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THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD/FOR YOU BLUE (Capitol #18898 CEMA Special Markets "FOR JUKEBOXES ONLY!" BLUE vinyl 45, 1996): UNPLAYED MINT GEM w/JUKEBOX TITLE STRIP!

                                This CEMA Special Markets single will play on any 45RPM turntable.

BRILLIANT BLUE UNPLAYED MINT BEATLES 45 (with jukebox title strip)!  Only about 15,000 CEMA Special Markets "For Jukeboxes Only" The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue singles were issued in 1996.  This scarce edition of The Beatles' last #1 hit was one of 14 hyper-rare colored vinyls from the "2nd series" of CEMA Special Markets 45s.

The entire series of 29 colored vinyls had miniscule pressings: 

The Capitol colored vinyl 45s are the rarest stock-copy Beatles singles ever released in the US; there were between 10,000 and 22,000 copies pressed of each "FOR JUKEBOXES ONLY!" 45.  When issued in the mid-'90s, juke-jobbers filling their machines were switching to CD jukeboxes.  They didn't want the records, so Capitol sold them to chain stores & mail-order companies just to get rid of them.  The scarcity of these colored vinyl Beatles 45s is impressive compared to the countless millions of '60s orange-and-yellow swirls and the immense flood of orange, blue & purple-label reissues of the '70s and '80s.  The entire series of 29 colored vinyls includes 9 singles that had never before appeared as U.S. 45s & 2 others with alternate flip sides.  It's 25 years since Capitol released this beautiful record & its escalating value reflects its rarity.

                         Sounds great on your turntable, jukebox...or put it in The Vault!

                           One only...don't miss it!