Sold Date: August 7, 2022
Start Date: July 31, 2022
Final Price: $1,225.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 26
Seller Feedback: 73
Buyer Feedback: 262

EXTREMELY LOW 0005060 NUMBER
WITH LEAD ZEROS AND NO PREFIXING FIRST BATCH LOS ANGELES, CA COVER 

THE BEATLES ~ THE BEATLES (A.K.A. THE WHITE ALBUM)

1ST PRINT APPLE RECORDS LABELS

WITH THE CAPITOL RECORDS LOGO

ALL 7 SPELLING LABEL
ERRORS INCLUDING THE
RAREST ONE, THE ABSENCE
OF QUESTION MARK IN "WHY
DON'T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD"

INCLUDES A VERY RARE ORIGINAL BLUE SEPARATOR SHEET, A LARGE POSTER AND FOUR PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Very early 1st day print cover with an extremely low number 0005060 having the lead zeros and no prefixing, which was among the first batch covers containing the numbers beginning with 0000101 to about 0215000 that Capitol Records assigned to its Los Angeles, California pressing plant. Laminated glossy gatefold cover contains the embossed "The Beatles" banner and "0005060" number in the lower right-hand corner. The set of promotional extra materials coming with this copy includes a large double-sided 23" x 34" color poster featuring a rights statement on the lyrics side with the second line of the statement reading "© Apple Records," Four 8" x 10" portrait photos, one of each Beatle, containing the "Printed in USA" logo in the lower left-hand corner, and a 8" x 10" blue protector sheet. These blank sheets of paper of different colors were used to separate the sets of photos at the factory. 1st misprint Apple Records labels with the Capitol Records logo and all of the 7 spelling errors on sides 1,2, 4 which were corrected on later copies of the album:

Side One:

Obladi Oblada (Instead of Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da)
Bungalow Bill (Instead of The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill)

Side Two: 

Rocky Racoon (Instead of Rocky Raccoon)

Why Don’t We Do it in the Road (Instead of Why Don’t We Do it in the Road?)*

Side Four:

Revolution No. 1 (Instead of Revolution 1)

Revolution No. 9 (Instead of Revolution 9)

Goodnight (Instead of Good Night)

*The rarest of the errors, "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" without the question mark. When you're planning on purchasing a White Album with the misprint labels make sure that this error is among them! 

 Thick glossy vinyl contains the first matrix numbers in the runout groove: Side 1 - SWBO-1 -101-A34 3 *; Side 2 - SWBO-2 -101-A34 2 *; Side 4 - SWBO-3-101-J40 1 *; Side 4 - SWBO-4-101-J40 1 *. The album comes with the original Apple Records plain white inner sleeves.

★

The cover is graded as Excellent Minus as it remains very clean. The cover only has some light age discoloration in a few spots along with some very light spine, corner and edge scuffing. A light hint of splitting along the top edge but there are no actual splits. Some very light shelf wear and creases along the spine and edges. The clean cover doesn't have any ring wear, writing or soiling. I grade the vinyl conservatively as: Side 1 - Very Good Plus; Side 2 - Excellent Minus; Side 3 - Very Good Plus; Side 4 - Very Good Plus. There're only a few very light non-feelable surface hairlines and scuffs from the original Apple Records inner sleeves which are in Excellent condition. The glossy vinyl sounds great with occasional background noise, which is most likely just static and will likely go away if the vinyl is professionally cleaned using a VPI cleaning machine.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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