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Please Please Me / From Me To You, Vee-Jay VJ-581. January 30, 1964. First pressing. Record has silver lettering on a black label with an outer rim colorband featuring the oval logo. There are five confirmed variations:

1. Label has thin print with “VJ” before the record number and publishing information on two lines. This record was made by APR.

2. Label has thick print with “VJ” before the record number, publishing information on two lines and space between “The Beatles” and the record number. Manufactured by Monarch Records.

3. Label has thin print without “VJ” before the record number and publishing information on three lines. This record was made by Southern Plastic.

4. Label has thick print with “VJ” before the record number, publishing information on two lines and no space between “The Beatles” and the record number. The initials “URJ” are hand etched into the trail off area along with “T1” and the master number. Record was pressed by Columbia in Terre Haute, Indiana.

5. Label has thick print with “VJ” before the record number, publishing information on two lines and no space between “The Beatles” and the record number.The initials “URJ” are hand etched into the trail off area along with “T1” and the master number followed “-1”. Record was pressed by Columbia in Bridgeport.

Realizing the visual appeal of the Beatles, Vee-Jay prepared a picture sleeve for the record. A black and white version of the photograph used for Vee-Jay’s “Introducing The Beatles” album appears on sleeve, which has a white background with the song titles and the Vee-Jay logo in black print and “The Beatles” in bold red print. While the sleeve may have been issued with all of the record’s numerous variations, is it most often found with the oval and bracket colorband variations.

Please Please Me / From Me To You, Vee-Jay VJ-581. January 30, 1964. Previously unknow copy! Undetermined Bruce Spizer! Silver lettering on a black label with an outer rim colorband featuring the Brackets Logo. Big print! Pablishing information on left side. Labels has numbered sides (“Side 1” and “Side 2”). Master numbers is located on the right side. Thin print VJ befor the record number. Manufactured by Southern Plastics. Record has stamped Audio Matrix logo on both sides and hand etched masters number 63-2967 on side one, and 63-3218 on side two, and initials “RA” on side one.

There are three confirmed variations:

1. Label has thin print with “VJ” before the record number and publishing information on two lines. Record was manufactured by ARP;

2. Label has thick print with “VJ” before the record number and publishing information on two lines. Record manufactured by Monarch Records;

3. Label has thin print without “VJ” before the record number and publishing information on three lines. Record was manufactured by Southern Plastics;

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.