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#20. We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper (QMSP-16388)
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Parlophon Original Sleeve
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#20-1 We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper (1st Press "Black Label with Small song title on both sides": QMSP-16388)
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TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
 We Can Work It Out (Lennon-McCartney)
SIDE 2
 Day Tripper (Lennon-McCartney)
RELEASE DATE
 3rd January 1966 / First Press
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FRONT COVER CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve "PARLOPHON" logomark was printed at the left corner of the front cover.
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sleeve
Back cover lists 20 singles.
Carisch is a leading publishing company based in Milano, founded in 1887, which prints and distributes the most important catalogues of music score.
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label "PARLOPHON" logomark and "MADE IN ITALY" were printed at the center of the label. label Black Parlophon label with spherical logo at the right side of the center hole.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label On both sides, "BIEM" logo in the box was printed on the label.
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label label The composer's credit "Lennon - McCartney" was printed on both sides of the label.
1st press: Small title on both sides.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL
 PARLOPHON / Black label with silver print
CATALOG NUMBER
 QMSP-16388
VINYL COLOR
 BLACK
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 7XCE 18341-4   3 1 66   KT
SIDE 2 7XCE 18342-1   3 1 66   KT
MIX
 MONO
SLEEVE First pressing list 20 singles
LABEL Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM
CREDIT
 DISCHI PARLOPHON CARISCH S.p.A. MILANO
COMMENTS
 First Press has the black label.
  • Label
    • 1st Press (3rd. Jan. 1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM / Small title on both sides.
    • 2nd Press (1966?): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM / Larger title on both sides.
  • Sleeve
    • 1st. press (12th. Oct. 1965): Backside: First pressing list 20 singles
    • 2nd. press: Front of sleeve: With Bandiera Gialla / Back of sleeve: Second pressing list 21 singles
*BIEM=Bureau International de l'Edition Mécanique
*Mecolico=The Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society began as Mecolico, the Mechanical Copyright Licenses Company, which was founded in 1910 in anticipation of the Copyright Act of 1911. Mecolico licensed the mechanical rights within musical works and merged with the Copyright Protection Society in 1924.

Bandiera Gialla (Yellow Flag)
"Bandiera Gialla" was a popular Italian radio music program broadcast by RAI from 1965 to 1970. Young audience members voted for their favorite songs by raising yellow flags.
Record companies used the yellow flag symbol on picture sleeves to promote records featured on the program. The flag appeared either as a sticker or as part of the printed sleeve design.
Several Italian Beatles singles from the mid-1960s were issued with this symbol. However, the presence of the yellow flag does not necessarily indicate a later pressing.
>https://www.teche.rai.it/2025/10/bandiera-gialla/

The yellow flag was added to the printed design on later pressings of:

  • We Can Work It Out
  • Michelle
  • Paperback Writer
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • The Ballad of John and Yoko

The yellow flag was printed on the picture sleeves from the first pressing of:

  • Strawberry Fields Forever


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