THE BEATLES Ain't She Sweet/Sweet Georgia Brown UNDOCUMENTED SOUTH RHODESIAN TRI
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More Information to follow! But Please check out my other items! This week I have some of the very rarest Beatle's UK 7"s (more Rare Solid Centre Beatles singles than I've ever seen listed together before! Both the EMI AND The ORIOLE Solid Centre I Want To Hold Your Hand etc!), some of the rarest FREAKBEAT singles and PSYCH DEMOS (The Eyes, Mickey Finn, Linda Van Dyck, Stone Graphics etc etc etc.), plus Megarare Overseas Pressings Suck as The YARDBIRDS' Heart Full Of Soul German EP Original and the to my knowledge UNDOCUMENTED BEATLES' South Rhodesian Scroll Label/Tri Centre Ain't She Sweet with Sweet Georgia Brown on the B-side! I have loads of rarities, but this week, I'm pulling out a fair chunk of the Cream of the Crop for you! Bid with confidence! I'll ship to anywhere in the world, though if the item goes above the standard £20 insurance value, I insist on FULLY INSURED postage paid for by the winning bidder, so please bear this in mind! Please click here to check out my other items!
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On 21-Aug-13 at 20:51:13 BST, seller added the following information: THIS TO MY EXTENSIVELY RESEARCHED KNOWLEDGE IS THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME THIS SINGLE HAS EVER BEEN MENTIONED, LET ALONE COME UP FOR SALE, SO THERE IS NO WAY OF SAYING HOW RARE IT IS, AS WITH ALL OF MY HIGH END SALES (AND MANY OF MY LOWER END SALES TOO!) I'VE TRIED TO GO INTO MASSIVE DEPTH ABOUT THE MINUTIA, HOWEVER IF I HAVE MISSED ANYTHING, OR YOU HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS, EVEN JUST FROM A COLLECTORS' RATHER THAN BIDDER'S POINT OF VIEW, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO ASK! In the following condition gradings, I've got a bit sick of people describing singles much better than I expect them to be, it's as though they have one set of gradings for LPs and another for singles, I strictly don't, if a surface looks VG+ then whether it be LP or single I call it VG+ (however hard it is to find UK 60s 7"s in EX or higher!). I only go as high as EX+ and that for me means either unplayed, or played a handful of times, though please read my gradings chart below.
Record Weight: 47.7g (VERY HEAVY! Similar to Oriole Solid Centre pressings) Conditions: Disc Visually: G+ (Generally about VG+, however I grade it G+ due to a scuff about an inch long and a couple of mm wide, plus a very small patch of either vinyl discolouration, or else label that has been pressed in the vinyl, and then for the most part cleaned away less than a cm long on the A-side, and an area of some not too nice looking scratches (clearly all from the same incident-covering a square inch-ish) on the B-side, however, both sides play through well, with just a little crackle on intros and the odd "fft" or tick caused by the marks mentioned above.Please listen for yourself!). Disc Audibly: A-Side: VG+ a good strong audio, nice deep recording! Just a little background noise on the intro, and a few "fft"s from after the guitar break, due to the afore mentioned scuff, doesn't last very long. B-Side: VG, again quite a good one, though a few rhythmic ticks through the first half of this track, get's better throughout, due to the area mentioned above. "MADE IN S. RHODESIA" is neatly stamped into the deadwax more or less in line with the labels 12 o'clock. Labels: VG+ (Lovely crisp Gold and Orange Scroll labels! With just a literal handful of the very lightest spindle rubs around the centre holes! Both sides have "Reid" written neatly in ink, to the left of the song titlee. The 3 prongs holding the central Triamgle hold perfectly strong and wonderfully, with the label to the very corner edge of the left most prong of the A-side label, just showing a very slight sign of a rub, though as this is the only copy ever to come up, I'd say this is still quite a minor thing!) Apart from this free of Stains/Rips/Fingerprints/Fading etc! Really Nice! Sleeve: G+ (An original UK Polydor "Band" style sleeve, as would be included with an original UK Polydor scroll label Beatles single, hard to get hold of originals! This sadly has a wear-through on each side, though 3 of the corners are still intact. The central die cut hole has only 1 nick, just shy of 1cm long, there are a few nicks and a bit of rolling back of the top opening edges, there is a very small stain right on the top edge about 1cm long by a few mm wide, usually hidden by the rollback of the top edge, and there's a fading blue fountain pen ink neat writing of "BOCHAND gerard" at the centre of the top edge of the front.)
For the history of these Polydor recordings read my other current listing for my lovely copy of the UK release of Ain't She Sweet/If You Love Me Baby. Or better still there are all sorts of books to read, but if you haven't already, as a Beatles collector, do yourself a favour and at least start by buying Bruce Spizer and Frank Daniels' "Beatles For Sale On Parlophone Records". I'll start off where my other listing ends, but basically, due to the success of the Beatles throughout 1963 and 64, Polydor start to release singles in the UK (3 pressed in the UK especially for release in the UK, and one imported from Germany for UK release), of these earlier recordings, some of them better selections than others, some of them more Beatles than others! The final UK Polydor single to be pressed and released in the UK was Ain't She Sweet/If You Love Me Baby, the A-side being actually a very good Beatles performance, if a little behind the innovation of their fresh 1964 recordings, when it was released, after a month or so, Polydor modernised it's label to the "Half Circle/Black Rainbow" style logo, rather than the gold and cream scroll logo. The A-side really wouldn't have been out of place on Please Please Me, and really for me has the same feel!
However, now we touch on another strand of the Beatles' popularity, if any single sold well in the UK, then it was undoubtedly released in whichever countries EMI thought they could make money, and the Beatles did sell well all over the world. Indeed I have several 7"s from all over the world, some of them listed currently, Brazil/India/South Africa even, though harder to get than UK copies (at least in the UK!), certain countries have always been harder to come across than others, and African copies I find are quite hard to find in at all playable condition. However, these Polydor singles are INCREDIBLY rare in other countries, and in some cases are not known to have ever been released in countries (if they sold so little in the UK, why bother trying to plug it in a country less caught up in Beatlemania?!). I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING BEATLES FOR 20 YEARS AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE OF THESE EVER COME UP FOR SALE ANYWHERE BEFORE! I can find no mention of it anywhere, or image of it, or reference to it's ever having existed! This is a SOUTH RHODESIAN pressing, pairing 2 of the Beatles rarest A-sides together The A-side being the same as the final UK Polydor release, and the B-side of this copy being SWEET GEORGIA BROWN, never pressed in the UK for release, and only released on German Import, as their penultimate UK release by Polydor in the UK. I've never heard of or seen this title on a Gold and Cream Scroll label Polydor disc, and guess what, this one's a TRI-CENTRE to boot, still completely intact! The central Triangle is very sturdily attached with no weakening of the central "prongs" at all (this is a heavy and well built record!).
This unheard of, undocumented, and never seen before single is an unknown quantity! How many more are there out there? Both sides have the Polydor Cream/Gold Scroll Label (I've never seen Sweet Georgia Brown on this label in any country!), with a very sturdy semi-textured Tri-Centre. The labels almost match up with each other (rotation-wise), the "MADE IN S. RHODESIA" text is just a few degrees anti-clockwise to the label on the Ain't She Sweet side, but is almost perfectly at 12 o'clock above the Sweet Georgia Brown side. The Matrix is just below 9 o'clock on the A-side, and judst below 8 o'clock on the B-side.
DEADWAX INFO/MATRICES ETC:
A-Side: 237632/1A MADE IN S. RHODESIA
B-Side: 237632/1B MADE IN S. RHODESIA PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER INCREDIBLY RARE BEATLES (AND OTHER BEAT/PSYCH RARITIES) THIS WEEK!
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GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY BIDDING!
My Grading system:
Based on a slightly stricter version of the Record Collector, Rare Record Price Guide system.
I Don't believe in Mint, I almost only ever hear it from sellers who don't know the grading systems, therefore, you won't hear me using "MINT". If an Item is sealed I will state it as such, but still will only go as high as EX+.
EX+: Sealed, or seemingly NEVER played, if EX+ were to ever spill over to an item that may have been played a handful of times, but incredibly carefully, I will explain this thoroughly!
EX: The top end really, someone has very much cared for this record, else forgotten they've had it! Again only played with reverence, and not played much!
EX-: Very similar to EX, but slightly more realistic, many cared for collections may have a few EX- discs in them, though usually they'll be those James Last records your Auntie bought for you and (hopefully) you've never listened to since!
VG+: Again a very well looked after record, though with noticeable surface marks/hairlines when caught in the light, the worst one may hear is the lightest, very occasional background noise, often not even this on many players!
VG: Same as above, except more surface marks, and a little more audio background noise, though certainly not detracting from the listening experience. A good playing copy for someone who buys to play the record.
VG-: A little worse, still very listenable, and plays though fine, though might not be the end of the world, if someone drunkenly adds a few more surface marks to it one night! Background noise will be there in some form!
G+: "Good" doesn't really mean good does it?! G+ means it still plays though, though someone in the room, un-used to records (and probably born when minidiscs were already a thing of the past!), will probably make a comment about the crackliness.
G: You won't want to use your best stylus on this one probably! We're definitely in "filler" territory now, unless it's a particularly rare copy, this is a party copy, you shouldn't mind when this one gets a scratch, (you might not even notice!).
G-: If crackling gives vinyl it's "warm" sound, then this one is beginning to become a fire hazard! The likelihood is you won't catch me selling a record at this condition or less, unless there really is special cause (rarity/signed/mispressed etc.).
I often won't even grade things lower than a "decent playing copy" (VG-), though if they don't play through or are warped etc (even if they do play through), I will mention "JUMPS", "WARPED" etc. etc. either in the title, or near the beginning of the item's description, so there can be no doubt!
I endeavour to be as meticulous as possible when grading, and almost always play test the entirety of every LP and 7" I'm selling (often I make an MP3 back-up of it too... yes I know it's obsessive), but I'm sure one of these days I will overlook something, or someone will have reason to question my gradings (so far I have only had the honour of being told that I'm shooting myself in the foot by undergrading! If an honour, that is!), in which case please do contact me, and we will sort the issue out!
Please check out my other rare punk/new wave/indie in my other items!
And I'll be listing loads more over the next few weeks so be sure to add me to your favourites list and check in regularly
Alittle about me!
I've collected records for about 20 years, and now have TONNES! I want to go travelling for as long as I can, and as such don't want to have too many possessions to have to store, I also need dosh to travel as freely as I'd like, and therefore selling the bulk of my collection seems the best of both worlds! I love records and will still keep buying them, I'm sure, but I really need to downsize in a big way! I do have some seriously RARE records to list over the next few months, and will price them to sell, so please do watch this space!
And if you're at all unsure, please check my previous feedback for tales of satisfied customers, many of whom return again and again!!
I will of course, if you aren't ENTIRELY happy with your item offer you a full refund upon a quick return of the item, in exactly the same condition I sent it out in, I wont however cover the postage costs- just in order to put off any time-wasters, I hope you understand. I do have here some REAL MEGA-RARITIES, and I understand perhaps your confidence in me might not be complete, as I haven't listed for a while, which is why I offer this offer of full re-embursment. However I am not a fan of the trend of people trying it on and asking to keep the item but want a partial re-fund, I haven't had it happen to me, and want to keep it that way, so please don't try that, I will happily offer your full winning bid money back upon the safe return of the item, and I think that's fair.
I am very strict with my grading, having been a collector myself for many years, and I try to include as much relavent information as possible on sales, however if you have any further questions please don't hesitate to ask, I will gladly resond as soon as I can.
One thing I would ask is that the winning bidders do leave feedback, as it's annoying when people overlook it.
I happily offer reductions of postage costs on multiple-items,
I try grade using direct sunlight which shows up more than anything (hence where poss I take my photos in direct sunlight too), however living in the Pennine Hills, contrary to popular rumour it isn't sunny here EVERY day! So when this isn't always possible, as a backup I also use a 100 Watt lightbulb, though when poss I try to use both.
I feel my grading system is stricter than many I see used, but the sellers I respect on Ebay and elsewhere seem to be of the same mind as me, I'd much prefer to be known as someone who undergrades and you can get a good record from, than someone you have to wonder, "actually is their VG+ quite what I'd expect from that?". Hope I can win you over!
(SOMETIMES I MAY COME ACROSS A RECORD OF SIGNIFFICANT RARITY/DESIRABILITY THAT MAY HAVE A JUMP/STICK IN IT. IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THAT I THINK SOMEONE MAY WANT IT (EG. IT'S COVER'S IN GOOD NICK, OR IT'S A PRIVATE PRESSING/PROMO OF LIMITED AVAILABILITY) I'LL CLEARLY MARK THIS IN THE TITLE "JUMPS" OR "WARPED" ETC.)
Good luck and Happy Bidding! Loads more punk/new wave etc. etc. every genre really to come over the next 2 months! so...
Be sure to add me to your favourites list!River.Dog.
