The original Vee Jay pressing of this album (version 1) contained Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You. As Capitol Records, through its subsidiary Beechwood Music, controlled the publishing rights to these songs, Capitol threatened legal action against Vee Jay if it did not cease distributing the album. Vee Jay responded by replacing the two tracks in question with Ask Me Why and Please Please Me on subsequent pressings such as this one (version 2).
Black label with an outer rim colorband featuring an oval Vee Jay logo. Left justified song titles and songwriters’ credit in small type, medium type “INTRODUCING THE BEATLES” and “SIDE I” and “SIDE II” and small type “LONGPLAYING” and “MICROGROOVE” on the label. This variation has a humorous typo in the songwriters’ credit for Chains, which was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The label credits the to “Coffin-King”. The record’s trail off areas include the following hand etched markings: “URJ”, “AL” the date 2-6-64 and the matrix followed by “-1”. The machine stamped Audio Matrix logo also appears. This thick vinyl pressing was manufactured by Southern Plastics.
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