INTRODUCING..THE BEATLES ENGLAND'S NO 1 VOCAL GROUP VEE JAY RARE AD BACK SLEEVE

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THE BEATLES

INTRODUCING...THE BEATLES ENGLAND'S NO 1 VOCAL GROUP ON VEE JAY RECORDS VJLP1062/ 63-3402

VERY RARE FIRST PRESSING WITH LOVE ME DO AND PS. I LOVE YOU SUBSTITUTING PLEASE PLEASE ME AND ASK ME WHY ON LATER PRESSINGS.

HAS THE REAR RARE "AD BACK" SLEEVE ADVERTISING OTHER VEE JAY RELEASES.

THE FRONT COVER HAS "PRINTED IN USA" VERTICALLY AT THE SIDE TOWARDS BOTTOM LEFT SIDE

AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND SIDE IS LP 1062 CLEARLY TYPED

SPINE HAS VEE JAY-INTRODUCING THE BEATLES-VEE JAY AND AT THE END BUT NOT SO CLEAR IS LP 1062 WHICH IS A LITTLE FRAYED

I KNOW THERE ARE MANY FAKES CIRCULATING SO I AM TRYING TO GIVE AS GOOD A DESCRIPTION AS I CAN. THE SHADOW TO THE RIGHT OF GEORGE HARRISON IS CLEAR WHICH ON FAKE COVERS ISN'T PRESENT.

THE CONDITION OF THE RECORD COVER IS GOOD, HAS NAME IN PENCIL ON TOP RIGHT CORNER, FRAYED AT TOP EDGES. HAS SPLIT AT THE BOTTOM.

OTHERWISE FRONT AND REAR IS VERY GOOD. THE CONDITION OF THE VINYL HAS SOME LIGHT SURFACE MARKS WHICH DO NOT IMPACT ON SOUND QUALITY. THE LABELS ARE EXCELLENT ON BOTH SIDES. BLACK LABELS WITH RAINBOW EDGING AND MICROGROOVE AND LONG PLAYING LETTERING ON BOTH SIDES.

RUN OFF GROOVE IS LESS THAN ONE INCH WHICH APPARENTLY FAKES ARE WIDER. MORE INFORMATION TO HELP IS IN THE FOLLOWING TEXT....

MY COPY HAS AUDIOMATTRIX STAMPED  AND HAND WRITTEN HAS 63-3403 AND POSSIBLY SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS SO TINY I CAN'T SEEM TO MAKE OUT WHAT IT IS.

Some of the more common characteristics found on ORIGINAL DISCS:

• Labels have "THE BEATLES" and the title "INTRODUCING THE BEATLES" above the center hole.
• Only gloss or semi-gloss rainbow/colorband labels are used on originals.
• All original labels have bright, sharp silver print.
• The vinyl trail-off -the gap between the end of the last track and the edge of the label usually measures from 7/8" to 1" wide, but never greater.
• The rainbow/colorband that circles the perimeter of an original label is of high resolution, with smooth, gradual changes in color.
• The vinyl trail-off area on over 90% of all originals has one or more of the following mechanical Stampings: 1. The term "AudioMatrix." 2. The letters "MR" inside of a circle. 3. The letters "APP" in italics. Among originals, only those made in Santa Monica lack machine Stampings. Regardless, these still have the aforementioned bright silver print and glossy labels. To date, we have never seen a counterfeit copy

YESTERDAY I PLAYED BOTH SIDES ON A MICHEL REFERENCE VINTAGE DECK AND CAN HONESTLY STATE THE SOUND QUALITY WAS OUTSTANDING, THEIR WERE MINIMAL CRACKLES AND THE OVERALL SOUND WAS SUPERB.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...

Beatles discographies have long listed July 22, 1963 as the official release date for Introducing The Beatles. This is not correct. The original back cover to the album contains miniature pictures of the covers of 25 Vee-Jay albums, including five that feature the brackets logo. Because the brackets logo did not make its debut until October of 1963, Introducing The Beatles could not have been issued prior to that time. This has led Beatles historians to conclude that the album was initially distributed in November of 1963. This is also incorrect. The documentary evidence detailed below proves that the album was not released until January of 1964.

Although Vee-Jay did not issue Introducing the Beatles until 1964, Vee-Jay documents indicate that the company took initial steps towards the album's release at a much earlier time. Vee-Jay maintained a master book in which numbers were assigned in chronological order to all songs and album sides mastered for the company. The songs from Parlophone's Please Please Me album, which were later issued on Introducing the Beatles, were entered into the master book in April or May of 1963. As Vee-Jay had previously released Please Please Me and Ask Me Why on a single, those songs already had master numbers (63-2967 and 63-2968). The remaining songs, starting with I Saw Her Standing There, were assigned master numbers 63-3183 through 63-3194. Because From Me To You (63-3218) and Thank You Girl (63-3219) have higher master numbers than the songs on the album, the Please Please Me album master tapes had to have been received by Vee-Jay prior to the release of the From Me To You / Thank You Girl single in May of 1963.

Exhibits filed in Vee-Jay's New York lawsuit against Capitol Records demonstrate that the company began preparations in June of 1963 for the album's release. An invoice sent to Vee-Jay by Universal Recording Corporation in late June of 1963 indicates that Universal prepared "Monaural Masters" and "Stereo Masters" for matrix numbers 63-3402 and 63-3403. These are the matrix numbers assigned to side one and side two of Introducing The Beatles. The invoice further indicates that mono and stereo lacquers were sent by Air Express to Audio Matrix. Audio Matrix invoices dated June 28, 1963, indicate that stereo stampers for matrix numbers 63-3402 S and 63-3403 S were sold to Vee-Jay and shipped to ARP and Monarch Records. There are also Audio Matrix invoices dated July 1, 1963, that show that mono stampers for matrix numbers 63-3402 and 63-3403 were sent to Southern Plastics, Monarch Records and ARP. The dates of the invoices are consistent with dates appearing in the trail off areas of the records. The stereo discs are dated 6-28-63 and the mono discs are dated 6-29-63. These documents show that the metal parts needed to press Introducing The Beatles were at the primary factories used by Vee-Jay by early July of 1963.

Vee-Jay also began designing the cover for the album at that time. A July 9, 1963, invoice shows that Magna Graphic Inc. of Lexington, Kentucky, charged Vee-Jay $375 to prepare the set of four-color separation film positives needed to print the front cover slick.

The front cover of Introducing The Beatles uses the Angus McBean color photograph that served as the cover of Parlophone's The Beatles'Hits EP, except that Vee-Jay chopped off the lower extremities of the boys and managed to reverse the negative. Thus, the members of the group are shown with their famous hair flowing in the wrong direction. The title of the album, appearing at the top of the jacket on two lines as "introducing... THE BEATLES," is followed by the phrase "ENGLANDS No. 1 VOCAL GROUP" to let the American public know of the group's popularity in their homeland.

The mono covers have the slick positioned so that the number LP 1062 appears in the lower right hand corner. The positioning of the slick on the stereo covers cuts off all of Paul's arms except for a sliver of his thumbs and exposes a white top banner with "STEREOPHONIC" centered in grey and the number SR 1062 in black in the upper righthand corner

I PROFESS TO BE NO EXPERT ON THIS ALBUM SO FEEL FREE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS.

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I AM A PRIVATE SELLER AND FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH MY GRADING DESCRIPTION AND WILL BE HAPPY TO REFUND IF NOT HAPPY BUT NOT POSTAGE OR RETURNED POSTAGE.

POSTAGE AND PACKING WITHIN UK £4.75 SENT RECORDED

EUROPE £7.40

R.O.W. £11.30