SLEEVE STYLE
Example:EP's List
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TITLE
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BEATLES FOR SALE | |||
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TRACK LISTING
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SIDE 1
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No reply I'm a loser |
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SIDE 2
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Rock and roll music Eight days a week |
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RELEASE DATE
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6th April.1965 | |||
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FRONT
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LABEL
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DISK
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LABEL CLOSE UP
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(1) capitalized PARLOPHONE rims, (2) solid yellow Parlophone logo mark (3) "(P)1964" statement (4) "SOLD IN U.K." statement |
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OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL
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Yellow Parlophone | |||
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CATALOG NUMBER
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GEP-8931 | |||
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MIX
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MONO | |||
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VINYL COLOR
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BLACK | |||
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PRODUCER
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George Martin | |||
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COVER DESIGN/PHOTO/NOTES
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Photo: Robert Freeman / Notes: Tony Barrow | |||
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RECORD COMPANY'S NAME
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THE PARLOPHONE CO. LTD. (capital letter) | |||
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PUBLISHER'S NAME
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Side1: NORTHERN SONGS NCB Side2: JEWEL MUSIC NORTHERN SONGS MECOLICO BIEM, NCB |
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CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K..." |
YES | |||
| 6504 G. & L. | ||||
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COMMENTS
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Cover Style...Back to the LP List
---Single Cover---
The basic form of the sleeves
 : vinyl laminated area
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| Wrap-around cover #1 1963 - early 1964? |
Wrap-around cover #2 early 1964? - 1981? |
Full vinyl-coated cover 1981? - |
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| When you look at the back of the cover, you may notice the two flaps at the top and the bottom. These flaps were glued with paste, wrapping around the cover. The front side was coated with vinyl (laminated) but the back side wasn't, leaving a border of the coat as a line at the right side of the back cover. |
looks like a #1 type, but issued with a die-cut insert tab cut at the side of sleeve. | Nowadays, both sides of the cover are coated with thin vinyl film. |
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All twelve EP's issued so far, from "Twist and Shout" in July 1963, to "Nowhere Man" in July 1966, were all issued in good quality one-piece sleeves, laminated on the front, and with two laminated flaps that folded onto the back, top and bottom. All of the originals always opended from the right side. |
Wrap-around cover #1
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Flap Variation
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Note the different style cuts on two back covers of the same EP. Covers were printed by both Ernest J Day, and Garrod & Lofthouse, and different corner-cut styles do not help determine earlier or later covers. |
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Extra Sleeve
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In 1981, "The Beatles' EPs Collection Box Set" was released, "A Hard Day's Night (GEP 8924)" and "The Beatles (SGE 1)" had the open-top sleeve. Issued with a die-cut insert tab cut across the top of sleeve. |
| The Beatles (SGE 1) |  |
---Gatefold Cover---
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On 8th Devember 1967, "Magical Mystery Tour" (2 EP set) was issued gatefold cover. Both the front and back covers were laminated. The cover was one piece of material, with fold over flaps connecting across the bottom inside cover. And inner pockets held the 7 inch EP disks. So, you have to open the gatefold and slide the disk out from the inner pockets. A 24-page booklet, plus a sheet of lyrics, was stapled into the middle. |
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| Magical Mystery Tour | |
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Printer's Name
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The bottom of the back cover (except "Magical Mystery Tour") almost said who printed the cover. The majority of originals say "Garrod". But EMI also hired the "Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd." printers of London to do runs of these covers. But some covers were not printed the name. |
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Printed by Garrod & Lofthouse
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Printed by Garrod & Lofthouse
(Magical Mystery Tour) |
Printed by Ernest J. Day (?) | No printer's name |
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