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A HARD DAY’S NIGHT * THE BEATLES * UA PICTURES ’64
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FLASHBACK POP MUSIC HISTORY: FEBRUARY 28
From the MCRFB Music Calendar:
Events for this date: FEBRUARY 28
1962: Legendary deejay Murray The K threatens to leave New York’s WINS-AM after the station considers changing from their TOP 40 rock and roll format to adult easy-listening.
1963: John Lennon and Paul McCartney compose the Beatles’ next hit, “From Me To You,” while on a bus tour from York to Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England, while on tour with Helen Shapiro.
1966: Over 10,000 pounds in debt, the owners of Liverpool’s famous Cavern Club — where the Beatles got their start — decided to close the rock institution. 100 fans barricade themselves in the club, but to no avail. The venue would later become a subway station, although the Cavern would re-open in a different location.
1976: At tonight’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Paul Simon picks up Best Pop Vocal and Best Album awards for Still Crazy After All These Years. In his acceptance speech he remarked, “I’d like to thank Stevie Wonder for not releasing an album this year.”
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(Pop Music events source: oldies.com/)
BEATLES ON VEE-JAY OR SWAN? . . . JANUARY 25, 1964
From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1964
Beatles Heat Flare In Court
NEW YORK — Vee Jay Records filed a motion in New York’s Supreme Court against both Capitol Records and Swan Records here Friday seeking an injunction restraining the companies from manufacturing, distributing, advertising or otherwise disposing of recordings by the Beatles.
The motion was brought before Judge Mullen in Supreme Court, who reserved decision on the case.
The case is but one of many suits and counter-suits being bandied about the courts over the sensational young singing group from Liverpool. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; January 25, 1964)
From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1964
Beatles Heat Flare In Court
CHICAGO — The Beatles, the nation’s hottest recording property today, are becoming the object of the nation’s hottest lawsuits, at least as far as the recording industry is concerned.
The rock-and-rolling English group has a series of singles and LP’s out on three labels–Capitol, Vee Jay and Swan. Each of the offering is bounding up the national charts like Topsy.
And each is becoming involved in a series of suits and counter-suits between the various companies involved.
Most confused are the nation’s dealers and one-stops, many of whom have received telegrams from one or more of the parties, noting that appropriate legal action will be taken if they persisted in selling the others’ products.
The matter is far from settled, but as of Billboard press time, Capitol was granted an injunction in Cook County Circuit Court restraining Vee Jay from manufacturing, distributing, advertising or otherwise disposing of the Beatles’ recordings.
The Capitol injunction is good for thirty days and Vee Jay is slated to file an answer next Wednesday.
Vee Jay, meanwhile, has filed a suit seeking a similar injunction against Capitol and Swan, with a hearing slated for New York’s Supreme Court before Judge Saul Streit, last Friday.
Under the Capitol injunction, “Vee Jay, it’s agents, attorneys and servants” are prevented from selling or advertising Beatles’ products.
Presumably, and according to Vee Jay sources, the injunction does not apply against dealers, one-stops, rack jobbers and even distributors who might already have the records in stock.
According to Jay Lasker, Vee Jay executive vice-president, “we shipped an awful lot of records, more than Capitol.”
Capitol attorney, Sidney Zatz, however, has indicated that “steps could be taken” against dealers who persisted in selling the Vee Jay product, though he did not specify what this would entail.
The product causing all the fuss is:
Capitol, “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” a single, is at No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 this week, and “Meet The Beatles,” an L.P.
Vee Jay, “Please Please Me,” a single, and two LP’s, “Introducing The Beatles,” already distributed, and “The Beatles and Frank Ifield,” were not yet shipped but ready to go.
Swan, “She Loves You,” a single, is breaking into Billboard’s Hot 100 in position 69.
Neither Vee Jay nor Capitol is seeking damages as of this date, though a Capitol spokesman did not rule out the possibility of this taking place at a later date.
In its motion for injunction, Capitol claimed exclusive U.S. distribution rights to all recording by the Beatles. The label accused Vee Jay of manufacturing and selling albums introducing the Beatles in violation of Capitol’s exclusive right.
Capitol contended in its suit that Vee Jay’s rights were canceled last August.
The suit notes that initially Vee Jay was licensed by Trans Global, a New York firm licensed to distribute EMI products. EMI has the original Beatles’ contract.
Capitol claims that Trans Global canceled its contract with Vee Jay August 8 because of non-payment of royalties. Trans Global allegedly relinquished its rights to EMI with the latter than returning them over to Capitol.
Vee Jay, meanwhile, contends that it has a five-year contract with the Beatles and that it is definitely not in default for failure to pay royalties.
Capitol’s suit notes that the label has spent $50,000 in extensive nationwide promotions of the Beatles recordings. END
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(Information and new source: Billboard; January 25, 1964)
MEET THE BEATLES . . . JANUARY 18, 1964
From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1964
British Beatles Hottest Capitol Singles Ever
HOLLYWOOD — The Beatles’ Capitol single, “I Want To Hold Your Hand” this week jumps aboard Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for the first time, landing at the No. 45 spot 10 days after the record hit the market, thus becoming the fastest-breaking disk in the labels history.
According to Capitol, dealer orders passed the million mark at press time with the new York City market alone responsible for 294,000. Billboard learned that Capitol called for a Record Industry Association of America audit for sales.
The label hopes to get RIAA certification in time so that Capitol President Alan Livingston will be able to present Britain’s Beatles with a gold record award when they arrive here February 7.
Capitol’s artist and repertoire Vice-President Voyle Gilmore told Billboard his company has shipped 640,000 copies during the first week of the disk’s release.
This surpasses the label’s all-time fast-breaking singles, Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons,” and the Kingston Trio’s “Tom Dooley.” To Keep pace with the demand, Capitol has had it’s plants in Scranton, Pa., and Los Angeles on 24-hour production schedules, and found it necessary to farm out 200,000 Beatle pressings to RCA Victor.
At week’s end, Capitol’s Livingston ordered the immediate release of its “Meet The Beatles” album, which had been scheduled for issue January 20. This stepped up pace, Livingston said, resulted from “pressure too great for us to hold back any longer.”
England’s hit act is scheduled for three appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show immediately after the band’s arrival here, the first to be telecast February 9, the second on February 16, and the final one to be pre-taped in Miami for a March show. The group appeared on the Jack Parr show on a film clip several weeks ago. END
BILLBOARD LATE SINGLE SPOTLIGHTS 
MEET THE BEATLES — Capitol T 2047 (M); ST 2047 (S) — The Beatles, Britain’s prize group with the Liverpool sound, have created a great stir here. Their initial single “I Want To Hold Your Hand” is already well up the charts and this album, rushed out to cash in on the publicity splurge, should move out rapidly. For full review and cover reproduction see next week’s Billboard. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; January 18, 1964)