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Doing a little research on why it's so hard to find any digital recordings of the Beatles album "Introducing the Beatles," which my older sister had. Evidently, there was a legal battle between the Vee-Jay label and Capitol Records over the rights to release Beatles music in the US, and Vee-Jay lost.

"[Vee-Jay] rush-released on January 10th, 1964, becoming the first Beatles album ever released in America. They beat Capitol Records to the punch by releasing their album ten days before the first "official" Capitol Beatles album “Meet The Beatles!” was released."

And I never knew this. The court ruled against Vee-Jay because the songs “Love Me Do” and “PS I Love You” were owned by Capitol Records.

"Vee-Jay acted quickly by re-pressing the album without those two songs, replacing them with “Ask Me Why” and “Please Please Me.” This new version of the album was released around February 10th, 1964."

My sister's album must have been the January release vs. the February re-release because it had “Love Me Do” and “PS I Love You.”

Here's one of the few digital recordings I've found of the Vee-Jay record. (Too bad the beginning of John's "One two three four" is cut off.) This song rocks so hard. John's scream and George's guitar solo. 🎸

music.youtube.com/watch?v=LVVN

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