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#23. Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby (QMSP-16397)
(Update: 4th February 2017)
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#23-1 Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby (1st Press / Black Label: QMSP-16397)
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TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
 Yellow Submarine (Lennon-McCartney)
SIDE 2
 Eleanor Rigby (Lennon-McCartney)
RELEASE DATE
 2nd September 1966 / First Press
FRONT -->Click! BACK -->Click! SIDE 1 -->Click! SIDE 2 -->Click! DISK -->Click!
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FRONT COVER CLOSE UP BACK COVER CLOSE UP
yellow yellow Without the Yellow Flag (BANDIERA GIALLA) on the front cover. yellow
Catalog number is in top right. Back cover lists 22 singles.
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 label "BIEM" logo in the box was printed on the label.
Without the word "45 giri al minuto (45 r.p.m)".		 label
"PARLOPHON" logomark and "MADE IN ITALY" were printed at the center of the label.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL
 PARLOPHON / Flat black label with silver print
CATALOG NUMBER
 QMSP-16397
VINYL COLOR
 BLACK
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 7XCE  18396 - 1
SIDE 2 7XCE  18395  T2   2  9  66
MIX
 MONO
SLEEVE 1st. press (2nd. Sep. 1965): Front: Without Bandiera Gialla sticker, Backside: List Paperback Writer + 21 others
LABEL 1st Press (2nd. Sep. 1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, Without the "45 giri al minuto"
CREDIT
 DISCHI PARLOPHON CARISCH S.p.A. MILANO
COMMENTS
 First Press has the black label.
  • Label
    • 1st Press (2nd. Sep. 1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, Without the "45 giri al minuto" (=this record)
    • 2nd. Press (1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, With the "45 giri al minuto"
  • Sleeve
    • 1st. press (2nd. Sep. 1966): Front: Without Bandiera Gialla sticker, Backside: List Paperback Writer + 21 others
    • 2nd. press (1966): Front: With Bandiera Gialla sticker, Backside: List Paperback Writer + 21 others
*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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