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WE CURRENTLY HAVE NEARLY 1,000 LISTED ITEMS Click here to see ALL our ROCK auctions Our PSYCH PROGRESSIVE auctions Our PUNK NEW WAVE auctions Our JAZZ auctions Our BLUE NOTE JAZZ auctions Our BLUES auctions Our CLASSICAL auctions Our COUNTRY auctions Our FUNK auctions Our LATIN auctions Our METAL auctions Our REGGAE auctions Our SOUL auctions Our STILL SEALED ITEMS Our PROMO auctions Our AUDIOPHILE auctions BEATLES - MEET THE BEATLES - INSANELY RARE QUITE POSSIBLY ONE OF A KIND IN THIS PARTICULAR CONFIGURATION AND CONDITION ORIGINAL 1964 CAPITOL RECORDS STEREO LP ST-2047 ORIGINAL U.S.
PRESSING MONSTROUSLY RARE FIRST PRESSING OF THE ALBUM WITHOUT ANY PUBLISHING CREDITES BMI, ASCAP ON THE LABEL EASILY ONE OF THE RAREST PRESSING VARIATIONS OF ANY BEATLES ALBUM IN EXISTENCE WE ARE REASONABLY CONFIDENT THAT LESS THAN 150 COPIES WERE EVER PRESSED.
PROMOTIONAL COPY THE RECORD HAS STOCK LABELS HOWEVER, THE PRESENCE OF THE PROMOTIONAL-ONLY PUBLICITY PHOTO OF THE BEATLES SLIGHTLY YELLOWED, BUT COMPLETE, INTACT AND IN GREAT CONDITION OVERALL CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE ITEM AS PROMOTIONAL THE SMALL PRESSING PLANT DESIGNATION NUMBER ON THE BACK COVER IS: 3 ORIGINAL, FIRST VERSION OF THE COVER A WITHOUT GEORGE MARTIN, PRODUCER LINE BELOW THE LINER NOTES AND B WITH A LINE TO BE PLAYED ONLY WITH A STEREO CARTRIDGE AND NEEDLE TO AVOID DAMAGE ORIGINAL BROWN LETTER COVER ORIGINAL BLACK RAINBOW CAPITOL LABEL WITHOUT THE SUBSIDIARY INSCRIPTION ALONG THE PERIMETER OF THE LABEL.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S.
PRESSING THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE.
COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL LOOSE-FITTING SEARS BAGGY WITH AN ORANGE SEARS LOGO IN OPPOSITE CORNERS THE COVER HAS TWO 2 INSANELY RARE BEATLES ARE COMING WIGS STICKERS, PRACTICALLY NEVER SEEN ON ANY OF THE SURVIVING COPIES OF THIS ALBUM FURTHERMORE, THE ALBUM COMES WITH A XEROX COPY NOT THE ORIGINAL OF THE DECEMBER 23, 1963 CAPITOL MEMO FROM PAUL RUSSELL, DIRECTOR OF CAPITOL NATIONAL MARKETING, SHOWING JUST EXACTLY WHAT PURPOSE AND INTENT THESE STICKERS WERE MEANT TO HAVE IN SPREADING THE BEATLEMANIA, AND HOW THE BRITISH INVASION OF AMERICA WAS THE SINGLE BEST-PLANNED LANDING OPERATION EVER SINCE THE INVASION OF NORMANDY, SOME TWO DECADES EARLIER.
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL DEAD WAX OF THE RECORD MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL DEAD WAX ENDS WITH -A1/-A1 .
ON SOME LABELS, SUFFIX 1 DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING --- SOMETHING YOU NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER SEE ON THIS TITLE PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on.
This is NOT a recycled image from our previous auction.
What you see is what you ll get.
GUARANTEED Most can call it from memory: the image of the Beatles disembarking from their plane on a cold February day in New York.
Less visible in the old black-and-white film footage, but perhaps more important, is a young girl clutching a copy of the Beatles just-released second album, Meet the Beatles , as if the world depended on it.
And, to her and millions of other young people, it did.
Meet the Beatles wasn t simply an album it gave the intangible yearnings of youth a voice and a face actually, four voices and four faces , and it created a parallel world where escape was only a turntable away.
Today, Meet the Beatles is a collectible in danger of becoming forgotten, if not for the diligence of Beatles fans around the world.
Compact discs have replaced vinyl, and the decision to release the original U.K.
versions of the Beatles albums in favor of their U.S.
counterparts has rendered albums like Meet the Beatles and The Beatles Second Album obsolete.
But nothing could make the music on these LPs obsolete.
The infectious charm of songs like I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Saw Her Standing There, It Won t Be Long, and All My Loving still weave their magic which, if less potent in an age jaded by a generation of musicians who had the benefit of the Beatles songbook tucked underneath their arms, still carries an aura around it -- just as the first moon landing will never be eclipsed by subsequent forays into space.
Meet the Beatles soon topped the charts, aided by electric appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show that carried the flames of Beatlemania across the ocean, and together with the single She Loves You kicked off a string of number one singles and albums.
Most of the songs were holdovers from the U.K.
album With the Beatles, released two months earlier.
Capitol, who wisely decided that there might be money in releasing the band s work in the U.S., chose original tracks from their second U.K.
album and added the contents of a recent U.S.
single plus a B-side, John Lennon s ballad This Boy, to the mix.
This created the illusion that the Beatles wrote all their own material since only Meredith Willson s Till There Was You was a non-original , an illusion dispelled by the necessarily cover-heavy The Beatles Second Album.
So, in many ways, Meet the Beatles distilled what was best about the band: original material from Lennon, Paul McCartney, and even George Harrison his first, Don t Bother Me .
Everyone gets a chance to sing, including Ringo Starr I Wanna Be Your Man, which Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham had coaxed from the band earlier , and the mix of rockers and ballads proves to be a beautiful blend.
Let compact disc companies try their hand at historical revision: they can t steal the memories of Americans who still remember how they first met the Beatles, any more than they could pry that album from that young girl s hands.
EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY DAVE CONNOLLY, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/ For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio AR man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye , Bruce Morrow a/k/a Cousin Brucie , Tim Rice of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita fame , Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan s first album , Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.
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For more details, see: Critics Choice: Top-200 albums compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 or click here for the complete album listing For additional information about this album, including track listing click here TO SEE IF WE HAVE OTHER LISTED ITEMS BY THIS GROUP OR ARTIST click here CONDITION: RECORD IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight a WE GRADE THE VINYL AS NEAR MINT.
The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
b The record comes in the original royal blue stock inner sleeve.
c Stereo pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more preferable to its mono counterpart.
The mix is more graphic, the sound resolution more precise, and the channel separation which does not exist on mono version adds a whole new dimension to the music.
Also, the stereo mixes are by definition somewhat different than on the mono version.
We estimate that mono copies of this album outnumber stereo copies by a ratio of at least 5:1.
d Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording e The album comes with the ORIGINAL promo-only 6 x 8 Capitol publicity photo of the Beatles f The album comes with the xerox copy replica of the original 12/1963 Capitol marketing memo g Stereo no publishing credits pressing of this title is much rarer than any other version of this album in existence.
We estimate that other pressings of this albums and there are numerous variations and pressings outnumber the original no publishing credits stereo copies by a ratio of at least 1,000: 1 no, we are NOT exaggerating .
h Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording COVER COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP ACTUALLY, A LOOSE-FITTING SEARS BAGGY WITH SILK-SCREENED ORANGE SEARS LOGO The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover: - Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear nothing significant On the scale from 1 to 10 1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe , we assess the severity of ring wear as 1 VISIBLE ON FRONT SIDE ONLY, AND BARELY NOTICEABLE .
- Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.
in trace amounts nothing significant NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER: - No split seams - No cut-out drill holes.
- No cut-out corners - No saw-marks or indents - No dirt/dust rubbing stains friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers - No wrinkles or creases - No writing - No stamps - No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams - No peel-off marks - No stains - No mold or mildew spots - No stickers or labels - No water damage - No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or cuts.
- No warping - No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover - No glue traces or wax residue.
- No bar codes - No RIAA stamps or stickers.
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