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Introducing The Beatles - Version Two

THE BEATLES Introducing The Beatles (1964 US 12-track mono LP on the colourband with bracketed logo label & hand scratched matrices in the vinyl run off area, pasted picture sleeve. This is the second version where 'Love Me Do' & 'P.S. I Love You' were replaced with 'Please Please Me' & 'Ask Me Why'. Both sleeve & vinyl on this superb copy remain in excellent condition with little sign of being nearly fifty years old VJLP1062)
See 'More Info' for further details & specifics on condition ...

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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1964 - 60 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Vee Jay
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Product Catalogue No VJLP1062
Music Genre Apple label, 60s Rock, 60s Pop, 60s Beat, POP
Country Comes from USA Comes from 'USA'
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Tracklisting & More Information

Background

This was the first Beatles album released in America, with the version two of the album very quickly following version one into the shops. The reason for the two versions of the album was that Beechwood Music took out an injunction against Vee-Jay because they didn't have the rights to issue the tracks that had previously appeared on the 'Love Me Do' single. Vee-Jay consequently had to re-tool the album to remove the offending two tracks, which were replaced by 'Please Please Me' and 'Ask Me Why'.
As it turned out, this was probably a better track selection for the album anyway.
This change was executed in January 1964 & the 'Version Two' album was back in the shops by the 10th of February. In the end, this album eventually sold 1.3 million of the Mono & nearly 42,000 of the Stereo LP versions. Sales of the 'Version One' amounted to 79,000 Mono & 1,000 Stereo. It can be seen at a glance that the ratio of Stereo to Mono was still very small, even in the United States.


Condition & Specifics

The Sleeve

This is the second variant of the Version Two Mono sleeve with a comma in 'Please, Please Me' on the rear slick & a small '2' just after the word 'RECORDS' at the bottom.
The condition is very pleasing indeed, with just a little light shelfwear evident. The front & rear show minimal discolouration, with just a small bit of light edge scuffing to the bottom seam. There are no splits & there is no writing anywhere, the back slick remains mostly white & a clearly readable spine is evident.

The Vinyl

This matches the sleeve in being the second variant of the Version Two release.
The labels are the colourband type with the Vee-Jay logo in white & bracketed above the silver text. The labels have corrected the 'Coffin-King' credit to 'Chains'.
These labels still have the 'LONG PLAYING' & 'MICROGROOVE' credits that were dropped soon afterwards. For those of an interested disposition, this is the fourth label variant of the second variant of the second variant of the album - Got that ?
The multitude of label configurations that this album came with defy belief, certainly not for the feint hearted!

All information in the run off areas of the vinyl is scratched, nothing stamped.

The matrices read as follows:

Side One: 63-3402-1
Side Two: 63-3403-1

In addition, there is a date of 2-11-64 on side one. Both sides of the record have 'ARC' [the pressing plant] and '4-21-4', suggesting that this particular variant was from April 1964. There are also the initials 'URJ' on both sides.

The condition of this is again, very pleasing. The fact that I am now going to be able to list the surface hairlines for you should tell you how good this is.

On side one, there is a very light one across tracks three & four.
On side two, there is one very light one across tracks four, five & six, with another tiny one across track one.
What else there is can be attributed to paper scuffs, although the surface hairlines are in themselves very light and have no effect on the audio.

The album has obviously been extremely well looked after, with no obvious spindle marks around the centre hole and the vinyl retaining its original sheen.

You would be hard pressed to find one of this quality again in a hurry.
A gem.

Tracklisting:

01. I Saw Her Standing There
02. Misery
03. Anna
04. Chains
05. Boys
06. Ask Me Why
07. Please Please Me
08. Baby It's You
09. Do You Want To Know A Secret ?
10. A Taste Of Honey
11. There's A Place
12. Twist & Shout

LP RECORD  
Recording Artist The Beatles
Product Title Introducing The Beatles - Version Two
Product Information The Beatles Introducing The Beatles - Version Two USA vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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