The Beatles U.S. Singles

Capitol Picture Sleeves
1963-1964

INDEX

I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There

Can't Buy Me Love/You Can't Do That

A Hard Day's Night/I Should Have Known Better

I'll Cry Instead/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

And I Love Her/If I Fell

Matchbox/Slow Down

I Feel Fine/She's A Woman

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TRACK LISTING	SIDE 1	I Want To Hold Your Hand
	SIDE 2	I Saw Her Standing There
RELEASE DATE		26th December 1963 / First Press
FRONT --> Click!		BACK --> Click!	SIDE 1 --> Click!	SIDE 2 --> Click!

FRONT COVER CLOSE UP
Original issue		Reissue	East Coast version	West Coast version

On the original sleeve, Paul is holding a cigarette. On the 20th anniversary sleeve has been removed.			The East Coast variation shows all of George's head. The West Coast variation crops off part of George's head.
FRONT COVER CLOSE UP		LABEL CLOSE UP		DISK

The original 1964 sleeves do not have periods in "REG US PAT OFF" (under the Capitol logo). The reissue sleeves from 1994 have periods in "REG. U.S. PAT. OFF."		Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print.	Side-2 publisher listed as "Walter Hofer".
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL		Capitol--Yellow/Orange swirl label type 1-A
CATALOG NUMBER		Capitol 5112
VINYL COLOR		BLACK
SLEEVE TYPE		straight cut top (East Coast version)
MIX		MONO
PUBLISHER'S NAME	SIDE 1	Duchess Music Corporation BMI
	SIDE 2	Walter Hofer
COMMENTS		First Press: Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print. The first pressings of the record are identified by the "Walter Hofer" publishing credit on the "I Saw Her Standing There" side of the disk. Second Press: The publishing to "I Saw Her.." side were changed to "George Pincus & Sons Music Corp." The picture sleeves were prepared by two different printers: Queens Litho in New York (East Coast) and Bert-Co Enterprises of Los Angeles (west Coast). The East Coast variation (type 1-A) shows all of George's head, and have a straight cut top. The West Coast variation (type1-B) crops off part of George's head, and have a tub cut top. The original 1964 sleeves do not have periods in "REG US PAT OFF" (under the Capitol logo). The reissue sleeves from 1994 have periods in "REG. U.S. PAT. OFF." The label, there are two typesetting variations. The East Coast labels (type 1-A) were printed vy Keystone Printed Specialties Co., Inc. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. West Coast labels (type 1-B) were printed by Bert-Co. Capitol originally scheduled "I Want To Hold Your Hand" for release on 13th January 1964, but moved up its release date to 26th December 1963.

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TRACK LISTING	SIDE 1	Can't Buy Me Love
	SIDE 2	You Can't Do That
RELEASE DATE		16th March 1964 / First Press
FRONT --> Click!		BACK --> Click!	SIDE 1 --> Click!	SIDE 2 --> Click!

FRONT COVER CLOSE UP		LABEL CLOSE UP		DISK

		Publisher's Credit was"Northern Songs Music, Ltd." (Reissue: Northern Songs Limited")	Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL		Capitol--Yellow/Orange swirl label type 1-B
CATALOG NUMBER		Capitol 5150
VINYL COLOR		BLACK
SLEEVE TYPE		straight cut top (East Coast version)
MIX		MONO
PUBLISHER'S NAME	SIDE 1	Northern Songs Music, Ltd.
	SIDE 2	Northern Songs Music, Ltd.
COMMENTS		First Press: Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print. Publisher's Credit was"Northern Songs Music, Ltd." (Reissue: Northern Songs Limited") Picture Sleeve, featuring the titles and a black-and-white photo of the group. Issued only with a straight cut across the top of the sleeve (A.K.A. East Coast version). Same as photo used on some of the die cut versions of the "I want to hold your hand" picture sleeve. Known counterfeits sleeve, photos on one version of fake is too large to include the top of George's head. Another fake includes George's full head, but has inferior photo quality and the incorrect paper texture. There are two variations of the label of the first pressing, East Coast version (Type 1-A): the label have their song titles printed on 1 line. West Coast version (Type 1-B): On the labels of the West Coast singles, the song titles are on 2 lines.

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TRACK LISTING	SIDE 1	A Hard Day's Night
	SIDE 2	I Should Have Known Better
RELEASE DATE		13th July 1964 / First Press
FRONT --> Click!		BACK --> Click!	SIDE 1 --> Click!	SIDE 2 --> Click!

LABEL CLOSE UP				DISK

Side-1 title on East Coast copies is on 1 line and on West Coast copies on 2 lines.		Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print.	Publisher listed as "Unart Music & Maclen Music" on both side.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL		Capitol--Yellow/Orange swirl label type 1-A
CATALOG NUMBER		Capitol-5222
VINYL COLOR		BLACK
SLEEVE TYPE		straight cut top (East Coast version)
MIX		MONO
PUBLISHER'S NAME	SIDE 1	Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc.
	SIDE 2	Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc.
COMMENTS		First Press: Orange and yellow swirl label without "subsidary" print. The labels of the first pressing credit the publishing to "Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc." (The name Unart is an abbreviation for United Artists and Maclen is short for McCartney-Lennon.) There are East Coast and West Coast version. East Coast version (type 1-A): The label, side-1 title on East Coast copies is on 1 line. West Coast version (type 1-B): Side-1 title on West Coast copies on 2 lines. Second press: The labels were revised to credit the song publishing to "Maclen Music, Inc." Third Press: The labels were revised to credit the song publishing to "Maclen Music, Inc. and Unart Music Corporation" The picture sleeve for the Capitol single features three color photographs of the Beatles performing live. The photos were taken by Joe Covello. The East Coast variation has a straight cut top. The West Coast variation has a tab cut top on the "I Should Have Known Better" side.

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TRACK LISTING	SIDE 1	I'll Cry Instead
	SIDE 2	I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
RELEASE DATE		20th July 1964 / First Press
FRONT --> Click!		BACK --> Click!	SIDE 1 --> Click!	SIDE 2 --> Click!

LABEL CLOSE UP				DISK

Side-1 title on East Coast copies is on 1 line and on West Coast copies on 2 lines.		Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print.	Publisher listed as "Unart Music & Maclen Music" on both side.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL		Capitol--Yellow/Orange swirl label type 1-A
CATALOG NUMBER		Capitol-5234
VINYL COLOR		BLACK
SLEEVE TYPE		straight cut top (East Coast version)
MIX		MONO
PUBLISHER'S NAME	SIDE 1	Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc.
	SIDE 2	Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc.
COMMENTS		First Press: Orange and yellow swirl label without "subsidary" print. The labels of the first pressing credit the publishing to "Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc." There are East Coast and West Coast version. East Coast version (type 1-A): The label, side-1 title on East Coast copies is on 1 line. Side-2 title is on 2 lines. West Coast version (type 1-B): Side-1 title on West Coast copies on 2 lines. Side-2 title is on 3 lines The picture sleeve issued with the single uses the same coppied Dezo Hoffmann portrait of the group featured on the West Coast version of the "I Want To Hold Your Hand" picture sleeve. The picture is color-tinted. The East Coast variation has a straight cut top. The West Coast variation has a tab cut top on the "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" side.

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TRACK LISTING	SIDE 1	And I Love Her
	SIDE 2	If I Fell
RELEASE DATE		20th July 1964 / First Press
FRONT --> Click!		BACK --> Click!	SIDE 1 --> Click!	SIDE 2 --> Click!

LABEL CLOSE UP				DISK

Side-1 title on East Coast copies is on 1 line and on West Coast copies on 2 lines.		Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL		Capitol--Yellow/Orange swirl label type 1-B
CATALOG NUMBER		Capitol-5235
VINYL COLOR		BLACK
SLEEVE TYPE		straight cut top (East Coast version)
MIX		MONO
PUBLISHER'S NAME	SIDE 1	Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc.
	SIDE 2	Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc.
COMMENTS		First Press: Orange and yellow swirl label without "subsidary" print. The labels of the first pressing credit the publishing to "Unart Music Corporation & Maclen Music, Inc." Second press: The labels were revised to credit the song publishing to "Maclen Music, Inc." There are East Coast and West Coast version. East Coast version (type 1-A): The label, side-1 title on East Coast copies is on 1 line. Side-2 title is on 1 line. West Coast version (type 1-B): Side-1 title on West Coast copies on 2 lines. Side-2 title is on 2 lines The picture sleeve issued with the single uses the same coppied Dezo Hoffmann portrait of the group featured on the cover of the "Four By The Beatles EP". The picture is tinted blue. The East Coast variation has a straight cut top. The West Coast variation has a tab cut top on the "If I Fell" side.

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TRACK LISTING	SIDE 1	Match Box
	SIDE 2	Slow Down
RELEASE DATE		24th August 1964 / First Press
FRONT --> Click!		BACK --> Click!	SIDE 1 --> Click!	SIDE 2 --> Click!

LABEL CLOSE UP				DISK

The label have the song title and the group's name loosely spaced compared with the West Coast version.		Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL		Capitol--Yellow/Orange swirl label type 1-A
CATALOG NUMBER		Capitol-5255
VINYL COLOR		BLACK
SLEEVE TYPE		straight cut top (East Coast version)
MIX		MONO
PUBLISHER'S NAME	SIDE 1	Knox Music, Inc. BMI
	SIDE 2	Venice Music, Inc. BMI
COMMENTS		First Press: Orange and yellow swirl label without "subsidary" print. The picture sleeve for the Capitol disk uses a cropped version of Joe Covello's Ed Sullivan Show color photo from the front cover of "Something New" LP. There are East Coast and West Coast version. East Coast version (type 1-A): picture sleeve issued in straight cut top. The label have the song title and the group's name loosely spaced compared with the West Coast version. West Coast version (type 1-B): picture sleeve issued tub cut

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TRACK LISTING	SIDE 1	I Feel Fine
	SIDE 2	She's A Woman
RELEASE DATE		23th November 1964 / First Press
FRONT --> Click!		BACK --> Click!	SIDE 1 --> Click!	SIDE 2 --> Click!

LABEL CLOSE UP				DISK

Side-2 title on East Coast copies is on 1 line and on West Coast copies on 2 lines.		Yellow and Orange Swirl label without "subsidiary" print.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL		Capitol--Yellow/Orange swirl label type 1-A
CATALOG NUMBER		Capitol-5327
VINYL COLOR		BLACK
SLEEVE TYPE		straight cut top (East Coast version)
MIX		MONO
PUBLISHER'S NAME	SIDE 1	Maclen Music, Inc. BMI
	SIDE 2	Maclen Music, Inc. BMI
COMMENTS		First Press: Orange and yellow swirl label without "subsidary" print. The picture sleeve features a color concert photo of the group. There are East Coast and West Coast version. East Coast version (type 1-A): picture sleeve issued in straight cut top. The label, side-2 title is on 1 line. West Coast version (type 1-B): picture sleeve issued tub cut. The label, side-2 title is on 2 lines.