ORIGINAL UK PRESS cover, EARLY PRESS MONO YELLOW AND BLACK PARLOPHONE LABELS.

Here we have an opportunity to own a 1st pressing of this early Beatles classic. This is a Great Playing Record! Great Cover. Original UK PRESS Labels with superb audio throughout. A rare dark print cover. 

RELEASED ON THE UK PARLOPHONE LABEL with YELLOW LETTERS ON BLACK BACKGROUND.

CAT NO:....

MONO 1206

LABEL PRESS DETAILS:

M T TAX CREDITS ON THIS EARLY PRESS RECORD LABEL

A 1963 pressing with "The Parlophone Co Ltd label rim print, but NO Sold In The UK Subject To"... centre print. In 1964, legalities forced Parlophone to add a "resale statement" to their records. All Parlophone LP's produced between 1964 and late 1965 will have The Parlophone Co. Ltd. in the rim print and will have the Sold in UK message across the middle of the label. Early pressings do not have the "resale statement." 

MADE IN GT BRITAIN.

MATRIX NOs. ON RUN-OUT GROOVE

side 1 - XEX. 447 - 1 N and side 2 - XEX. 448 - 1 N

TRACK LISTING…

SIDE 1 - IT WONT BE LONG. . ALL I'VE GOT TO DO. . ALL MY LOVIN. .DONT BOTHER ME. .LITTLE CHILD. .TILL THERE WAS YOU. . PLEASE MISTER POSTMAN

SIDE 2 - ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN. .HOLD ME TIGHT . . YOU REALLY GOTTA HOLD ME. . I WANNA BE YOUR MAN. .DEVIL IN HER HEART. .NOT A SECOND TIME. .MONEY

This is a great pressing of the classic Beatles album. A great vinyl and Top Audio.

The Beatles second official L.P. release. Two weeks BEFORE release, "With The Beatles" had advance orders of 270,000, and before the first week of release was out, the half-a-million figure had been beaten. They were actually awarded a Silver disc (for sales of 250,000) on November 18th 1963, 4 days BEFORE release ! By mid January 1964 885,000 had been sold in the U.K. and by the end of 1964, the total was 980,000.

The ONE MILLION mark arrived by September 1965, making this album the FIRST EVER British album to sell 1,000,000 copies in the U.K. The American version of this album, Meet The Beatles bizarrely left off five of the tracks, but sold over 5 million copies. This makes combined sales for The Beatles second album of over 6.5 million.

Chart wise, this L.P. replaced "Please Please Me" at the number one slot, and remained there for 21 weeks. This gave The Beatles a continuous run of 51 weeks at the summit !_Also, in these early days of the British charts, ALL product was listed together regardless of format, and therefore this L.P. even made it into the U.K. singles chart, reaching number 11, which was a record placing for an album.

The cover was a very artful half-shadow black-and-white shot of The Beatles taken by Robert Freeman.

ALBUM PLAYED FOR GRADING:

TOP sound quality throughout!

This great record plays up to the visual and audio grading and beyond, with Crystal Clear audio, this record sounds superb!

Great music with great clarity, and so hard to find with this type of sound. John Lennon said that the Beatles were best listened to in mono, and when you listen to this album you can really hear what he meant. The music jumps out, with definition, power and clarity, giving an incredibly live rockous sound. A great MONO press experience. The bass guitar and drums are so true, whilst the guitars come through crisp and clear. The tonal quality make this a sensational pressing. With the clear and extra loud First cut engineering giving the audio a vibrant sound which cannot be beaten.

THE COVER

There is some light scuffing to the corners, but no rubbing along the edges. Being critical, there is a little crack to the laminate on the opening edge. Not a split, its barely visible. The back cover is clean, with few small age spots.

The spine shows minimal wear,  the spine text is totally intact, and is one of the squarer examples I have seen. The front is unusual, being one of the darkest prints, with little  separation  between the background and the Beatles polo neck jumpers. All round, this is a nice cover!!! Grades at VERY GOOD condition.