The Beatles-Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles (1964)


 

Artist: The Beatles

Title: Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles

Label: Vee Jay

Format: LP

Cat #: VJ 1062/VJLP 1062

Year of Release: 1964

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1964 Mono

Sold Price: $14.99

Listed Condition: VG/VG original 3/4 gatefold cover, maxtrix matches, 3" seam split top right corner, some overall wear, VJLP 1062 on vinyl, VJ 1062 on spine (1" is worn, but VJ and the first digit are there to confirm this)

Sell Date: 10/25/20

Discogs Last Sold: 7/20/20 VG+/VG+ $28.00 

Low: $5.00

Median: $13.00

High: $29.79

Current low price: $6.99 G+/G Vinyl is G+ with clean labels and many light surface marks but nothing deep and plays closer to VG. Sleeve is only G due to some writing/drawings as someone added beards to the boys with fake signatures to their left plus colored in the Beatles title. Also partial seam splits top & bottom.

$12.00 VG/VG Top Seam is split and bottom seam has some splitting

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16

Have/Want: 929/337

Where Sold: Little Rock, AR

Time it took to sell: 5 years

Where and When Bought: Al Bums Worcester early 80's off the wall around $15

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: D-

Sad To See It Go?: No

If ever there was a useless release, it is Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles.  This was released by Vee Jay with their Introducing The Beatles pressing packaged in the record as Capitol took over the issue of these recordings in the US at the end of 1964 with The Early Beatles.   They repackaged the same vinyl for The Beatles vs. The Four Seasons to get around the legal parameters of Capitol taking over their cash cow.

The cover is a nice board game looking gatefold flap cover covering 3/4 of the sleeve.  Opening it reveals the "stories" portion that was later removed on dubious later editions and retitled Songs and Pictures of the Fabulous Beatles.  The stories are a teenage delight.  We find Paul eschews pajamas and like to sleep "in the raw."  John is nearsighted and the Shirelles are his favorite singing group.  Unlike the Chuck Berry lyric, John's favorite music is traditional jazz.. George is a devotee of Segovia not Shankar and loves a good lamb chop.  Ringo loves blue silk shirts, Dinah Washington and Ray Charles.

Being the proud owner of All Together Now, the 1975 discography book of all things Beatles and related including weekly chart positions, this was on my want list and one day it was on the wall at Al Bums so I snapped it up.  I thought I scored a great hard to find Beatle collectable.  Almost 40 years later it sold for what I bought it, without calculation for inflation.  A sorrowful end for The Reverse Collector.  My copy was encased for decades in a plastic sleeve.  I could have flubbed the grade to VG+ but I guess I was a bit more detailed with my Beatle grading since I wanted an honest assessment.  I'm pretty sure I opened at $50 when I lived in a cave basement boiler room below the ACE Bar in Manhattan in 2015.  I probably dropped it to $30, $25 and $20 before it hit $15 in 5 years of listing it, sold to the same guy that paid $20 for Howlin' Wolf and $4 for the Kinks RCA comp written about earlier in this blog.

I say it all the time.  The things you buy for a dollar sell for $50 or even $100.  The things you excitedly bought new for $15 now sell for $3.  And the things you thought would be "worth money" quite often are not.  The music is the A+ Introducing The Beatles, the American version of mostly Please Please Me.  "I Saw Her Standing There" without countoff.  "Ask Me Why" my record buddy John next door had with a memorable, perfectly placed skip during "and I'm always thinking of you...you...you...you...." that has more value than any of these editions.

This is the perverse world of The Reverse Collector.




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