Mantovani |
| Pearl Bailey | Gogo Grant | Dean Martin |
| Don Baker | Glen Gray(Decca, RCA) | Tony Martin |
| Charlie Barnet | Jerry Gray | Al Martin |
| Count Basie | Ken Griffin | Johnny Mathis |
| Harry Belafonte | Lionel Hampton | Clyde McCoy |
| Tex Beneke | Harmonicats | McGuire Sisters |
| Tony Bennett | Erskine Hawkins | Johnny Mercer |
| Pat Boone | Dick Haymes | Glenn Miller |
| Jimmy Boyd | Ted Heath | Mitch Miller |
| Will Bradley | Woody Herman | Mills Brothers |
| Les Brown | Tiny Hill | Borrah Minevitch |
| Billy Butterfield | Al Hirt | Vaughn Monroe |
| Cab Calloway (Columbia, Vocalion) | Harry Horlick | Ralph Marterie |
| Eddie Calvert | Pee Wee Hunt | Modernaires |
| Frankie Carle | Jane Hutton | Patti Page |
| Larry Clinton | Ink Spots | Tony Pastor |
| Rosemary Clooney | Joni James. | Les Paul |
| Nat King Cole | Gordon Jenkins | Pied Pipers |
| Perry Como | Al Jolson (Decca) | Johnnie Ray |
| Ray Conniff | Spike Jones | Joe Reisman |
| Don Cornell | Dick Jurgens | Debbie Reynolds |
| Crew Cuts | Beatrice Kay | Andy Russel |
| Bing Crosby (Decca) | Danny Kaye | Jan Savitt |
| Bob Crosby | Sammy Kaye | Raymond Scott |
| Xavier Cugat | Monty Kelly | Artie Shaw |
| Vic Damone | Stan Kenton | Dinah Shore |
| Bobby Darin | Wayne King | Frank Sinatra |
| Sammy Davis Jr. | John Kirby | Freddie Slack |
| Dennis Day | Andre Kostelanetz | Charlie Spivak |
| Doris Day | Gene Krupa | Jo Stafford |
| Martin Denny | Kay Kyser (Columbia) | Kaye Starr |
| Jimmy Dorsey (Decca) | Frankie Laine | Gale Storm |
| Tommy Dorsey(RCA) | Mario Lanza | Claude Thornhill |
| Eddie Duchin | Julius LaRosa | Tommy Tucker |
| Bob Eberly | Julia Lee | Billy Vaughn |
| Ziggy Elman | Peggy Lee | Fred Waring |
| Percy Faith | Dick Leibert | Lawrence Welk |
| Eddie Fisher | Liberace | Andy Williams |
| Shep Fields | Enoch Light | Roger Williams |
| Ralph Flanagan | Big Tiny Little | Weavers |
| Helen Forrest | Guy Lombardo | Marek Weber |
| Four Aces | Julie London | Paul Weston |
| Four Freshmen | Johnny Long | Lew White |
| Four Lads | Nellie Lutcher | Margaret Whiting |
| Frances Alda | Jascha Heifetz | Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Elsie Baker | Louise Homer | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Enrico Caruso (Victrola) | Fritz Kreisler | Tito Ruffo |
| Columbia Symphony Orchestra | Nancy Kulp | Ernestine Schumann-Heink |
| Edith Day | Harry Lauder | Shannon Quartet |
| Emilio DeGogorza | Lucy Isabelle Marsh | Victor Concert Orchestra |
| Giuseppe deLuca | John McCormack | Victor Light Opera Co. |
| Mischa Elman | Lambert Murphy | Victor Symphony Orchestra |
| Geraldine Farrar | Eugene Ormandy | Reinald Werrenrath |
| Amelita Galli-Curci | Ignacy Jan Paderewski | Efrem Zimbalist |
| Roy Acuff | Skeeter Davis | Gene O’Guin |
| Eddy Arnold | Delmore Brothers (King) | Patsy Montana |
| Bob Atcher | Al Dexter | Spade Cooley |
| Gene Autry (Columbia, Okeh) | Flatt and Scruggs | Webb Pierce |
| Blue Sky Boys (King) | Wally Fowler | Ray Price |
| Bill Carlisle | Stuart Hamblin | Tex Ritter |
| Molly Bee | Goldie Hill | Roy Rogers |
| Johnny Bond | Homer and Jethro | Shelton Brothers |
| Elton Britt | Buddy Jones | Sweet Violet Boys |
| Browns | George Jones | Hank Thompson |
| Cliff Bruner | Grandpa Jones | Ernest Tubb (Decca) |
| Buchanan Brothers | Hoosier Hotshots | Kitty Wells |
| Cowboy Copas | Little Jimmy Dickens | Slim Whitman |
| Davis Sisters | Bill Monroe | Hank Williams (MGM) |
| Jimmie Davis (Decca) | Montana Slim | Bob Wills (Columbia) |