SWAN RECORDS
1964 RELEASES

SHE LOVES YOU / I'LL GET YOU
SWAN S-4152-S, PICTURE SLEEVE
RELEASED: 3/1/64
ISSUED WITH THE 1964 BLACK LABEL 45 SINGLE


SWAN RECORD LABEL VARIATION CODE NUMBERS AND PRESSING INFORMATION EXCERPTED FROM "THE BEATLES SWAN SONG", COMPILED BY BRUCE SPIZER, FORWARD BY PERRY COX.

PICTURE SLEEVES & 45 RECORDS ARE SOLD SEPARATELY.

 
  THE SWAN 1964 PICTURE SLEEVE RELEASE  
   

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  SHE LOVES YOU B/W I'LL GET YOU
SWAN 4152
RELEASED: 3/1/64, PS

(ACTUAL SCANS)

CONSIDERED THE VERY FIRST BEATLES U.S. PICTURE SLEEVE TO HIT THE MARKET IN VERY EARLY 1964, THIS SLEEVE FEATURES THE CLASSIC DEZO HOFFMANN 1963 PHOTO OF THE BEATLES ON BOTH SIDES. THIS IS THE ONLY PICTURE SLEEVE ISSUED BY THE SWAN RECORD COMPANY FOR THE BEATLES. 

A MARVELOUS NEAR MINT MINUS (SO DARN CLOSE TO NEAR MINT STATUS) EXAMPLE  OF THIS SLEEVE. VERY CLEAN WHITE AND NO RINGWEAR. NICE STRAIGHT EDGES, WITH A BIT OF HANDLING WEAR AT THE TOP AREA, YET NOT A DISTRACTION IN THE LEAST.

CONDITION: NM-
ITEM#: PS542
PRICE: $675


 
   

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  SHE LOVES YOU B/W I'LL GET YOU
SWAN 4152
RELEASED: 3/1/64, PS

(ACTUAL SCANS)

CONSIDERED THE VERY FIRST BEATLES U.S. PICTURE SLEEVE TO HIT THE MARKET IN VERY EARLY 1964, THIS SLEEVE FEATURES THE CLASSIC DEZO HOFFMANN 1963 PHOTO OF THE BEATLES ON BOTH SIDES. THIS IS THE ONLY PICTURE SLEEVE ISSUED BY THE SWAN RECORD COMPANY FOR THE BEATLES. 

A GORGEOUS EXAMPLE OF A NEAR MINT MINUS SWAN PICTURE SLEEVE (SO VERY CLOSE TO NEAR MINT STATUS). EXTREMELY CLEAN  AND WHITE WITH NO RINGWEAR. EDGES ARE SHARP, WITH A TOUCH OF HANDLING WEAR AT THE TOP AREA, YET NOT A DISTRACTION AT ALL.

CONDITION: NM-
ITEM#: PS566
PRICE: $675


 
   



  SHE LOVES YOU B/W I'LL GET YOU
SWAN 4152
RELEASED: 3/1/64, PS

(ACTUAL SCANS)

A VERY RESPECTABLE VG++ EXAMPLE, BORDERING VG+ ON ONE SIDE, WITH SOME HANDLING WEAR EVIDENT. NO RINGWEAR.

CONDITION: VG++
ITEM#: PS381
PRICE: $400


 
   
 

 

ORIGINAL 1964 SWAN RECORDS 45 SINGLES RECORD MAILER FOUND WITH INSERTED
"SHE LOVES YOU" PICTURE SLEEVE
AND BLACK LABEL 45 SINGLE WITH "GEORGE MARTIN" CREDIT

SWAN S-4152, ISSUED MARCH 1, 1964

FIRST EVER DISCOVERY OF THE SWAN RECORDS MAILER ENVELOPE RECENTLY PROCURED WITH ACCOMPANYING PROMOTIONAL 45 SINGLE FROMTHE ESTATE OF MUSICAL LUMINARY AND SWAN RECORDS EXECUTIVE WALTER GATES.

SWAN recordS 45 SINGLES mailer ENVELOPES MEASURE 7¾" X 7¾" AND haVE never been discovered OR HAD SURFACED until RECENTLY. AN UNUSED AND UNCIRCULATED STOCK HAVE been stored AWAY for OVER 60 YEARS AND JUST UNEARTHED. THIS SWAN MAILER ARCHIVE WAS procured BY A RECORD COLLECTOR IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA (HOME OF SWAN RECORDS) WHO HAD VERY FIRST ACCESS TO THE ESTATE SALE OF SWAN RECORDS MUSICAL LUMINARY AND EXECUTIVE, WALTER GATES,

AMAZINGLY, FOUND INSERTED INSIDE THIS VERY SWAN MAILER ENVELOPE WAS A SWAN "SHE LOVES YOU" PICTURE SLEEVE AND THE ACCOMPANYING BLACK LABEL 45 SINGLE (SWAN S-4152, ISSUED MARCH 1, 1964). BOTH ITEMS WERE INSERTED SEPARATELY, WITH THE DISC OUTSIDE THE PICTURE SLEEVE. THE RECORD IS THE RCA Rockaway pressing with thin fontS AND "DON'T DROP OUT" in the top left corner. This Swan S-4152-S variation IS THE RARER LABEL WHICH contains THE "PRODUCED BY GEORGE MARTIN" CREDITS

THESE ITEMS WERE KEPT IN WALTER GATES' POSSESSION FOR 59 YEARS AND MOST LIKELY CAME STRAIGHT FROM THE PRESSING PLANT RIGHT INTO HIS HOME,

CONDITION:
MAILER (NM) UNCIRCULATED
 PICTURE SLEEVE (NM-)
RECORD (M) "FACTORY FRESH" AS NEW, UNCIRCULATED
ITEM#: PS839
PRICE: $2,475


 

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