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That Stubborn Kinda Fellow vinyl value

That Stubborn Kinda Fellow — Marvin Gaye album cover
Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

Marvin Gaye — That Stubborn Kinda Fellow: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
1986 Tamla MotownWL72207GermanyReissue
2014 RumbleRUM2011061US—
2015 TamlaTM-239EuropeReissue, Mono, 180g
2015 Tamla0600753536469USReissue, 180g
2017 WaxTime772199EuropeLimited Edition, Reissue, 180g
2020 ErmitageVNL 18742ItalyReissue, Remastered, Unofficial Release

6 pressings tracked · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 1986First released 1963; our table starts at 1986 (Tamla Motown, Germany). A copy older than 1986 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants2015 Europe: Reissue, Mono, 180g; 2017 Europe: Limited Edition, Reissue, 180g. Scarce on purpose; collectors pay for that.
Reissues, 2015+2 pressings. Easy to find, priced as listening copies.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. On the 1986 Germany pressing it reads “DM E 0981 A 1784 S III” on side one and “DM E 0981 B 1784 S III” on side two. Trust the etching over the jacket: covers get traded around, dead wax stays put.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. A clean copy and a worn one of the same pressing sit several grades, and several multiples, apart. Grade record and sleeve separately; see our grading guide.

Do not price the cover. A later disc in a 1963 jacket is a reissue, whatever the sleeve says: the pressing lives in the runout etching and on the label.

Questions

Which pressing of That Stubborn Kinda Fellow is worth the most?

Original 1963 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 1986 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 2015 “Reissue, Mono, 180g” and the 2017 “Limited Edition, Reissue, 180g”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell which pressing I have?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. On the 1986 Germany pressing the runout reads “DM E 0981 A 1784 S III”. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is That Stubborn Kinda Fellow worth today?

Market prices move, so a static number goes stale fast. Scan the record in the RecordScout app: it identifies your exact pressing from the label and shows a current value range for its condition.

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