Item: AUTHENTIC ULTRA RARE BEATLES CANADA DECCA MY BONNIE 45 w/ CANADIAN DECCA SLEEVE. ONE OF THE SCARCEST BEATLES RECORDS IN EXISTENCE / COA
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AUTHENTIC & EXTREMELY RARE BEATLES CANADA DECCA MY BONNIE 45 w/ ORIGINAL CANADIAN DECCA SLEEVE
1962 / DECCA 31382
Condition: Vinyl = VG/VG- / Labels = NM-
** PLEASE NOTE THAT PERRY COX PLACES A CURRENT MARKET VALUE OF $6000 – $7500 ON THIS GEM **
** THIS IS AN ORIGINAL 1962 PRESSING…. NOT A RE-ISSUE **
** LESS THAN 10 KNOWN AUTHENTIC EXAMPLES IN EXISTENCE **
THIS RARE CANADIAN RECORD IS THE MEGA-RARE: MY BONNIE / The Saints (When The Saints Go Marching In) (DECCA 31382) THIS IS THE ORIGINAL STOCK COPY FOR THIS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND RECORD! THIS STOCK COPY HAS ORIGINAL 1950’S STYLE ALL BLACK DECCA LABEL WITH SILVER LABEL PRINT. THIS FIRST RECORD WITH PERFORMANCES BY THE BEATLES WAS RELEASED IN APRIL 1962 IN CANADA. THIS RECORD REALLY IS NOT TRULY A BEATLES RECORD BUT IT FEATURES THE GROUP IDENTIFIED AS THE BEAT BROTHERS BACKING THEIR FRIEND TONY SHERIDAN. THIS STOCK RECORD WAS MANUFACTURED IN VERY SMALL NUMBERS AND DID NOT CHART AT ALL FOR THE TIME. TODAY THIS IS THE SCARCEST OF ALL BEATLES NORTH AMERICAN RECORDS! THE RECORD WAS PRESS BY DECCA’S CANADIAN COMPO’S PRESSING PLANT HAVING THE SAME RECORD AND FILE NUMBER AS THE U.S. STOCK COPY. THIS HAS MACHINE STAMPED MATRIX NUMBERS IN THE TRAIL OFF AREA: ‘DGG-66833 A4’ ON SIDE 1 AND ‘DGG-24673 R4’ ON SIDE 2 TRAIL OFF. ALSO THE MATRIX NUMBER IS LIGHTLY HAND ETCHED ON SIDE ONE’S LABEL. THIS IS SEEN CLEARLY IN A BRIGHT LIGHT. THIS IS FOUND ON ALL ORIGINAL STOCK COPIES. Perry Cox HAS VERIFIED THIS ALL-ORIGINAL 1962 STOCK COPY!
THE RECORD RETAINS ALL OF ITS NEW PRESSED MIRRORED LOOK TO IT! THE RECORD SHOULD TRACK VERY WELL. THE DISC HAS NO WARPING AT ALL AND LAYS FLAT. THIS COMES WITH THE ORIGINAL CANADIAN DECCA SLEEVE IN VG++ CONDITION WITH NO WRITING AND NO SPLITS!
In Canada as in the USA, the Beatles’ first single was on the Decca label. Credited to Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, the Canadian equivalent of the fabled “Decca ‘My Bonnie'” was issued in April, 1962. Pressed by Compo using stampers from one of the two US factories, the Canadian single fared as poorly as did the US counterpart. US Decca had been using a “color-band” label for several years, but Canadian Decca was still using this 50’s-style label.
** Demand for US singles aside, this single is actually more rare than the US version **
This is probably the rarest Canadian Beatles record, and is definitely one that does not surface on the market often enough. This is also what makes it very difficult to give it an accurate market value. Although this record has been marked between $10,000 and $15,000 USD by price guides such as Goldmine, value is still based on sales, and when sales for an item happen once every 10 years or so, it gets tricky to establish what one would be willing to pay when it turns up.
The new electronic sales market that started in the late 90s (like eBay) also complicated things when they introduced the possibility of a “Buy It Now” price. Value was not set by the buyers anymore, but by what the seller decides he/she wants for an item. Auctions that follow their natural course are a much better indicator of an item’s value since it reflects how interested buyers really are (i.e., the number of bids and price paid.) It also means that final sales prices are much closer to what buyers are willing to pay for an item (I say “closer to” because the final price of an auction is always the second buyers’ highest bid – so the winner sometimes was willing to bid much more than he ended up paying in reality.)
To give an idea of the scarcity of this record, apparently only 5 copies were documented in Canada: 1 in Vancouver, 2 in Ontario and 2 in Québec. Now there possibly are more around, but those are the ones that have surfaced in Canada to date. Very few other copies are in the hands of American collectors, like the one listed here.
It is most likely that copies were originally sent to radio stations across the country but for some reason, most (if not all) copies found today originate from eastern Canada, closer to where it was pressed.