NOTE: All LP’s have been played on a Technics turntable ( tracking @ 1.25grams) and hand cleaned with commercial vinyl record solution ( MOFI One) prior to listing.

All records are shipped in LP record boxes with the record and inner sleeve outside of the Jacket and all items placed in plastic outer sleeve. When the original inner sleeve is unavailable all records will be in a new anti static sleeve.

NOTE ON RETURNS, PLEASE  READ: we do not consider the odd pop, tick, light background here and there, a tiny skip on a track as flaws on 40+ yr old used vinyl, unless rated NM, they're the norm & most collectors/buyers are well aware of this, we don't expect returns on this kind of thing, however we will take returns in the same packaging for a refund if you're not happy with the minor aging, the buyer pays return shipping in accordance with ebay policy. If however we inadvertently mis-describe the record origin (pressing, label, originality etc) or our visual grading misses a major playing flaw that makes the record virtually unlistenable such as repeated skipping or groove sticking, ongoing loud worn background or loud regular pops/noises then we will pay for return shipping as long as this checks out on our player when we receive the item back. 

This is the authentic Version II record and Jacket, researched on rarebeatles.com, that came with a plain white inner sleeve. Inner sleeve replaced with Disk Keeper anti static sleeve. Album has a couple clicks. It plays flawlessly.

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Introducing... The Beatles is the first Beatles album released in the United States. Originally scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP came out on 10 January 1964, on Vee-Jay Records, ten days before Capitol's Meet the Beatles!. The latter album, however, entered the U.S. album chart one week before the former. Consequently, when Meet The Beatles! peaked at #1 for eleven consecutive weeks, Introducing...The Beatles stalled at #2 where it remained nine consecutive weeks. It was the subject of much legal wrangling, but ultimately, Vee-Jay were permitted to sell the album until late 1964, by which time it had sold more than 1.3 million copies. On 24 July 2014 the album was certified gold and platinum by the RIAA.

The Beatles' recording contract that began May 1962 with Parlophone in the United Kingdom gave the parent corporation EMI Records rights to offer any of the group's recordings to the various labels EMI owned in many countries of the world. However, EMI's United States subsidiary, Capitol Records, declined to release the "Please Please Me" single. Following this, Transglobal, an EMI affiliate that worked to place foreign masters with US record companies , negotiated with several labels before Vee-Jay Records signed a licensing agreement giving it the right of first refusal on Beatles' records for five years. As part of that agreement, even after its singles releases of "Please Please Me" and "From Me to You" failed to chart above No. 116 on the Billboard Hot 100, Vee-Jay planned to release the Please Please Me album in the US, and received copies of the mono and stereo master tapes in late April or early May 1963.

Originally, Vee-Jay considered releasing the Please Please Me LP unaltered, as it appeared in the UK. A surviving acetate made by Universal Recording Corporation of Chicago, probably in May 1963, contains all 14 songs in the same order as on the UK album, with the title still listed as Please Please Me. But in keeping with the American norm of a 12-song album, Vee-Jay chose instead to omit "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" (which had comprised the first single release) and change the album's title to Introducing... The Beatles. Also, the engineer at Universal in Chicago thought that Paul McCartney's count-in at the start of "I Saw Her Standing There" was extraneous rather than intentionally placed there, so he snipped the "one, two, three" (leaving the "four") from Vee-Jay's mono and stereo masters. Except for those omissions, the order and contents of the album were untouched, resulting in a US album that bore the closest resemblance to a British Beatles LP until Revolver in 1966.

Preparations for the LP's release continued in late June and early July 1963, including the manufacturing of masters and metal parts and the printing of 6,000 front covers. But, despite the claims of many older Beatles books and discographies that Introducing... The Beatles was first released on 22 July 1963, no documentation exists to confirm that the album was released at any time in 1963.

The Beatles ?– Introducing... The Beatles

Label: Vee Jay Records ?– VJLP 1062

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono 

Country: US

Released: 1964

Genre: Rock

Style: Beat, Rock & Roll

Tracklist

A1

I Saw Her Standing There

A2

Misery

A3

Anna  Written-By – Alexander*

A4

Chains  Written-By – Goffin-King*

A5

Boys  Written-By – Dixon*, Farrell*

A6

Ask Me Why

B1

Please Please Me

B2

Baby It's You  Piano – George MartinWritten-By – Williams*, Bacharach*, David*

B3

Do You Want To Know A Secret?

B4

A Taste Of Honey  Written-By – Scott*, Marlow*

B5

There's A Place

B6

Twist And Shout  Written-By – Russell*, Medley*

Credits

·         Producer – George Martin

·         Written-By – McCartney-Lennon* (tracks: A1, A2, A6, B1, B3, B5)

Companies, etc.

·         Mastered At – Audio Matrix, Inc.

·         Manufactured By – Allentown Record Company, PA

Notes

There are several pressing variations of this album (genuine and counterfeit), all with the same catalog number (VJLP 1062). 

This is copied from rarebeatles.com

VJ 1062 (2).MC1B

titles on back / "Please, Please Me" with comma

VJ 1062 (2).MR2D(i)

brackets

colorband

left justified titles / indented credits / "LONGPLAYING" one word

yes

ARC

This particular edition has the same typesetting as second label variation [color band], having left justified song titles and indented  credits, with “INTRODUCING THE BEATLES” and “LONGPLAYING” and SIDE I / SIDE II above MICROGROOVE on the labels. The record’s trail off areas include the following hand etched markings: “URJ”, “AL” the date 2-6-64 and the matrix followed by “-1?. The machine stamped Audio Matrix logo also appears.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

·         Matrix / Runout (A [Etched]): 63-3402-1 2-6-64 ARC 274 URJ

·         Matrix / Runout (B [Etched]): 63-3403-1 2-6-64 ARC 274 URJ

·         Matrix / Runout (A [Stamped]): AUDIO MATRIX

·         Matrix / Runout (B [Stamped]): AUDIO MATRIX