 Vee-Jay Records Sleeve |
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| TITLE | SONGS, PICTURES
AND STORIES OF THE FABULOUS BEATLES (Disc: INTRODUCING THE BEATLES) |
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| CATALOG NUMBER | VJS 1092 (Disc: VJLP-1062) |
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| RELEASE DATE | late July of 1964 /First Press | ||||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | |||
| I Saw Her Standing There |
Please Please Me (without comma) |
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| Misery |
Baby It's You |
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| Anna |
Do You Want To Know A Secret ? |
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| Chains |
A Taste Of Honey |
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| Boys |
There's A Place |
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| Ask Me Why |
Twist And Shout |
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Sorry,
I
don't have it. |
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The jacket has a gatefold cover whose front
flap is two-thirds of the full jacket’s size. The right inside gatefold panel was printed their personal information. |
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Vee-Jay brackets logo was printed in blue
at the front cover. |
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The stereo have the slick positioned lower to reveal the number VJS 1092 and the word “STEREO” in blue at the top. | ||||
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Below John’s color-tinted
picture is the phrase “JOHN LOVES” and a blue dash-bordered heart containing the phrase “PICTURE HERE.” |
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Similar pictures, language
and hearts appear for the other Beatles. Girls are told to:
“Paste your picture with your favorite Beatle and your
friends with their favorite” |
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During the early 1960s,
Vee-Jay albums were pressed with black label backdrops with
an outer rim colorband featuring an oval logo. In January 1964, Ivy Hill Lithograph Corp. in Great Neck, New York, prepared album label backdrops featuring the new brackets logo, which were shipped to ARP, Monarch, Southern Plastics and ARC. |
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| SIDE 1 -->Click! | SIDE 2 -->Click! | This label has
centered titles "INTRODUCING THE BEATLES". Has “Long Playing” and “Microgroove” on the label. It also has the “Coffin-King” typo. Its trail off areas contain hand-etched matrix numbers, the initials “URJ” and the date 2-6-64 along with Audio Matrix and ARP logos. This record was manufactured by ARP. "PLEASE PLEASE ME" without a comma. |
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| LABEL | Black label with color band and brackets
logo |
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| MIX | STEREO |
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| PRESS FACTORY |
SLEEVE | Ivy
Hill Lithograph Corp. in Los Angeles |
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| VINYL |
ARP
Press |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | S 63-3402-1 1A
1-24-64 URT (hand etched)
ARP Audio Matrix (machine stamped) |
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| SIDE 2 | S 63-3403-1
URT 1-24-64 (hand
etched) Audio Matrix
ARP (machine stamped) |
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| VINYL COLOR | BLACK | ||||
| PUBLISHER'S NAME |
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| COVER FORM | Gatefold cover whose front flap is
two-thirds of the full jacket’s size. |
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| PRINTER CREDIT | - |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Illustrated: Jim Johnson Photo: Dezo Hoffmann |
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| INNER SLEEVE | Vee-Jay original company sleeve type-2
(maybe) |
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| PRODUCER | - |
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COMMENTS
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This album
is nothing more than a fancy repackaging of the second
version of Vee-Jay’s Introducing The Beatles. Although Vee-Jay assigned the release a new number and prepared a different and more elaborate cover, it did not bother to print new labels for the records placed in the new jacket. The jacket has a gatefold cover whose front flap is two-thirds of the full jacket’s size. The lower half of the flap is dominated by the same Dezo Hoffmann photograph. The picture is cropped and given a jagged white border to make it appear as if it were a snap shot ready for pasting into a scrapbook. The exposed portion of the white background inside right flap has the same Jim Johnson color drawings of each of the Beatles faces that had previously been used on the jacket for the Souvenir EP and the picture sleeve for Do You Want To Know A Secret. The purchaser is urged to "LOOK INSIDE" for the complete story of each Beatles’ favorite male and female singer, foods, types of girls, sport, hobby, songs and colors as well as their real names, birthplaces, birthdays, height, education and hair and eye color. The back cover, Below Ringo’s color-tinted picture is the phrase "RINGO LOVES" and a blue dash-bordered heart containing the phrase "PICTURE HERE." And the phrase "Paste your picture with your favorite Beatle and your friends with their favorite and for you fellows tough luck!!" was printed at the bottom of the back cover. The exterior and interior cover slicks for the album were printed by Ivy Hill Lithograph Corp. in Los Angeles. The album covers were paired with Version-2 "Introducing The Beatles" records. While one normally finds the colorband brackets logo label or the all black with silver print large VJ logo label with this album, other variations have been found with this jacket, including the colorband oval logo label. Vee-Jay did not press its own records, the factories selected by Vee- Jay to manufacture its Beatles albums (ARP, Monarch, Southern Plastics, ARC, Columbia and Waddell). This vinyl was pressed by ARP. Some album covers for Songs, Pictures And Stories were customized for various Beatles' "1964 American summer tour" concert locations. These souvenir albums have a black banner sticker with white print affixed to the album’s front gatefold proclaiming "SOUVENIR OF THEIR APPEARANCE AT [VENUE, CITY and DATE]." On the mono covers, VJ 1092.MC1WS, the banner usually appears on the lower part of the gatefold flap at an angle to leave the album number VJ 1092 uncovered. While it is possible that these local souvenir banner albums were prepared for most, if not all, of the 21 or so U.S. summer tour concert locations. Confirmed converted covers: (1) Stereo cover with red sticker with MONO in black (2) Mono cover with red sticker with STEREO in black (3) Mono cover with white sticker with STEREO in black The stereo covers show the two different locations that the concert banners. |
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