The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s LHCB Original Capitol 1st MONO PRESSING LP

$

61

In this auction:

• “SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND” LP by the Beatles

• This LP is Capitol Records MAS - 2653.

• This LP was issued June 1, 1967.

• This is a MONAURAL (MONO) PRESSING.

• In fact, this is a FIRST MONO PRESSING OF THIS LP. We know this because:

  • “Subsidiary” is not in the label’s perimeter printing.

  • The Side 1 label has the shortened song title “A Little Help From My Friends”. (The second Mono pressing has the correct title “With a Little Help From My Friends”.)

  • First Pressing Covers do NOT credit Maclen Music or NEMS Enterprises. (Later covers added this information to the lower right corner on the rear of the cover in vertical print.)

• The vinyl comes in its properly marked MAS – 2653 MONO COVER.

• The “O” in the trail-off vinyl indicates that this record was produced at Capitol’s Jacksonville pressing plant.

• The COVER is in VERY NICE/STRONG VG CONDITION. There is moderate overall wear. The front cover image is nice and clean with some light to moderate wear at the top in the sky area. The red rear cover is VERY NICE and does not show much wear at all (just a little very light partial ring wear at the top, sides and bottom. (The red rear covers of Sgt. Pepper LPs were often prone to show wear more easily than the front cover.) The corners have some light to moderate wear. The image inside the gate-fold cover is nice and clean. (Please check out the images.) There are NO seam splits, NO flaking on the seams, NO tears and NO writing on this cover.

• The VINYL is in NICE VG to WEAK VG+ CONDITION with a number of light surface hairlines/scuffs (none of them “feel-able”). The vinyl has lots of gloss!

• This LP comes with its ORIGINAL CUSTOM RED, PINK and WHITE PAPER INNER SLEEVE that is quite flat and has a 2 ½ -inch split on the bottom and some glue discoloration on one side edge.

• It also comes with its ORIGINAL POSTER-BOARD INSERT OF CUT-OUTS on thick paper that has light signs of handling. There is a light stain on the reverse side at the top right corner that does NOT appear on the front.

• I once read that John Lennon at one time remarked that you haven’t really heard “Sgt. Pepper” as it was intended to sound if you haven’t heard it in the original Mono.)

The MONO pressings of this LP, especially FIRST PRESSINGS, have become VERY DESIRABLE and SOMEWHAT HARDER-TO-FIND.

OVERALL, a NICE FIRST MONO PRESSING OF THIS BEATLES’ LANDMARK LP complete with original inner sleeve and “cut-outs” insert to add to your vinyl collection.

Thanks to the Price Guide for the Beatles American Records by Perry Cox and Frank Daniels for some information about this LP.

FYI: I use the COVER/SLEEVE GRADES and RECORD GRADES listed and described on page 8 of the Price Guide for the Beatles American Records for grading. These grades are Poor (P), Fair (F), Good Minus (G-), Good (G), Good+ (G+), Very Good Minus (VG-), Very Good (VG), Very Good Plus (VG+), Near Mint Minus (NM-), Near Mint (NM), Mint Minus (M-), and Mint (M or MT) to VISUALLY GRADE this LP, so please know the descriptions of these grades before bidding. Please ask any questions BEFORE bidding. And please check my other auctions for more Beatles vinyl that you may want to add to your collection. Be high bidder on several and combine shipping on auction items that finish the same day. (NOTE: If more than 1 item is won by the same bidder, please do NOT make payment until I send an invoice with combined shipping cost.) Winning bidder must make payment within 5 days of auction close. Add $4.00 for shipping to a U.S. address via Media Mail with tracking.