BEATLES Meet The Beatles 1st ed. No Publishing Credits

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Up for auction is:

THE BEATLES - MEET THE BEATLES

CAPITOL RECORDS catalog # ST 2047

ORIGINAL 1964 FIRST STEREO PRESSING 

SCARCE FIRST PRINTING - WITHOUT  ANY SONG PUBLISHING CREDITS ( BMI, ASCAP ) PRINTED ON THE RECORD LABEL

First version of the cover without the 'George Martin' producer line below the liner notes. 

Cover has a number '3' printed on the bottom right hand corner. 

Original blue inner sleeve is included in excellent condition.

Vinyl is a Scranton pressing with 'I am' triangular stamp in matrix/dead wax.

side one stamper -  st 2047 - a1

side two stamper - st 2047 - a3

CONDITION IS VERY GOOD  (cover has 3 tiny stains on bottom seam and one spot near bottom of spine with a tiny 1/4" paper tear...... otherwise clean without writing or seam splits. //////  The disc has light marks / scuffing but nothing deep )

SEE PHOTOS BELOW

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Album info:

Meet The Beatles! is the second Beatles' album released in the United States, despite the "first album" claim on its cover. Released on 20 January 1964, it was the first Capitol Records Beatles album. Capitol is a sister company to Parlophone, the Beatles British label, and both are subsidiaries of EMI.

Just ten days earlier Chicago's Vee-Jay Records released Introducing... The Beatles, which had been delayed for release from the previous summer; perhaps as a result of the Vee-Jay release, Liberty Music Shops advertised in the New York Times of 12 January 1964, that Meet The Beatles was available for purchase on that date, an ad not authorised by Capitol.

The album opens with the December 1963 Capitol single "I Want to Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There", and the B-side "This Boy" from the original November 1963 Parlophone version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand." It contains many of the tracks from With the Beatles and shares the same cover photograph. However, "You Really Got A Hold On Me", "Devil in Her Heart", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Please Mister Postman" and "Roll Over Beethoven", were omitted from Meet the Beatles and released on the next Capitol album, The Beatles' Second Album. The latter two tracks were also released on the EP Four By The Beatles.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted.

Side one

1. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
2. "I Saw Her Standing There"
3. "This Boy"
4. "It Won't Be Long"
5. "All I've Got to Do"
6. "All My Loving"

 Side two

1. "Don't Bother Me" (George Harrison)
2. "Little Child"
3. "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson)
4. "Hold Me Tight"
5. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
6. "Not a Second Time"

The track "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was originally released as a UK (and U.S.) single A-side and "This Boy" was originally released on the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" B-side in the UK. "I Saw Her Standing There" was from Please Please Me, and the remaining tracks were from With The Beatles.

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