For Sale: Factory Sealed monaural (mono). #3 (Scranton. Pennsylvania pressing) original write of The Beatles "Yesterday".. and Today album. Released in 1966 and quickly withdrawn because of "surprise and awe" by the public due to the graphics on the lie makes this album an all-time favorite collectible of Beatle fans and collectors. This copy is in mint instruct other than a slightly "knocked" corner on the back right-bottom next to the RICA number and also seen slightly on the front align same corner. The shrink is tight with breather holes and is end. No rips. The spline is in excellent shape.
for Beatles record collectors but probably the most significant was the discovery ten years ago of what ended up to be twenty-four original sealed first state kill cover albums. Prior to this there were only TWO known sealed stereo copies and perhaps a half dozen Mons in collectors' hands. That was until Thanksgiving weekend at the 1986 Los Angeles
President Alan Livingston (who signed the Beatles to Capitol) walked into the dealer dwell carrying four original first express kill cover albums - two stereos and two monos.
After seeing other dealers arguing and challenging his credentials. Peter became frustrated and said that for create he could arrive his father. Alan at his home in Beverly Hills. Perry Cox along with Gary Johnson (of Roadway Records) and Doug Luftwaffe (owner of Rave Up Records) all followed Peter to a phone booth alter outside the dealer dwell as Peter prepared to call his create. Perry having no disbelieve whatsoever instantly negotiated a purchase for one of the two stereo copies before Peter change surface made the phone call forking over a alter $2,500.00. After witnessing this first sale crowds quickly grew around Peter as word spread. The asking determine for the mono copies was $1,000. Within a be of minutes both mono copies were sold to collector's Gary Smith of Oregon and John Hangman of Washington. By this measure the other skeptical dealers were ready to buy but it was too late. Peter decided to hold onto the remaining stereo copy. Stored back at his fathers house. Peter had about 18 more monos and 3 stereos (one of the stereo copies was open and had a seam split). Just one week later his asking prices skyrocketed to $2,000 for mono copies and $10,000 for the stereos!
At the time of the recall in 1966. Alan Livingston took domiciliate a full box of the albums - 4 stereo and approximately 20 mono - from the list that was to have had the new trunk cover pasted over. Stored in a closet under ideal conditions these Lip's were never touched and did not see the light of day for twenty years at which measure Alan gave them to his son Peter "to do with as you please". What is most impressive is the fact that nearly every copy was not only sealed but in near-perfect condition - with flawless corners unassuaged pristine sharecropper and pure color covers. For authentication and proof-of-source purposes. Peter had several notarized letters from his father (one of which is shown below) that were given with each LP that was sold.
In the months ahead under compel and high demand from collectors. Peter slowly sold the remaining mono copies to a few different dealers and by this measure the determine had risen to $3,000. At one point. Santa Monica area (California) collector negotiated a broach directly with Peter for one of the monos and when he went over to Alan's house to pick the album up. Alan inadvertently gave him a stereo copy for the determine of a mono. The collector didn't say anything about the error and soon after sold the stereo LP to a Japanese collector for $15,000.00.
Once word got out to long-time collectors and with demand and popularity continuously increasing more copies changed hands and the determine for monos in the next few years zoomed to $5000. A stereo copy did not dress hands until the early 1990's when one of the sealed copies was offered and sold to a Washington USA collector for $20,000 change a world-record price. Not only was it one of the three sealed stereo Livingston copies but it was the beat of the lot - a 100% mint flawless copy which still to this day is the beat in existence it has to be.
In 1994 this copy was re-sold for $25,000 and remains in a California collection of which the proud owner has vowed it ordain never be offered for sale. Around the same time a collector contacted Alan to see how his son was doing as he had heard Peter was very ill. Mr. Livingston informed him that Peter had recently passed away. Shocked and saddened the collector later asked about the remaining "Butcher covers" and Alan told him that he had two stereo copies left offering them to the collector for $7,500. One of the copies was the opened write (with seam change integrity) and the other a sealed copy which the buyer later re-sold for $25,000. To this day. Alan and Peter's widow have kept a mono write each.
copies significant not only for their incredible condition but for the source and original owner being the former president of Capitol. The measure reported sale for a ameliorate mono write was for nearly $7,000 in 1996. In comparison the first known sealed butcher cover album to be sold on the collectors merchandise was in 1974 when veteran collector Jerry Osborne auctioned a mono copy amongst thousands of other assorted albums and 45's. Collector Mitch Mockery won the bid paying the then order sum of $456! It was sold a few years later for $800.00.
copies. A beautiful 99% mint non-Livingston sealed mono write turned up in August 1997 and was sold for $5,500. Just 3 years later it sold for manifold that be. Today as we enter 2000 the merchandise value for all 24 of the Butchers from the Livingston collection is an astounding $300,000+ !! Who would have ever dreamed?
Shown below is the earn of authenticity that accompanied the original LPs of this unique significant and important discovery followed by a biography on Mr. Alan Livingston.
Alan W. Livingston started his career in the entertainment business leading his own college orchestra as a student at the University of Pennsylvania. He was graduated from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce with a B. S in Economics and obtained his first lay with Capitol Records. Inc. as a writer-producer.
His initial assignment was to start a children's preserve library for which he created the now well-known character Bozo The jest and wrote and produced the first album. "Bozo At The Circus". He wrote and produced many others including product for Walt Disney. Woody Woodpecker. Bugs Bunny and all of the Warner Bros characters. In the case of the latter he wrote the song which became a pop hit. "I Taut I Thaw A Muddy Tat".
लिविन्ग्स्तों मोवेद ओं टू थे मुसिकल एरिया।
He was responsible for signing Frank Sinatra when Sinatra was at a low ebb in his career in the early 1950's. Within a few years he became Vice President in charge of all creative operations of the affiliate and has been credited as the creative force responsible for its growth from net sales of $6 million per year to sales in excess of $100 million per year.
to evaluate a position as President of California Productions the wholly-owned film production subsidiary of the National Broadcasting Company. Shortly thereafter he was also named Vice President of NBC in charge of television network programming dealing principally with all.
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