INTRODUCING  THE  BEATLES
STEREO  "BLANK  BACK"
VEE-JAY LP - SR1062
RELEASED  JANUARY 10, 1964

COVER REMAINS IN ORIGINAL "NEWBERRYS"
IN-STORE BAGGYWRAP

ITEM # LP109
CONDITION :
COVER NEAR MINT / RECORD NEAR MINT MINUS
PRICE :  $10,500

S O L D !!
5/24/09

THE SECOND VARIATION OF THE INTRODUCING THE BEATLES
BACK COVER IS ALSO SHROUDED IN MYSTERY AND SPECULATION
LIKE THAT OF ITS PREDECESSOR,  THE "AD BACK". 
IT IS SIMILAR TO THE "AD BACK" IN THAT IT
CONTAINS NO INFORMATION REGARDING THE GROUP OR THE SONGS.
BUT WHILE THE "AD BACK" IS ONE OF THE MOST COLORFUL BACK COVERS
IN THE BEATLES CATALOG, THE SECOND VARIATION IS AT THE
OTHER SPECTRUM - A GLOSSY BLANK WHITE SLICK.
THIS VARIATION IS KNOWN AMONG COLLECTORS
AS THE "BLANK BACK" COVER.

SOME BELIEVE THAT THESE COVERS MAY BE THE RESULT
OF A PRODUCTION ERROR, OR PERHAPS THAT VEE-JAY
USED THESE COVERS FOR PROMOTIONAL ISSUES OF THE LP.
THE CORRECT HISTORICAL FACT IS THAT THE "BLANK BACK" WAS A
LIMITED AND SHORT TRANSITIONAL RUN THAT WAS A SUBSTITUTION
AFTER ALL "AD BACK" SLICKS HAD BEEN USED, BUT JUST PRIOR TO THE
RECEIPT OF THE THIRD BACK COVER THAT LISTED THE SONG TITLES.
THUS THE "BLANK BACK" VARIATION OF THE ALBUM,
PARTICULARLY THE STEREO COPY, IS RARER THAN THE 'AD BACK".

BECAUSE ONLY 2,202 STEREO COPIES OF THE VERSION ONE ALBUM
WERE MANUFACTURED, THE NUMBER OF STEREO "AD BACKS" AND
"BLANK BACKS" IS OBVIOUSLY VERY LIMITED.
IN ADDITION, DUE TO THE "BLANK BACK" WHITE SLICK'S PROPENSITY
TO ATTRACT AND SHOW DIRT, AGING AND WEAR AND TEAR,
NEAR MINT COPIES OF THIS VARIATION ARE EXTREMELY RARE.

OFFERED HERE IS THE VERY BEST EXAMPLE OF THE
MEGA-RARE STEREO "BLANK BACK" WE HAVE EVER SEEN.
THE COVER IS IN STUNNING NEAR MINT CONDITION,
REMAINING IN ITS ORIGINAL IN-STORE BAGGYWRAP
FROM "NEWBERRYS" DEPARTMENT STORE :

THIS COVER IS THE VARIATION WITHOUT THE
"PRINTED IN U.S.A." ON THE FRONT COVER LOWER LEFT CORNER
(VJ 1062(1).SC2B, SPIZER).
EVERY ASPECT OF THIS COVER IS STUNNING -
NO RINGWEAR, NO SPLITS, THE GRAPHICS AND COLORS OF
THE FRONT COVER ARE ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AND BOLD.
THE TWO CORNERS THAT ARE EXPOSED AT THE OPENING OF
THE BAGGY HAVE THE MOST MINIMAL OF WEAR,
AND NOT WORTH MENTIONING, BUT IS HERE FOR ACCURACY.

THE BACK COVER IS FLAWLESS - ABSOLUTELY
"WHITE" FROM CORNER TO CORNER.
BOTH THE FRONT AND BACK OF THE BAGGYWRAP HAVE A
 ¼" ROUND BREATH HOLE ON EACH SIDE. NO OTHER DISTRACTIONS
ARE EVIDENT IN THE BAGGY, AND REMAINS VERY CLEAN AND
TRANSPARENT OVERALL. THE LP COVER DISPLAYS
VERY CLEAR AND CRISP THROUGH THE BAGGY :
 

THE ORIGINAL "NEWBERRYS" DEPARTMENT STORE
$2.97 WHITE PRICE STICKER, MEASURING ¾" x ¾",
REMAINS ADHERED TO THE FRONT COVER :

THE SPINE IS SOLID AND LEGIBLE,
AND ALL SEAMS EQUALLY SOLID AND FIRM :

THE ACCOMPANYING RECORD IS A STUNNING
MONARCH PRESSING, WHICH IS THE ACCURATE VARIATION
THAT VEE-JAY USUALLY PAIRED WITH THIS COVER
(VJ 1062(1).SR1B(i), SPIZER) :

THE VINYL IS A SHIMMERING NEAR MINT MINUS,
BORDERING VG++,  AND THE LABELS A
GLOSSY AND RICH NEAR MINT.

This example of an INTRODUCING THE BEATLES  STEREO "BLANK BACK"
would be aN IMPERATIVE ADDITION TO THE
SERIOUS Beatles Record Collection.
IN ADDITION, The original Vee-Jay
"Ad Back" Inner Sleeve is also THERE IN THIS SET :

By the time Vee-Jay resumed taking orders for
Introducing The Beatles  in the second week of February,
the company had decided to reissue
the album with"Please Please Me"  and"Ask Me Why"
replacing "LOve Me Do"   and"P.S. I Love You".
This helped create the more common version two,
issued once the legalities had cleared in early February 1964.