The Beatles w/ Tony Sheridan MGM Mono E-4215 Rare EX

$

60

The Mad Platter presents:
A minty fresh collection recently purchased, and listed for your buying pleasure.
Check my other listings for more stone cold rarities.

Vinyl: EX to NM-, just 1 little scuff on side one track four that does not effect play whatsoever.
Cover: VG+, normal w&t, 3 minor paper tears on back cover, looks very nice for 53 years old. 
No splits at all, and a completely legible spine.

The brown colored area on the bottom right of back cover is the shadow from my camera.
There is not a huge discoloration present.

Labels: NM-

Looks like it was never played!

1st US Pressing on an odd label for the Beatles.
Definitely a collectors item piece, and the only Beatles album released on MGM Records!
In glorious MONO, the way the Beatles wanted you to hear them!
Goldmine books it at $250 mint.  The rechanneled stereos are worth more, but these mono
releases slay the stereo issues imo.

All records are professionally cleaned, will be shipped in a brand new anti static inner sleeve,
and quality outer sleeve.
I ship media mail unless you prefer something else, no matter what, I am flexible.
United States buyers only.

Here's a little history on this release:

The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests was an American album featuring "Cry for a Shadow," a track recorded by the Beatles in Hamburg in 1961, with five tracks recorded in Hamburg in 1961 in which the Beatles provided backing music for vocalist Tony Sheridan, some of which had been released in Germany on the album My Bonnie under the name "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers", because the word "Beatles" sounded too much like "peedles" which was a vulgar slang term in German. The album was supplemented with six previously released recordings by the American session group the Titans. Packaged in an attempt to capitalize on The Beatles' success, the record was only moderately successful, as the album peaked at only No. 68 on the Billboard album chart. It was released by MGM Records in both mono (catalogue number E-4215) and rechanneled stereo (SE-4215.)

MGM augmented the six Sheridan/Beatles tracks with six instrumental tracks by Danny Davis and the Titans, a group of New York session musicians built around guitarist Bill Mure. The Titans also included Don Lomond on drums, Dick Hickson on bass trombone, and Milt "the Judge" Hinton on bass. The six Titans tracks had been previously released on the 1961 MGM album, Let's Do the Twist for Adults. (On the original release, the songs "Flying Beat," "Rye Beat," "Summertime Beat," and "Happy New Beat" were originally titled, "Flying Twist," "Rye Twist," "Summertime Twist" and "Happy New Year Twist.")

Track listing

Side one

Performances by the Beatles with Tony Sheridan unless otherwise indicated.

    "My Bonnie"
    "Cry for a Shadow" (instrumental) (performed by the Beatles)
    "Johnson Rag" (performed by the Titans)
    "Swanee River" (a.k.a. "The Old Folks at Home") (performed by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers)
    "Flying Beat" (a.k.a. "The Man on the Flying Trapeze") (performed by the Titans)
    "Darktown Strutters' Ball" (performed by the Titans)

Side two

Performances by the Titans unless otherwise indicated.

    "The Saints" (performed by the Beatles with Tony Sheridan)
    "Rye Beat" (a.k.a. "Comin' Thru the Rye")
    "You Are My Sunshine" (performed by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers)
    "Summertime Beat" (a.k.a. "In the Good Old Summertime")
    "Why" (performed by the Beatles with Tony Sheridan)
    "Happy New Year Beat" (a.k.a. "Auld Lang Syne")