The Beatles Story – Promotional Sealed Stereo Vinyl Double Record Album 1964, 12

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The Beatles Story – Promotional Sealed Vinyl Double Record Album

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Catalog Number: ST 2222 (Capitol)

Conditions

Vinyl

-      Side 1:             Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

-      Side 2:             Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

Labels

-        Side 1:          Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

-        Side 2:          Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

-        Front Cover: Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

-        Back Cover:  Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

Inside Cover:       Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

Spine:                  Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

Seems

-        Top:              Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

-        Bottom:        Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

Inner Sleeve:       Mint (Sealed – Never Opened – Never Played)

Additional Items:   I know this is not a first issue but it is not a much later pressing either. This is a promo picked up from the Scranton Plant in the early 1970s by my uncles' distribution business. He realized later it was a Promo after he put the price sticker on but never took it off. He could not sell this in his store. (See the Promo hole punch in the pictures. If I were to make a guess, I would say more than likely it is an Apple label pressing.

Released:    23 November 1964

Recorded:   Capitol Records Building and The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California

The Beatles' Story is the sixth album by the Beatles in the United States, issued on 23 November 1964 by Capitol Records in both mono and stereo formats (although the mono was merely a fold-down of the stereo mix). It is a documentary double album featuring interviews, press conferences, and song snippets with voice-overs, and was issued in response to interviews of the Beatles collected on the Vee-Jay Records release, Hear The Beatles Tell All. Originally, Capitol Records intended to release the group's 1964 performance at the Hollywood Bowl, but due to a lack of advanced studio technology and the excessive amount of loud screaming fans on tape the album was shelved. Another plan was to release a 'Greatest Hits' album for the Christmas market. Four songs we eitherre to debut on the record: 'A Hard Day's Night', 'Misery', 'There's a Place', and 'From Me to You'. Again, plans were scrapped for release

The album entered the Billboard Pop Albums on 12 December at number 97, and on 2 January 1965 it reached its peak position at number seven, where it remained for four weeks before beginning its slide down the charts.[1] It has been certified a gold record by the RIAA; it was also released in Canada and is currently out of print. It was released by Toshiba EMI in Japan on the Apple label (in stereo) in a box set with a deluxe 24 page 12"x12" booklet that contains the entire text of the script in English and Japanese

The album contains brief stereo excerpts of their 1964 Hollywood Bowl concert, which was unreleased until May 1977 on The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl. Never released in any tape format, The Beatles' Story was being prepared for release on digital audio tape in 1996, but when the format failed commercially the plan was scrapped. In 2014, The Beatles Story was released on CD for the first time in the Beatles boxed set, The U.S. Albums.

Track listing

Side one

No.

Title

Length

1.

"On Stage with the Beatles"  

1:03

2.

"How Beatlemania Began"  

1:20

3.

"Beatlemania in Action"  

1:25

4.

"Man Behind the Beatles — Brian Epstein"  

2:47

5.

"John Lennon"  

5:50

6.

"Who's a Millionaire?"  

0:39

Side two

No.

Title

Length

1.

"Beatles Will Be Beatles"  

7:28

2.

"Man Behind the Music — George Martin"  

1:04

3.

"George Harrison"  

4:46

Professional ratings

Review scores

Source

Rating

Allmusic

The Rolling Stone Record Guide

Side three

No.

Title

Length

1.

"A Hard Day's Night — Their First Movie"  

3:08

2.

"Paul McCartney"  

2:45

3.

"Sneaky Haircuts and More About Paul"  

3:29

Side four

No.

Title

Length

1.

"The Beatles Look at Life"  

2:05

2.

"Victims' of Beatlemania"  

1:10

3.

"Beatle Medley"  

3:58

4.

"Ringo Starr"  

6:24

5.

"Liverpool and All the World!"  

1:05

Certifications

Region

Certification

Sales/shipments

United States (RIAA)

Gold

500,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone