VINTAGE FOUR BY THE BEATLES 1-2121 CAPITOL 45 W/COVER
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A VINTAGE FOUR BY THE BEATLES 1-2121 CAPITOL 45 W/COVER 1964 Item: Capitol EAP 1-2121 THE BEATLES "Four By The Beatles" with "Roll Over Beethoven"/"All My Loving" and "This Boy"/"Please Mister Postman" original 45 EP record with original cardboard picture sleeve. Condition: record & sleeve VG+, excellent FOUR BY THE BEATLES 45 RECORD WITH PICTURE COVER, (CARDBOARD), THIS IS EAP 1-2121 CAPITOL, PRODUCED BY GEORGE MARTIN, SONGS INCLUDE ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN, THIS BOY, ALL MY LOVING, AND PLEASE MR. POSTMAN, THE COVER HAS VERY LIGHT SURFACE WEAR, WRITING ON ONE SIDE AND ON THE RECORD. THE RECORD AND ITS LABELS ARE IN VERY GOOD SHAPE, NO SCRATCHES VISIBLE AND THE RECORD PLAYS GREAT. FOUR BY THE BEATLES WAS THE FIRST OF TWO BEATLES' EPS RELEASED BY CAPITOL RECORDS IN THE UNITED STATES. THE ALBUM FEATURED FOUR SONGS THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN HEAVILY IMPORTED INTO THE US AS CANADIAN SINGLES.1 IT MADE #92 ON THE U.S. BILLBOARD HOT 100 SINGLES CHART Side one 1. "Roll Over Beethoven 2. "ALL MY LOVING Side two 1. "This Boy 2. "PLEASE MISTER POSTMAN Though the first Beatles' EP released by Capitol did not succeed as much as the label would have hoped, it did well on the singles chart, which enabled Capitol to create a new series called the "4-By" series, which acted like a "super single." The idea was to market a set of four songs to "complement the artist's singles and albums and not compete with the performer's current hit single."1 Accordingly, the series name is a reference to the limited success of that first EP by The Beatles that Capitol had released: Four By The Beatles. Although initially intended to appear as a single by releasing the "4-By" in a soft sleeve and thus "distinguish the '4-By' product from EP's," The Beatles "4-By" was released in a hard cardboard sleeve, similar to regular EP releases.2 Billboard did not chart this "4-By" as a single either, instead as an EP, with it charting as high as 68 on the Hot 100, the highest it reached in the Cash Box chart as well.3 Capitol deleted this release from its catalog on December 31, 1965, less than a year after it was released.
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