UK Chart Entry: 30 Nov1963
Highest Position: 1
Total Weeks on Chart: 51
Released in Mono and Stereo Versions
Recording produced by George Martin.
Front cover photograph: Robert Freeman.
-- First pressing labels and original (3-flap) rear covers have track B3 as You Really Gotta Hold On Me, later covers change this to You Really Got A Hold On Me
Friday November 22nd 1963,With The Beatles Parlophone PMC 1206 & 14 Original Tracks at E.M.I Records in Abbey Road Studios London published by Ernest J Day & Company by first copy and photographed by Robert Freeman with John,Paul,George & Ringo,The Beatles-The Fab Four.
@YankeeDisc see the Billboard clipping I’ve uploaded: one of the forty masters was faulty.
Per Nov. 30’s Disc: “National Press reports concerning a fault in the manufacture of the LP earlier this week were exaggerated. One track, ‘Roll Over Beethoven,’ was found to jump when played on a certain kind of record player, but the number of copies thus affected was small, and had been swiftly rectified by EMI.”
……60 years gone by since this release on 22-Nov-1963. My twin sister bought the mono UK LP 32/6d? with money she earned as a school girl Saturday employee at Jones & Higgins Department Store, of Rye Lane, Peckham, London, (now long gone). Considering that she only earned £1.00d pre-decimal for her one day a week job, in Nov/Dec 1963 when she purchased the album, she actually expended over one and a half weeks wages to own this release.
She was like many other 15 years old females a big fan of The Beatles, and her crush was George Harrison. She probably bought the LP during her lunch break from the Reed Record Centre, situated further up Rye Lane, before taking her acquisition back to her Department “Prams & Layettes”. When she arrived home, our younger brother and l were eager to listen to her LP, the very first long player bought by any member of our family of six, including Mater and Pater. Previously we had about 4 EPs and a dozen 45s…..soon to change.
We literally played that Beatles LP to death, and early on I noticed that Side B track one “Roll Over Beethoven” jumped in a couple of places. All other songs seemed okay. My sister took it back, and exchanged for another copy, by that jumped as well, so she kept that and got on with it.
Have any other owners of the original 1963 mono Issue PMC 1206 had issues with that particular track ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN??
Uploaded a couple of new images:-
Side 1 is clearer than image 454002 by Gordon7009 but without the tax stamp.
Side 2 is the same as image 462767 by RoboLeyton but is not a Decca pressing.
Added scan of back of sleeve printed by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. A bit scruffy I'm afraid. I played this to death in the mid 60's on a Grundig portable. Thick heavy vinyl strong enough to use as a man hole cover.