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ORIGINAL BRITISH PARLOPHONE RELEASES
"LOVE ME DO" B/W "P.S. I LOVE YOU" |
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DESCRIPTION (ACTUAL IMAGES) THE BEATLES VERY FIRST SINGLE, LOVE ME DO b/w P.S. I LOVE YOU, WAS RELEASED ON OCTOBER 5, 1962. A REVIEW IN THE OCTOBER 4 BRITISH TRADE MAGAZINE RECORD RETAILER NOTED THE SINGLE'S SALES POTENTIAL IN A BRIEF REVIEW: "A NEW GROUP FROM THE LIVERPOOL AREA. THEIR FIRST RECORD BUT THEY ALREADY HAVE A STRONG FOLLOWING AND THIS SEEMS TO BE THE STRONGEST OUTSIDER OF THE WEEK". THE BEATLES WOULD NOT REMAIN "OUTSIDERS" FOR LONG. EMI PREPARED APPROXIMATELY ONLY 250 PROMOTIONAL COPIES OF THE BEATLES FIRST SINGLE FOR PRE-RELEASE DISTRIBUTION TO SELECTED MEDIA AND RADIO STATIONS, SHORTLY PRIOR TO THE OCTOBER 5TH STREET DATE FOR THE COMMERCIAL 'RED LABEL' COPY. THIS SO-CALLED 'DEMONSTRATION' RECORD (PAR 4949.DR1, SPIZER), HAS WHITE LABELS WITH BLACK PRINT AND A LARGE 'A' ON THE LOVE ME DO SIDE. THE ARRIVAL OF THE DISC AT BRIAN EPSTEIN'S NEMS OFFICE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RED-LETTER DAY FOR THE ASPIRING MANAGER, BUT INSTEAD BRIAN EXPLODED IN RED-FACED RAGE WHEN HE NOTICED THAT PAUL'S LAST NAME WAS MISSPELLED IN THE SONGWRITERS CREDIT AS 'McARTNEY'. WHEN HE CALLED EMI TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ERROR, HE WAS SIMPLY TOLD THAT THE LABELS OF THE COMMERCIAL COPIES WOULD HAVE THE CORRECT SPELLING. WITH THIS DEMO'S HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE, TOGETHER WITH THE MISSPELLING OF
PAUL'S LAST NAME, THIS PROMOTIONAL RECORD WAS DESTINED TO BECOME EXTREMELY
DESIRABLE, AND THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER COLLECTIBLE EVER. THIS RECORD HAS BEEN AND
WILL CONTINUE TO BE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE RAREST BEATLES RECORD IN THE WORLD !
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