Stating "Mono" on front at the upper right corner. Gatefold sleeve. Text on the left inside of cover saying "made and printed in Great Britain".
Black/Yellow Parlophone label.
Label states: Made in Sweden, XEX 504, Recording first published 1964.
Also, there is a copyright text written in swedish to the right, saying that the rights belongs to "Skandinaviska Grammophon Aktiebolaget".Parlophone 3 3/4 ips Twin Track Mono Tape Record- green Obi with arrows - back of cover with Apple logo - printed 2,000 Yen price on the Obi-strip and back sleeve. - spine with red stereo and red dot - black vinyl with Apple-Label, rim text in two lines - thin gatefold sleeve with Japanese notes - includes sheet with lyrics
Mfd. By Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd, Japan (東芝音楽工業株式会社)Black & yellow Parlophone label with perimeter rim copyright text beginning, 'THE PARLOPHONE CO LTD...', and the text 'RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964' above the side indicator numeral, and the text 'SOLD IN U.K. SUBJECT TO...' across the middle.
There are a 3 variations involving the presence or lack of periods after the NCB credit following two of the songs.
This release has periods after NCB in the publishing credits for B5 'I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' and B6 'What You're Doing'. A similar release omits the period after NCB in the publishing credit for B6 'What You're Doing', whilst another similar release omits the period after NCB in the publishing credit for B5 'I Don't Want To Spoil The Party'.
This release has the UK purchase tax code 'KT' an identical version has the UK purchase tax code 'MT'.
E.M.I. Records Limited (Controlled by Electric & Musical Industries Limited). Made and Printed in Great Britain.
This album has a fold-out Unipack-style [opens from inside] sleeve.
Publishing info: A1 to A3, A5, B1, B4 to B6 - Northern Songs Mus. NCB. A4 - Jewel Mus. BIEM. A6 - Chappell. Mecolico. NCB. A7 - Macmelodies. Mecolico. BIEM. NCB. World Music B2 - Southern Mus. NCB. B3 - Aberbach (Ldn.) Ltd. BIEM. B7 - Knox Music. BIEMSummer 1976 until October 1980. Black-white-silver label with two EMI logos in white box. 'EMI RECORDS LTD' at the start of perimeter print ended with 'MADE IN GT. BRITAIN'.Release with 2 boxed EMI logos on the silver/black Parlophone label. “ALL RIGHTS OF THE PRODUCER…” printed at the start perimeter print. Around the 11 ‘o’ clock position in the rimtext the wording is: “…UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, BROADCASTING, COPYING AND HIRING…”. with “MANUFACTURED IN THE UK BY EMI RECORDS LIMITED” text at the end of the perimeter print.
Gatefold Sleeve.First pressings are on a black and yellow Parlophone label with ''The Parlophone Co.'' in the perimeter and ''Sold in the UK'' in the middle.
E.M.I. Records Limited (Controlled by Electric & Musical Industries Limited). Made and Printed in Great Britain.
This album has one of the first known appearances of 'gatefold' sleeve record packaging, but opens from the inside.
Publishing info: A1 to A3, A5, B1, B4 to B6 - Northern Songs Mus. NCB. A4 - Jewel Mus. BIEM. A6 - Chappell. Mecolico. NCB. A7 - Macmelodies. Mecolico. BIEM. NCB. World Music B2 - Southern Mus. NCB. B3 - Aberbach (Ldn.) Ltd. BIEM. B7 - Knox Music. BIEMBeatles for Sale, rare single sided sample recoding of the 1964 LP. Issued on Parlophone with a white label and black text staying "LONG PLAYING TEST RECORD NOT FOR SALE", with the beatles, written in hand. The record is side 1, with Matrix XEX 503-4N. Record has a sleeve with stamped "4 nov 1965".
Barcodes
Matrix / Runout: XEX 550-2
Rights Society: BIEM / NCB / Mecolico
Other (UK purchase tax code): KT
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side 1 ["2" and "3" rotated by 90°, "HTM" handwritten]): HTM YEX 142-4 2 3
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side 2 [first "1", "2" and "1" rotated by 90°]): 1 YEX 143-6 2 1
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side 1): 1 YEX 142-4 A 1 1 HTM ( etched )
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side 2): 1 YEX 143-6 1 G 2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side 1 ( 4 and 2 rotated by 90 degrees, HTM handwritten )): HTM YEX 142-4 4 2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side 2 ( 9 and 2 rotated by 90 degrees )): YEX 143-5 9 2
Matrix / Runout (Label A): YEX-142
Matrix / Runout (Label B): YEX-143
Matrix / Runout (Runout A, Stamped, Variant 1): YEX-142-21 〄
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