New York City’ – Christie’s November 30 sale of rock and pop memorabilia at totaled $864,938 and was sold 95 percent by value and 87 percent by lot. The top lot was Hank Williams’ notebook of 13 lyrics, which posted a world auction record for a Hank Williams manuscript at $145,000.The 18-page composition notebook is creased down the middle, most likely because Williams carried it in his back pocket for handy use to jot down songs when the mood struck him.
Man… I tell you what… I tried to bid on that thing but they wouldn’t take my wife as payment. I tried to throw in the kids but I was out bid by the final bidder… man… that is a piece of history right there.
That is wild. Maybe the hard drive that holds all my songs in text files will one day be worth something. Or probably not.