When George Martin couldn't secure a US recording contract with Capitol in America, he started scouting around smaller labels to get the music out. VeeJay signed the group and issued two singles. They flopped.

They kept the Beatle's songs they were contracted to publish under their hat and rested on them until, in early 1964, the Beatles exploded in America. Suddenly VeeJay realised the goldmine they had and hastilly issued an album of the songs they had. Titled 'Introducing... the Beatles' it stormed the charts.

Initially they pressed the album with two songs they were legally not allowed to publish (Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You). VeeJay only had the album out for a very short time before Capitol (who owned the rights) started legal action. VeeJay, unable to afford a big court battle, hastilly changed the affected song titles to ones they did own, Please Please Me and Ask Me Why.

It was at the time of this change that one of the pressing plants dealing with the album had a label change. The Allentown Record Co. Inc. in Pennsylvania started printing with VeeJay labels with the Brackets logo on them when word came that production was to stop until new plates arrived with the changed songs.

Only 4,925 copies were ever pressed of the Version 1 Intro with the brackets logo and it's estimated by US Beatles expert Perry Cox that less than 15 survive to this day.