| Sir George Martin (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016). Took to music at an early age, becoming interested in the piano before the age of eight. He was later interested in architecture, design, and aeronautics, and ended up becoming a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm (the aviation branch of the Royal Navy) towards the end of World War II. He returned to music, attending the Guildhall School of Music, studying composition, conducting, orchestration, and theory, and taking up the oboe as a second principal instrument. He got into the music industry as assistant to Oscar Preuss, the head of the Parlophone label, at a period when the label was in transition from second-rate classical recordings to "pop" music. As a producer, George Martin's first number one hit in the U.K. was the Temperence Seven's "You're Driving Me Crazy" in 1961. Then in the spring of 1962, Martin happened to interview Brian Epstein, a Liverpool-based manager, about a quartet known as The Beatles. That summer, they were signed to Parlophone. Over the following years, Martin would help to shape The Beatles, getting credit from some as being the "fifth Beatle" for his work with the band. But two years later, Martin split from Parlophone, due to the small producer's royalty which had not increased during the explosive growth of the label, to form AIR (Associated Independent Recording). The Beatles were produced by George Martin through 1969's Abbey Road, and it wasn't until The Beatles broke up that Martin was completely free from his ties to EMI. In the 1970s, he produced a wide variety of artists and bands, from America and Jimmy Webb to Jeff Beck and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He continued to work with an array of artists, many of whom received critical acclaim. (from Discog) |
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TITLE
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Music from the
Film "A Hard Day's Night" The George Martin Orchestra |
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TRACK LISTING
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SIDE 1
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And I Love Her (Lennon-McCartney) Ringo's Theme (This Boy) (Lennon-McCartney) |
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SIDE 2
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A Hard Day's
Night (Lennon-McCartney) If I Fell (Lennon-McCartney) |
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RELEASE DATE
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February 1965 / 1st. Press | ||||
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FRONT & BACK
COVER CLOSE UP
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"THE PARLOPHONE CO. LTD." was
printed below the Parlophone logo at the upper left of the
front cover. At the back cover: "TRADE MARK OF THE PARLOPHONE Co., Ltd."was printed at the bottom of the back cover. |
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Wrap-around cover
with a die-cut insert tab cut at the side of sleeve. Printer name "6504 G. & L. (April. 1965 Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.)" was printed at the bottom of the back cover. |
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Push-out center. The embossed letter (tax code) is "K and T". " SOLD IN U.K. .." statement was printed at the center of the label. |
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The first pressing and this pressing
have (1) capitalized PARLOPHONE rims, (2) "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964 (side-2=1965)" statement. |
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suffixed with side-1: "1N" side-2: "1N" |
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| CATALOG NUMBER | GEP-8930 | ||||
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RECORD LABEL
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Black/yellow Parlophone label with silver print: Type-2 | ||||
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MIX
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MONO | ||||
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MATRIX No.
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SIDE 1 | 7TCE 858 - 1N | |||
| SIDE 2 | 7TCE 859 - 1N | ||||
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VINYL COLOR
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BLACK | ||||
| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | COVER | THE PARLOPHONE CO. LTD. | |||
| LABEL | THE PARLOPHONE CO. LTD. (capital letter) | ||||
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LABEL CENTER
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Push-out center | ||||
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REMARK "SOLD IN U.K..." |
YES | ||||
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PUBLISHER'S NAME
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SIDE 1 | NORTHERN SONGS NCB | |||
| SIDE 2 | NORTHERN SONGS NCB | ||||
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COVER FORM
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Single type Laminated rounded upper and lower rear flaps with a die-cut insert tab cut at the side on the back. |
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PRINTER CREDIT
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6502 G & L | ||||
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COVER DESIGN/
PHOTO/ NOTES
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Photo: Houston Rogers / Notes: George Martin | ||||
| PRODUCER | George Martin | ||||
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COMMENTS
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This is a 1965 EP by
The George Martin Orchestra featuring instrumental
arrangements of Beatle songs. This release focused on songs
from their album "A Hard Day's Night". Included four easy listening-styled instrumental versions of Lennon and McCartney songs by George Martin: "And I Love Her", "Ringo's Theme (This Boy)", "A Hard Day's Night", and "If I Fell". |
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