Introducing... The Beatles is the first Beatles album in the United States. Originally scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP came out on 10 January 1964 Vee-Jay Records mere days before Capitol's Meet The Beatles!. It was the subject of much legal wrangling, but ultimately, Vee-Jay were permitted to sell the album until the fall of 1964, by which time it had sold more than 1.3 million copies.
When the "Please Please Me" single was issued in t...
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Introducing... The Beatles is the first Beatles album in the United States. Originally scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP came out on 10 January 1964 Vee-Jay Records mere days before Capitol's Meet The Beatles!. It was the subject of much legal wrangling, but ultimately, Vee-Jay were permitted to sell the album until the fall of 1964, by which time it had sold more than 1.3 million copies.
When the "Please Please Me" single was issued in the United States, Vee-Jay Records signed a licensing agreement with Transglobal, an EMI affiliate that worked to place foreign masters with U.S. record labels, giving it the right of first refusal on Beatles records for five years. As part of that agreement, Vee-Jay planned to release the Please Please Me album in the U.S., and received copies of the mono and stereo master tapes in late April or early May 1963.
Originally, Vee-Jay considered releasing Please Please Me as it appeared in England. A surviving acetate made by Universal Recording...
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