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#03. A Hard Day's Night (EAS-70132)
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#3-1 A Hard Day's Night (1st. Press "¥2,300 / Custom Dark Grey Obi / Red Color Vinyl": EAS-70132)
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TITLE A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
CATALOG NUMBER EAS-70130
RELEASE DATE 21th. January 1982 / First Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
A Hard Day's Night
Any Time At All
I Should Have Known Better
I'll Cry Instead
If I Fell
Things We Said Today
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
When I Get Home
And I Love Her
You Can't Do That
Tell Me Why
I'll Be Back
Can't Buy Me Love
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sleeve sleeve label label label
INNER SLEEVE
LYRIC SHEET (Slip Sheet)
sleeve Polyethylene Plastic Inner Sleeve.
sleeve sleeve Slip Sheet / Includes Japanese/English bio-lyric sheet insert.
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Printed how to join the Japanese Beatles fan club, "Complete Beatles Fan Club" and "Beatles Cine Club". Catalog No. was printed.
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images EMI/Odeon logomark was printed at the upper left corner of the front cover. images "mono" and catalogue number "EAS-70132" were printed at the upper right corner of the front cover.
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images "Toshiba EMI ltd.", "Made IN Japan", and "ⓛ" were printed at the bottom of the back cover.
Limited Edition Custom Obi: FRONT CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve sleeve Catalog No. "EAS-70132", and priced "¥ 2,300" were printed on the front of the obi strip.
Translated lyrics by Yasumi Yamamoto.
Limited Edition Custom Obi: BACK CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve sleeve Each comes with a narrow OBI strip with red disc and "The Beatles Original Mono Record" at the top, and the entire mono series on the back side.
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label label EMI/Odeon label. Red Color vinyi (but not "Ever Clean Records).
The words "MFD. UNDER LICENCE BY TOSHIBA-EMI LTD. IN JAPAN" was printed at the perimeter.
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label label Catalog number and master number were printed at the right side of the center hole.
"JASRAC(*)" mark was printed on the label.
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label In 1982, Toshiba re-issued the 10 Beatles UK albums that had been originally issued in mono in the 60s, using the UK mono masters, all pressed on translucent red vinyl, as a limited edition of 10,000 pressings of each record.
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RECORD LABEL EMI/Odeon Label with Jasrac logo
MIX MONO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 YEX-1 26-M    1S   3
SIDE 2 YEX-1 27-M    1S   7
PRESS MARK 1 - Z
VINYL COLOR RED (Not Ever Clean Record)
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME SLEEVE Toshiba EMI Kabushikigaisha
LABEL MFD. UNDER LICENCE BY TOSHIBA-EMI LTD. IN JAPAN
SYMBOL/PRICE ¥2,300
LYRIC SHEET STYLE Slip Sheet / Includes Japanese/English bio-lyric sheet insert.
COVER FORM Single type
INNER SLEEVE
Polyethylene Plastic Inner Sleeves
OBI
Custom Dark Grey Narrow Obi
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Angus McBean / Notes: Tony Barrow
COMMENTS
1982 MONO Limited Edition.

In 1982, Toshiba re-issued the 10 Beatles UK albums that had been originally issued in mono in the 60s, using the UK mono masters, all pressed on translucent red vinyl, as a limited edition of 10,000 pressings of each record.

Each comes with a narrow OBI strip with red disc and "The Beatles Original Mono Record" at the top, and the entire mono series on the back side.
These records contain the original U.K. mono mixes and parallel very closely the U.K. mono reissue series that came out in England around the same time.

Disc/Label info:
Black with silver print Odeon label.
Uses a UK master as identified by matrix stamp
The words "MFD. UNDER LICENCE BY TOSHIBA-EMI LTD. IN JAPAN" was printed at the perimeter on the label.
"JASRAC" logomark was printed on the label.

Packaging info:
Includes Japanese/English lyric sheet insert.
OBI states ‎¥2,300, list of titles in series on back side.
Discs come in clear rice-paper sleeve.
Has the same design and track listing as U.K.

Yasumi Yamamoto: Japanese translator, credited with lyric translations on many rock and pop releases. Has translated lyrics for The Beatles, Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkel, Queen, etc. Born in Sapporo, Japan in September 1948.

The obi: Custom Red obi.
The commemorative custom red thick obi of the 20th anniversary of Beatles' Japan visit. It also features an EMI/Odeon logo, catalogue number and price information.
While most Japanese records feature local music, a lot of music fans there like foreign music, as well.  The language barrier in Japan presented a problem – should foreign album covers be changed for Japanese albums?  The solution was the obi, which means “belt” or “sash”.  The obi is a strip of paper, usually about two inches wide, that wraps vertically around the album cover, containing information about the artist and album in Japanese.  As these strips of paper were fragile and easily torn, they are often missing, especially since consumers in the 1950s and 1960s attached little significance to them.  Finding Japanese records made prior to 1970 that still have the obi intact can be quite difficult, and for some albums, nearly impossible.  The inclusion of the obi can dramatically affect the price of some Japanese records, sometimes increasing the price by a factor of ten.

JASRAC(*):
Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers.
To protect the copyrights of musical works, and to facilitate the utilization of musical works, thereby contributing to the dissemination and development of music culture.



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