The Beatles My Bonnie The Saints POLYDOR UK Pressing Excellent Condition

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THE BEATLES - POLYDOR NH 66833 - MY BONNIE/THE SAINTS (When the Saints Go Marching In) (As Tony Sheridan & The Beatles; 2nd pressing, push-out Centre, 'narrow' title & "made In England" Label Text. Released in the UK JUNE 1963. The Vinyl is in Excellent + Condition, the best I have owned, & this is your Final Upgrade!!!! The Labels on both sides are in Fantastic Condition (Please see Scans for Vinyl & Labels). It comes with the Original Polydor Record Sleeve, which is in Excellent Condition with the Colours not faded. This is the 2nd Press, which was released two Months after the First press. I have taken the time to give a bit of Background to the first Beatles Single that started The Beatles on their way to Super-Stardom. Beatles records are Part of Music heritage & are highly Collectable & a wise investment for yourself's & to pass down to your family, especially their first UK Single to be released by The Beatles!!                I have Started the bidding at 0.99p & Put a reasonable Reserve Price which reflects the Excellent + Condition for this Copy. Please remember this will be your final upgrade as it is in Beautiful Condition.                                    The first commercial record released that the Beatles played on was Tony Sheridan's My Bonnie /The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In) (Polydor NH24673), released in Germany in the fall of 1961.
The first commercial release of a record bearing The Beatles' name was My Bonnie / The Saints, released as a single in the U.K. on 5 January, 1962. This release also featured for the first time the slow English introduction for My Bonnie. First pressings of this disk are very difficult to find (A.K.A. 'broad' title). It was reissued in Britain in June of 1963 with a slightly different typeface (A.K.A. 'narrow' title).
1st. and 2nd. pressing of the single differ from each other, since 1st. press of the label, has a different typeface in the text of the record's label compared with 2nd. ptess. The difference is most obvious in the letters 'M' and '&'.
2nd.pressing was manufactured two ways: both with and without the push-out center.
There were two versions of "My Bonnie" released, one with the slow German spoken intro "Mein Herz ist bei dir nür", and another only in English. This version is slow English spoken introduction: "My Bonnie lies over the ocean".   The first commercial record released that the Beatles played on was Tony Sheridan's My Bonnie /The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In) (Polydor NH24673), released in Germany in the fall of 1961. The first commercial release of a record bearing The Beatles' name was My Bonnie / The Saints, released as a single in the U.K. on 5 January, 1962. This release also featured for the first time the slow English introduction for My Bonnie. First pressings of this disk are very difficult to find (A.K.A. 'broad' title). It was reissued in Britain in June of 1963 with a slightly different typeface (A.K.A. 'narrow' title).
1st. and 2nd. pressing of the single differ from each other, since 1st. press of the label, has a different typeface in the text of the record's label compared with 2nd. ptess. The difference is most obvious in the letters 'M' and '&'.
2nd.pressing was manufactured two ways: both with and without the push-out center.

There were two versions of "My Bonnie" released, one with the slow German spoken intro "Mein Herz ist bei dir nür", and another only in English. This version is slow English spoken introduction: "My Bonnie lies over the ocean".The only other earlier recording to include The Beatles was the German pressing on the same label which listed the Fab-4 as "The Beat Brothers". This German record was released on Oct. 23, 1961 and sold more than 200K copies, which put this as high as #5 on the German Charts. The reason for their name being changed is that Tony Sheridan didn't want to associated with a name like "The Beatles", which sounded too similar to "Peedles" which was German slang for "Penises"... Great Britian pressed the labels with their true name for the first time.
The first commercial record released that the Beatles played on was Tony Sheridan's My Bonnie /The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In) (Polydor NH24673), released in Germany in the fall of 1961.
The first commercial release of a record bearing The Beatles' name was My Bonnie / The Saints, released as a single in the U.K. on 5 January, 1962. This release also featured for the first time the slow English introduction for My Bonnie. First pressings of this disk are very difficult to find (A.K.A. 'broad' title). It was reissued in Britain in 25 May 1963 with a slightly different typeface (A.K.A. 'narrow' title).
1st. and 2nd. pressing of the single differ from each other, since 1st. press of the label, has a different typeface in the text of the record's label compared with 2nd. ptess. The difference is most obvious in the letters 'M' and '&'.
2nd pressing was manufactured two ways: both with and without the push-out Centre.

There were two versions of "My Bonnie" released, one with the slow German spoken intro "Mein Herz ist bei dir nür", and another only in English. This version is slow English spoken introduction.

In 1959 Tony Sheridan was very nearly signed by Top Rank. In 2002 he told the writer how close he got to a deal, but in the end he was deemed a bit “too wild” and Dick Rowe, who had joined Top Rank as the highest paid A'n'R man at the time, plumped for Craig Douglas instead.  
The release date of the original German pressing with German intro is August 1961.
English intro version January 1962.

The single was a fine hit in Germany 1962 and sold at least 20.000 copies. The English intro version is also found in Denmark sometimes.

The Beat brothers are the beatles, theres a rhyming german slang word PEEDLES (plural of penises!) so polydor didnt want a band so closely named!
The Beat Brothers was Tony Sheridans backing since early 1961 in different setups. Being a popular live act on the Hamburg scene it made sense promoting the single as TS and the Beat Brothers.
The original contract from june 1961 between Beatles and the producer Bert Kaempfert from Polydor states the Beatles as under contract not the Beat Brothers.
The Uk release being issued much later had no reason to release it under the "popular" name from Germany.
Other countries problaly issued the single not knowing anything of The Beatles and thereforre took the original group mentioning TS and Beat Bros. as original issued .
This is the release that started everything off was the original Polydor release in Germany in late 1961 of My Bonnie/The Saints that was accredited to Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers. The original release made no mention of The Beatles as Tony Sheridan's backing band, but instead mentioned the Beat Brothers, a name the group (and other musicians, who also participated in the Sheridan sessions at the time) collectively used. Later re-releases in Germany featured The Beatles with Tony Sheridan.
According to primo Beatles man Mark Lewisohn The Beatles played Cavern 9.2.61 but unadvertised. The 21.3.61 date is the nighttime debut. He displays numerous clippings showing Beatles mentioned in February and March lunchtime sessions.
According to the programme, on 9 February 1961, The Beatles returned from Hamburg and played at The Cavern for the first time.
The first commercial record released that the Beatles played on was Tony Sheridan's My Bonnie /The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In) (Polydor NH24673), released in Germany in the fall of 1961.
The first commercial release of a record bearing The Beatles' name was My Bonnie / The Saints, released as a single in the U.K. on 5 January, 1962. This release also featured for the first time the slow English introduction for My Bonnie. First pressings of this disk are very difficult to find (A.K.A. 'broad' title). It was reissued in Britain in June of 1963 with a slightly different typeface (A.K.A. 'narrow' title).
1st. and 2nd. pressing of the single differ from each other, since 1st. press of the label, has a different typeface in the text of the record's label compared with 2nd. ptess. The difference is most obvious in the letters 'M' and '&'.
2nd.pressing was manufactured two ways: both with and without the push-out center.

There were two versions of "My Bonnie" released, one with the slow German spoken intro "Mein Herz ist bei dir nür", and another only in English. This version is slow English spoken introduction: "My Bonnie lies over the ocean".