BEATLES 1965 CAPITOL SOUVENIR RECORD COMPACT 33 SPRO-2905 WITH SLEEVE

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THE BEATLES MEGA ULTRA RARE CAPITOL COMPACT 33 SPRO-2905/2906 SOUVENIR RECORD WITH STUNNING REPRO SLEEVE. THESE RARE EP RECORDS INCLUDED THE THE BEATLES, THE BEACH BOYS, FRANK SINATRA, PLUS MANY MORE ARTISTS !!

This Capitol Compact 33 record is in excellent condition with just a couple hairlines, with crisp clean labels. This is as nice an example as you'll find, as they rarely ever come up for sale, if ever !!! 

The top-load recreation sleeve is really special !!

Once in a lifetime Super Mega Rare Capitol Compact 33 still with vibrant colors with beautiful labels with no fading on the colorband (rare). It's been 60 years since it's pressing in July 1965 !! These rarely come into the marketplace as they have been horded !!

Rarely Seen for sale anywhere in the world Super Ultra Mega Rare Capitol Compact 33 SPRO-2905/06 Promotional 7" EP

This Capitol Souvenir Record (Capitol SPRO-2905/06) was issued in 1965 to celebrate the grand opening of Capitol Records 3rd U.S. pressing plant in Jacksonville Illinois. It was made in the most limited of issues and was never ever offered for sale to the public !!

• Matrix / Runout (Label A): SPRO1-2905
• Matrix / Runout (Label B): SPRO2-2906
• Matrix / Runout (Runout A etched): SPRO-2905-B1
• Matrix / Runout (Runout B etched): SPRO-2906-B1

In 1965, to meet increasing American demand for Beatles records, Capitol Records opened a modern, state of the art vinyl record manufacturing facility in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States. On Sunday, July 11th 1965, the facility hosted an open house, at which all attendees were given a free souvenir record, featuring snippets of hit songs from Capitol's roster of popular recording artists. It is a known fact that less then 1000 of these Compact 33s we produced and given out to all the executives, and extremely important invited guests. The amount that have known to survive after 55 years is not exactly known, but it's anywhere from a handful to less then 100 !!

Capitol celebrated the opening of its third pressing plant in Jacksonville, Illinois, with a Capitol Compact 33 version, containing songs recorded by its most profitable artists. With Scranton Pa. and Los Angeles Ca. being the first two plants, the Midwest location gave the label a central shipping point from it's new address: '1 Capitol Way'. To celebrate this opening, Capitol issued a Compact 33 format 'Souvenir' extended play record. The disc contained excerpts from songs of some of Capitol Records biggest and most profitable stars, including The Beatles contribution, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'. Company president Alan Livingston wrote: "This new facility is more than the result of our ever-growing production demands, it is to us at Capitol the fulfillment of a long-time dream - The world's first completely automatic twelve-inch record manufacturing plant. We are very proud of our achievement, and of vice president George Jones and the others who envisioned it long before it became a reality." This new Capitol Records Jacksonville Illinois pressing plant was considered "The House The Beatles Built" !!

Side 1

Ramblin' Rose (Nat King Cole)
I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)
Lullaby of Birdland (The George Shearing Quintet)
Three Coins In the Fountain (Frank Sinatra)
The Way You Look Tonight (The Lettermen)
Seventy-Six Trombones (Robert Preston)
I've Got a Tiger By The Tail (Buck Owens)
The Trolley Song (Judy Garland)

Side 2