BEATLES 45 LOVE ME DO CANADA CAPITOL 72076
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Up for auction is a Canadian pressing of the Beatles'...
"LOVE ME DO" b/w "P.S. I Love You" Apple 72076
Up for auction is an original Canadian pressing of this title and has the distinction of being the first Beatles record released in North America in April of 1963 preceding VJ 498 by a few weeks. The first run, with matrix numbers WITHOUT the dash and the suffix number, is reported to have only sold somewhere between 170 and 180 copies. This appears to be one of those copies with the A-side matrix as 7XCE17144. The B-side number as 7XCE17145-2. This record is in VG+ condition and comes with the original black Capitol company sleeve with no splits but has the title lightly written in the white stripe across the top on each side.
CRISP CORNERS! NO WRITING. NO SPLITS. FLAT!!!
I am dumping my collection, ma'peeps. A significant event if you collect Beatles records.
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On Feb-01-16 at 09:03:17 PST, seller added the following information:I GOT THIS OFF OF THE CANADIAN6000 WEBSITE:
This record has puzzled many collectors. It is said that only 170 copies were made of this first pressing and that only 78 copies sold out of these 170, making this very first pressing of Love Me Do extremely rare. But in light of all the recorded sales, it seems most unlikely that only 78 copies of the "no dash and number" version exist today. The numbers are not wrong and are from EMI sales figures. So why do we keep stumbling upon so many copies? (I personally owned 4 at one point). Well, simply said, a stamper can produce many more than 170 copies before being worn out, so the logic points towards the possibility that once Beatlemania kicked off in 1964, Capitol reused the original stamper to produce more copies until the stamper was worn out. This would explain indeed why copies are found on a regular basis. But it also means that identifying true original 1963 pressings can be quite difficult as the only way to differentiate pressings is the hue of the swirl label (earlier labels are supposed to be slightly more brownish).
SO IT APPEARS THAT THE A-SIDE OF THIS RECORD WAS PRESSED WITH THE ORIGINAL MOTHER STAMPER WHILE THE B-SIDE WAS PR SSED USING THE FOLLOWING STAMPER AS IT HAS THE DASH FOLLWED BY A "2". THIS IS STILL AN EARLY PRESSING FROM 1963.
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