The Beatles' first ever single was this one, 'Love Me Do' and when it was first released in October 1962 it made a respectible 17 in the charts. The single dropped from the charts whilst Parlophone were still using the red label design for their 45s.

By 1963 when the label style changed to black 'Love Me Do' had long fallen out of favour by the fans who were instead fixed on singles like From Me To You and She Loves You. Couple this along with the facts that the single was by then unavailable to buy and had to be specially ordered in, and both songs on the single featured on the 'Please Please Me' album which all the fans had.

Because of this mixture is it almost impossible to find a 2nd pressing copy of the single on the black Parlophone label today. The only people who would have pre-ordered this were people looking to replace their original copies, and most of them just bought the album instead. This is an extremely rare example of this record and one that these days pretty much never comes up for sale!