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09. Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby (O 923 280)
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#9-1 Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby (Export Press for Switzerland / Green label (URHEBER rim): O 923 280)
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TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
Yellow Submarine (Lennon - McCartney)
SIDE 2 Eleanor Rigby (Lennon - McCartney)
RELEASE DATE
August 1966? / First Press for export
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Catalog No. "O 23 280" was printed at the upper right of the front cover.
"ELECTROLA  GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H KÖLN" was printed at the center of the cover.
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jacket jacket On both sides, Odeon logo mark, master number, and running time were printed at the left side of the center hole.
"Printed in Germany" credit was printed at the lower left corner of the front cover.

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label Green label and Odeon logo mark in white was printed above the center hole.
label "MADE IN GERMANY" circular, and 45 in a triangle were printed at the bottom of the label.
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label label With the sticker of the record number "Special Edition 923 280" on label side one and two.
"GEMA" logo was printed on both sides of the label.
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The rim print was: "URHEBER. UND LEISTUNGSSCHUTZRECHTE, BESONDERS VERVIELFÄLTIGUNG
(AUSSER ZUM PERSÖNLICHEN GEBRAUCH), VERMIETUNG. AUFFÜHRUNG, SENDUNG, VORBEHALTEN"
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RECORD LABEL
Odeon Green Label Type-2
CATALOG NUMBER
O 923 280
MIX
MONO
MATRIX No. Side1 7XCE  18395-1
Side2 7XCE  18396-1
VINYL COLOR
BLACK
CENTER Full size center hole
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME
Label
Odeon
Sleeve
Odeon EMI / ELECTROLA  GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H KÖLN
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES
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PRINTER CREDIT
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PRODUCER
George Martin
COMMENTS
Grammoclub Ex Libris Club(*) edition released in Switzerland only.
Made in Germany for export on Green Odeon label.
"Spezial-Edition" imported from Germany for the Switzerland market - Note the added "9" in the catalogue Number compared to the German catalogue Number.

With the sticker of the record number "Special Edition 923 280" on label side one and two.

In mid 1966, the rim print of the label was changed on all Odeon releases to read:

URHEBER. UND LEISTUNGSSCHUTZRECHTE, BESONDERS VERVIELFÄLTIGUNG
(AUSSER ZUM PERSÖNLICHEN GEBRAUCH), VERMIETUNG. AUFFÜHRUNG, SENDUNG, VORBEHALTEN
(COPYRIGHT AND  PROPERTY RIGHTS, ESPECIALLY REPRODUCTION (EXCEPT FOR PERSONAL USE), RENT, PERFORMANCE, BROADCAST)

History: This Swiss Club Special Edition pressing Single of The Beatles was available exclusively and only to a very limited number of members of the Swiss EX LIBRIS record and book club in 1965. You´ve had to spend quite a high amount of money to become a member of EX LIBRIS. All the many other Swiss record shops (and there were some really great ones amongst them) have sold mainly the German, French and British pressings of the Beatles latest recordings. The British originals sold best. Ex Libris wasn´t considered a very hip shop at all, and so only a small number of people went to ever shop there, but few of them would decide to go for any records by the Beatles, and that´s why they ARE so incredibly rare!! Only around 500 copies of them have sold.

(*)Grammoclub Ex Libris Club (Ex Libris Records):
Swiss record club, label, publisher, and stores. The label belongs to Migros (famous Swiss Supermarket chain). Their releases were never available from any supermarkets, but only to members of the fairly small Ex Libris club. The label was originally called "Grammoclub Ex Libris" (during the 50s and the 60s), but was shortened to Ex Libris towards the mid 60s. Only club members were allowed to buy from their shops. You've had to pay a fairly high fee in order to become a member of them, which is something that only a few wealthy elder people were able to do. In retrospect they mainly seem to have sold their records to some older folks, or to some family-people: They've usually bought Classical Music, Easy Listening, Jazz, Kiddie-Records, and the likes -- only few of their buyers would be interested in Rock 'N' Roll, or Beat back then, therefore only a few copies of their nowadays highly collectable releases by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Elvis Presley (Golden Boy LP) seem to have sold. Most of the young Swiss people would shop someplace else, because they could not afford to pay for the high membership fee in order to buy such a Rolling Stones LP or 45 from Ex Libris.

"GEMA**/BIEM***" :a marking that indicates what company is responsible for the copyright payments for the material released on the record to the proper publishers. It is important to remember that a record with the above-mentioned marking isn't necessarily made in Germany but which was intended for sale in Germany.



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