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The
release policy of singles is somewhat unusual in France.
It is primarily an EP country, and singles before All You
Need Is Love were released as jukebox singles only, with 7
SO or SO prefixes in front of the five-digit catalog
numbers. first two, From Me To You / Please Please Me and
She Loves You / Twist And Shout, came in Odeon company
hole covers.
From Me To You is the only jukebox single to be issued on
a yellow label; the first three after it came on the dark
blue label (She Loves You / Twist And Shout with no
picture cover; I Want To Hold Your Hand / Hold Me Tight
and All My Loving / It Won't Be Long with picture covers).
All were also available on the orange Odeon label.
In 1972 and 1973, France issued a number of pre-Apple
singles that had not come out in that country so far, but
in many others. Some of them included re-releases of old
jukebox singles, some of them were the original UK
couplings (UK A-sides were sometimes given different
B-sides for the French jukebox editions). All 25 of these
releases carried individual front picture sleeves and had
a list of the whole series written on the back.
They were all issued an the red Odeon label with the
dome on the left.
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