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#03. I Want To Hold Your Hand / Hold Me Tight (7SO 10099)
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#3-1 I Want To Hold Your Hand / Hold Me Tight (1st. Press "Odeon Dark Blue Label / with "7" Prefix / with Picture Sleeve": 7SO 10099)
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TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
 I Want To Hold Your Hand (Lennon-McCartney)
SIDE 2
 Hold Me Tight  (Lennon-McCartney)
RELEASE DATE
 27th December 1963 / First Press
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FRONT SLEEVE CLOSE UP BACK SLEEVE CLOSE UP
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Odeon logo and catalog number were printed at the upper right corner of the front cover.
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Catalog number. was printed on the label's center right.
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SIDE 1
 SIDE 2
 The word "BIEM" in a box was printed on both sides of the label.

With "7" before SO 10099.
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"MADE IN FRANCE" was printed at the bottom of the label.
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CATALOG NUMBER 7SO 10099
LABEL
 Odéon Dark Blue Label with silver print (with Odeon dome logo)
MIX
 MONO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 7AR  1441  21           M3  231418
SIDE 2 7AR  1442  21           M3  231419
VINYL COLOR
 BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME ODÉON
CENTER
 Full size center hole
PUBLISHER'S NAME
SIDE 1
 -
SIDE 2
 -
RUNNING TIME
 SIDE 1 2'23
SIDE 2
 2'33
PRODUCER George Martin
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Single pocket sleeve type. (matte and thin paper)
COMMENTS

This jukebox single is the first in the Odéon series to feature a picture sleeve. The record company decided to reproduce, on both the front and back, the design of the LP Les Beatles – Odéon OSX 222.

To better distinguish each side of the sleeve, the title corresponding to each track was printed in larger type: I Want To Hold Your Hand on the front (for side A) and Hold Me Tight on the back (for side B).

While Odéon could have simply reproduced the UK 45 rpm single (I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy – Parlophone R 5084), they curiously chose to change the B-side, replacing This Boy with Hold Me Tight (taken from the album Les Beatles – Odéon OSX 222).

Three different versions of the disc have been identified:

  • Type 1: dark blue label

  • Type 2: orange label with the number 7 in front of the SO 10 099 reference

  • Type 3: orange label without the number 7 in front of the SO 10 099 reference



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 catalogue numbers. The 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.

Sixteen jukebox singles came in customised picture covers, eleven of them with cut-out jukebox strips printed on the back for insertion into the display slots of the jukebox.


DILLARD et Cie, lmp. Paris: Printing company located in Paris, France, headed by Michel Dillard (an old publisher from La Sirène éditions musicales).
Often appears on releases as "Dillard et Cie. Imp. Paris" or "Dillard & Cie, Imp. Paris".


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