Beatles LP - With the Beatles UK 1st Pressing JOBETE With Misprint*
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1963 UK mono -1N WITHDRAWN 1st pressing with ‘Parlophone’ rim labels, ‘Recording First Published’ and ‘JOBETE’ label credit - (see pictures)
This record is a genuine UK 1st pressing and is the very earliest in the production cycle of records pressed for the initial release date. Pressed on or around the first day of production and ahead of the Friday 22nd November 1963 release date.
Misprint in song track ' you really got a hold on me' is typed ' You really gotta hold on me' (see pictures)
Played only 3 or 4 times since new! An astonishingly low amount for a UK 1st pressing which is now 52 years old.
With recording for their second album still taking place as late as 24th October 1963 these -1N matrix pressings were hurriedly made by EMI for the impending deadline which was less than a month away.
Mastered at high volume with an enhanced dynamic, these -1N pressings were quickly replaced by a succession of new and different sounding matrix masters before finally arriving at the most common
-7N matrix.
Fans back in 1963 were not concerned with examining either the stamper codes or matrix numbers on their records, most were not even aware of their existence. For most part they couldn’t wait to get their record home and onto their small mono portable player to listen to the latest offering by The Beatles; but here we are 52 years later examining these numbers closely. As we now know, these numbers and codes are of tremendous significance especially when dating a record and placing it within a certain pressing cycle.
Most 1st issue copies of With the Beatles that come to market have the common -7N matrix. Occasionally amongst every 30 or so copies one comes across, there will be a -1N pressing and occasionally one of those -1N pressings will carry the ultra rare Jobete label credit.
The problem is not confined to finding one but finding one in investment grade condition. Most Beatles records from the sixties (probably more than 95% of them) are well below VG in condition and are essentially ‘trashed’ and unplayable.
Not really surprising when one thinks of their age and all the parties they must have been played at during the sixties.
To give some idea as to the rarity of this record one would probably have to come across 50 or so Jobete labelled copies
(a huge task in itself) to find one in this remarkable condition. This gives some indication as to the rarity of this record.
Moreover, the copies that do exist in this extraordinary condition now rarely come to market and when they do, they
get snapped up and become permanently embedded in collections around the world. In the last 5 years there has been
a noticeable decline in rare collectable vinyl as most records have now been flushed out by ebay from their original collections. In a world where banks are offering zero % interest rates Beatles vinyl seems to be the only commodity
that is going up in value and I cannot see that changing. Records, in my opinion, should be played and enjoyed but they do offer the added benefit of acting as a great investment.
Happy bidding and good luck!
Matrix numbers: XEX 447-1N & XEX 448-1N
Please check out the pictures.
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