BEATLES 1964 TOLLIE T-9008 MONO LOVE ME DO RARE LABEL VARIATION + UK 45 & SLEEVE

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BEATLES '64 TOLLIE T-9008 MONO LOVE ME DO RARE LABEL VARIATION W/ MINT REISSUE SLEEVE

The Beatles Tollie T-9008 yellow with black print 'Love Me Do' / 'P.S. I Love You' recorded in MONO and released April 27,1964
Your getting 2 45s including the U.K. reissue with sleeve that was not released in the U.S. and hard to find here but here it is. The U.K. 45 is absolutely Pristine Mint Unplayed and the reissue U.K. side-load sleeve is also Mint. The original Tollie 45 you will receive is VG/EX showing minor/average play. After all, it is now amazingly over 56 years old !! Has all the original stamps/etchings in the wax.

After a settlement was reached with EMI’s Beechwood Music in April of 1964, Vee Jay issued the song as a single on their newly formed Tollie label on April 27th, 1964, backed with “P.S. I Love You.” Once again, it was the version that they had, featuring Andy White on drums. This single went to number one on the Billboard pop charts, which was a much higher position than in their home country, where it only peaked at number 17. The song's peak on the British charts was possibly due to Brian Epstein personally buying (reportedly) 10,000 copies of the record for his record shop, which he had been told was the amount needed to achieve a top 20 hit. 

Tollie Records was a record label formed in February, 1964 as a sub-label of Vee-Jay Records and closed in May 1965. The label distributed some Beatles singles in the United States before Capitol Records. 'Love Me Do' was not initially issued on Vee-Jay, but rather was released on Tollie, a Vee-Jay subsidiary label. It has been speculated that this was done to sneak out another Beatles single at a time when Vee-Jay was involved in litigation with Capitol Records over its rights to issue additional Beatles records. This is not the case, however. The decision to release the new Beatles single on Tollie was a marketing decision.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Label and Runout): 63-3188
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Label and Runout): 63-3189
• Matrix / Runout (Side A and B Runout): AudioMatrix URJ
• Rights Society: BMI
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 2): none
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): 63-3189 URJ

Credits

• Drums [Uncredited] – Andy White (Note that Ringo did NOT play drums on this early version)
• Written-By – McCartney-Lennon  (Note that it was NOT credited 'Lennon-McCartney' as we have become accustom to)