vintage MEET THE BEATLES the first album LP 33rpm RECORD album
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This listing is for the MONOPHONIC Beatles album shown.
I don't have the equipment to test it. Has some expected surface scratches, and I can feel one of them which is near the label and might not be on the music or at least it's at the very edge.
No sleeve and cover is split on one full edge and partial on others. Wear as shown.
And some awesome insight from an experienced eBayer:
With vanishingly rare exceptions, LPs are 33 RPM. In general, LPs are 12" in diameter and 78s are 10" although there are plenty of 10" 33 rpm records. In general, 78s have only one or two songs per side. Most 78s with more than one song per side are 12." These are far less common than the standard 10" 78 singe that was manufactured and sold by the millions from the turn of the century to the late 1950s. There are a few countries where Beatles music was released on 78 RPM, but I had never heard of any from the US.
An extended play (EP) is a 7" record that usually has 2 songs per side (they can be 33 or 45 RPM). Sometimes, though, you can find an EP with more songs -- in at least one case, WAY MORE. In Thailand, EPs were the preferred format and 12" LPs were very rare. Almost all Beatles music sold in Thailand in the 1960s and 70s was on bootleg EPs, and there was a huge market for it because of all the US soldiers in Vietnam who visited Thailand on R&R and wanted to hear the latest Beatles hits. One enterprising outfit sonehow squeezed all 12 tracks of the Let It Be LP onto a 7" record. I have a copy of this oddity.
The only Beatles music released legally in the Soviet Union while the Beatles were together was a single song ("Girl") on a various artists compilation released by Melodiya records in 1967. This record is a 33 RPM 10" LP. I also have a copy of this record.
Beatles 78s were pressed in India, the Philippines, Argentina and Colombia (there may be others, but that's what has tuned up so far). I believe only 1 or 2 singles were pressed on 78s in Argentina and Colombia, but I think 22 different singles were pressed on 78s in India, and at least 5-6 in the Philippines. I do not own any Beatles 78s, and will be lucky indeed to find a copy I can afford. Although the ones from India are most plentiful, the most affordable ones come from the Philippines (the India labels are more attractive), and they generally fetch $400+. The pressings from Argentina and Colombia, on the rare occasions they are sold, generally go for north of $2500.
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