BEATLES rare 1st US 45 decca my bonnie TONY SHERIDAN
  $   1,604

 


$ 1604 Sold For
Jan 12, 2007 Sold Date
Jan 5, 2007 Start Date
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Description

ARTIST: Tony Sheridan & the Beat brothers
TITLE: My Bonnie / the Saints
LABEL: Decca 31382
CONDITION: super-clean VG+ (so close to M-, only our excessively strict standards keep this from our highest grade of M-; this rates an 85 out of 100 for condition). Clean pink labels, with 2 lite 'x' on 'saints' labels side in ball-point pen.
COMMENTS:

BEATLES &  TONY SHERIDAN (listed as TONY SHERIDAN & BEAT BROTHERS) rare 1st US pink label promotional disc of the 45 decca #31382 'my bonnie' b/w 'the saints' (features  the slow English introduction for My Bonnie).

FROM APRIL, 1962, This is the VERY FIRST RECORD THE BEATLES APPEARED ON IN THE U.S. 

SINCE THIS WAS A MINOR HIT IN GERMANY (AND ENGLAND) IN 1961/1962, POLYDOR ENLISTED IT'S AMERICAN AFFILIATE AT THE TIME (DECCA RECORDS), TO GIVE THIS RECORD A RELEASE IN THE U.S. (THE BEATLES' FIRST OUTING IN AMERICA WAS CLEARLY A DISASTER, FAILING TO CHART ON ANY OF THE MAJOR LISTINGS). 2 THEORIES ON THE NAME CHANGE FROM BEATLES TO BEAT BROTHERS: US DECCA WASN'T CONVINCED THE NAME 'BEATLES' WAS MARKETABLE, SO THEY COMPLIED WITH POLYDOR'S SUGGESTION TO CHANGE THEIR NAME TO 'THE BEAT BROTHERS' ON THE LABEL (THE BEATLES WERE PRIMARILY A BACKING BAND TO TONY SHERIDAN <A POPULAR GERMAN SINGER AT THE TIME>). ANOTHER VERSION, REMEMBERED BY TONY SHERIDAN, WAS THAT 'BEAT BROTHERS' WAS USED INSTEAD OF 'BEATLES' BECAUSE "BEATLES" SOUNDED A LOT LIKE THE GERMAN SLANG WORD FOR THE HUMAN MALE MEMBER, "PEEDLES". (JOHN LENNON ALSO USED THE PHRASE "BEATLE PEEDLES" ON A BEATLES CHRISTMAS RECORD). THOSE ARE THE 2 VERSIONS MAKING THE ROUNDS.

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