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Imagine, I'm in love with you,
  It's easy 'cos I know,
  I've imagined I'm in love with you,
  Many, many, many times before,
  Oh yeh, Oh yeh.

  It's not like me to pretend,
  But I'll get you in the end,
  Yes I will, I'll get you in the end.

  I think about you night and day,
  I need you, 'cos it's true.
  When I think about you, I can say,
  I'm never, never, never, never blue.

So I'm telling you, my friend,
That I'll get you, I'll get you in the end,
Yes I will, I'll get you in the end,
Oh yeh, Oh yeh.

Well, there's gonna be a time,
When I'm gonna change your mind.
So you might as well resign yourself to me,
Oh yeh, Oh yeh.
 
Imagine, I'm in love with you,
It's easy 'cos I know,
I've imagined, I'm in love with you,
Many, many, many times before.

It's not like me to pretend,
But I'll get you, I'll get you in the end,
Yes I will, I'll get you in the end,
Oh yeh, oh yeh.
Oh Yeh.
THE BEATLES: "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You" 45 IN MONO. VERY FIRST UK PRESSING, 31st AUGUST,1963.


PARLOPHONE: R 5055.
 
MAITRIX: 7XCE 17395 - 1N / 7XCE 17396 - 1N.

EMI STAMPING CODES: RDA 2 / GMM 2
Both sides were sourced from the second 'mother's, positively a first pressing made before the August, 1963 release date.
 
THE TEXTURED LABELS HAVE:
"Recording First Published 1963"
"Parlophone Co. Ltd." ON THE RIMS.

THE TYPE FACE ON THE RIMS IS AS TYPED ABOVE, NOT IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
For the biggest ever selling Beatles record, in past description's I have divided the order of the pressings into approximately
  three stages, the very first made, the middle stages like this record, then the final pressings that were made pre-August,1963.
  I always emphasise first pressings were those bought in a British record shop on the day/week  of issue, the sheer volume made
  to meet such amazing demands of advance orders, can then be individually fitted precisely into the astronomical numbers required,
  the final stage had "PARLOPHONE" on the label rims in the capital letters as just typed in this sentence.

THE VERY RARE UK TAX CODE 'PTK' AND NOT 'KT,' IS EMBOSSED ON THE PUSH-OUT CENTRE OF SIDE 2.
I have previously sold very first pressings of "She Loves You "with 'PTK,' a combination of the January,1963 'PT' and mid-1963
'KT' Tax Codes.  Such combinations were not exclusive to just a few records, a small pressing batch would have set up with that
  right at the beginning of the pressing, in the average condition of 'Good' / 'Excellent' they are still rare, but Mint- copies are
  exceptionally rare.  The 'K' was faintly stamped but the close up picture was the clearest view, my digital camera performed
  wonders to reveal most of the 'K', plus I waited for the sun to shine through a side window  to illuminate all three letters!
  With the label straight and the centre hole of the B-side viewed as a clock;
  'P' is at 11 o'clock
  T' is at 4 o'clock
  'K' is at 7 o'clock  (lightly embossed but visible in my close up picture)
 

ORIGINAL 1963 PARLOPHONE SLEEVE IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION, BARELY USED, UNFADED, UNTORN AND
  THE WHITE SECTIONS ON THE FRONT ARE THE ORIGINAL 1963 WHITE, WITH ONLY A NATURALLY FORMED RECORD
  IMPRESSION AND A FEW GENTLE RELATED CREASES, EVEN THE BACK DOES NOT HAVE ANY AGEING.
If the above honest description of a genuine 1963 Parlophone sleeve does not match the sleeve pictured on ebay, then it's a fake
and that applies to later 1960's sleeves for Palophone and Apple singles.  In my experience, unsplit and undamaged top condition
records are generally in.........top condition sleeves!  If they were so poor and torn apart to require replacing, or even worse,
the record was left without one for decades of abuse, then you will have a poor to fair record, so why not just put it in a new
plain white sleeve?  You cannot get any more authentic than this particular Parlophone sleeve!  The front, top right white space
  was provided for indexing purposes, for either record shops or owners, handwritten as usual for 1963, the A-side's title is in
  blue ink, 'S. L. You," the ultimate authentication record and sleeve have been together for the whole 53 years.
  MOST LIKELY THE ORIGINAL 60's RECORD SHOP, IF IT WAS THE ORIGINAL OWNER, MY COMPLIMENTS FOR TAKING
  SUCH METICULOUS CARE WHEN HANDLING AND STORING THE RECORD AND SLEEVE.
  THE SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT+++ / NEAR MINT- CONDITION.

  There are only 2/3 spindle traces per side, as usual for these thickly textured paper labels, when the centre hole was cut out
after the labels were fixed to the molten vinyl, 'stress' created radiating paper lines from the centre holes, this has mostly on
the B-side.  Average condition's no longer have that top surface paper, worn away by uncountable plays and spindle contact wear.
I just described how brand new records left EMI's pressing plant and positively not from wear or handling, any handling from there
or the original record shop and those careful plays, is near invisible to invisible.

  THERE ARE NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, A REALLY BEAUTIFUL LOOKING AND PERFECT SOUNDING FIRST PRESSING,
  THE RECORD IS IN MINT- CONDITION.


  If you asked the most ardent Beatles collector to name which track John Lennon opened by singing, "Imagine...", I am certain the
majority would automatically go to his 1971 solo LP of the same title for the answer.  Not quite 'a dreamer' yet in 1963, if you
read my lyrics, it was the B-side of "She Loves You," a piece of trivia but ebay descriptions do not have to be functional, boring
  and lacking in humour. Not only a bit of fun, it has a very special melody and the lyrics were exceptional for this early period.
  Visualisations of dreams and desires would become a major part of the psychedelic era and beyond, particularly for John Lennon.
The track was a genuine Lennon/McCartney composing collaboration, written at John's home in 1963 by both Paul and John....who
actually thought of the "Imagine" opening line is unknown today. Originally intended to become the A-side of the follow-up single
after a third British 45,"From Me To You", Paul has named "I'll Get You" as one of his favourite Beatles tracks, just a few days
later, the same inspired writing partnership produced "She Loves You," now history was about to be re-written.
 
The Beatles had reached their fourth British single in August,1963, by now most of the world were falling under their captivating
magical spell, singing the infectious "yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh." That became synonymous with their much published pictures and images
that were everywhere you looked in the media, even Elvis Presley never made such a huge impact in what was still only one year.
America remained unmoved and yet to be 'invaded', very surprisingly it would not be "She Loves You," the song that spawned that
"yeh, yeh," that became the all conquering anthem.  Capitol were so convinced it had no chance, they passed "She Loves You" over
to the small 'Swan' label to release in 1963, unpromoted it failed to sell, so did the 1964 USA issue.  "She Loves You" predated
the second UK LP, "With The Beatles" by three months and consolidated a grip of steel on their home country, rocketing to No.1.
If those lyrics were very basic, 'girl loves boy,' unlike the moody, blues orientated B-side, the superb melody was  propelled by
the driving r&b rhythm, with John and Paul's harmonies so tight, their voices became one sound. The track had a freshness and a
vitality time was unable to dull or even make sound the slightest bit dated nearly half a century later, 'pop music' maybe but of
such quality,"She Loves You" transcended anything that preceded or followed it. The Beatles never did return to writing 'hooks'
like "yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh," once a masterpiece was made, they moved on, well, the nearest they came was too surreal to count and
I can't remember anyone singing along to,"Goo goo goo joob" in 1967!  In fact, in 1967 & 1968, Paul improvised "She Loves You"
during ending segments of "All You Need Is Love" and in the following year during the long second half of "Hey Jude."

"She Loves You" sold and just kept selling in Britain, all previous 'records' for a single's residency in the charts crumbled and
fell, the phenomenon created by a recording of true greatness would not concede that chart reign and previously unknown sales
  easily. Becoming not only the Beatles own biggest selling 45 of them all, "She Loves You" also made history for being Britain's
  biggest selling single of all time and it held onto that record for the next fourteen years!   An astounding 31 unbroken weeks of
  staying in the British charts!   They were indeed consecutive weeks because by dropping out and then making a chart re-entry,
  any record becomes a 're-issue,' not by my own definition but how every chart book works.  "She Loves You" never did slip from
  the UK charts for over seven months of solid sales,  taken in isolation of other Beatles titles selling at the same time, it was
  an incredible feat.  What is even more remarkable, during that same August,1963 to March,1964, there were Beatles EP's, other
  singles and two album's selling in the same unbelievable volumes.

It would not be until 1977, when the record for the biggest ever selling UK single was finally broken, guess who by?  Ironically,
  the lead singer of "She Loves You", Paul McCartney's "Mull Of Kintyre," if not, the UK's biggest ever selling single would have
  still stood unbroken today as "She Loves You".  There was an another irony attached though, "Mull Of Kintyre" was released on the
  UK Capitol label, not even on the ex-Beatles own Apple label, EMI were still the financial benefactors of both records. No wonder
  "She Loves You" was the single that left EMI in deep trouble and really struggling to cope with the mountain of pressings needed
  with Beatles EP's and their "With The Beatles" album, current to the extended charts residency.   EMI had one or two other artists
  to press records for, they had to turn to the other British major record companies to contract out pressings for "She Loves You"
and "With The Beatles", that pattern would be repeated up to 1968.  Now to enter that mountain of 1963 "She Loves You" records
and look for a way to identify every single one of the millions pressed before one copy was bought in a record shop.

I have sold several equally stunning very first pressing from the very beginning of the pre-release pressing sequence, uniquely
identifiable stamped details that only applied to a rare few. To say I know my around the whole pressing sequences might not be
modest, but that happens to be true because of the volume I have seen, bought and sold.  Everyone can be placed precisely into
where they fitted in to the huge scale of the manufacturing, to me every single one has always been an individual, EMI's indexing
was so meticulous, you can tell contract pressings by simply finding the letters signifying orders they were made in are missing
from the run-out grooves.  There's no need to look for tiny label finishing details or be able to differentiate between Decca, Pye
or Parlophone's 1960's single.  In effect, EMI's numerical systems were still functioning when their pressing plant was not used,
importantly it all confirms something I insist on, every one of EMI's millions can be identified and named as first pressings or
first edition/original. I can easily prove it, EMI were obviously pre-pressing in vast quantities before the August release date,
slowing it down in direct proportion to the sales subsiding before the end of 1963.  If it was not the case, then how comes there
are no January - March,1964 pressings around today, when the UK charts clearly show they were still being bought then?  I have
personally never seen "She Loves You" with the 1964 only text; "Sold In UK," I am not discounting the possibility they exist but
if they do, the scale of the few made was minute and only the pressings made during 1963 that were distributed to record shops
in those early months of 1964.  This record  was pressed from the second 'mothers' or the stamping disc on both sides, positively
a first pressing made prior to the August 1963 release date.  No detail exists in isolation though, the next place to investigate
is the left side rims of the labels.  The records from the beginning or very first made, and onto the the middle stages, which is
where this record originates from, have "Parlophone Co. Ltd" printed exactly as I just typed it. The final pressings made before
August 1963 were very much part of the astronomical numbers required, the final stage had "PARLOPHOPNE" in capital letters.
With a 'PTK' Tax Code embossed, this record simply had to originate from the singles pressed at the beginning of manufacturing.
If you have the inclination, the beauty of collecting UK Beatles records is the vast area of variations for all their big selling
  singles, EP's &  LP's.  In 1979 Led Zeppelin broke with all convention and released "In Through the Out Door" with a diffferent
letter on the spines (A - F) and slightly different artwork on the covers, nobody at the time realised it!  A brown outer bag had
concealed there were five different covers in 1979, today the collective value of all those five variations in Mint condition far
outweighs the value of just one single first pressing.  Beatles records came from the decade when variations were just part of
the manufacturing process, they represent individual parts of the same whole, one million, two million...it makes no difference,
to me they are all individuals and no two copies are identical. And way beyond even that, the condition of the record and also an
original Parlophone sleeve, are absolutely paramount..... because of originality for the sleeves and the records contain the most
stunning sound quality ever recorded, mastered and pressed, for music that will be heard and loved for centuries into the future.
 
Back in August,1963, in the UK our radios were playing the Beatles latest single "She Loves You" incessantly, no longer was this
just about teenagers who would soon out-grow their heroes and look for someone else.   That infectious melody won over all age
groups, this was a new sound and from young kids to grannies, that memorable "yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh," became a catchphrase that
never quite went away.  Plus Paul's add-libbed "woo-ooh" just after the chorus became the Beatles' trademark as well, they had
written and recorded a song of such perfection, even 50 years later, this is still a major classic of a 'pop song.'  Earlier on I was
drawing attention to a track I played to death in 1963 aged 10 years old and can't believe it can still be underrated, the B-side
was very much a part of the success story. A single in the 1960's did not mean having an instrumental version of the A-side, or a
re-mix, you found something to rival if not surpass an A-side, Beatles singles were the finest exponents of the lost art. Turning
"She Loves You"over, the magic continued with the purest, slow and mood intensive r&b they had evolved from, the magnificence
of "I'll Get You" simply must be heard from unworn vinyl.
 
John Lennon's harmonica created the blues sound vital to the Beatles and as "Love Me Do" demonstrated in the previous year, not
only could they write something authentic and original, they were naturals at performing blues.  From these earliest days, Paul's
immense bass guitar, George's ability to play Chuck Berry solo's and riffs, to the tightness of Ringo's drumming, the instrumental
  backing was just incredible.  Little wonder they wrote a song for the Rolling Stones to record in 1963, a blues Stone single that
  was not an American cover version, "I Wanna Be Your Man" was written in the UK the same way "I Saw Her Standing There" was.
  Above all else though, their latest excursion into blues had "I'll Get You" featured their stunning vocal harmonies, exactly as they
  sung six years later on "Get Back" live on the rooftop of Apple.  The sound quality on this totally unmarked and hardly played first
  pressing record is absolute perfection, without wishing to over stress this point, hearing a Beatles masterpiece from a scratched
  and wrecked original, is not how to evaluate such greatness.  Yes it was a million+ seller, but how many are left still with that
  staggering mono sound quality pressed in '63?  The intro is only John & Paul singing "Oh, yeh, oh, yeh" almost acapella with just
  a few harmonica notes, handclaps and a bass, then John sings the opening verse that begins with, "Imagine, I'm in love with you."
  To hear that intro as ultra cleanly as this record just presented it, requires no scratches or marks, because they most positively
  'affect play."'  Those marks were made with a 60's tone arm dropped from a great height and then dragged through the grooves
  unmercifully, over and over again, I know because that was the way I played records back then!   That was deep and damaging
  and I am not just discussing the opening bars, I want to hear the entire "I'll Get You" from start to finish in perfect mono sound.
  I will never compromise over that, because singles are two sided records and as perfectly as "She Loves You" performed, I insist
  on hearing the same crystal clear audio definition for "I'll Get You".  Both the sides are free from crackles and any other wear
  related intrusions into the music, the run-in grooves are near silent on both sides, even saying there's low level natural static
is stating the obvious for even unplayed vinyl.  Even so, both sides have superbly smooth empty bands, giving perfectly clean and
clear entrances for the intro's.  "I'll Get You" never appeared on an album or on an EP and contains the real genius of the early
Beatles, John Lennon's sublime's lead vocal was again sung with Paul joining him on the chorus and some of the verses, a sound
that was one short step away from recognition in America.
 
You might have gathered I played and thoroughly enjoyed both sides of the record and the staggering sound quality inspired my
attention falling slightly more onto the B-side for a change.  Visually a stunning looking pair of labels, the vinyl does not have a
single mark or scuff, I get fed up stating any handling traces are 'near invisible' for such lovingly careful handling & playing.
I only select such unlikely Beatles singles, they are easily found in the average condition, with great lumps of paper worn away
around the centre holes and more deep scratches than groves.  Just those few plays for this heavyweight and deep grooved first
pressing, both sides have a deeply top glossy surface, so Near Mint is the deserved grading, especially when the sound quality
  was so perfect for such a beautiful looking record. Trying to describe a perfect sounding Beatles single usually ends up with all
  attention divided between the cleanness of the sound and how the initial empty bands of the run-in grooves behave with a modern
  stereo stylus in them.  A contradiction in terms because if I reviewed the record on my mono 1965 record player, from a 60's
  tone arm with the mono sound fed by the mono stylus through the tubes or valves,  they were intended to be amplified by, you
   would hear no static at all.  I accept that is an unacceptable method of sound grading because the majority of buyers will have
    a state of the art stereo system.  No problem to hear the sound from my stereo system, because while concentrating on the sound
     becoming ever more sensitised surface sound /static becomes a priority, but something I often sacrifice being conveyed is ever
   present on both 21st century stereo and original mid-1960's mono equipment.  The sheer impact of the Beatles music transmits an
  all embracing and totally overwhelming effect, an effect I first experienced in January,1963 and that alone is my ultimate way
  to sound grade these fantatic records.  Either the record blows you clean away, or it makes you cringe as damaged music signals
give the completely opposite effect, both sides of this record blew me away!
{Roy}
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