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Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You, Tollie 9008. April 27, 1964. The Beatles first British single issued on Parlophone 45-R 4949 on October 5, 1962. Vee-Jay did not have a copy of the master of the Ringo on drums version of Love Me Do, so it issued Tollie 9008 with the Ron Richards – produced recording with Ringo on tambourine that appeared on version one of its Introducing The Beatles. Although there are no confirmed promotional copies of the first Beatles single on Tollie, there are two distinct promotional copy label variations:

1. Label has thin block letters “TOLLIE” logo. It has all black print on a white label and the words “Promotional Copy” and “Not For Sale”. The trail off areas have the “MR” symbol, indicating that this record was pressed by Monarch Records.

2. Label has letters “Tollie” logo in box. It has black print on a white label with the words “Disc Jockey Advance Sample” and “NOT FOR SALE”. The trail off areas contain barely visible hand etched initials “RA” and master numbers, along with barely legible Audio Matrix and “ARP” logos. This promotional record was pressed by ARP.

Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You, Tollie 9008. April 27, 1964. Record has black print on a yellow label with “Tollie” thin letters logo. The MR symbol is machine stamped in the trail of areas, indicating that this record was pressed by Monarch Records.

The record’s picture sleeve features a painted color portrait of the group that faithfully duplicates a Dezo Hoffmann color photo. The attractive illustration was later used for the cover of the second issue of The Beatles & Frank Ifield On Stage. Although the picture sleeve may have been issued with all of the label variations.

Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You, Tollie 9008. April 27, 1964. Record has black print on a yellow label with the box logo. There are two confirmed variations:

1. Label has the word “Vocal” and the publishing information in small print and “(McCartney-Lennon)” in medium print. Its trail off areas have the hand etched initials “URJ” and barely visible Audio Matrix and “ARP” machine stamped logos. This record was pressed by ARP.

2. Label has the word “Vocal” and the publishing information in medium print and “(McCartney-Lennon)” in microprint. Its trail off areas have the hand etched initials “URJ” and barely visible Audio Matrix and machine stamped logo. This record was pressed by Southern Plastics.

Vee-Jay Beatles Christmas Picture Sleeve. October, 1964. In early October of 1964, Vee-Jay prepared a special picture sleeve for holiday season. The sleeve was laid out and assembled by George S. Whiteman Graphic Design & Photography in Hollywood, California. The white background sleeve has a red border and a die-cut center hole that exposes the label. At the top of the sleeve is “The Beatles” in large purple print. Below the group’s name is the phrase “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” in red and “A Happy New Year” in green. The center hole is surrounded by the same portraits of each of the Beatles faces that appeared on the Do You Want To Know A Secret picture sleeve, the Souvenir EP cardboard jacket, the front album cover to Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles and the poster that came as an insert with The Beatles vs. The For Seasons deluxe double album. Vee-Jay’s brackets logo appears in blue below the center hole. Although fairly common as a result of its press run of over 200,000 copies, this attractive holiday sleeve is among the more popular Beatles picture sleeves. Monarch Records also manufactured a limited numberof Oldies 45s singles for Vee-Jay and may have used most of its 12,500 sleeves to house Beatles Oldies 45s. ARP was apparently still distributing Beatles catalog singles as late as October, so it is likely that the factory paired its sleeves with the four Beatles singles originally issued in early 1964.