LP Help...

[lizzydarci]

Hey! I'm hoping someone out there will be able to help me with something... A friend of mine recently gave me all of his old LP's, including a fair number of Beatles LPs (TO MY IMMENSE DELIGHT!!) One of them, I was shocked to find, was "Introducing the Beatles" on the V-J label. I wanted to know if anyone out there could help me decipher if this is indeed one of the LP's issued PRIOR to the Capital releases (which would make or if it was released after the Beatles' successes in America.

Here is a scan of the front and back of the album:

http://baby-its-you.tripod.com/vjfront.jpg

http://baby-its-you.tripod.com/vjback.jpg

[twovirgins]

it can be hard to tell as there were many bootlegs(counterfeits) made of this famous record but from the picture it looks ok

[sourmilkpinky]

Our beatlelinker Harbidge has a site dedicated to this album and it's counterrfeits. I suggest you look there it is an excellent site and can probably give you the anxwers you seek. Look in his signature for the link. I am sure he will respond here http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Harbidge]

Judging by the scan, it looks authentic, but without a scan of the label I cannot be 100% sure. Is it possible to have one as it would help me immensly. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[lizzydarci]

Harbridge, you are an angel!

Yes, here's what the label looks like:

http://baby-its-you.tripod.com/vj.jpg

thank you SO very much!

[Harbidge]

Yes, that's an authentic pressing. In Bruce Spizers book it's code is VJ 1062(2).MR4B.

That copy was pressed at Columbia Records in Connecticut.

[lizzydarci]

Oh my lord, really? You ROCK! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rocknroll2.gif My poor friend didn't even realize what he had all this time! And now it's allllll mine-- okay, straight to the framers, I'm getting this thing matted and framed!
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif
Thanks again Harbidge!

[lizzydarci]

(oh and Harbidge, by the way, that Officially Pronounced Dead website of yours is fantastic! Clues on the Let it Be Naked album to boot!)

[sourmilkpinky]

Told you he was useful http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Harbidge]

*hands over bill* that'll be $11,632 and 66 new cents. http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Just kidding. What's the pointing of learning it all if I can't put it to good use? http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[lizzydarci]

LoL! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif You said it, Harbidge. I often wonder how people get these jobs making money doing what you and I obsess over. Like these 'Beatles Biographers' and 'Rock and Roll Historians' and all these fellas making serious cash for talking about the things we love most! I'm like, where can I sign up for *those* jobs?!?!?