The Beatles Rarity » Collector’s Corner – Introducing The Beatles (the world’s most counterfeited album):: "The first bit of legal trouble however was not directly from EMI/Transglobal, but from Beechwood Music. Beechwood held the U.S. publishing rights for “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You,” and furthermore were a subsidiary of Capitol Records. Naturally they refused to allow Vee Jay a license, especially since the two songs had not been previously released in the U.S. A restraining order was issued to stop distribution of the album, and in response Vee Jay instead reconfigured the record by removing “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You” and replacing them with the other two previously deleted tracks, “Please Please Me” and “Ask Me Why.” The initial version of Introducing The Beatles with “Love Me Do” is now termed ‘version 1′ of the record and the reconfigured album that instead includes “Please Please Me” is referred to as ‘version 2′. The version 2 copies made it into the stores on around February 10, 1964. There were also a few version 1 albums deceptively included in version 2 jackets, to avoid the suspicion of breaching the restraining order."
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