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Beatles Band-Signed Extended Play (EP) Record Census—Now in Progress!

We've taken two censuses of band-signed Beatles albums, but we haven't done one for Beatles-signed EPs yet.

Band-signed Beatles albums are rare. Only about 15-16 US release Beatles-signed albums are known, and only about 113-120 UK releases. 75 or so of those are "Please Please Me," the Beatles first album.

No doubt there are more that haven't reached the autograph market yet, but these numbers are a good indication of their rarity.

Beatles band-signed Extended Play records (EPs) are much, much rarer. Only 10 or less may be known.

Let's account for them title buy title, with sales histories and images that can be found.

Let the census begin!

Tags: autographed, beatles, ep, extended play, records, signed

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Permalink Reply by Alexander Mehl on April 14, 2017 at 4:34pm

Here's a nice example and you decide which is original and which is faked - offered by a eBay-seller in Australia actual.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on April 5, 2017 at 7:01pm

Are you sure they were done with a plotter machine? Here are images of the item followed by a previous item from the same seller.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 5, 2017 at 8:54pm

The Hard Day's Night one is pathetic.

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Permalink Reply by Alexander Mehl on April 6, 2017 at 5:37pm

Yes, I'm sure.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 4, 2017 at 4:17pm

I just sent Jason an email with a link to it on eBay.

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Permalink Reply by george enrique on April 4, 2017 at 4:19pm

cool let see what he says

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on April 4, 2017 at 5:01pm

George, You stated that you own an authentic fully-signed Twist and Shout EP. How about posting it?

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Permalink Reply by george enrique on April 5, 2017 at 4:30am

will do ballroom when im back from my holiday

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 5, 2017 at 8:18am

Jason said that the 6 EPs he mentioned were ones that Tracks sold. That was not one of them.

I didn't ask him if he had seen the one in the eBay listing or anymore about it.

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Permalink Reply by Samuel Mumenthaler on April 5, 2017 at 2:06pm

Beatles: French "I Want To Hold Your Hand" EP, first pressing, signed on front when the Beatles had their residency at the Olympia Paris in January 1964 for a night club owner named Dawn. See George's french inscription "Les Beatles"! Sigs are well visible on the original, although the pen has not taken well with all, due to the lamination. I bought this in the 1990s at Sotheby's, when they still were holding music memorabilia auctions and I still like it. There was a sheet music for I Want To Hold Your Hand signed for the same person too, but that went to someone else. Item is framed, so photographing it was not easy. The "stains" on the right are not there in reality, that is a shadow on the photo.