THE BEATLES - Introducing...the Beatles

Item Description

Vinyl, , Version 1, variant # 3, column back
LP Album Stereo

This version is known as # VJ 1062 (1).SC3 (cover)/ VJ 1062 (1).SR1A (vinyl) as described in Bruce Spizer book: The Beatles Records on Vee Jay. One of the rarest of the commercially available releases in the US. Most copies that turn up are fakes. This variation of Outer Jacket is known as a "COLUMN BACK". Over the course of time since it's release on January 10, 1964 only around 18 copies of this LP in STEREO with this particular Outer Jacket have been discovered as being AUTHENTIC. Vee Jay had only ever pressed 2,202 total STEREO discs, all of which had been paired with either the AD BACK, BLANK BACK or this COLUMN BACK outer jacket. Precise numbers for each have never been officially verified and based upon the numbers of AD BACKS and BLANK BACKS that have turned up, it is logical that the COLUMN BACK is undoubtedly the RAREST combination of disc and jacket. Titles on back cover, includes Love Me Do & P.S. I Love You, quarter inch internal flaps on top & bottom jacket. Labels; centered titles / "Stereo" @12:00, ARP (American Record Pressing Co., Mich.) in italics stamped in dead wax, Audio Matrix also stamped in dead wax.