{"id":117898,"date":"2024-06-18T18:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/18\/early-self-produced-taylor-swift-cd-sells-for-12k-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:01:47","slug":"early-self-produced-taylor-swift-cd-sells-for-12k-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/18\/early-self-produced-taylor-swift-cd-sells-for-12k-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Early self-produced Taylor Swift CD sells for $12K at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-18\/Getty_TaylorSwiftfolklorecabin_020924.png\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Mazur\/TAS23\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the earliest known <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> CDs sold at a <a href=\"https:\/\/goldin.co\/item\/taylor-swift-signed-early-self-produced-cd2xev1\">recent auction<\/a> for $12,505.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldinCo\/status\/1802169246052401271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1802169246052401271%7Ctwgr%5E25fed475e878756d87d6b751d382568bb6794001%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fmusic%2Fpop%2Ftaylor-swift-auction-early-recordings-originals-dolly-parton-chicks-covers-sells-12k-1235712216%2F\">disc<\/a>, which features a photo of a preteen Taylor, an old phone number, an email address and a website meant for interested music executives, was created when Taylor was a sixth-grader looking to make it big.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given Taylor Swift&#8217;s stranglehold on music, it is almost beyond comprehension to think that Ms. Swift ever had to bang on doors to get people to listen to her music,&#8221; the Goldin Auctions listing reads. &#8220;We all must start somewhere, and Swift&#8217;s ascent to the pantheon of music legends began when she was 11 years old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The self-produced disc is signed by Swift herself. It contains <strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong> and <strong>The Chicks<\/strong> covers, Swift&#8217;s take on a classic <strong>Olivia Newton-John<\/strong> ballad from <em>Grease<\/em>, as well as an original song. The track list is as follows: &#8220;Am I Ready For Love (<strong>Celina Berman-Gray<\/strong>),&#8221; &#8220;Can I Go With You (<strong>Greg McElrath<\/strong>\/Taylor Swift),&#8221; &#8220;There&#8217;s Your Trouble,&#8221; &#8220;One Way Ticket,&#8221; &#8220;Here You Come Again&#8221; and &#8220;Hopelessly Devoted to You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Swift, who grew up outside of Reading, PA, regularly traveled to New York City for voice lessons, learned guitar at the age of 12 from a local computer repairman\/guitar teacher, and performed at coffee houses in the tony Stone Harbor, New Jersey, seaside town,&#8221; The Goldin Auctions listing reads. &#8220;At the age of 11, Swift traveled to Nashville with her mother to shop her demo around, with the demo containing cover songs of Dolly Parton and [The] Chicks tunes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/TAS23\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management One of the earliest known Taylor Swift CDs sold at a recent auction for $12,505. The disc, which features a photo of a preteen Taylor, an old phone number, an email address and a website meant for interested music executives, was created when<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/18\/early-self-produced-taylor-swift-cd-sells-for-12k-at-auction\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}