"YESTERDAY".... AND TODAY
FIRST STATE MONO
BUTCHER  COVER
IN THE SHRINKWRAP ! 
CAPITOL T-2553 (MONO)
Released  6-15-66
Rarest  PRODUCED  Butcher  Cover :
Factory #4,  Jacksonville, Indiana

WITH CAPITOL RECORDS
BUTCHER DOCUMENTS ARCHIVE
FROM THE ESTATE OF
FORMER CAPITOL RECORDS DISTRIBUTION MANAGER

ITEM # :    BC923
CONDITION : UN-CIRCULATED (NEAR MINT)
PRICE :  $11,500

SOLD !!
11/28/06

FROM the family of a gentleman who was a
Capitol Records Distribution Manager back in 1966,
Fab 4 Collectibles has proudly acquired THIS RARITY !

 On the weekend of June 11th & 12th, 1966,
Capitol plant employees were assigned to SLICE open
thousands of Yesterday & Today  albums,
stacking the Butcher covers in one pile and the inner sleeved
records in another. Later, the inner sleeved albums were stored
pending the delivery of the new Trunk covers.

OUR DIGITAL PHOTOS REALLY CANNOT DISPLAY THE
TRUE BEAUTY AND STELLAR CONDITION OF THIS FIRST STATE COVER :

This BUTCHER COVER was acquired from THE Capitol Records
Distribution Manager IN BOSTON, whose project was to dispose of
thousands of Butcher covers. Over 7,000 were buried in a dump and the
remainder were "pasted over" with the pending Trunk Cover.

Present during the RECALL process of the BUTCHER COVER,
and according to his direction to the employees,
the albumS was "stripped" from the coverS.

THIS RARE JACKSONVILLE FACTORY # 4 cover haS survived and personally
stored away in the  Manager's home since that weekend in June.
THIS FIRST STATE COVER IS SIMPLY STUNNING !!

JACKSONVILLE NO. 4 BUTCHERS ARE THE RAREST OF THE THREE FACTORIES,
AND ONLY A FEW KNOWN COPIES HAVE SURFACED. THE JACKSONVILLE
FACTORY WAS KNOWN TO HAVE PRODUCED SMALLER NUMBERS OF THE BUTCHER COVER,
YET THERE IS ANOTHER REASON WHY THE NO. 4 COVER IS A RARITY . . . .
THIS WAS DUE TO THE JACKSONVILLE PLANT MANAGER,
WHO HAD ORDERED THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL BUTCHER COVERS
THAT WERE RETURNED TO HIS FACTORY !!

THE Back cover is completely snow white AND STUNNING.
ONLY MINOR FLAW EVIDENT IS A 4" TRIANGULAR SHAPED PIECE OF
SHRINKWRAP THAT HAS TORN AWAY, YET THE COVER REMAINS UNAFFECTED IN THAT AREA.
the FACTORY Number "4" IS PRINTED on the bottom right
corner along side the RIAA symbol.

Also included with this Butcher Cover are copies of
authentic Capitol Records inTER-OFFICE Letters & Memos,
directly associating and authenticating
the BOSTON Distribution Manager who once owned this Cover,
and other pertinent printed materials ARE INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE:

(1.)
Letter dated March 16, 1964, congratulating the Distribution Manager
and his people for a successful release of the first Capitol Beatles album in
America "Meet The Beatles". Letter is from Stanley M. Gortikov, then
Vice President and General Manager of Capitol Records Distributing Corp.
The Letter cc's Alan Livingston and Stephen Strohman.
Letter is not significant to the Butcher Cover, but has historical impact.

(2.)
This document is the most significant.
It is a memo from the Distribution Manager to
R.L. Howe, the National Distribution Manager,
detailing the destruction ORDERS of 50,700
Jacksonville manufactured BUTCHER COVERS.

(3.)
A four-page “Butcher Recollection” essay from the
Distribution Manager giving remarkable details about
the Butcher cover's history at Capitol, AND THE ARDUOUS TASK OF
REMOVING THE RECORDS FROM THE BUTCHER COVERS - AND THE PROCESS
OF BRINGING THE BUTCHER COVERS TO THE LOCAL DUMP YARD FOR DISPOSAL.

(4.)
Newspaper clipping from The Boston Globe (6/25/66).

(5.)
Copy of the famous recall letter to Reviewers who had
received Promo copies of the LP,
from Capitol’s Press manager Ron Tepper.

TWO FACTORY BREATH HOLES ARE PRESENT ON THE FRONT COVER,
AND ONE BREATH HOLE ON THE BACK COVER.
THIS CLOSE-UP SCAN OF A PORTION OF THE FRONT COVER DISPLAYS THE
GORGEOUS TEXTURES - QUITE SIMPLY EXQUISITE AND BOLD.
The vertical white lines evident are reflections of the
Shrinkwrap, due to the light of the scanner  :

THE Spine and Title printing OF THIS BEAUTY is IMPECCABLE, firm and CRISP :

THIS BUTCHER COVER IS ACCOMPANIED WITH IT'S ORIGINAL JACKSONVILLE RECORD.
WHAT IS UNIQUE HERE, IS THAT IT IS A "STEREO" PRESSING !!
THIS WAS THE ACTUAL RECORD THAT WAS PULLED FROM
THE COVER ON THE DAY OF THE RECALL & HAS BEEN WITH THE COVER EVER SINCE JUNE 1966 !
THE CONDITION OF THE RECORD IS A BEAUTIFUL NEAR MINT MINUS :

THIS FIRST STATE MONO JACKSONVILLE BUTCHER COVER IS
100% GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND IS
ACCOMPANIED BY A LETTER OF AUTHENTICITY
FROM RENOWNED BEATLES'  EXPERT & AUTHOR PERRY  COX :