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#04. A Hard Day's Night (PMCJ 1230 / PCSJ 3058)
(Update: 28th. November 2011)

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Original 1st. Sleeve


Notice* Click the label of each photo, so you can see the large picture image.

MONO Released

#4-1 A Hard Day's Night (1st. Press "Black/Silver Parlophone Old Style Label": PMCJ 1230)
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TITLE A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
CATALOG NUMBER PMCJ 1230
RELEASE DATE September1964? /First Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
A Hard Day's Night
Any Time At All
I Should Have Known Better
I'll Cry Instead
If I Fell
Things We Said Today
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
When I Get Home
And I Love Her
You Can't Do That
Tell Me Why
I'll Be Back
Can't Buy Me Love
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISK
sleeve sleeve
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INNER SLEEVE FRONT COVER CLOSE UP BACK COVER CLOSE UP
Original Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe) cover-up It has a similar design to the UK picture sleeve. sleeve
Wrap-around cover. Round-cut corner.
Catalog No. "PMCJ 1230" was printed on upper right corner of the back cover.
BACK COVER CLOSE UP
sleeve
sleeve The three-dimensional Parlophone logo was printed at the botom of the back cover.
sleeve "Manufactured by EMI" credit and Printer's name "SWAN PRESS" were printed at the lower right corner of the back cover.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label The first pressing: The first line of the rim print at the bottom is "Pressed in S.A. under directions of the Parlophone Co. Ltd." sleeve The three-dimensional Parlophone logo was printed at the top of the label.
LABEL CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve The "Recording First Published 1964" statement was printed at the left part of the label.
Matrix No. is:  Side-1: XEX 481, Side-2: XEX 482
These are the same number of U.K. pressings.
OTHER ITEM
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LABEL Black and silver Parlophone old style label Type-1
MIX MONO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 XEX 481
SIDE 2 XEX 482
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME RECORD MANUFACTURED BY E.M.I. (SOUTH AFRICA) (PTY.) LTD. (REGD. USER)
RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT Recording First Published 1964
COVER FORM Single type. Wrap-around cover / Round-cut corner
PRINTER CREDIT SWAN PRESS
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Robert Freeman / Notes: Tony Barrow
INNER SLEEVE Original Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe)
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS
South African mono LP has  the black and silver Parlophone label (similar design to the UK gold Parlophone label) and front laminated flipback picture sleeve.
First pressings were released in mono only.

The earliest copies have a visible pressing ring near the edge of the label and another near the spindle hole (Side-1). On later copies, there is a single pressing ring about 1" in diameter (Side-2).



STEREO Released

#4-1 A Hard Day's Night (1st. Press "Silver Parlophone Label/ 1 EMI Mark": PCSJ 3058)
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