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#03. The Big Beat Of The Beatles (PMCJ 64)
(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

#3-2 The Big Beat Of The Beatles (Southern Rhodesia 2nd. Press? "Dark Blue/Silver Parlophone Old Style Label": PMCJ 64)
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TITLE THE BIG BEAT OF THE BEATLES
CATALOG NUMBER PMCJ 64
RELEASE DATE June 1964? / Southern Rhodesia Second Press?
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
Can't Buy Me Love I Want To Hold Your Hand
She Loves You From Me To You
Love Me Do
 Ask Me Why
This Boy I'll Get You
You Can't Do That Thank You Girl
I Wanna Be Your Man
  
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISK
sleeve sleeve label label label
INNER SLEEVE FRONT COVER CLOSE UP BACK COVER CLOSE UP
Original Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe)
 cover-up cover-up Wrap-around cover.
Round-cut corner.
Catalog No. "PMCJ 1202" was printed on upper right corner of the back cover.
The Parlophone logomark was printed at the right side of the front cover.
BACK COVER CLOSE UP
cover-up cover The first Two Beatles' LPs in S.A.were introduced at the back cover.
cover "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
 Rhodesian 2nd(?) pressing: The first line of the rim print at the bottom is "PRESSED FOR OR BY A REGISTERED USER".
And the second line of the rim print begins "Unauthorised ...."
 label Big silver Parlophone
and ground color is
deep blue.
The three-dimensional Parlophone logo was printed at the top of the label.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label Matrix No. is:
Side-1: XPEAX 167
Side-2: XPEAX 168
 label "MADE IN S-RHODESIA" credit was stamped at the dead wax.
OTHER ITEM
cover At the bottom of the back cover has a "RECORD MADE IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA" sticker, but my records was peeled off.

LABEL Dark blue and silver Parlophone old style label Type-2
MIX MONO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 XPEAX 167
SIDE 2 XPEAX 168
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME RECORD MANUFACTURED BY E.M.I. (SOUTH AFRICA) (PTY.) LTD. (REGD. USER)
RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT -
COVER FORM Single type. Wrap-around cover / Round-cut corner.
PRINTER CREDIT SWAN PRESS
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Cover design: George Osaki / Photo: Joe Covello
INNER SLEEVE Original Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe)
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS
 This is a Mono pressing pressed in South Africa and Rhodesia 1964.

*Rhodesia: A country in south-central Africa, south of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Today it is called Zimbabwe. In the early British colonial period it was administered by the British South Africa Company. It has been inhabited since ancient times.
*The courtesy of Mr. Dave Cooper (Thanks!)

Pressed on the Parlophone PMCJ 64 with Matrix number XPEAX 168. Dead wax has the stamp "MADE IN S. RHODESIA", and back cover also has a "RECORD MADE IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA" sticker, but my records was peeled off.

Rhodesian Pressing label;
1st. press: Big silver Parlophone / Ground color :Black
2nd. press? : Big silver Parlophone / Ground color :Dark blue, and the first line of the rim print at the bottom is "PRESSED FOR OR BY A REGISTERED USER".
First and second pressings were released in mono only.


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