BEATLES 45 LOVE ME DO nmt TOLLIE EP twist and shout **
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THE BEATLES
LOVE ME DO; TWIST & SHOUT; THERE'S A PLACE; P.S. I LOVE YOU
SUPER RARE TOLLIE EP / ONLY 10 RELEASED
NEAR MINT
The information about this record was taken from www.rarebeatles.com and will explain everything about this Beatle rarity on TOLLIE RECORDS TEP 1-8901. Or skip a few steps and just Google "TOLLIE EP". This is not an official release but is very valuable and a very highly sought after collectable!!! (When this was made I was going to college just 60 miles from the Seattle area. I think it is time for this picture sleeve and vinyl to get out and see more of the world then just the beautiful PUGET SOUND area in which it was born & I live!)
This infamous "Tollie" bootleg EP was custom made by two clever Northwest Puget Sound collectors and released in 1975 in the USA. Issued with a hard picture sleeve, this was the first fake Beatles record that was designed and passed off as being a newly discovered and previously unknown official release.
The four-track disc included the cuts that Tollie Records (a division of Vee Jay) had released on two separate singles. There were only three legitimate Beatles EPs released in the U.S. in the 1960s, two from Capitol and the VJ EP. So the idea was comically born to "discover the previously unknown Tollie EP".
The cover was painstakingly designed and printed to match the jacket style of the VJ EP, right down to the thickness of the cardboard - measured with a micrometer. The covers, printed in Seattle, were hand-assembled and then later "roughed up" so that no mint copies would be circulated and to add a little "aging". The label color was picked from dozens of shades to exactly match a 1960s Tollie 45 release, with the text and logo matching as well. The artwork was then sent to California for the disc pressing.
The discs were then slowly "discovered" and sold, causing initial excitement in the collecting world. Every top collector at the time believed them to be real. The bootleggers knew that at some point it would eventually be detected as a fake, but wanted to see how long they could fool everyone. Just a few months later it was indeed found to be bogus by several leading Beatles experts. A few minor imperfections in the design of the disc and label gave it away. The main clue was that close inspection of the cover revealed "ring wear" - exposing the fact that the photo was copied from an original Capitol picture sleeve. Since several of the records had been sold for the then-large sum of $150-$200, a full refund was offered by the bootleggers to those who had purchased the EP. Amazingly, not one single person returned their EP, even though upset from being fooled into paying so much for a bootleg. Only a couple known copies have been seen for sale since they came out in 1975!
One hundred copies were pressed of the stock issue of which only ten were released. More than twenty years later, the remaining unassembled copies still remain stored in a collection near Seattle.
It had been originally decided that only a few copies would ever be distributed, in order to maintain its uniqueness and rareness. Less than fifteen total copies exist in collectors hands today. In the early 1980s a collector-dealer from California "bootlegged" the Tollie EP and pressed several hundred copies. They were sold at the time for $3.00. Both the cover and the record are noticeably inferior to the "original" 1975 pressing. Later in the 80s, someone pressed a terrible copy of the same 4 songs on a black label "VJ" disc and issued it sans a picture sleeve.
Since all sleeves were made to look near mint you could say that this is a mint copy of a near mint sleeve! I have never had the vinyl inside of the cardboard sleeve. The vinyl is in a paper sleeve and the picture sleeve is in plastic. I don't think they come any nicer than this!!! Just look at the clarity of the labels and of the sleeve! The vinyl is beautiful with no scratches and it looks unplayed. I did give it a listen so I can tell you without a doubt the sound is simply marvelous! With only the beginning crackle of the trail in before the song starts both sides sound FAB! No skips & clean glossy vinyl!!! Fast shipping!
Now you can own both Tollie 45's in one rare "EP"!!!
keep a watch out for more rare BEATLE VINYL...
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