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*<* BEATLES! "I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND" UNPLAYED MINT CLEAR VINYL 45/JUKESTRIP!

Sold Date: November 7, 2015
Start Date: July 2, 2015
Final Price: $18.99 (USD)
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BEATLEMANIACS!  We've purchased a HUGE BEATLES COLLECTION (nearly a THOUSAND items!), and we'll be listing Fab Four collectibles as fast as time allows...so add us to your favorite sellers list, and keep an eye on our buy-it-now bargains and rare auction finds!  Here's today's GEAR listing: 

I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND/THIS BOY (Capitol 17689 "FOR JUKEBOXES ONLY!" CLEAR vinyl CEMA Special Markets 45, 1994): UNPLAYED MINT with jukebox title strip.

This is a "FOR JUKEBOXES ONLY" CEMA Special Markets release, but it will play on any 45RPM record player...

The 45 that changed pop music!  I Want To Hold Your Hand rocketed to the top of the U.S. Hot 100 in the Spring of '64, and popular music was never the same.  Here's an UNPLAYED MINT CEMA Special Markets single on glorious CLEAR vinyl, with its jukebox title strip.  All the "FOR JUKEBOXES ONLY!" singles are escalating in price:

The Capitol colored vinyl 45s are the rarest stock-copy Beatles singles ever released in the U.S.; there were between 10,000 and 22,000 copies pressed of each "FOR JUKEBOXES ONLY!" 45.  This was a sign of the times; by the mid-nineties the era of the 45RPM record seemed to be over.  Juke-jobbers, for whom the series was created, had already moved to CD jukeboxes.  They didn't want the records, so Capitol sold them to chain stores and mail-order companies just to get rid of them.  The rarity of the 30 colored vinyl Beatles 45s is impressive compared to the countless millions of '60s orange-and-yellow swirls and the immense flood of orange, blue, and purple-label reissues of the '70s and '80s.  The entire series includes eleven singles that had never before appeared as U.S. 45s (and two others with alternate flip sides, like this one).  It's been 19 years since Capitol released the last of these beautiful records, and rapidly-increasing values reflect their rarity.

One only...don't miss it! 

COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNT: $3.99 sends this single with delivery confirmation; 50 cents ships each additional 45.

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