[16] The next single, "She Loves You", was licensed by Transglobal to the Swan label of Philadelphia. The Beatles was the group's first album to appear on the Apple label. At that time, its license expired, and all rights would revert to Capitol. The Beatles' Please Please Me album was rush-released by Parlophone on 22nd March, 1963 to capitalise on the enormous success of the title track which had been the group's second single and their first no. Complete your The Beatles Featuring Tony Sheridan & Guests* collection. Four songs by Sheridan with other musicians where added to the eight recorded by the Beatles. Ten of the album's fourteen tracks were recorded in just one day - 11th February, 1963. Vinyl is perfect, album sleeve is discolored due to age. If there was one album which signified the breadth of talent The Beatles had at their… On 22 June 1961, composer and musical director Bert Kaempfert produced the group's first professional recording session backing English singer and guitarist Tony Sheridan for the German label Polydor. Both found themselves as men excited by their new material, … I guess you have to take the US releases for what they were and enjoy them on that level. Counterfeits have some significant differences from the commercial issue. Although neither album contained any new music, both of them made the Billboard album charts. Commonly known as ''The White Album''. It was the subject of much legal wrangling, but ultimately, Vee-Jay was permitted to sell the album until late 1964, by which time it had sold more than 1.3 million copies. [37], There are also known fake versions of Songs, Pictures, and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles. The Beatles was available, it sold approximately 1,300,000 mono copies and approximately 41,000 stereo copies. The Beatles was the group's first album to appear on the Apple label. | iHeartRadio Name written on pencil on label lightly will remove immediately also vinyl in cleaned may come up even better. These two albums marked the only time that two different Beatles' albums, each from a different record label, were released in the same month with one song appearing on both albums. [22] It also peaked at number two in Cash Box, and it got to number one in Record World magazine. The first album I bought was Introducing The Beatles on Vee-Jay. There were no new Beatles' albums on Parlophone label. at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962, The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Introducing..._The_Beatles&oldid=1001058240, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2010, Certification Table Entry usages for United States, Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments figures, Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments footnote, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Labels with the title of the album and the group's name separated by the center spindle hole (as shown in the photo to the right), Labels with color bands that are off-center and/or missing the color green (as shown in the photo to the right), Labels with large white "brackets" (no color band), This page was last edited on 18 January 2021, at 01:51. This page contains links to features on The Beatles’ albums, in chronological order of release. Though Vee-Jay could not manufacture or distribute any Beatles product after 15 October 1964, it took a long time for the records to vanish from retail stores. The eight tracks recorded by the Beatles were compiled, in all their published variations, in the double album "Beatles Bop – Hamburg Days" in 2001. One of my first, as a little girl lying on the floor in front of the stereo cabinet. [37] These counterfeits can be identified by the cover printing and quality, the label, or the sound quality. The Beatles' First! The Beatles and Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles remained on the Billboard LP chart until 9 January 1965.[35]. Find The Beatles discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. They began performing live in England in 1961 and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany until 1962, with a lineup of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best.Following Sutcliffe's departure (and … Author Ken McNab Sheds Light on the Beatles' Tumultuous Final Year ... Nils Lofgren Recalls the Genesis of Ringo's First All-Starr Band The Beatles First Edition White Album Numbered. Cds are in perfect condition. Finally, third editions contain Vee-Jay's official back cover, with Introducing The Beatles near the top and the song titles in two columns underneath. On 4 August 1967, Polydor officially released the album in the UK (catalogue number 236-201), but with a sleeve designed by Barry Zaid which omits the exclamation mark. From the start of Beatlemania in the United States until the October 1964 expiration of its rights to Beatles music, Vee-Jay issued four LP albums, four singles, and an EP out of the 16 tracks it gained from its 1963 license period. Two other tracks on which Sheridan does not appear, the instrumental "Beatle Bop" (later renamed "Cry for a Shadow"), credited to Harrison - Lennon, and the standard "Ain't She Sweet", sung by Lennon, are also recorded. The Beatles - The White Album 1st Pressing 2 VINYLS ONLY sleeves insert ms not included Mono XEX 710/11 - 1 VG+. was released in 1964 by German Polydor (Polydor 20328) and was available in the UK as an import. 237632, as above), secondly in the early 1970s, titled The Beatles in Hamburg (cat. With his debut solo album, Paul McCartney embraced a lo-fi way of recording, making “no attempt to compete” with The Beatles. I have the “Hollywood Bowl” in vinyl and Capital put out the album. Beechwood Music, Inc., Capitol Records' publishing subsidiary, owned the American publishing rights to "Love Me Do" and "P.S. The Beatles is the first studio album released by the English rock band the Beatles in the United States. So, as a stopgap, the label used a back cover slick made from one side of its standard inner sleeve, consisting of full-colour reproductions of the covers of 25 "other fine albums of significant interest". Issued with 4 glossy photographs, a double-sided poster, black inner sleeves. The main tracks are in stereo on the first CD and in mono on the second CD. ^shipments figures based on certification alone, Albums in the core catalogue are marked in, Jolly What! The Beatles did not enter the Billboard charts until three weeks after Capitol's Meet the Beatles! Free shipping on many items ... Rare first edition Beatles White Album. $30.00 shipping. [9], 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. The session, which possibly ended the next day, saw the recording of "My Bonnie" and "The Saints" (released as a single that same year and on Sheridan's LP called My Bonnie in January 1962), "Why", an original song by Sheridan, and the covers "Nobody's Child" by Hank Snow and "If You Love Me, Baby (Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby)" by Jimmy Reed but the latter with different lyrics. All subsequent releases of the Tony Sheridan/Beatles/Beat Brothers recordings are repackages of the same tracks. The Beatles' First! "From Me To You" (in place of "Anna"), "Love Me Do" (in place of "Ask Me Why") and "P.S I Love You", which opens side 2 rather than "Please Please Me" (The song is rather placed on side 1, track 3).[37]. The Beatles caused a minor revolution with their debut album, which was recorded in a single day but which topped the charts for 30 weeks. This album was an absolute favorite of mine. Despite the fact that it was a double album it entered the UK chart at no. Check your vinyl collection because you might have a hidden treasure in it! Check for mono recordings. Condition lots of shine some scratches side three and 4 still lots of shine a good VG. All first pressings of Beatles albums originate in the U.K. and are marked as such until "The Beatles" (the White Album). 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