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Souvenir Of Their Visit To America, Vee-Jay VJEP 1-903. March, 1964. Record has silver lettering on a full black label with an oval logo. Its have  the initials “URJ” and the matrix numbers in its trail off areas are followed by “-1”. The trail off areas also have hand etched “T1” markings on each side and do not have any machine stamped markings. This record was also manufactured by Columbia Records. Record were issued in a colorfull cardboard sleeve.

Souvenir Of Their Visit To America, Vee-Jay VJEP 1-903. March, 1964. Record has silver print an all black label with the “VEE JAY” letters logo. With the exception of Ask Me Why being in slightly larger print, the typesetting of this record, with its song titles in thin microprint. This record was also manufactured by Monarch Records. Record were issued in a colorfull cardboard sleeve.

Souvenir Of Their Visit To America, Vee-Jay VJEP 1-903. March, 1964. Record has silver print an all black label with the brackets logo and two thick horizontal bars running through the label’s center hole. Record has the initials “URJ” and the matrix numbers are hand etched in the trail off areas along with the machine stamped Audio Matrix logo. This record was also manufactured by Southern Plastics. Record were issued in a colorfull cardboard sleeve.

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Anna / Ask Me Why, Vee-Jay, EPI-903 (DJ No.8). June, 1964. To further plug Ask Me Why, Vee-Jay issued and an extremely limited number of the later issue promotional records in a one-sided black and white title sleeve. As the decision was made to focus on a single song, the special EP sleeve featured only Ask Me Why and described the record as “an E.P. that is selling like a single … at single record prices”. The sleeve also has the phrase “Still Only #8 In Sales”. This title sleeve is one of the rarest and most valuable of all Beatles record sleeve.

Two of the songs on the EP, namely Anna and Ask Me Why, were paired on an extremely rare promotional single designated “Spec DJ No. 8”. The label for this record is similar to the blue and white promotional records for the EP and VJ-581 and VJ-587. Its trail off areas contain the “MR” logo, indicating that this record was manufactured by Monarch Records.