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The Beatles & Frank Ifield On Stage, Vee-Jay VJLP(S) 1085, late Summer, 1964. The rarest of the Vee-Jay Beatles albums is the second and very limited pressing of The Beatles & Frank Ifield On Stage. Jolly What! The Beatles & Frank Ifield album was reissued as “new” Beatles album with new cover and “new” name (without Jolly What!) in late Summer, 1964. The reissue cover features the skriking portrait of the Beatles previously used on the Love Me Do picture sleeve. The portrait was derived from the Dezzo Hoffmann color photograph. The Beatles songs are prominently listed on the cover. There are both mono and stereo versions of this cover, which is known among collectors as the “portrait cover”. Both use the same liner notes slick from the first issue. Mono cover has the number VJ 1085 in bottom right corner. Stereo version has word “STEREO” appears at the top center of the cover and the number VJS 1085 in the upper right corner.

Mono version:

Stereo version:

The album was not assigned a new number and was issued with the same records that appeared with the first version of the album. Althougt it is possible that all variations of discs previously issued with the Jolly What! cover were paired with the new cover, the partrait cover is normally found with records featuring the all black label with the large VJ logo in silver print.