ORIGINAL Parlophone "With The Beatles" LP 1963 GOOD CONDITION

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ORIGINAL PARLOPHONE "WITH THE BEATLES" LP IN GOOD CONDITION
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Parlophone    Catalogue No. PMC 1206 (mono)
PCS 3045 (stereo)
CDP 7 46436 2 (C.D.)    Matrix No.'s A-side B-Side 1st press Mono : XEX 447-1N XEX 448-1N 2nd press Mono : XEX 447-5N XEX 448-5N 2nd press Mono : XEX 447-6N XEX 448-6N 2nd press Mono : XEX 447-7N XEX 448-7N Stereo: YEX 110-3 YEX 111-5    Release date 22nd November 1963
26th February 1987 (CD)    Total time 32:43    U.K. Album Chart Detail : Entry Date : 30th November 1963 Highest Position : 1 ... for 21 weeks from 7th December 1963 (CONSECUTIVELY !) Weeks in Chart : 51
+ 2 from 7th March 1987 (CD release, reached no.40)
+ 1 week, 22nd March 1997 (No. 72)
+2 from 13th September 2009 (reached no.51)
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56 in total    Detail : The Beatles second official L.P. release.
Two weeks BEFORE release, "With The Beatles" had advance orders of 270,000, and before the first week of release was out, the half-a-million figure had been beaten.
The album received a lot less worldwide newspaper coverage than expected as it was released on the same day as the assasination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas !
They were actually awarded a Silver disc (for sales of 250,000) on November 18th 1963, 4 days BEFORE release !
By mid January 1964 885,000 had been sold in the U.K. and by the end of 1964, the total was 980,000.
The ONE MILLION mark arrived by September 1965, making this album the FIRST EVER British album to sell 1,000,000 copies in the U.K.
(Note though, that it was NOT the first to sell one million in the U.K., one other album achieved this feat in November 1963 when the American soundtrack album "South Pacific" after six years on release made it. The Beatles did it in less than two !)
The American version of this album, Meet The Beatles bizarrely left off five of the tracks, but sold over 5 million copies. This makes combined sales for The Beatles second album of over 6.5 million.

Chartwise, this L.P. replaced "Please Please Me" at the number one slot, and remained there for 21 weeks. This gave The Beatles a continuous run of 51 weeks at the summit !
Also, in these early days of the British charts, ALL product was listed together regardless of format, and therefore this L.P. even made it into the U.K. singles chart, reaching number 11, which was a record placing for an album.

The cover was a very artful half-shadow black-and-white shot of The Beatles taken by Robert Freeman inside the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth.

The album was also part of "The Beatles Collection" 13 album box set (see Beatles Collection).

On 26th February 1987 this album had it's first release on C.D. which was published in Mono(!) with a catalogue number of CDP 7 46436 2
And on the same day, the record shop H.M.V. produced a special 12" numbered 4 CD Box Set Comprising:
Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Days Night
Beatles For Sale
+ Bill Harry - "Book Of Beatle Lists" (see Book of Beatle Lists, The)
This set had a catalogue number of BEA CD 25, and was in a limited edition of just 2,500 copies.

The C.D. was also part of "The Beatles Box" 15 C.D. box set (see Beatles C.D. Box).

09/09/09 (Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine) - the album was re-released as part of the Beatles In Stereo Remasters collection.
13th September 2009 it re-entered the chart again at number 51 in the thirteenth highest position of SEVENTEEN chart positions The Beatles captured in one amazing week.
(see the box set detail for the chart position of all 17 titles together)
20th September 2009 - dropped thirteen places down to number 64.
27th September 2009 - dropped out of the Top 100 completely.

Tape Media
The album was also available on 4" reel-to-reel tape,
1964 - Catalogue number TA-PMC 1206 (3¾ ips twin-track mono tape) - first edition (mono only) in a cardboard box.
1968 - Catalogue number TA-PMC 1206 (3¾ ips twin-track mono tape)
TD-PCS 3045 (3¾ ips 4-track stereo) these editions in a "jewel" box.

Prior to 1973:
The album was released on stereo cassette tape (1? ips) - Catalogue number - TC-PCS 3045.
The album was also released on 8-track stereo continuous play cartridge (3¾ ips) - catalogue no. 8X-PCS 3045

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