Beatles "With The Beatles", 2nd pressing- good condition
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I am selling this "With the Beatles album", it's in good condition.
It's a second pressing: 2nd press Mono : XEX 447-7N XEX 448-7N
I am slowly selling my Beatles collection off, bit reluctantly, to fund another project.
Some history about With the Beatles:
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.
The album received a lot less worldwide newspaper coverage than expected as it was released on the same day as the assasination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas !
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.
(Note though, that it was NOT the first to sell one million in the U.K., one other album achieved this feat in November 1963 when the American soundtrack album "South Pacific" after six years on release made it. The Beatles did it in less than two !)
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.
Chartwise, 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 inside the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth.
Thanks for looking
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