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| TITLE | MAGICAL MYSTERY
TOUR |
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| CATALOG NUMBER | EAP-9030X |
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| RELEASE DATE | 22nd March 1973 / Reissue |
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| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | |||
| Magical Mystery Tour |
Hello Goodbye |
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| The Fool On The Hill |
Strawberry Fields Forever |
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| Flying |
Penny Lane *fake stereo |
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| Blue Jay Way |
Baby You're A Rich Man *fake stereo |
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| Your Mother Should Know |
All You Need Is Love *fake stereo | ||||
| I Am The Walrus | |||||
| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK --> Click! | |
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| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! | With Apple custom black inner sleeve. | |||
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| LYRIC SHEET (Single
Sheet Type) |
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| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! | LYRIC SHEET CLOSE UP | |||
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The lyric sheet is a single sheet. It includes lyrics for only five songs, as the other five are printed inside the gatefold cover. "Flying" is instrumental. No Japanese translations are included. |  |
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Company name "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd." was printed on the lyric sheet. | ||||
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It appears that an "X" was added to the
end of the catalog numbers of deluxe LPs in the 9000 series,
priced at ¥2,200. |
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The Apple logo is printed on
the back cover. The following credit was printed below the Apple logo on the back cover: "TRADEMARK OF CARL LINDSTRÖM G.M.B.H. ONE OF THE E.M.I. GROUP OF COMPANIES" |
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"Toshiba Musical Industries
Ltd." and "H ¥2,200" are printed at the bottom of the back
cover. |
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Inside the gatefold cover, all
selections are credited to “Maclen Music, Inc., BMI,” and
the producer is credited as “Big George Martin.” |
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The credit “© All lyrics copyright 1967
for the world by Northern Songs Ltd. England” is printed
inside. |
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| "FOREVER" OBI: FRONT CLOSE UP | |||||
| OBI: FRONT 1 --> Click! | OBI: FRONT 2 --> Click! | OBI: FRONT 3 --> Click! | |||
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| catalog number
and price "¥2,200" were printed at the top on obi
strip. |
It is a wide
Obi characterized by the Apple logo at the top, and has a
dark green background. |
The words "The Beatles
Forever" was printed at the bottom. |
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The obi remains intact with the order form on the back uncut. Price "¥2,200" and "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd." were printed on the obi strip. | This style Obi came into use
in the late (October?) 1972 to promote all Beatles releases
then currently on the Apple label. It is a wide Obi characterized by the Apple logo at the top, the words "The Beatles Forever" at the bottom, and has a dark green background. This is the first obi that was released with the same design. |
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The phrase "Apple Records - All Rights of the Manufacturer and of the Owner of the Recorded work Reserved." is printed at the perimeter. | ||
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The words "MFD. BY TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. JAPAN" is printed at the bottom of the label. | |||
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Song titles were printed
in narrow sans-serif font on the label. |
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OTHER ITEM:
With attached 24-PAGES BOOKLET |
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Includes LP-sided 24-page full color
picture book called the "Magical Mystery Tour" book. © 1967,
NEMS Enterprises Ltd. |
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| RECORD LABEL | Light Green Apple label Type-2-1' |
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| MIX | STEREO (except as noted) |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | SMAL-X-1-2835
1S3 10 |
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| SIDE 2 | SMAL-X-2-2835
15 15 |
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| PRESS MARK | 3DKI
W |
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| VINYL COLOR | BLACK |
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| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | SLEEVE | Toshiba Ongaku kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | |||
| LABEL | MFD. BY
TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. JAPAN |
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| SYMBOL/PRICE | H - ¥2,200 |
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| LYRIC SHEET STYLE | Slip Sheet Type |
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| COVER FORM | Gatefold type. Hard cover. |
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| INNER SLEEVE |
Apple custom black sleeve |
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| OBI |
"FOREVER" Obi (¥ 2,200 / Toshiba Onko) Wide Obi characterized by the Apple logo at the top, and has a dark green background. |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo: John Kelly / Drawing: Bob
Gibson / Notes: Tony Barrow |
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COMMENTS
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Light green Apple
label Type-2-1' with black print. On 1st. December 1973, the record price was raised. The price of the stereo edition has been raised from 2000 yen to 2200 yen. In late (September?)1969, Toshiba had to reissue on the Apple label all the records previously issued on the Odeon label. And in the Apple label, there are two subtypes, TOSHIBA MUSIC and TOSHIBA EMI. Further more, the early copies of the APPLE-TOSHIBA MUSIC type have dark Apple on its label, though the late copies have light one. When the album was issued in Japan, Toshiba used the same basic master as the U.S. Capitol LP. As a result, “Penny Lane,” “Baby You’re A Rich Man,” and “All You Need Is Love” remained in fake stereo. The credit “© All lyrics copyright 1967 for the world by Northern Songs Ltd. England” is printed inside the gatefold cover. This credit was used on both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, the two Beatles releases from 1967 that printed the song lyrics as part of the album artwork. The obi: "Forever" Obi This style Obi came into use in the late (October?) 1972 to promote all Beatles releases then currently on the Apple label. The tagline "Beatles Forever" used in Toshiba Onko's campaign began to be used around 1972. It is a wide Obi characterized by the Apple logo at the top, the words "The Beatles Forever" at the bottom, and has a dark green background. This is the first obi that was released with the same design.Forever obi was used in the early 70's, and used for the Beatles, solos, and Apple artist LPs. On 1st October 1973, Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd. was changed its name to Toshiba EMI Ltd. So, there were two kind of Obis --the company name is "Tohiba Musical..." version and "Toshiba EMI..." version. The order sheet was printed for the first Apple Obi but was discontinued in the early years of the Toshiba EMI/Apple Obi (maybe 1974) |
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