Introducing The Beatles [Original recording]

The Beatles | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl
• Original Release Date: 1964
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording
• Label: VeeJay
• Run Time: 33 minutes
• ASIN: B000MVF7ZU
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

First Of All There are several realeases of this album! I have two! the differences are, last song on side "A" and the First song on side "B". One album has Love Me Do You while the other has Ask Me Why. One has P.S. I Love You, While The Other has Please, Please Me respectively! These are the Black label not the colored "VJ" which is a LATER pressing! Both are in great Shape and rare! I am seeling both! One in Stereo and One Mono!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The First Album Released by the BEATLES in the USA, February 7, 2008

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David Fechtmeyer (Lake Worth, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: introducing the beatles LP (Vinyl)

This is the first album of the BEATLES music released in the USA. There are two versions to this album. Version One has Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You on it. Version Two substituted Please Please Me and Ask Me Why for the aformentioned songs - probably because PLEASE PLEASE ME was a number one hit, and LOVE ME DO only hit #20 on the charts.

The Russian two/fer CD has Version 2 on it. In addition, the Russian CD was released in mono. The Single album CD is Version 1 and it is in STEREO, and the audio difference is amazing. There are two versions to the Version 1 CD. One has the AD back - the other has the column back. The column back shows the track listing on the back of the jewel case, the Ad back shows the earliest cover used by VJ on the back of the jewel case. There is also a Version 2 of the album available. It has Please Please Me, and Ask Me Why. It is also in stereo.

Take note that the songs LOVE ME DO, and P.S. I LOVE YOU are only available in mono no matter what collection or compilation you find them on. They were the earliest recordings done by the BEATLES and no stereo recordings have survived.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The classic Vee-Jay album, April 12, 2010

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Timothy Swan "disc jockey" (Boring, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introducing The Beatles (Vinyl)

For many people who are full-fledged fans of the fab four from Liverpool, this remarkable album, entitled "Introducing The Beatles", sums up a lot of great memories from that bygone time in musical history when these 4 talented boys from England totally shook up the music world and set off an international frenzy that would become the epidemic known as "Beatlemania". This classic LP was first released in early January of 1964, just a few weeks prior to them landing in New York to make their historic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February. Originally, the album contained the songs "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" as part of its line-up. However, due to a series of legal wrangling with EMI's American subsidiary label, Capitol records, Vee-Jay were forced to remove these songs. Fortunately for all of us, they only had to substitute 2 other recordings, "Ask Me Why" and "Please, Please Me" in their place. The result is a brilliant American debut album that still holds a lot of great memories for so many people. The official line-up on this album is practically identical to the same track order on the British album "Please Please Me". It is as follows ;

side one :

1. I Saw Her Standing There

2. Misery

3. Anna (Go To Him)

4. Chains

5. Boys

6. Ask Me Why

side two :

1. Please, Please Me

2. Baby It's You

3. Do You Want To Know A Secret?

4. A Taste Of Honey

5. There's A Place

6. Twist And Shout

The contents of this album were also featured in 2 other albums issued by Vee-Jay during 1964: "Songs, Pictures And Stories Of The Fabulous Beatles" and "The Beatles Vs. The Four Seasons".

By 1965, Vee-Jay's rights to distribute Beatles records had expired, leaving Capitol to completely take over. Once they did, they would dominate the music market with enough Beatles product to last many lifetimes. Their first release of that year was titled "The Early Beatles", which contained 11 of the 14 songs first released by Vee-Jay. The songs "Misery" and "There's A Place" would be issued on special singles as part of Capitol's Star-Line label, but would not become available on an officially-released Beatles album until they were included in the 1980 compilation "Rarities". Meanwhile, the song "I Saw Her Standing There" was already included on the Capitol album "Meet The Beatles!". It marks the only time in which the same Beatles recording of one song would appear on 2 completely different albums issued by seperate record labels at approximately the same time. Whereas on every Capitol release, the song opens with the full "1-2-3-Faa!" count-in; the Vee-Jay versions starts the song with "Faa!", followed by the song. Thus, the Vee-Jay label is the only way to acquire this variation of that song.

"Introducing The Beatles" also holds the unique distinction of being the most counterfeited Beatles album of all time. Legitamite versions of this album are easy to tell in the following manner; version one with "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" were made available in both Mono and Stereo. There were 5 different label variations in Mono and 3 in Stereo. When the version two disc was released with "Ask Me Why" and "Please, Please Me", it was also released in both Mono and Stereo versions; with 13 Mono variations and 10 Stereo. The back cover of the album was released with three different slicks: an original full-color "Ad Back", showing the miniature reproductions of 25 other Vee-Jay album covers and the slogan OTHER FINE ALBUMS OF SIGNIFICANT INTEREST printed across the top; a completely white "Blank Back"; and, a third variation that has the album's song titles shown vertically in 2 columns, with the phrase AMERICA'S GREATEST RECORDING ARTISTS ARE ON VEE-JAY RECORDS, printed across the bottom.

Looking back, this is a milestone in the history of popular music. The same year that Vee-Jay released their Beatles records, the United Artists and Swan record labels also got in on the whole Beatle phenomenon, as well. Altogether, The Beatles' American records appeared on more than 7 different U.S. record labels in 1964 alone! This one turned out to be one of the very best. And, it deserves to be released onto CD!

5.0 out of 5 stars Introducing The Greatest, January 29, 2012

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B. Bonifacino "The Great Bambino" (Edenton, NC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Introducing the Beatles (Vinyl)

This album is undoubtedly the most valuable Beatles lp in existance. I absolutely love the music on it, as well as the cover. It was greater than I'd expected. No I'm no Beatles expert, as I'm only 17, but I still feel aht they were and still are the greatest artists in the music industry. This album is a must have for any Beatles fan..just beware of fakes.