ITEM #: LP-002
Description: Meet the Beatles — mono copy, 3rd label
Record Label: Capitol
Catalog #: T 2047
Year of Release/Pressing: 1964
Record: VG
Jacket: VG
Price: $150 $75

This is a nice copy of the first US Beatles release on Capitol records. It's the 3rd label, the first labels having been pressed without any "BMI" or "ASCAP" info on the label; 2nd pressing labels list all songs except "I Want To Hold Your Hand" as being ASCAP, and 3rd pressing labels list all songs on side 2 except "I Wanna Be Your Man" as ASCAP, and all but the first two tracks on side 1 as being ASCAP. There was actually a 4th pressing label, before they finally got it all right!

The #2 jacket (which would easily be a VG+, or perhaps even a VG++, if not for the sticker remnants on the back in the upper left corner) does NOT include "Produced by George Martin" credit, or the ASCAP/BMI publishing credit info (the lack of producer/publishers credits on the back cover indicates the earliest cover pressings). This copy includes a blue Capitol inner sleeve.

RCA contract pressing denoted by R in runout (pressing plant Rockaway); Matrix / Runout (A): T1-2047-P15; Matrix / Runout (B): T2-2047-T15

Book value for a NM copy of this version of this release is between $1,000-1,500:
CAPITOL (T-2047 "Meet the Beatles").......................................1000-1500 (1964)
(Monaural. Does not have producer [George Martin] or publishing [BMI/ASCAP] credits below liner notes. Double the value if with yellow "Press Information" sticker on front.)
  (from the Rockin' Records 2018-2019 Record Price Guide)

...and so that places the value of this copy at around $250-375.

The pictures below are of the actual record for sale; click on one of the gray dots below the three smaller pictures to bring up the slideshow of all 18 pictures of this record. To see a larger image of any picture, click the name of the image (from the list below the dots) and a new window will open with the full-size image.

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