The BeatlesThe Beatles

Label:

Apple Records – SMO 2051/52

Format:

2 x Vinyl , LP, Album, Numbered, Stereo , Debossed number

Country:

Released:

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Experimental

Tracklist

A1 Back In The U.S.S.R.
A2 Dear Prudence
A3 Glass Onion
A4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
A5 Wild Honey Pie
A6 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
A7 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Guitar [Uncredited]Eric Clapton
A8 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
B1 Martha My Dear
B2 I'm So Tired
B3 Blackbird
B4 Piggies
B5 Rocky Raccoon
B6 Don't Me By
B7 Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
B8 I Will
B9 Julia
C1 Birthday
C2 Yer Blues
C3 Mother Nature's Son
C4 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
C5 Sexy Sadie
C6 Helter Skelter
C7 Long, Long, Long
D1 Revolution 1
D2 Honey Pie
D3 Savoy Truffle
D4 Cry, Baby, Cry
D5 Revolution 9
D6 Good Night

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured ByElectrola Gesellschaft m.b.H.
  • Copyright ©Northern Songs Ltd.
  • Copyright ©Apple Records
  • Made ByPathé Marconi
  • Pressed ByPathé Marconi, Chatou – 262620
  • Pressed ByPathé Marconi, Chatou – 262621
  • Pressed ByPathé Marconi, Chatou – 262622
  • Pressed ByPathé Marconi, Chatou – 262623
  • Printed ByHeinrich Nicolaus G.m.b.H.

Credits

  • EngineerKen Scott
  • Producer, Orchestrated ByGeorge Martin
  • Written-ByStarkey* (tracks: B6)

Notes

Misses the "An EMI Recording" label text on the pressing rings compared to this otherwise identical The Beatles - The Beatles version.

Cat# on: spine and labels (as two individual SMO + 4-digit numbers, one on each record).

Top Opening. Flipback on inside sleeve.
Issued with 4 glossy photographs, a double-sided poster (with lyrics on reverse side) printed by Heinrich Nicolaus G.m.b.H., black inner sleeves.
Embossed lettering (The Beatles) on the front cover. "STEREO" imprinted on reverse, top right.

The copies are numbered on the front individually to each copy in the style '№ 0000000' (7 digits).
The style of numbering depends on the number range:
- № 0000000 - 0125000: number is printed in black small font, the leading 0 is partially cut off.
- № 0125000 - 0280000: number is printed in dark grey font. The Beatles
- № 0280000 and upwards: number is debossed and colorless The Beatles (THIS VERSION)

The LPs came with German catalogue numbers, but were pressed in . Made in by "Pathé Marconi".
The gatefold sleeve was imported from , therefore inside, under the songs' titles, the credits are:
ELECTROLA GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H., Köln-Braunsfeld.
Printed and made in by Heinrich Nicolaus G.m.b.H.

Contains the same individual typos and misspellings on the labels as most (all?) of the other French pressings:
Track B7: misses the "?"
Track C4: "hyde" instead of "hide"
Track C5: "Sexie" instead of "Sexy"
Track C7: misses both commas

Eric Clapton on A7 is uncredited for contractual reasons.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Label, sides A/B): SMO 2051
  • Matrix / Runout (Label, side A): YEX 709
  • Matrix / Runout (Label, side B): YEX 710
  • Matrix / Runout (Label, sides C/D): SMO 2052
  • Matrix / Runout (Label, side C): YEX 711
  • Matrix / Runout (Label, side D): YEX 712
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched, variant 1): YEX 709 21 - M6 262622
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched, variant1): YEX 710 21 - M6 262623
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, etched, variant 1): YEX 711 21 - M6 262620
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, etched, variant 1): YEX 712 21 - M6 262621
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped / [etched], variant 2): YEX 709 21 M6 262622 [Ⅰ P]
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped / [etched], variant 2): YEX 710 21 M6 262623 [Ⅱ P]
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, stamped / [etched], variant 2): YEX 711 21 M6 262620 [1 P]
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, stamped / [etched], variant 2): YEX 712 21 M6 262621 [1 P]
  • Rights Society: BIEM

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