| French Odeon Label: Jukebox Series (7 SO-/SO-/FOS-) [1963-1967] |
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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 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. The earliest three used the With The Beatles photo and had an identical front and back layout (a fourth one had juke box strips on the back, and a fifth one carried a facsimile thank you note from The Beatles to fan club members). The last juke box single with a picture cover, We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper, had ads for Beatles EPs on the back and was the only one with a cardboard sleeve; all others had paper covers. In some cases, printed cardboard juke box slips were supplied by the record distributors . From Michelle onwards, up to Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane, the last juke box release used the juke box company covers, they all carried FOS prefixes and had three-digit catalogue numbers. Eight singles came in that cover, four of those on the old arched Odeon label (Michelle / Run For Your Life; Yesterday / You've Got To Hide Your Love Away; We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper; Girl / Drive My Car), three on the red Odeon-EMI label, (Paperback Writer / Rain; Nowhere Man / The Word; Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine), plus one on the white Odeon-EMI label, (Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane). (From "COVERS") |
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