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TRACK LISTING
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SIDE 1
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Please Please Me (McCartney-Lennon) | |||
SIDE 2
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Ask Me Why (McCartney-Lennon) | ||||
RELEASE DATE
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1964/6th. Press (First Press: 12th. November 1963) | ||||
FRONT -->Click! | BACK -->Click! | SIDE 1 -->Click! | SIDE 2 -->Click! | DISK -->Click! | |
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FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | BACK COVER CLOSE UP |
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5th Picture Sleeve: Catalog number is in
top right. Back cover list four singles and two LPs.
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"PARLOPHON" logomark was printed at the left corner of the front cover. | Carisch is a leading publishing company
based in Milan, founded in 1887, which prints and
distributes the most important catalogues of music score. During the Sixties it became one of the main brands, and with its own label distributed in Italy the first records of The Beatles. |
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LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
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"BIEM" logo in the box and "MECOLICO logo mark were printed at the left side of the label. | ![]() |
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"PARLOPHON" logomark and "MADE IN ITALY" were printed at the center of the label. | |||||
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL
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PARLOPHON / Dark Blue label with silver print | ||||
CATALOG NUMBER
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QMSP-16346 | ||||
VINYL COLOR
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BLACK | ||||
MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | 7XCE 17217 1 12 11 63 | |||
SIDE 2 | 7XCE 17218 1 12 11 63 | ||||
MIX
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MONO | ||||
SLEEVE |
6th.
Press (1964): Title in the middle, Backside: List 4 singles
and 2 LP's, THE BEATLES on the left |
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LABEL |
5th.
Press (1963): Blue Parlophon label with spherical logo and
silver print / BIEM-Mecolico / BIEM |
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CREDIT
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DISCHI PARLOPHON CARISCH S.p.A. MILANO | ||||
COMMENTS
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Dark blue Parlophon
label.
On both side of the disk, "BIEM" logo in the box was printed. And on the side-1, the 'MECOLICO" logo was printed. Some copies of the "Please Please Me" single do not have the "BIEM" logo on the A-side. *BIEM=Bureau International de l'Edition Mécanique |