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| CURRENT INVENTORY / VEE-JAY PICTURE SLEEVES & 45 SINGLES VJ498 | VIEW CART |
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PLEASE PLEASE ME B/W ASK ME WHY VEE JAY 498 RELEASED: 2/20/63 CORRECTED "BEATLES" WITH ONE "T" RAREST VERSION: " # 498 " COLORBAND WITH OVAL LOGO, VJ 498.04, SPIZER CONDITION: NM ITEM#: S553 PRICE: ------  |
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DESCRIPTION (ACTUAL SCANS) THE FIRST RECORD RELEASED IN THE UNITED STATES TO BEAR THE BEATLES NAME WAS VEE-JAY 498, "PLEASE PLEASE ME" B/W "ASK ME WHY", WHICH WAS RELEASED ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 20, 1963. VEE-JAY WASN'T QUITE SURE WHAT IT HAD WITH THE BEATLES, AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, VEE-JAY DID NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL THE GROUP'S NAME. ALL INITIAL ISSUES OF THE RECORD ADDED AN EXTRA "T" TO THE NAME. IT IS THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER AS COLLECTORS ARE ATTRACTED TO THE NOVELTY OF THE MISSPELLED NAME, AND TO THE RECORD'S STATUS AS THE FIRST BEATLES RECORD ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES. SHORTLY AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE DOUBLE "T" ERROR IN THE GROUP'S NAME, VEE-JAY EVENTUALLY REALIZED ITS MISTAKE OF MISSPELLING THE GROUP'S NAME (AND SOARING SALES), SO THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE RECORD CORRECTED THE ERROR. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT LESS THAN 7,500 COPIES IN TOTAL OF ALL THE LABEL VARIATIONS OF VEE-JAY 498 WERE PRESSED. THIS INCLUDES OVAL OR BRACKETS LABELS AND WITH EITHER THE DOUBLE "T" OR ONE "T" IN THE GROUP'S NAME.
THIS LABEL VARIATION OFFERED HERE IS THE RAREST OF ALL VEE-JAY 498 CORRECTED
LABELS, WHICH HAS THE "#" SIGN PRECEDING THE RECORD NUMBER, AND A CRUDE ATTEMPT
TO FIX THE MISSPELLED NAME. THIS LABEL IS IDENTICAL TO THE LABEL OF (VJ 498.03,
SPIZER), EXCEPT THAT ONE "T" HAS BEEN PHYSICALLY REMOVED. THE LABEL TAKES ON AN
AMATEURISH APPEARANCE AS "THE BEATLES" IS NOT RE-CENTERED AND THE "LES" PART OF
THE NAME DOES NOT LINE UP PROPERLY WITH THE FIRST PART OF THE NAME. THE
TRAIL-OFF AREAS ARE IDENTICAL TO THOSE OF (VJ 498.03, SPIZER), INDICATING THAT
BOTH RECORDS WERE PRESSED FROM THE SAME STAMPERS BY SOUTHERN PLASTICS.
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