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Beatles White Album Decca Records Promo RARE ONE OF 15 1st pressing #0069670

$ 2085.6

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Artist: The Beatles
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Type: LP
  • Record Size: 12"
  • Edition: UK Pressing
  • Language: English
  • Release Title: The Beatles - White Album
  • Sleeve Grading: See photos , buyer self grades, sold as is !
  • Beatles: White Album Promo
  • Condition: PROMO RECORD was promotionally used,, Very Good/Good Condition - has various aged issues, See Description and Photos
  • Speed: 33RPM
  • Features: Import
  • Record Grading: See detailed grading below
  • Genre: Rock
  • Record Label: Apple
  • Release Year: 1968
  • Style: Rock 'n' Roll

    Description

    SUPER , FANTASTIC RARE !
    1968 RARE Beatles White Album "DECCA RECORDS" in-house promo with a unique story.
    This record with 14 others was pulled out of production, was sent via
    by Apple/EMI ?
    to Decca Records as an in-house promo and is labeled in red ink as "Decca Promotional Copy". Decca records "who did contract pressings of many famous Bands", had a working, somewhat
    motivational,
    hopeful
    distribution
    relationship throughout the Beatles' early career.
    Please see photo of the BOLDLY black stamped statement ( DECCA COPY : 15 NOT FOR SALE ) additionally on back t
    here is a faint indentation of another White Album on the back cover which suggests the album were stacked when sent to the Decca executives.
    Discogs states "Only 15 copies of this promo originally existed and were handed to Decca executives for review "! As a current beholders opinion, in hand, observing the overall condition of this record it should be surmised, Decca Executives, Decca
    supervisors
    , Global investors for promotion certainly handled, reviewed, played with this, Etc., Etc., Etc., ?? the rest is
    famous
    history !
    >
    Own a ( SUPER RARE 1 out of 15 or less IN THE WORLD ! ) piece of Beatles history!
    See Photos and questions are welcomed, BUY & be a ( 4TH OF JULY ,, HAPPY HOLIDAY ) WINNER !
    Critical Information:
    Top loading & gatefold sleeve with original black liners , PROMO RECORD FOR DECCA
    Individual photos of each Beatle: Very fine/very good condition with corner issue.
    Colored poster insert is good condition.
    No EMI text on the labels (distinguishing this an early copy).
    Shows some evidence of handling
    in the records (more on Disc 2 than Disc 1) but playable.
    2 LP RECORDS , Dark Apple labels, First pressing #0069670.
    K T Tax Code on Side 4
    Matrix Numbers
    XEX 709-1 (Side 1) ; (R. R.) at 3 o clock ; (#1) at 9 o clock
    XEX 710-1 (Side 2) ; (R.M.) at 3 o clock ; ( #2 6 ) at 9 o clock
    XEX 711-1 (Side 3) ; ( R.A.) at 3 o clock ; (#1 ) at 9 o clock
    XEX 712-1 (Side 4) ; (O.D.) at 3 o clock ; (#4) at 9 o clock
    **Shipping under USPS Registered Mail for a secure and insured delivery...3 Day shipping not guaranteed; deliver times may vary.
    Ps; Please do your own research and validate opinions, Google data , Wikipedia,
    Beatles historians that = Via “Apple” corporation and / or EMI business promotional dept
    advertisers
    certainly were promoting / Promo “ The Beatles / White Album *!
    It
    is well told that over those White Album years EMI sent out Promo's
    so as to contract out pressings of both singles and albums to other
    companies such as Decca or PYE and the export "white album" was no exception, some copies of this export album where pressed by Decca.
    Example ?? >
    BEATLES - White Album (1968)
    SUPER RARE Decca contract export! Parlophone black & yellow labels . Possibly , one of the rarest Beatles records around!
    *So it seems ,, this > one of 15 Decca PROMO copies motivated ,,,>> to record press in 1968 , thus this "one", &
    maybe ONLY one of a kind existing, for auction, is a DECCA historical predecessor complementing the also super rare Parlophone black & yellow labels.
    There is the also " Art value ", Simply BUYING THIS
    POP ARTIST RICHARD HAMILTON "WHITE ALBUM " as
    COLLECTION WORTHY
    WALL HANGER!
    BEATLES COLLECTABLES >
    The four Beatles,
    the
    30-song collection Attributed major players ; John Lennon, Paul
    McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr indulging in a variety of musical styles.
    ,
    ERIC CLAPTON PLAYS GUITAR ON "WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS."
    George Harrison
    wrote the song, and found
    that Lennon and McCartney weren't taking the recording of it
    seriously enough. The next day Harrison convinced his friend Eric
    Clapton to come in and play on the track.
    Who was variously inspired
    / associated with the,
    The
    Beatles
    , White Album?
    ,
    Brian Epstein, the record-store manager, ,
    George Martin the struggling producer ,
    THE "JULIA" WAS JOHN LENNON’S MOTHER.
    The song is
    for both her and Yoko On
    o &
    some other ? of their romantic partners?!
    Paul's BLACKBIRD" WAS ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS and for many reasons the other notables including pop-folk singer Donovan, actress Mia Farrow, jazz flutist Paul Horn and the Beach Boys' Mike Love gathered at an Ashram in Rishikesh, India for an intensive Transcendental Meditation course under the guidance of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Globally who else was involved ,,??!!,,POP ARTIST RICHARD HAMILTON,
    Jimmy Scott musician
    ,
    Ed Sullivan
    LOTS OF REASONS this Holiday , TO BUY THIS NOW !! Etc., etc., etc.,