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Beatles - "Introducing The Beatles" - Vee-Jay SR-1062-Album

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Beatles -  Introducing The Beatles  - Vee-Jay SR-1062-Album
Beatles - "Introducing The Beatles" - Vee-Jay SR-1062-Album. 1964 Offered for the first time in this condition is the holy grail of Beatle records. Here is the stereo ad back in the original shrink wrap, the rarest of all American Beatle records. This is the first version of the first Beatles album in America. There is probable cause to believe that the "Ad back" cover was prompted by legal and financial considerations. The "Ad back" has version one of the "Introducing" record, which contains the songs "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," instead of "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why." Vee-Jay was in financial turmoil, and thus, overlooked payment of Beatles royalties to their licensing company. Plans for fall of 1963 Beatles releases were put on hold. In late 1963, word within the music industry was that Capitol Records had a new English beat group called The Beatles, and was preparing to launch a large promotional campaign. Vee-Jay Records, knowing they still had temporary control of some of the Beatles master recordings and already had several thousand front slicks printed, hastily issued the stalled 1963 "Introducing the Beatles" LP. Because of the dispute over ownership of the above-mentioned Beatles recordings, there were no back cover slicks made. Instead, they rush-released the album with the back cover showing ads for different albums on their label. This helped them disguise the fact that they had "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" on the record. This helped create the more common version two, which is known as the "column back," issued once the legalities had cleared in early February 1964. The "Ad back" is the rare version one, issued at the end of the second week in January, 1964. It has been estimated that less than a thousand stereo copies were manufactured, with less than a handful surviving to this day. The cover has "Printed in the U.S.A." on the lower left of the front cover as all "Ad backs" do. Very minute tear on the back where the shrink wrap has adhered to the cover. The cover is in shrink which helped preserve the whiteness of the back cover. From the collection of Bill Paquin. ***** Important notice: Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 20% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid.