BEATLES VJ 522 WL PROMO FROM ME TO YOU 1963 US ORIGINAL

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THE BEATLES

"FROM ME TO YOU" b/w "THANK YOU GIRL" VEE JAY 522 WHITE LABEL PROMO! 

1963 US ORIGINAL PROMO COPY OF THE SECOND BEATLES VEE JAY SINGLE, AND THE FIRST LENNON/McCARTNEY SONG TO BE COVERED BY AN AMERICAN ARTIST!

DEL SHANNON TOLD ME THIS STORY HIMSELF IN 1978: THE BEATLES WERE HIS OPENING ACT ON HIS 1963 BRITISH TOUR AND IN FACT HE HAD NOTICED STRUCTURAL SIMILARITIES BETWEEN HIS EARLIER RECORDS AND THE STUFF LENNON/McCARTNEY WERE THEN WRITING. (IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY CONTENTION THAT DEL SHANNON'S MUSIC HAD AN ENORMOUS INFLUENCE ON VIRTUALLY EVERY LENNON/McCARTNEY COMPOSITION FROM 1962/63. JUST LISTEN TO THE CHORD STRUCTURE, HARMONIES AND ARRANGEMENTS...) ANYWAY, HE FELT LIKE "FROM ME TO YOU" SOUNDED SO FAMILIAR THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN LIFTED RIGHT OUT OF HIS SONGBOOK MORE OR LESS. HE EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN COVERING IT HIMSELF, WHICH JOHN LENNON BEGGED HIM TO POSTPONE OR NOT DO AT ALL, SINCE THE BEATLES KNEW VEE JAY WAS ABOUT TO GIVE THEM A SECOND SHOT AT AMERICA WITH "FROM ME TO YOU" DESPITE THE UTTER FAILURE OF "PLEASE PLEASE ME". SHANNON SAID SOMETHING LIKE, "OH, WELL OK", BUT UPON RETURNING TO AMERICA HE RECORDED IT IMMEDIATELY.

SHANNON'S COVER BECAME A MINOR HIT FOR HIM IN JUNE OF 1963, TOTALLY ECLIPSING THE BEATLES' ORIGINAL, WHICH WAS RELEASED AT THE END OF MAY. SHANNON'S MADE IT TO #77 ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 AND #15 ON THE WLS SURVEY, WHILE THE BEATLES' ORIGINAL STRUGGLED TO MAKE IT TO #116 IN AUGUST AFTER DICK BIONDI ON KRLA DID HIS BEST TO PUSH IT IN CALIFORNIA.

"SHE LOVES YOU" SUFFERED A SIMILAR FATE LATER ON SWAN, NOT CHARTING AT ALL AND GETTING A 73 RATING ON AMERICAN BANDSTAND 'RATE A RECORD', A POOR RATING FOR THE SEGMENT. 

VEE JAY HAD SHIPPED THE ENTIRE FIRST PRESSING OF "PLEASE PLEASE ME" OUT WITHOUT CATCHING THE FACT THAT THEY MIS-SPELLED THE GROUP'S NAME AS 'BEATTLES', AND IN FACT IT HAD APPEARED ON THE WLS SILVER DOLLAR SURVEY SPELLED WITH 2 'T'S AS WELL, FOR 2 WEEKS IN MARCH 1963. "FROM ME TO YOU" HAD THEIR NAME SPELLED CORRECTLY. HOWEVER, WHEN "I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND" FIRST APPEARED ON THE WLS SILVER DOLLAR SURVEY IN JANUARY 1964, IT TOO WAS MIS-SPELLED WITH 2 'T'S FOR SEVERAL WEEKS - ON THE SURVEY, NOT ON THE RECORD, DON'T GET TOO EXCITED!

CONDITION:

• NO WRITING OR STICKERS ON EITHER LABEL. 
• THERE IS SOME LIGHT ROUGHING UP OF THE LABEL AT THE EDGE OF THE CENTER HOLE ON THE A-SIDE, AT 11:00 & 7:00. TO ME THIS LOOKS LIKE PERHAPS THE LABEL WASN'T QUITE 100% ATTACHED TO THE RECORD AT THE CENTER, ALLOWING FOR A BIT OF CRINKLING
• PLAYING SURFACES STILL HAVE FULL GLOSS, WITH NOTHING MORE THAN FAINT SUPERFICIAL PAPER MARKS OR FAINT HAIRLINES, ALL MINOR. GLOSSY AND BEAUTIFUL.
• ORIGINAL 'SINGLES OF SIGNIFICANCE' VEE JAY SLEEVE

OTHER THAN THE MINOR LABEL DEFECT THIS WOULD BE

OVERALL SOLID VG++

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