Friday, September 16, 2016
"Misery" Album cut
Our selection today is one of many early Beatles songs that were the subject of much legal wrangling. It was on their first UK album from EMI's Parlophone label in 1963. EMI-affiliated Capitol Records had turned it down in America, so Vee-Jay Records licensed the LP. Then Beatlemania happened, the Vee-Jay album eventually sold a million copies, and Capitol brought out their big-time lawyers to correct their own error in judgment. This particular tune didn't show up on a Capitol LP until 1980.
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The title of the Vee-Jay album was INTRODUCING THE BEATLES.
And Vee-Jay had the Beatles and the Four Seasons at the start of their careers! The owner apparently ran up huge gambling debts and the company went under. All those legal fees battling Capitol Records didn't help.
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