youtu.be/3SEi4WCqgaY - Capitol did not release From Me To You in the USA until the 1962-1966 compilation. Vee Jay released it as a single, and it did not do very well. Del Shannon did an early cover of it, and his version was the first Lennon/McCartney song to chart in the U.S. When it released Please Please Me in the United States, Vee-Jay Records signed a licensing agreement giving it the right of first refusal on Beatles records for five years. Despite the failure of Please Please Me to catch on, Vee-Jay chose to release From Me to You; as a result, it was never turned down by Capitol, because it was never offered to them. From Me to You was released on Vee-Jay 522, with Thank You Girl on the B-side, on 27 May 1963. Even though Cash Box magazine called it a Pick of the Week when it was released, it initially failed even more miserably than its predecessor; through the end of June, From Me to You sold fewer than 4,000 copies and had failed to chart anywhere. When Del Shannon released a cover version of From Me to You on Bigtop Records in June, Vee-Jay tried to stimulate more interest in the original, both by placing magazine ads and by sending out additional promotional copies of the 45 stamped with the words The Original Hit. But the biggest boost to the Beatles version came from Dick Biondi, who had played Please Please Me on WLS in Chicago. Biondi was fired by WLS in May and relocated to KRLA 1110 in Los Angeles in June. He was able to convince his new employer to add From Me to You to its playlist, and it entered KRLAs Tune-Dex on 14 July, spending six weeks on the chart and peaking at 32 on 11 August. ... In the end, the original edition of From Me to You sold approximately 22,000 copies, roughly three times as many as Please Please Me had. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Me_to_You
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