BEATLES Introducing The Beatles MONO Vinyl LP (VJLP1062) Vee-Jay B/S Label Vers2

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BEATLES Introducing The Beatles MONO Vinyl LP (VJLP1062) Vee-Jay B/S Label. Condition is "Used".

Version 2 with singles including Please, Please Me, Ask Me Why, Twist And Shout, Do You Want To Know A Secret, I Saw Her Standing There

Vinyl (VG) - Visible scratches do not affect play

Cover (VG) - Visible wear and stain as pictured

Shipped with USPS Priority Mail

Per Wikipedia:

Introducing... The Beatles is the first studio album released by the English rock band the Beatles in the United States.

Version 1:

Vee-Jay Records of Chicago beat Capitol to the punch with the release of the Beatles' American debut album Introducing... The Beatles, which had been delayed for release for various reasons since the previous summer.

On January 16, 1964, less than a week after Introducing... The Beatles was released, Vee-Jay was served with a restraining order stopping further distribution. Beechwood Music, Inc., Capitol Records' publishing subsidiary, owned the American publishing rights to "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You", and because the two songs had not yet been officially released in the US, Beechwood refused to issue a license for Vee-Jay to release them.

Version 2:

To circumvent the restraining order, Vee-Jay quickly reconfigured Introducing... The Beatles. It removed "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" and replaced them with the previously omitted "Ask Me Why" and "Please Please Me", though some pressings of the album did not alter the track list. The new versions were prepared in late January and began appearing in stores around February 10, 1964. Because of the initial restraining order, version two of Introducing... The Beatles did not enter the Billboard charts until three weeks after Capitol's Meet the Beatles! album. Once it did, it quickly rose to the number two spot, where it stayed for nine straight weeks. It also peaked at number two in Cash Box, and it got to number one in Record World magazine.

Vee-Jay and Capitol battled in court throughout the early part of 1964. Injunctions against Vee-Jay's album were issued, lifted and restored more than once. Finally, on 9 April 1964, the two labels settled. Vee-Jay was granted a license giving it the right to issue the 16 Beatles' songs it controlled, in any way it saw fit, until 15 October 1964. At that time, its license expired, and all rights would revert to Capitol.