THE BEATLES EARLY BEATLES RARE ORIGINAL '65 CAPITOL MONO PROMO LP BEAUTIFUL

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·       THE BEATLES - THE EARLY BEATLES – ORIGINAL 1965 CAPITOL RECORDS MONO LP T-2309

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       BELIEVED TO BE THE PROMOTIONAL PRESSING (BASED ON THE CUTOUT PROMO HOLE); NAMELY, ON CAPITOL AND AFFILIATED LABELS, A NEAT CUTOUT HOLE IN THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER SIGNIFIES PROMO PRESSINGS, NOT, REPEAT, NOT A CUTOUT ITEM.

·       ORIGINAL BLACK CAPITOL LABEL WITH MULTICOLORED SPECTRUM (“RAINBOW) BAND ALONG THE LABEL’S EDGE AND CAPITOL’S LOGO ON TOP (12 O’CLOCK POSITION) OF THE LABEL  WITHOUT "SUBSIDIARY" LINE ALONG THE BOTTOM OF THE LABEL

·       VERY RARE ORIGINAL MONO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN STEREO

·       CAPITOL RECORDS, JACKSONVILLE, IL  PRESSING

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-P7/-P7'

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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The Early Beatles does not represent its songs in the sequence -- or in their exact content -- that its makers intended; not by a long shot. That said, this is also the way that tens of millions of listeners in the U.S. did hear this material between 1965 and 1983. And of course, any means by which one gets to hear 11 1963-vintage tracks by the Beatles is OK. Whatever particular order or specifics of the songs, the listening experience will stack up well against any other 11 songs by anybody else who was walking around back then. So this record still rates high, though not as high as it might, because it isn't the ideal format for the music. By way of explanation, when the Beatles' earliest recordings for EMI's Parlophone Records in England were originally offered to Capitol Records -- EMI's American outlet -- in 1963, there was no interest, based on the poor performance of virtually any British rock & roll on the American charts up to that time. Instead, EMI signed licensing agreements for those early singles with the Chicago-based VeeJay Records, who were willing to take a chance and ended up doing very well with these songs, once the group broke through in America at the end of 1963 and the beginning of 1964. Capitol Records found the 13 early sides in question out of reach legally, thanks to those licenses. Cut to early 1965 and the end of those licensing agreements -- Capitol was now entitled to release them in the U.S. and assembled The Early Beatles, which proclaimed: "11 of their hit 1964 recordings NOW ON CAPITOL" on the front cover, overlooking the fact that everything here was from 1963 (or, in the case of "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," from 1962), and using a group shot from 1965, which showed the four bandmembers looking surprisingly serious (especially Ringo) -- or is it just some weariness in their eyes?

There was no weariness on the record, however, which -- capturing moments from two years earlier -- encompasses 11 of the most unabashedly joyous examples of music-making that anyone had ever heard. Any similarity between The Early Beatles and Parlophone's Please Please Me album or VeeJay's Introducing...The Beatles is not only understandable but unavoidable, as all three albums were constructed from essentially the same core body of songs -- The Early Beatles, however, has only 11 tracks, while Please Please Me boasted 14 and Introducing...The Beatles had 12. What is here, however, is as beautiful as one remembers it from 1964, if you were lucky enough to be around for it, and still makes a great discovery process 45 years later, though there are differences. Instead of Please Please Me's shattering rendition of "Twist and Shout," this album finishes with "Do You Want to Know a Secret," a John Lennon-Paul McCartney song given to George Harrison to sing, on which he acquits himself in a raw, honest performance, not as smooth as the Billy J. Kramer hit rendition but more memorable in the long run, precisely for its vocal flaws. It might not be as effective a closer, but it is a finale that works, and "Twist and Shout" doesn't come off badly -- if not given maximum impact -- sandwiched between "Love Me Do" and "Anna."

Indeed, listening to this material anew as part of the 2006 Capitol Albums, Vol. 2, it becomes clear that any way one slices this material up, it works, as it represents the Beatles at a point when they not only loved the sheer act of making music, but confronted the nightly reality that they had to win over listeners each time out, or lose their livelihood. As to the "lost" tracks (two of which were missing in action in the U.S. until the 1980s), they were "I Saw Her Standing There," which had been rescued by Capitol in early 1964 for use on the U.S. album Meet the Beatles! and the B-side of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "There's a Place," and "Misery." "There's a Place" was a jewel of a beat ballad, and "Misery" was an odd, downbeat lament with beautiful harmonies and some of George Martin's most prominent contribution on piano to any Beatles record. In the end, it's best to go to the U.K. version of this material, Please Please Me, but The Early Beatles is a decent substitute, this despite some excess reverb added by American compiler Dave Dexter, Jr. In fact, its most useful function, beyond just listening to it with delight, might be to pair it with Please Please Me and see the differences in how Americans and Britons discovered these songs

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

The PROMOTIONAL, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed among the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals", which is to say the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

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Some Reasons Why You Should Own Original American Mono Beatles Albums:

I.                 These are genuine historical artifacts. Rock & Roll did not produce many works deserving to be called history; albums by Beatles are a noble exception to this rule.

II.            These pressings are coveted by EVERYONE and, despite the fact that Beatles sold almost a billion records, precious few original mono albums in good shape remain on the market.

III.        Mono pressings are, almost by definition, the very first pressings. They were in print for only short period of time, ranging from only few weeks (Magical Mystery Tour) to three years (Meet the Beatles).

IV.         First, mono pressings sound MUCH better and are much more vivid than the stereo versions.

V.              Mono versions contain different versions or mixes of many tracks; in some cases mono versions contain the only "proper" versions of the songs, which are only available only in FAKE stereo on stereo albums.

VI.         The original Beatles mono albums are a terrific investment value, not likely to go the Enron way.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VG++, JUST A NOTCH BELOW NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions (probably just sleeve scuffs inflicted in storage over the years) ARE VISIBLE, but they appear fairly  insignificant relative to the overall condition of the vinyl, and are only moderately visually distracting. For most part, the vinyl looks impeccable, without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)           Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more  preferable to its stereo counterpart. We think that the mix is more natural, humane, "organic" and that the mixes are somewhat different than on the stereo version. We estimate that stereo copies of this album outnumber mono pressings by a ratio of at least 10:1.

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a neat, round PROMO cutout hole in one of the corners

-         Cover has some writing on its back side (name of the previous owner written in red ballpoint pen, about 1/4 x 2 inches in size)

-         Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 3

-         Back cover has circular tarnish (grayish, dust-covered sections, which closely follow the contour of the record),  probably caused by friction or by rubbing against other covers during the storage. The tarnish is similar in appearance to a common ring wear, but, UNLIKE ring wear, these grayish areas may be possible to clean up with a minor effort and with a right cleansing solution.

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

-         Minor shelf wear noted on the top seam (nothing significant)

-         Cover has a visible wrinkle (crease) in the cardboard base on the front panel (a minor cover construction flaw)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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