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#22. Paperback Writer / Rain (QMSP-16394)
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Parlophon Original Sleeve

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#22-1 Paperback Writer / Rain (1st Press "Black Label with Small title on A-side": QMSP-16394)
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TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
Paperback Writer (Lennon-McCartney)
SIDE 2
Rain (Lennon-McCartney)
RELEASE DATE
6th June 1966 / First Press
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Catalog number is in top right.
Without "Bandiera Gialla" sticker,
Backside: List Run For Your Life + 20 others.
Carisch is a leading publishing company based in Milan, founded in 1887, which prints and distributes the most important catalogues of music score.
LABEL CLOSE UP
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. label
1st. press: Small title on A-Side
2nd. press: Bigger title on A-Side
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL
PARLOPHON / Black label with silver print
CATALOG NUMBER
QMSP-16394
VINYL COLOR
BLACK
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 7XCE  18380   1   6  6  66
SIDE 2 7XCE  18381   1   6  6  66
MIX
MONO
SLEEVE 1st. press (6th. June. 1965): Front: Without Bandiera Gialla sticker, Backside: List Run For Your Life + 20 others
LABEL 1st Press (6th. June. 1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, Small title on A-Side
CREDIT
DISCHI PARLOPHON CARISCH S.p.A. MILANO
COMMENTS
First Press has the black label.
  • Label
    • 1st Press (6th. June. 1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, Small title on A-Side (=this record)
    • 2nd. Press (1966):Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, Bigger title on A-Side
  • Sleeve
    • 1st. press (6th. June. 1966): Front: Without Bandiera Gialla sticker, Backside: List Run For Your Life + 20 others (=this record)
    • 2nd. press (1966): Front: With Bandiera Gialla sticker, Backside: List Run For Your Life + 20 others
*BIEM=Bureau International de l'Edition Mécanique

*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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