Talk:Introducing... The Beatles

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[edit] UK release?

Was this album ever released in the UK? My mother owns (rather OWNED! ;) ) this LP, and I'm reasonably sure it wasn't an import and that it was bought during the 1960s. --Mal 05:58, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Certainly not a British release. Maybe it was released in the Republic of Ireland? It's that or she unwittingly had a US import. --kingboyk 06:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I just spoke to her about it lol. And fetched the LP from my collection. On the back cover it says "VJLP 1062" and on the front it says "SR 1062". My mum can't remember when she bought it, but says she might have picked it up "second-hand from somewhere". My guess is that someone had bought the import, or come over from the US with it, and sold it here. Interesting though - I'd always wondered about it because, having read a Beatles biography, I knew that Please Please Me was their first ever LP release. The song "Do You Want To Know A Secret" has a question mark at the end of it btw. I love the comment at the bottom of the back side: "America's greatest recording artists are on Vee-Jay records"! (EDIT: Its the "1963 version" btw) --Mal 07:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Vee-Jay discography on line

Check out http://www.bsnpubs.com/veejay/veejay100-1070.html which is a new Vee-Jay discography which naturally includes both versions of this album. Steelbeard1 21:15, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename or redirect?

First of all, the way the article is titled - because of the location of the ellipsis - makes it almost impossible to find. I knew it was here, and I wanted to wikilink to it from another article, but damned if I could figure out what it was called! I finally had to search for it and copy/paste to get the link correct!

At the very least, there needs to be a re-direct with the words Introducing the Beatles, which, despite the front cover of the album, is the commonly used name of the LP. That is how it appears on the record label; that is how it was listed when it was on the Billboard and Cash Box charts in 1964; that is how record collectors and dealers refer to it today. Using an ellipsis is as awkward as it would be to use the ellipsis in Yesterday and Today. Cheemo 03:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

A redirect from Introducing The Beatles to this article was created. The proper title is what the sleeve indicates so it is Introducing... The Beatles. Steelbeard1 03:58, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Most people looking for the album on Wikipedia via "search" will type "introducing the beatles," so a redirect is appreciated. Cheemo 15:56, 26 May 2007 (UTC)