Jolly What LP The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Vee-Jay
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Jolly What! LP The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Vee-Jay
Jolly What! LP The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Vee-Jay VJLP 1085. I am not a record dealer so not sure how to grade but it looks to be in very good, side 2 has a couple light scratches, the record cover has normal edge wear.
Without any hope of obtaining new Beatles material, which at this point was firmly in the hands of Capitol Records, Vee Jay wanted to take advantage of the limited number of Beatles tracks they had. Vee Jay then began what would become a small string of tactfully conceived records intended to entice the ever hungry public into believing they were purchasing brand new Beatles albums. The first release, 'Jolly What! The Beatles And Frank Ifield On Stage' (VJ 1085), appeared on 26 February 1964. This LP was nothing more than a compilation of the two Beatle singles released in early and mid 1963, and eight Frank Ifield tracks, all studio recordings. Frank Ifield was best known for his version of 'I Remember You'. Vee Jay tried to stimulate poor sales and chart action of the album by changing the cover art to make a more appealing package to Beatle buyers. Dropping the original art, featuring an old man with a Beatle haircut, Vee Jay used a full color Beatle portrait in hopes of capturing more unsuspecting buyers. By the time the second covers were released, the public had already rejected this rip off, and this version sold even less than the original. The album only reached #104 in the charts.
Betty Chiappetta, a future owner of the company said, "Vee Jay started the Tollie label when they moved to California, with 'Twist and Shout' by the Beatles as the first record issued. The reason that they started this new label was that they had so many records that were getting airplay during that time that the radio stations were giving them a hard time. At one point, they had 14 of the top 100 on either Tollie or Vee Jay. So they started another label."
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