BEATLES FRAMED ' PLEASE PLEASE ME' FACTORY SAMPLE.EX
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BEATLES
FRAMED ORIGINAL ' PLEASE PLEASE ME' FACTORY SAMPLE.
An Original Framed Red ‘Factory Sample’
NOT FOR SALE Copy of the
Beatles Second Parlophone release
‘ Please Please Me’ / ‘ Ask Me Why’
Released on Friday 11th January 1963
Officially No.2 Although Melody Maker &N.M.E Made it No.1
Shown here with two very early original 1960’s
Early Colour &Black &White Top Star Photographs.
This was The Beatles first single released in America. The Beatles couldn't get a major label to release it, so It went to a small label called Vee Jay records, who released it as a single 3 times- Feb 25, 1963, Jan 30, 1964, and Aug 10,1964. The only release that charted was the second, when The Beatles finally made a name for themselves in America.
John Lennon, who was a big Roy Orbison fan, wrote this in the style of Orbison's overly-dramatic singing. Beatles producer George Martin suggested it would sound better sped up. In 2006, Martin told The Observer Music Monthly, "The songs the Beatles first gave me were crap. This was 1962 and they played a dreadful version of 'Please Please Me' as a Roy Orbison-style ballad. But I signed them because they made me feel good to be with them, and if they could convey that on a stage then everyone in the audience would feel good, too. So I took 'Love Me Do' and added some harmonica, but it wasn't financially rewarding even though Brian Epstein bought about 2,000 copies. Then we worked for ages on their new version of 'Please Please Me', and I said: 'Gentlemen, you're going to have your first number one'.
This was rumored to be about oral sex. The Beatles denied this, since they had a very clean image to maintain at the time.
Although in the UK this was officially a #2 record, 3 of the 4 charts used at the time Melody Maker, NME and Disc made it #1. Only the Record Retailer chart had it at #2.
Their name was misspelled "Beattles" on the record label on the first American release.
In the UK, this was re-released in 1983 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of it's initial release.
Lennon: "I was always intrigued by the double use of the word 'please'."
The Beatles performed this on their second Ed Sullivan Show appearance in 1964. Sullivan was not a fan of many Rock groups, but loved The Beatles and had them on his show whenever he could.
This was the second Beatles single released in England, the first being "Love Me Do." (thanks to Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England for the info)
I'M SELLING THIS ON BEHALF OF A FRIEND WHOSE HUSBAND HAD THIS, AND OTHERS! HANGING ON THE WALL IN HIS STUDY AND HAS SADLY PASSED ON AND NOT HAVING AN E-BAY ACCOUNT HAS ASKED ME TO SELL IT FOR HER.
I BELIEVE THE RECORD TO BE THE ORIGINAL VERY RARE 1N VERSION AND IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION
IT'S BEEN SOLD AS SEEN AS A UNIQUE PIECE OF HISTORY WHICH IS PROBABLY HOW HE SAW IT NO DOUBT AND HOW IT IS BEING SOLD.
WOULD MAKE A SUPERB PRESENT FOR A BEATLES FAN
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