CURRENT INVENTORY / VEE-JAY PICTURE SLEEVES & 45 SINGLES VJ498 | VIEW CART |
"PLEASE PLEASE ME" b/w "ASK ME WHY" VEE-JAY 498 RELEASED: 2/20/63 "BEATTLES" WITH TWO T'S RAREST VERSION: " # 498 " WITH "#" PREFIX COLORBAND WITH OVAL LOGO CONDITION: NM- ITEM#: S554 PRICE: ------ |
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DESCRIPTION (ACTUAL SCANS) THE FIRST RECORD RELEASED IN THE UNITED STATES TO BEAR THE BEATLES NAME WAS VEE-JAY 498, "PLEASE PLEASE ME" B/W "ASK ME WHY", WHICH WAS RELEASED ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 20, 1963. VEE-JAY WASN'T QUITE SURE WHAT IT HAD WITH THE BEATLES, AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, VEE-JAY DID NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL THE GROUP'S NAME. ALL INITIAL ISSUES OF THE RECORD ADDED AN EXTRA "T" TO THE NAME. IT IS THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER AS COLLECTORS ARE ATTRACTED TO THE NOVELTY OF THE MISSPELLED NAME, AND TO THE RECORD'S STATUS AS THE FIRST BEATLES RECORD ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES. THERE WERE THREE LABEL VARIATIONS OF THE "DOUBLE T" VEE JAY 498. THE LABEL VARIATION BEING OFFERED HERE INCLUDES THE " # " SYMBOL PRECEDING THE RECORD NUMBER. IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THIS VARIATION WAS MANUFACTURED BY SOUTHERN PLASTICS, AND OF THE THREE MISSPELLED LABEL VARIATIONS, THIS ONE WHICH HAS THE "#" SIGN PRECEDING THE RECORD NUMBER IS THE RAREST OF ALL. THE WORDS "VOCAL" AND "TIME" AND THE PUBLISHING INFORMATION ARE ENTIRELY IN
CAPITAL LETTERS, THE SONGWRITER CREDITS IN MICROPRINT AND THE LACK OF A PRESSING
PLANT LOGO IN THE TRAIL-OFF AREAS.
SHORTLY AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE DOUBLE "T" ERROR IN THE GROUP'S NAME,
VEE-JAY EVENTUALLY REALIZED ITS MISTAKE OF MISSPELLING THE GROUP'S NAME (AND
SOARING SALES), SO THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE RECORD CORRECTED THE ERROR. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT LESS THAN 7,500 COPIES IN TOTAL OF ALL THE LABEL
VARIATIONS OF VEE-JAY 498 WERE PRESSED. THIS INCLUDES OVAL OR BRACKETS LABELS
AND WITH EITHER THE DOUBLE "T" OR ONE "T" IN THE GROUP'S NAME.
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