Fact #88614
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Short story:
The Beatles' first American album, Introducing The Beatles, was set for release on this date on Vee-Jay Records in the USA, but did not appear.
Full article:
Calvin Carter (A + R man, Vee-Jay Records] : During that time, Ewart Abner (chief executive of Vee-Jay) left the company and we brought a new management team in, and they were at first under the impression that we had also released The Beatles. But we didn't.
EMI claimed they sent us some kind of mysterious telegram, but they never could find the telegram. We were also set to release an album by The Beatles about that time (Introducing The Beatles], but we had too many items in our catalog already, and the distributors were complaining. So we eliminated some of these albums we were set to release, and The Beatles album was one of them, because The Beatles just did not sell very well the first time around. I kept The Beatles album in my desk drawer for several months after that.
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EMI claimed they sent us some kind of mysterious telegram, but they never could find the telegram. We were also set to release an album by The Beatles about that time (Introducing The Beatles], but we had too many items in our catalog already, and the distributors were complaining. So we eliminated some of these albums we were set to release, and The Beatles album was one of them, because The Beatles just did not sell very well the first time around. I kept The Beatles album in my desk drawer for several months after that.