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i SECTION ONE—SINGLES OF SIGNIFICANCE Please, Please Me b/w Ask Me Why From Me To You b/w Thank You Girl Please, Please Me b/w From Me To You Twist And Shout b/w There’s A Place Do You Want To Know A Secret? b/w Thank You Girl Love Me Do b/w P.S. I Love You The Beatles on Oldies 45 Foreign Singles and other 7” Wonders of the World Fine Fakes of Significant Interest SECTION TWO— FINE ALBUMS OF SIGNIFICANT INTEREST Introducing The Beatles (Version One) Introducing The Beatles (Version Two) Jolly What! The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles The Beatles vs The Four Seasons The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage ii Hear The Beatles Tell All The 15 Greatest Songs of The Beatles Counterfeits of Significance iii How To Use This Interactive Ebook Apps: GoodReader is the only tablet app we’ve found so far that will allow you to use all the interactive features like the GET BACK button, search, an- notate, markup and bookmarks. It has a ton of features, including syncing to drop- box. It currently costs $4.99, and it is well worth it. We have found that most other PDF readers do not handle some of the interactive features. Hopefully, as apps are Table of Contents Table updated, you will find others that work as well (let us know if you find one). Each eReader software has different ways of navigating, zooming and viewing, so please refer to your app instructions for more information. This book is designed to be read in portrait mode. You can read it in landscape mode, but you may have to scroll down on each page first. We optimized it for the iPad, but it should work on any tablet that can read PDF files, and of course on the PC or Mac in Acrobat Reader. To mark up your copy (make notes, check off items in your collection, etc.), Checklist just install a PDF app that allows annotation (GoodReader is the best we have found). Use the quick link buttons on the side of each page to jump to the table of contents, checklist in the back and Bruce’s site. You will also find cross ref- erences throughout the book to jump to referred to images and text. After you have viewed the jumped-to image, you can hit the GET BACK button to “get back” to where you were reading. Please note that not all apps support this function. On the PC, in Acrobat, you can also use Alt-left cursor to return to original reference. The best way to jump to any section is from the “Table of Contents” which has hot links to every chapter. www.beatle.net Join Bruce’s email list Click here to sign up for this entertaining and informative weekly email. You’ll get • the latest on his books (including digital book updates) • special sales • Bruce’s upcoming appearances • exclusive Beatles articles • Beatles trivia • and lots of other Beatles stuff GET BACK GET from one of the most respected and knowledgeable Beatles historians. i About the Revised Edition Ever since The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay sold out and began going for a few hundred dollars or more in the secondary market, people began asking me when I was either reprinting or publishing a revised edition of the book. And while I knew there was demand for the Vee-Jay book, I was concerned over the economics of reprinting. Table of Contents Table The Vee-Jay book was published over 15 years ago in New Orleans. Reprinting the book would not be a simple case of calling the printer and having him use the existing digital files to roll the presses. The original printing plates used for the Vee- Jay book were destroyed in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, and even had they survived, technology has changed so much over the past 15 years that they would have been useless. Thus, I would have been required to go through the entire pre-press process, effectively driving up the cost of a reprint to the full cost of a new book. With high production costs due to the use of color throughout the book, the cost per book on a small run would have been high, forcing a retail price of about Checklist $100 to make the reprint profitable. And while the cost per book would have gone down with a larger press run, I did not make sense to pay more overall printing costs and run the risk of being stuck with a large inventory of books that could take ten or more years to sell. Fortunately, some of the younger customers of my books began asking me if I had considered doing the Vee-Jay book as a digital eBook. At first, I was troubled by the idea. There is something wonderful about holding a beautiful book in your hands. Surely I would miss the feel of the pages and the experience of turning the pages. And as a collector, I love having my bookshelves filled with books. An eBook would not be on my shelf or proudly displayed on my coffee table. It would be stored in an iPad just like music was stored in my iPhone. And that last thought made me www.beatle.net realize that there was a place in the world for digital books. I love collecting, owning and playing vinyl records. I love the look and feel of a 12-inch album cover. I love removing the vinyl from its jacket and placing it on my turntable. But if I am on an airplane or in a hotel room, I love that I can still hear music by playing my iPhone. Just as there is a place in my world for vinyl records, CDs and digital music files, there is room in my world for hardcover books, paperback books and, dare I say it, digital eBooks. And so the decision was made to publish the Vee-Jay book as an eBook. Not only would a digital book solve my production cost and inventory problems, but it would also fulfill a need for those who could not afford GET BACK GET ii the original hardcover book and for those who wanted the convenience of taking my books with them. (People always complain about how heavy my books are!) Once the decision was made to do an eBook, I realized that I could not merely put out the 1998 book as it was originally published. Oh sure, the book got great re- views when it first came out and demand for the Vee-Jay book had not diminished. But I learned a lot of cool stuff in the past 15 years and realized I needed to do a re- vised edition so that I could incorporate new information and images. This would Table of Contents Table also give me the opportunity to do some things differently and correct a few errors along the way. As I got into the project, I began to realize all the cool things that you can do with an eBook. One of the problems with the Vee-Jay book was that although it contained great stories, the reader could get bogged down with the pages containing minute details about the record labels and trail off areas. To solve this problem, I re-edited the book by placing all such information at the end of each chapter, giving the reader the opportunity to skip the label details without missing any of the stories. And to Checklist make it easier for someone to fly past the dull but necessary information tailored for collectors, each chapter contains a green line at the point where the stories end and the record label details begin. You can merely tap on the highlighted page number and skip forward to the next chapter, bypassing the highly detailed information. (And while this certainly improves the overall reading experience, sometimes you may want to go through the final pages of each chapter just to look at all the beautiful labels.) The digital book also gives the reader the ability to navigate pages by touching the screen. This is particularly helpful to “turn to” a page referenced in the text. By merely touching the page reference, the desired page appears on the screen. And after checking out the new page, you can touch the GET BACK key to take you back to where you once belonged (or at least back to where you were reading). The digital book also gives you the ability to enlarge images. This is particularly www.beatle.net helpful when you want to read text in advertisements and on record labels. It’s a re- ally cool feature that can’t be done in a regular book. Other eBook features include the ability to read in little or no lighting and ac- cess to the interest. The book contains a few links that will take you to information that will be updated when warranted. Now that I have undertaken my first eBook, I gotta admit I am quite excited about it. I hope you enjoy the eBook as much as I have putting it together. GET BACK GET iii The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles Records on Vee-Jay Compiled by Bruce Spizer Foreword by Perry Cox Table of Contents Table Checklist Copyright ©1998 and 2013 by 498 Productions, L.L.C.