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Introducing The Beatles | 
| Artist: The Beatles
Label: Vee-Jay
Category: Music
Buy Used: $18.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 30249
Media: Vinyl
Discs: 1
ASIN: B000FNTLIO
Publication Date: 1964
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Introducing... The Beatles was the first Beatles album released in America after Capitol Records passed on Please Please Me. It was first released by Vee-Jay Records on July 22, 1963. Essentially, this album was Please Please Me minus the tracks "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why". (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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A forgotten Album that changed the world - The worlds best example of corporate greed. April 17, 2009
rockin randy (denver, colo, usa)
The music on this Album changed the world forever! If you love Early Beatles then you will love this one, it is there second record. The Beatles, forced to Include 6 cover songs on this L.P. There are also 6 Lennon / McCartney gems included here. Be careful when buying this L.P. as an investment, there are at least 15 different versions of this Record that I know of. They are currently worth from $10 to about $1800 dependent on which version and condition. It's hard rate this Album, 5 stars because it changed the face of music forever for the better. 5 stars because it contains some of the best songs ever (I saw her standing there, Please Please me, Do you want to know a secret). 3 stars because of the way the corporate idiots forced this effort to be about doing other peoples songs COVERS!! Oh but wait, the song "Chains: is one of my favorite Beatles songs, a song written by Louse Goffin and Carl King. 1 Star because if your holding a copy of Vee Jay's Introducing the Beatles and you did not buy it in the U.K. between 1962-1963 you probably have a bootlegged poor quality L.P.. Plenty has been written about the music I would like to tell a much lesser known tale of the rip off of the Beatles that this L.P. represents.
In 1962 the Beatles had been turned down by every major label on both sides of the ocean. Desperate they singed on with Vee Jay Records. Standard Pay at the time was .25 per record, the deal the Beatles got .01 cent per L.P. sold. A guy named Dick James gets 55% of that. The remaining 45 one hundredths of a cent would be split up equally between the 4 Beatles and Brian Epstien. That's a Whopping .09 cents for each record sold! If that wasn't bad enough when the Beatles finally got recognized in America Capital records realized they owned Vee Jay records and forced the Beatles onto Capital records for the same bad deal. At the same time Jay Lasker head of Vee Jay rushed into the production of its version of introducing the Beatles. An estimated 10,000,000 Vee Jay records where sold Illegally and without even paying the 1 penny to the Beatles! Also these sales did not count in the total sales figures. At about that same time Capital records released there version of Introducing the Beatles called Early Beatles (same songs minus a couple of songs that could be released in America at a later date). But there was still some more shenanigans ahead for this record. I got my copy in about 1975 at Kmart there was pile of Vee Jay records about 500 selling for 2.99 each. I was a big fan and knew these where rare records. The book value at the time was about $100 dollars new. The Beatles heard about this also, it didn't make sense the record was out of production for 10 years where were all these new copy's coming from? At the time almost anyone who sold L.P.'s had at least a case or more? The Beatles had to hire a private investigator to find out. It turned out that one of the executives at Capital was making copies of the Vee Jay L.P.`s at an illegal plant just down the road from Capital records and then slipping them into Capitals distribution. Once again cheating the Beatles out of there 1 cent and not counting toward there total sales figures. It also gave the Beatles a bad name because the quality of these bootlegged L.P.s were extremely poor. My copy has the center hole punched off center causing it to sound warped!
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