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Please Please Me / From Me To You, Vee-Jay VJ-581. Later pressing, 1964. Rare label variation. The brackets logo with thin print and without “VJ” before the record number. It has silver print on a Purple Label. Some copies have inicials “RA” and Audio Matrix stumps in their trail off area. These copies were pressed by Southern Plastics. Other copies of this variation have job numbers and and “MR” logo in their trail off areas, indicating that these records were pressed by Southern Plastics with stampers previously used by Monarch Records.

Twist And Shout / There’s A Place, Tollie 9001. March 2, 1964. Twist And Shout was not issued on Vee-Jay, but rather was the debut release on Tollie, a Vee-Jay subsidiary label. It has been speculated that this was done to sneak out another Beatles single at a time when Vee-Jay was involved in litigation with Capitol Records over its rights to issue additional Beatles records. This is not the case, however. The decision to release the new Beatles single on Tollie was a marketing decision.

Record has black print on a yellow label with the word “Tollie” appearing in thin letters above the center hole. Its trail off areas have the hand etched initials “RA” indicating that the record was mastered at Universal in Chicago. The Audio Matrix logo is not visible, suggesting that either the logo wore away from extensive pressings or the metal parts were prepared elsewhere. The master number, with the last four digits repeated on the B side, is hand etched in the trail off area, along with the job numbers 51071X on the A side and 51071 on the B side. The machine stamped “MR” indicates that record was manufactured by Monarch Records. This record issued with brown paper sleeve.

Twist And Shout / There’s A Place, Tollie 9001. March 2, 1964. Record has dark green print on a yellow label with a box logo above the center hole. However, the box is noticeably thicker and moves in clockwise direction rather than the counterclockwise direction of the official box logo. Its trail off areas appears to have the initials “RA” and the “MR” machine stamper logo. This record was pressed by Monarch Records.

 

Do You Want To Know A Secret / Thank You Girl, Vee-Jay VJ-587. March 23, 1964. The promotion copies have blue bracket logos and the words “Promotional Copy” in blue below the logos on the left and right sides of the center hole and black print above and below the center hole. There are two variations:

1. Label has the A side title on three lines, B side title on two lines, thick print. The trail off area to the A side has initials “URJ”, a hand etched circled “R” and the machine stamped MR logo. Record manufactured by Monarch Records.

2. Label has the A side title on two lines, B side on one line, thin print. The trail off area to the A and B sides has initials “URJ” and a hand etched master numbers, as well as the Audio Matrix and ARP logos. This record was manufactured by ARP.