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The Fresh Sounds From Liverpool (OR 7060)
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 "Liverpool sound" is a music genre that originated from rock and roll, which broke out in England in the early 1960s. "Liverpool sound" is a unique name in Japan, and in the UK it was called Mersey Beat, Beat Music, British Beat, etc.
The name Mersey Beat was used for a Liverpool music magazine founded in 1961 by Bill Harry. Harry claims to have coined the term "based on a policeman's beat and not that of the music". The band the Pacifics were renamed the Mersey Beats in February 1962 by Bob Wooler, MC at the Cavern Club, and in April that year they became the Merseybeats. With the rise of the Beatles in 1963, the terms Mersey sound and Merseybeat were applied to bands and singers from Liverpool, the first time in British pop music that a sound and a location were linked together.
The equivalent scenes in Birmingham and London were described as Brum beat and the Tottenham Sound respectively.
Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI Music Japan) at that time focused on this Liverpool sound. In 1964, Toshiba independently edited the omnibus LP "The Fresh Sounds from Liverpool" which collects songs from several British bands including the Beatles.
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#1-1 The Fresh Sounds From Liverpool (1st. Press "F ¥1,500 / Red Vinyl / Hankake Obi": OR 7060)
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TITLE THE FRESH SOUNDS from LIVERPOOL

CATALOG NUMBER OR 7060

RELEASE DATE 15th August 1964 / First Press

TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2

I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)
 Please Please Me (The Beatles)

Glad And Over (The Dave Clark Five)
 Bits And Pieces (The Dave Clark Five)

Hippy Hippy Shake (The Swinging Blue Jeans)
 Good Golly Miss Molly (The Swinging Blue Jeans)

Little Children (Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas)
 I'm In Love (The Fourmost)

A World Without Love (Peter And Gordon)
 Little Bitty Pretty One (The Paramounts)

Just One Look (The Hollies)
 I Love You Baby (Freddie And The Dreamers)

I Like It (Gerry And The Pacemaker) 5-4-3-2-1 (Manfred Mann)

FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISK

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INNER SLEEVE

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sleeve sleeve sleeve The original plain white inner bag has a fold-over flap at the top of the bag to prevent the record from falling out.

LYRIC SHEET (Bifold Type)

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P3 --> Click!
 P4 --> Click! The lyric sheet is bifold type.

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label label sleeve Catalog number "OR 7060" and "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd." were printed on the lyric sheet.
liner notes: yoshiji Kizaki

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In the early 1960s, a short-lived hankake obi, or “half obi” was used. These were small strips of paper that simply folded over the top of the cover.

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label label The original plain white inner bag has a fold-over flap at the top of the bag to prevent the record from falling out. label Toshiba pressed a lot of their records on red, “Everclean” vinyl. The Everclean vinyl wasdesigned to be less prone to collecting static electricity and dust than the more common black vinyl.

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label "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd." and "MADE IN JAPAN"  were printed at the bottom of the back cover.

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label "F ¥1,500" was printed at the bottom of the back cover. label This record contains two songs "I Want To Hold Your Hand (side-1)" and "Please Please Me (side-2)" performanced by The Beatles.

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Toshiba pressed a lot of their records on red, "Everclean" vinyl from 1958 through 1974 (maybe).  The Everclean vinyl was designed to be less prone to collecting static electricity and dust than the more common black vinyl. The words "MFD. BY TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. IN JAPAN" was printed at the perimeter.
Catalog number and matrix number were printed at the right side of the center hole.

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label label label The words "LONG PLAYING" was printed at the bottom of the label. This record contains two songs "I Want To Hold Your Hand (side-1)" and "Please Please Me (side-2)" performanced by The Beatles.

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RECORD LABEL Odeon Label Type-1 (with the words "LONG PLAYING")

MIX MONO

MATRIX No. SIDE 1 2EJ-21    3

SIDE 2 2EJ-22    3

PRESS MARK
 G4

VINYL COLOR RED

RECORD COMPANY'S NAME SLEEVE
Toshiba Ongaku kogyo Kabusikigaisha

LABEL
 MFD. BY TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. IN JAPAN

SYMBOL/PRICE F  ¥1,500

LYRIC SHEET STYLE Bifold Type

COVER FORM Single type. Full laminated soft cover.
Twin-flipback cover (round type)

INNER SLEEVE
 Plain white inner bag

OBI "Hankake" Obi
White in design with dark blue Japanese text. Obis draped from the top, not forming a loop.

COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES liner notes: yoshiji Kizaki

COMMENTS
 Black Odeon label with silver print.
The words "LONG PLAYING" was printed at the bottom of the label.

This is a compilation album of the fresh groups from Liverpool.
Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd. (EMI Music Japan) at that time focused on this Liverpool sound. In 1964, Toshiba independently edited the omnibus LP "The Fresh Sounds from Liverpool" which collects songs from several British bands including the Beatles.
This record contains two songs "I Want To Hold Your Hand (side-1)" and "Please Please Me (side-2)" performanced by The Beatles.

Red vinyl:
Besides good sound and quality printing, Japanese records also offered some other things of interest to the collector.  One of the primary manufacturing companies in Japan, Toshiba, pressed a lot of their records on red, “Everclean” vinyl from 1958 through 1974 (maybe).  While not pressed as collectors’ items, these red vinyl pressings are more sought out by collectors than their black vinyl counterparts.  The Everclean vinyl was designed to be less prone to collecting static electricity and dust than the more common black vinyl.

The obi: A. K. A."Hankake" Obi
It is made from very thin paper stock. It is white in design with dark blue Japanese text. It also features an Odeon logo, catalogue number and price information.
These were small strips of paper that simply folded over (glued) the top of the cover.
While most Japanese records feature local music, a lot of music fans there like foreign music, as well.  The language barrier in Japan presented a problem – should foreign album covers be changed for Japanese albums?  The solution was the obi, which means “belt” or “sash”.  The obi is a strip of paper, usually about two inches wide, that wraps vertically around the album cover, containing information about the artist and album in Japanese.  As these strips of paper were fragile and easily torn, they are often missing, especially since consumers in the 1950s and 1960s attached little significance to them.  Finding Japanese records made prior to 1970 that still have the obi intact can be quite difficult, and for some albums, nearly impossible.  The inclusion of the obi can dramatically affect the price of some Japanese records, sometimes increasing the price by a factor of ten.

While usually found in a wraparound strip, there are other versions of the obi that have occasionally been used.  In the early 1960s, a short-lived hankake obi, or “half obi” was used. These were small strips of paper that simply folded over the top of the cover.  These were problematic for retailers, as they tended to easily fall off of the record.


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