Rare 1964 Jolly What The Beatles & Frank IField On Stage Original LP VJLP 1085
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Up for auction is the rare original mono US Rock LP "Jolly What! The Beatles and Frank IField On Stage" released on Vee-Jay Records #VJLP 1085 in 1964. This is the FIRST US press and not a later reissue or bootleg. Visually graded using Goldmine standards, the vinyl rates an excellent with nice shine and light surface wear. The jacket rates a VG/VG+ with very light surface wear, a price in pen neatly written on the back, a small sticker in the top right corner, some edge wear and some splitting along the bottom seam. Displays much better than I'm describing the jacket. Overall A beautiful copy of this sought after original. DO NOT MISS OUT! Low starting bid and no reserve. Will be shipped in a sturdy record mailer with LP outside of the jacket within a protective plastic sleeve. Please see my other auctions for more rare vinyl.
Jolly What! England's Greatest Recording Stars: The Beatles and Frank Ifield on Stage is a 1964 compilation album, released by Vee-Jay Records and featuring tracks by English rock band The Beatles and by the Australian-English easy listening and country singer Frank Ifield.
Ifield toured the UK in 1963. While Vee-Jay Records temporarily had the US rights to a number of The Beatles' recordings, they released Jolly What! on 26 February 1964. The LP consisted of four studio Beatles songs (all previously released on Vee Jay singles), plus eight recordings of Ifield. The original pressing has a drawing of a chubby old man with a moustache and a Beatle wig, and is itself quite rare.
However, just before Vee Jay's publishing rights were about to expire on 10 October 1964 they changed the sleeve cover to a drawing of the Beatles. (This version, titled The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage also listed all four Beatles' tracks on the front cover, but none of the eight contributed by Ifield). Probably less than one hundred copies were pressed, making it one of the rarest Beatles albums. Three sealed stereo copies were discovered in 1976, selling for $600, $900 and $1,800. One of the three was re-sold in 1995 for $22,000.
Like many of the albums rushed out to cash in on the Beatles success, Jolly What! has been called a "rip-off", due to its intentional misleading of buyers. The album consisted entirely of studio recordings (not live, and thus not "on stage"), and all the Beatles material had been previously released. The album is also known for a mistake in the liner notes: "It is with a good deal of pride and pleasure that this copulation has been presented"—presumably "copulation" should have been "compilation". (In confirming the matter, Snopes.com noted that "copulation" was appropriate, since the makers of the album were "trying to screw the fans out of their money.") The album, however, was significant in that, until the release of the Beatles' 1973 compilation album, The Beatles/1962-1966, Jolly What! was the only American Beatles album to include "From Me to You".
Track listing
Applies to both original ("Jolly What!") and reissued version ("The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage" with picture of Beatles on front).[3][4][5]
Side 1[5][6]
- "Please Please Me" – The Beatles
- "Anytime" – Frank Ifield
- "Lovesick Blues" – Frank Ifield
- "I'm Smiling Now" – Frank Ifield
- "Nobody's Darling" – Frank Ifield
- "From Me to You" – The Beatles
Side 2[5][7]
- "I Remember You" – Frank Ifield
- "Ask Me Why" – The Beatles
- "Thank You Girl" – The Beatles
- "The Wayward Wind" – Frank Ifield
- "Unchained Melody" – Frank Ifield
- "I Listen to My Heart" – Frank Ifield
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