Introducing The Beatles Vinyl Counterfeit

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Introducing the beatles vinyl counterfeit.

All that being said fakes of that album are common as muck and the genuine ones aren t. If the group s name is below the center hole the record is a fake most likely pressed in the 70s. All tracks were recorded on february 11 1963. Introducing the beatles introducing the beatles is the granddaddy of all counterfeit albums.

Here are some ways to spot a real one and also id a fake. Vee jay packaged the early singles as introducing the beatles their first u s. No other record has ever come close. The face colors in this fake almost match the background color.

Still there are a number of well known examples that most collectors are likely to encounter sooner or later and that would include not surprisingly counterfeit records by the beatles. During the second half of 1963 it was the only beatles material available in america and sold incredibly well. There are other things about these records that indicate they were not pressed in 1964 such as improper trail off area markings and thin vinyl. The disc labels are black and silver with no color band.

It may be off center or crooked. By 1964 a court awarded the rights to all beatles recordings to emi capitol and the record went out of print only to become one of the most counterfeited albums in music history. A few stereo copies of introducing the beatles were packaged in mono sleeves. Most copies of introducing the beatles on vj records are counterfeit.

Most are identified with a variety of stereo stickers. It s quite likely that the counterfeit copies of this album outnumber originals by two or three times despite the fact that the original album sold quite well. Lp 1062 is in again in a serif font. Having beatles under the hole is a red flag crappy printing on the cover is a red flag the missing shadow is a red flag an extra wide trailoff area is a red flag and a stereo covered copy that plays mono is a huge red flag.