Beatles LP with the beatles mono & Stereo copies -

	£		21
	$		27

THIS IS A UNIQUE AND RARE OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE TWO LP's.

THE MONO AND STEREO VERSIONS

THE EXTREMELY RARE MONO LP HAS "SIDE TWO" LABELS ON BOTH SIDES - I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS EVER BEFORE!

XEX.448 - PMC 1206 ON LABEL

LABEL ALSO HAS "GOTTA" ON IT AND THE COVER HAS PATENT PENDING GARROD & LOFTHOUSE

XEX447- 1N & XEX - 448 -1N ON DISK

THE COVER IS IN FAIR CONDITION AND THE DISK ALSO IS IN FAIR CONDITION WITH A FEW LIGHT SCRATCHES MAINLY ON ONE SIDE

ALSO SELLING WITH THE MONO DISC IS THE STEREO VERSION

YEX.110 & YEX111 ON LABEL & PCS3045

THE COVER AND DISC ARE IN DECENT CONDITION JUST A COUPLE OF VERY LIGHT SMALL SCRATCHES - THE INNER SLEEVE IS NOT THE ORIGINAL AND IS NOT VERY GOOD

Background information 

With The Beatles, Parlophone, PMC 1206, November 22, 1963, mono. Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd or Ernest. J.Day & Co front laminated cover, with large “mono” on front and with misspelled “You Really Gotta Hold On Me” credit on the back side.

The Garrod & Lofthouse covers (with the incorrect “Gotta” spelling) were pressed in such large quantities that it wasn't until around 5N or 6N that they eventually ran out of them and repressed the covers with the correct “Got A” spelling. This is why there are so many of the G&L covers in existence with the incorrect “Gotta” spelling even though the labels were corrected for pressings 3N to 7N.

Few 1st pressing Ernest J Day covers did show the correct spelling of “Got A” – either because they noticed the error in time or because they were prepared to destroy any mis-pressed covers. Whatever the reason, these were the only ones that seem to have been used for the corrected 1N pressings of this LP. They are easy to spot because they have the Ernest J Day in the bottom right flap of the rear cover and have the mega rare earliest style of flat flip-backs i.e. the same style as used on the earliest 1963 pressings of ‘Please Please Me’. E J Day changed their cover style in 1964 to the more conventional flip-back type cover.

1. First pressing. November 22, 1963. Black label with yellow logo and silver print. “The Parlophone Co. Ltd.” printed at the start perimeter print and “Recording first published 1963?. “Jobete” publishing credit for “Money” (Side 2). Polythene-liner “Use Emitex” die-cut inner sleeve. First pressing has misspelled “You Really Gotta Hold On Me” credit on the Side 2. With or without KT tax code on the label. Matrix numbers: Side 1: XEX 447-1N; Side 2: XEX 448-1N.

First pressings had the matrices 447-1N & 448-1N. During pressing, it was noticed that the credits & spelling on the labels and covers were incorrect i.e. the track ‘Money’ was given the incorrect “Jobete” credit and the track “You Really Got A Hold on Me” was mispelt on the cover and on the labels as “Gotta”. These errors were only noticed after a quantity of 1N mis-pressings had been made. The errors were soon corrected and the matrix numbers on the record almost immediately started to rise from 1N to 3N, 4N, 5N, 6N and finally ending with 7N, with which the majority of 1963 mono were pressed

6. Sixth pressing, early 1971 until 1973. Black label with two white-black EMI logos and silver print. “The Gramophone Co Ltd…” printed at the start perimeter print and “Made In GT. Britain” lower text. Laminated flipback “Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd” sleeve with or without small “stereo” on the front side. Sepia color “LP advertising” inner sleeve. Matrix numbers: Side One: YEX 110-2, Side Two: YEX 111-2.