SUPER RARE BEATLES LP ORIGINAL MEET THE BEATLES REAL PASTE OVER BUTCHER COVER

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SUPER RARE BEATLES LP MEET THE BEATLES REAL PASTE OVER  COVER

I recently obtained this album.  It is a very unique copy of Capitol's "MEET THE BEATLES" album (mono T2047) in that beneath the front cover slick is a completely different album!  The only other time this occurred in Beatles history was with the famous Butcher album cover 2 years later, when the drab Trunk cover was deliberately pasted over the offensive Butcher cover.  

On this LP jacket, the Beatles front picture (slick) has partially lifted off, revealing that this 33rpm record jacket was originally made for a different group altogether - "Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers" (a 1962 release, Capitol # T1728 - their one and only release!!).  This "hidden" album cover can be seen by looking under the edges of the Beatles cover (see pictures).  It is clear that the jacket was originally made for Dave Guard but later was for some reason "recycled" to become a Beatles record jacket.  The Beatles back slick clearly was made to wrap around the front edges and cover over the edges of the front Dave Guard slick (Dave Guard came first, Beatles second on this jacket).  Then, the Meet The Beatles front slick was pasted over the front, completely hiding the Dave Guard picture.  Over time, the glue holding the Beatles front slick started to let go, and the slick started to peal back on its own.  Now, the Beatles front slick is about 40% detached from the underlying Dave Guard slick.  So, how did this jacket get made this way??

 When Beatlemania struck the United States in the beginning of 1964, Capitol was pulling out all the stops to produce this Beatles album fast enough to meet the huge demand.  Many different pressing and printing plants were commissioned to help make the album, and in the rush, mistakes were made with the jackets and labels, resulting in several variations of this LP.  It is possible that this was an error, that Dave Guard album covers were accidentally grabbed for use as Beatles jackets.  However, this is NOT likely since the Dave Guard LP was made 2 years prior to the Beatles LP, so why would Dave Guard jackets just being "lying around" to be accidentally thrown in the printing presses.  What is a more likely scenario is that this was not an error, but instead it reflected the intense rush to manufacture the Beatles album.  One of the record plants must have run out of jackets, and instead of waiting for more new blank cardboard ones, it was decided that unsold stock could be recycled to keep up with Beatles production.  Therefore, unsold Dave Guard (and other??) album covers were grabbed from inventory and fed into the presses to be covered over to make the Beatles albums.

CONDITION:

This album is overall probably between Very Good (VG) and Very Good + (VG+) condition.   

 

The vinyl itself is VG+, with just a few light scuffs and scratches but plays fine.  The labels are a very strong VG+ - in fact, they look Near Mint minus (NM-) but for a light spindle mark on side 1.  The Side 1 label is also very interesting as it is has a very uneven colorband around it; it is just over 1/8 inch on one side and almost 3/8 inch wide on the other side.  Again, in the rush of pushing out Beatles records, errors occurred and here we have an off-centered print or cut of a label on one side of the record.   The labels are free of any stickers or writing.

The original Capitol inner sleeve comes with the record, the second style they used in 1964, the light blue vs the dark blue variety with an ad for 12 other LPs on one side and 8 on the other.  The condition of the inner sleeve is in VG+ condition

 The album jacket is in VG condition.  What it does NOT have is any tape, writing, or seam splits.  The problems it does have (besides the front slick lifting off!!) include a fair amount of rubbing on the front cover (white spots on the black background), plus a light tan to gray smudging around the back side edges, very light traces of an old stain along the bottom edge (front and back), a 1 inch scrape on the top edge above the BE in BEATLES, a VERY tiny upper left corner piece missing, and the lower corners are blunted (right lower corner also is frayed, inch beginning of cardboard splitting).  The spine is in excellent condition, with just a bit of paper (1/4 inch) missing at the bottom, and all of the letters in the title complete except for the tops of the 2 Es and the top of the T in MEET, and all but the right vertical line in the H in THE is gone.  The jacket also has a slight musty smell, indicating it was kept somewhere damp, which would also explain why the front slick start to unglue.

 ALBUM VARIETY:

I will attempt here to identify the variations of this album (letter/number schemes are per Bruce Spizers incredibly detailed books about all the Beatles records).

 The record label is the third generation, CAP 2047.MR3A, with side 1 having 2 BMI credits and 4 ASCAP credits after the song titles.   The sleeve is the second variation of 1964, CAP IS.2A.  The jacket is the original version, CAP 2047.MC1A, which means it is missing the Produced by George Martin credit on the back side.  All of the components of the album are East Coast produced varieties.  There is no factory number on the back side of the jacket.

So, there you have .  I’ve tried to describe the album in as much detail as possible so that you know what you are looking at and I must admit that it is only my opinion as to how this error/recycled version of the jacket was produced.  Regardless, it is a one-of-a-kind version of Meet The Beatles - SO FAR.   I hope people dont ruin their Meet The Beatles covers by steaming off the front slicks, but then again, Im curious if anyone else has found another paste-over version of this album.   I checked with several leading authorities and one said this sort of error has been noted before in Beatles albums, but rarely, and that it would cause around a 200% increase in the value, maybe more.  They agree that it reflects the frenzy of Beatlemania right down to the record producers themselves, so this album embodies an important aspect of Beatles history.    ,

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