THE BEATLES If I Fell/ Tell Me Why 2nd EXPORT Domestic SIUK DP562

	£		130
	$		172

I have collected records since I was very young, however Iincreasingly I have realised that I have far too many, and soI have been slowly trying to rationalise my extensive collection over the years, I have sold many major rarities over the years, from major BEATLES and 60s rarities, through PUNK and PROG ROCK, CLASSICAL and BLUES. Basically I've had alot of very rare records and in dribs and drabs have sold them off. I've never had negative feedback, and had many repeat customers.
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Here we have...  

THE BEATLES If I Fell/ Tell Me Why 2nd EXPORT extremely rare "Domestic" Press DP 562 Beaut!

Here we have arguably the rarest Beatles single available "with UK release in mind"!

As Beatlemania spread across the globe, there were 5 instances where the UK factories pressed singles exclusively for sale in overseas countries, we call these UK export issues, these issue were If I Fell b/w Tell Me Why, Dizzy Miss Lizzie b/w Yesterday, Michelle b/w Drive My Car, Hey Jude b/w Revolution (on Parlophone), and Let it Be b/w You Know My Name (look up the Number) (on Apple and Parlophone).

The first release of these If I Fell/Tell Me Why, really was quite an unprecedented thing,very rarely had this happened before, that artists for whatever reason needed records to be pressed in the UK but not for sale in the UK. And so it was that THE BEATLES had two tracks from their EP Extracts From The Film A Hard Days Night EP  (GEP 8920) pressed for foreign markets, and exported and sold as such. Now at the time, due to enforced list pricing in the UK, EMI singles had the text "Sold In U.K.Subject To Resale Price Conditions See Price Lists" printed on their 4-prong push-out central discs, as these discs weren't destined for sale in the UK, this text wasn't applicable,and was dropped on this release. When Beatle collectors and fans heard that there was a rare UK single available abroad, but not in the shops,they started asking record sellers to procure it,which they did, but, realising that technically due to the lack of the "Sold In U.K...." text, these retailers could re-sell these rare records to these stalwart fans for much more than EMI's standard list price, they did just that, and made extra money on the records as a result! Almost all of the copies that were to be produced had already been shipped, but in January 1965 for the final run EMI decided to stop any chance of this unscrupulous pricing continuing to happen, forthe very last batch they pressed them with the "Sold In U.K...." text on the centre.

Now most Beatles buyers were casual pop fans, of the stalwart fans that bought all of their singles, few needed to go through the special effort of ordering this rare export single, both tracks of which were contained on the 1st Hard Day's Night EP (GEP 8920), which they almost certainly already had. If they were one of the very dedicated few who did decide to do this, then they'd almost certianly do it earlier, if they didn'tand they left it until 1965, when these tracks were already last year's tracks, then it's I'd still be about 95% sure that the copy that they would have got would have been a copy without the "Sold In U.K...." text, however, if they were lucky enough to get one of the copies WITH "Sold In U.K...." text, then would they know how lucky they were?!

Here is one such copy, what Bruce Spizer refers to in his book as a PAREX 652.02A(ii), and it is in unbelievable condition! What a treasure!

Record Condition: EX+ Really an absolutely stunning record, even under close inspection,angled under strong,direct light only a few of the lightest surface wisps are visible and absolutely nothing is audible. The audio is crystal clear,this would be an absolutely beautiful copy of any 60s Beatles title, let alone one of the rarest there is!

Labels Conditon: VG+ The A-side label is beautifully crisp,and richly printed,with absolutely no tears/stains/grafitti etc. etc. Only a few light spindle trails visible when angled into direct light, around the central spindle hole. The B-side is exactly the same, but fpr a small area of abbrasion over part of the word "Northern" in the publishing information. Other than that,these labels area almost as good as the playing surfaces themselves!

DEADWAX INFO:

A-SIDE:

K

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2                              M

 7XCE    17756-1N            

B-SIDE:

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2                              O

 7XCE    17757-1N