Please Please Me/ From Me To You

During the winter of 1964-65, Vee Jay used this now-rare Christmas sleeve on all its Beatles singles—truly a must-have Beatles collectable. Here, it protects one of those singles, the license for which Vee Jay grabbed before Capitol finally got wise. This is a very nice copy of this early Beatles single, which was the group's first Top 10 single in the U.K. (Their first single, "Love Me Do," peaked at #17.) Curiously, the B side of the U.S. release, "From Me To You," was the group's followup to "Please Please Me" in the U.K. and became the Beatles' first #1 hit there in April 1963. This Vee-Jay variant is has the rainbow circle around the label, with the oval Vee-Jay logo. Note: The vinyl grade reflects some scuffing.