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| TITLE | THE BEATLES GREATEST HITS volume 1 | ||||
| CATALOG NUMBER | PCSO 7533 | ||||
| RELEASE DATE | 1969 / 2nd. Press (First Press: 22th February 1968) | ||||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | |||
| Please, Please Me |
Twist And Shout |
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| From Me To You |
Roll Over, Beethoven | ||||
| She Loves You (sim. stereo) |
All My Loving |
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| I'll Get You (sim. stereo) | Hold Me Tight |
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| I Want To Hold Your Hand |
Can't Buy Me Love |
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| Love Me Do (sim. stereo) | You Can't Do That |
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| I Saw Her Standing There | Long, Tall Sally | ||||
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| INNER SLEEVE | FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | ||||
| Original Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe) |
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2nd. Press has non-flipback sleeve. 1st. Press: Housed in a twin-flipback printed cover (Semi wrap-around cover). |
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"E.M.I. (Australia) Limited" and "Made and Printed in Australia" were printed at the bottom of the back cover. | ||||
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Silver Parlophone and
A.K.A. "Banner" STEREO label. Side 2: Roll Over Beethoven is spelled "Roll Over, Beethoven" Long Tall Sally is spelled "Long, Tall Sally". |
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SIDE 2 | Matrix No.: Side-1: YAPAX 1015 Side-2: YAPAX 1016 |
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| LABEL | Silver Parlophone "Banner" STEREO | ||||
| MIX | STEREO | ||||
| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | YAPAX 1015 (hand writing) | |||
| SIDE 2 | YAPAX 1016 (hand writing) | ||||
| VINYL COLOR | BLACK | ||||
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LABEL | E.M.I. (Australia) Limited. | |||
| COVER | E.M.I. (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED | ||||
| RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT | - | ||||
| COVER FORM | Single type. Housed in a non-flipback printed cover | ||||
| PRINTER CREDIT | - | ||||
| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo: Robert Whitaker |
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| INNER SLEEVE | Original Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe) | ||||
| PRODUCER | George Martin | ||||
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COMMENTS
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Silver Parlophone and
A.K.A. "Banner" STEREO label. The label has a second line of rim print reading, "Made in Australia by EMI (Australia) Limited." 2nd. Press has non-flipback sleeve. 1st. Press: Housed in a twin-flipback printed cover (Semi wrap-around cover) and with "STEREO" Sticker. Both volumes ("Greatest Hits Volume 1 & 2") were conceived in early 1966, with EMI (Australia) requesting stereo tapes from EMI UK for the tracks not already in its vaults. This means that both volumes, despite not being released locally in stereo until February 1967 (Volume 2) and February 1968 (Volume 1), contain the 1965 stereo mixes of "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out" rather than the new mixes that were created by EMI UK in November 1966 for A Collection Of Beatles Oldies. This also explains why the two volumes contain no post-1965 “greatest hits”. Volume 2’s claim to fame was being the only album worldwide, until the 1980 eight-LP The Beatles Box release, to contain the stereo mix of She’s A Woman. The mono masters of both volumes were folddowns of the stereo tapes, with only "She Loves You" and "I’ll Get You" appearing in true mono, due to the unavailability of stereo mixes at the time of compilation. Both mono volumes were mastered together in 1966. Mysteriously, the stereo version of Volume 1 would not be released until twenty months after the mono release, and twelve months after the release of Volume 2! This is why the Volume 2 sleeve refers only to the mono release of Volume 1. For the stereo release of Volume 1, EMI (Australia) replaced the mono mix of She Loves You with the fake stereo mix created by EMI UK in November 1966. The covers for both volumes borrowed heavily from overseas releases. Volume 1 used elements from the US Beatles VI and German The Beatles Beat and Volume 2 used elements from the (surprisingly even earlier) US Beatles ‘65 as well as what was left of Beatles VI. Use of these 1965-period photos emphasises the genesis of these albums. (According to "The Beatles Australia Album Labelography") |
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