Beatles Jolly What The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage RARE VJ STEREO LP

$

305

I am continuing to sell some early, rare, and rather obscure Beatles LPs from my collection. So, please check my other auctions too.

 In this auction: 

·       “JOLLY WHAT! THE BEATLES & FRANK IFIELD ON STAGE”  by the Beatles & Frank Ifeld 

·       This LP is Vee Jay Records VJS 1085.

·       This is the RARE STEREO PRESSING. In fact, as you probably know, ALL VEE JAY STEREO PRESSINGS ARE MUCH RARER THAN THE MONO PRESSINGS. 

·       This LP was released in February of 1964.

·       The LP (cover and vinyl) in this auction is the REAL THING. It is NOT a counterfeit. We know this because:

1)   The cover has excellent print quality without blurred letters or images.

2)   The cover has the printing on the spine: “VJS 1085  JOLLY WHAT!  THE BEATLES & FRANK IFIELD”.

3)   The vinyl has the Monarch Records (MR in a circle) stamped in the trail off area on both sides. 

·       The labels have the Vee Jay Records “BRACKETS LOGO”

·       The labels have “STEREO” printed on the right side.

·       As you probably know, Vee Jay Records, for a short period of time in 1963-1964, held the rights in the U.S. to a handful of Beatles songs that the record company recycled several times by selling the same vinyl recordings in different covers. The buying public quickly realized that they were not acquiring any new Beatles’ material in each Vee Jay album they purchased. Instead, they were buying basically the same Beatles’ tunes when they purchased “Introducing the Beatles”, “Songs, Pictures & Stories of the Fabulous Beatles” and “The Beatles vs The Four Seasons” (Beatles disk). 

·       With the issue of this LP, Vee Jay Records carried their misrepresentation of their Beatles’ material to a new level by stating on the cover “ON STAGE” which naturally implied to the average Beatles LP-buyer that this LP contained LIVE recordings from Beatles and Frank Ifield concerts… which it didn’t!!! 

·       This LP contains the following Beatles’ tunes: “Please Please Me”, “From Me To You”, “Ask Me Why”, and “Thank You Girl”.

·       The rear cover states that The Beatles and Frank Ifield were combined on this LP as they “are the most popular recording stars in Europe” (of course, at that time).

·       The COVER is in VERY STRONG VG+ CONDITION. The front cover image and printing is nice and clean with very minimal wear. There are small corner pushes on the top and bottom left corners and small light creases on the top right and bottom left corners. The rear white cover is nice and clean and white aside from a small sticker stain near the top right corner near the VJ logo. A portion of the bottom seam was nicely repaired sometime in the past. The SEAMS and SPINE are NICE and STRONG and WITHOUT FLAKING.

·       The Vee Jay covers for this LP had the STEREO designation with VJS 1085 (the “S” in the catalog number representing “Stereo”) printed on the front cover slick, but ALL of the rear cover slicks with liner notes and song titles have the MONO pressing slick with the catalog number VJLP 1085 printed at the top right corner.

·        The VINYL is in VERY STRONG VG+ CONDITION to NEAR MINT MINUS CONDITION with just a few very light surface hairlines/scuffs. 

·       STEREO VEE JAY LPS are definitely tough to find.

·       It’s a VERY NICE STEREO PRESSING of this Beatles LP to add to your vinyl collection.

Some information about this LP is from Perry Cox’s Price Guide for the Beatles American Records.

FYI: I use the COVER/SLEEVE GRADES and RECORD GRADES listed and described on page 8 of Perry Cox’s Price Guide for the Beatles American Records. These are: Good+ (G+), Very Good Minus (VG-), Very Good (VG), Very Good+ (VG+), Near Mint Minus or Very Good++ (NM- or VG++), Near Mint (NM), Mint Minus (M-), and Mint (M or MT) to VISUALLY grade the 45s and picture sleeves I auction, so please know the descriptions of these grades before bidding. Please ask any questions BEFORE bidding. And please check my other auctions for other LPs you may want to add to your collection. Be high bidder on several and combine shipping on auction items that finish on the same day. Winning bidder must remit payment within 5 days after auction close by PayPal. Add $4.00 for shipping to a U.S. address with tracking.