The Beatles ‎ – I Want To Hold Your Hand

The Beatles ‎ – I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There (Capitol Records ‎ – 5112, USA, 1963).
I Want to Hold Your Hand — the The Beatles song. For the first time released on the fifth single of group on November 29, 1963 by Parlophone Records. Besides header composition the plate contained the This Boy song on the second party.
By the time of a plate exit in Britain to it was collected more than one million orders. The first circulation was 700 thousand copies. On December 7 "forty-heel" headed national charts and remained at this position 4 weeks. Following the results of 1963 the single was recognized as the second most popular after "She Loves You", over 1 million 250 thousand copies were sold out. According to the EMI company for January, 1968 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was sold in number of 1 million 509 thousand pieces.
was released on December 26, 1963 by the American firm "Capitol Records" a single with the similar name. On the back of the American plate the I Saw Her Standing There song from a debut album was recorded.
is connected With this song unprecedented success of The Beatles in the USA and the beginning of so-called British invasion. The biographer of The Beatles Hunter Davis explains the reason of popularity of a song with the fact that she thought as the parody to a gospel. By the time of a release of the song in the homeland of musicians in Europe the Beatlemania already stormed. However America remained an unapproachable stronghold for the European stars. The first records The Beatles in America failed. Partly this results from the fact that they were released by small firms and circulations were corresponding.
Epstein decided to agree with EMI branch, Capitol Records that they released "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Documents were signed, planned release of a plate for January 13, 1964. However in the middle of December the English plate of the same name fell into hands of the American DJs, and the song was started in rotation. Also date of the first performance of the song on the American radio — is known December 17. (In general, number "17" is enigmatically connected with the I Want to Hold Your Hand song: the song was recorded on October 17 and seventeen doubles were made). The informal premiere caused a squall of phone calls of radio listeners. The ordinary American schoolgirl Sandie Stewart in an interview to Hunter Davis told that the song made an enormous impression on it, and as then it became clear, it made the same impression on her girlfriends. Such rush forced the management of Capitol Records to revise initial plans and to move issue date for December 26. Besides, if originally there were disputes over an occasion of whether there is not a bit too much for unknown foreign group the first circulation in 200 thousand copies, then now it was entrusted to three plants of phonograph records to print one million copies to the middle of January. The firm also decided to spend for advertizing of group the sum fabulous for those times — 50 thousand dollars.
K the circulation of a plate reaches on January 9 half a million copies, and on January 17 it comes out on top of charts of the Cash Box magazine. Plastinks
practically in excellent condition. Konvert is a little torn. On one party an inscription.