BEATLES Love Me Do/PS I Love You 7"UK 1st Press Parl.Red Label 45-R4949 ZT1 RARE

	£		35
	$		46

7"

ARTIST: BEATLES

TITLE: LOVE ME DO / P.S. I LOVE YOU

LABEL + YEAR: PARLOPHONE 45-R4949; UK 1st Press 1962 with “THE PARLOPHONE CO. LTD”: (Parlophone in large stylized letters at the top) and the Parlophone £ logo at 3 o’clock with “MADE IN GT. BRITAIN” printed below the Parlophone £ logo & “RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1962” label text, without “SOLD IN UK”.

PLEASE NOTE: THE WHITE ‘STAR’ YOU CAN SEE IN THE PHOTOS OVER PART THE LABEL IS TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF A PREVIOUS OWNER WHERE THEY HAD WRITTEN THEIR NAME & DATE: 29 OCTOBER 1962

MATRIX SIDE A: 7XCE 17144-1N

A side stamper/tax code: ZT 1 (to the left side) & M (to the right side)

MATRIX SIDE B: 7XCE 17145-1N

B side stamper/tax code: ZT 1(to the left side) & A (to the right side)

CONDITION VINYL: VG, THIS PLAYS WITH A BRIGHT CLEAR SOUND

CONDITION SLEEVE: EX

DESCRIPTION: CLASSIC TRUE FIRST UK PRESS!!!!!!!!!!!

INTERESTING INFO ABOUT THIS RARE 45:

First pressing, 45-R 4949, October 5, 1962.

The Beatles first single was released on October 5, 1962. The Beatles first entered EMI Studios on Abbey Road on June 6, 1962, when the band’s line-up was John Lennon on rhythm guitar, Paul McCartney on bass, George Harrison on lead guitar and Pete Best on drums. Four songs were recorded that day: “Besame Mucho”, “Love Me Do”, “P.S. I Love You” and “Ask Me Why”.

In August, 1962, Pete Best was fired and replaced by Ringo Starr.

On September 4, 1962, the Beatles returned to Abbey Road to record their first single. The Beatles recorded a number of takes of “Love Me Do” and, much against their wishes, “How Do You Do It”. Ringo played drums.

On September 11, 1962, the Beatles recorded “Love Me Do”, “P.S. I Love You” and “Please Please Me”, which features Paul on lead vocal and bass, supported by John and George on backing vocals and guitars. Andy White, the drummer of the studio, plays the drums.

Ringo played tambourine and maracas.

But on the first pressings used the version of “Love Me Do” with Ringo’s drumming recorded on September 4: AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE VERY EARLY FIRST RELEASES.

It has the tax codes as follows:

A side: ZT 1 (to the left side) & M (to the right side)

B side: ZT 1(to the left side) & A (to the right side)

Standard procedure at Abbey Road Studios at the time was to erase the original two-track session tape for singles once they had been “mixed down” to the (usually monaural) master tape used to press records. This was the fate of two Beatles singles (four songs): “Love Me Do”, “P.S. I Love You”, “She Loves You”, and “I’ll Get You”.

However, at some point the mixdown master tape for this song was also lost, and apparently no backup copies had been made.

Thus, for many years the only extant recorded copies were the red label Parlophone 45 rpm vinyl records pressed in 1962. By the time the tapes had disappeared, the song’s 11 September 1962 remake featuring Andy White had been released.

EMI would not have been too concerned about the loss of the 4 September take, therefore, as it was now considered obsolete, and they may not have anticipated ever having any use for it again anyway.

The original tape of ‘Love Me Do.’

It was removed at the time the Beatles’ Hits EP came out (August-September 1963).

Therefore, for the second press “Love Me Do” was used Andy White version. In 1967, when Ringo’s version was discontinued from the EMI catalogue, the lacquer, mother, and all stampers for the UK 45 were destroyed, thus making it impossible to press any further first-generation releases.

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