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#1-4 Please Please Me (4th. Press "Country Flag Obi type-5 "with Sales Tax" / ⓛ ¥2,348": EAS-80550)
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TITLE PLEASE PLEASE ME
CATALOG NUMBER EAS-80550
RELEASE DATE April 1989? / 4th. Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
I Saw Her Standing There
Love Me Do (sim.stereo)
Misery
P.S. I Love You (sim.stereo)
Anna (Go To Him)
Baby It's You
Chains
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Boys
A Taste Of Honey
Ask Me Why
There's A Place
Please Please Me  Twist And Shout
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISK --> Click!
sleeve sleeve label label label
INNER SLEEVE
LYRIC SHEET (8 Pages booklet)
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LYRIC SHEET (8 Pages booklet)
sleeve sleeve sleeve sleeve Includes LP-sided 8-page color picture book.
With Japanese/English bio-lyric sheet.
LYRIC SHEET CLOSE UP
images Printed how to join the Japanese Beatles fan club "Beatles Cine Club".
The name of Shinichi Miyoshi of Toshiba EMI is listed as "contact information about the Beatles".
images Apple logomark and "Toshiba EMI Limited." were printed at the lower right corner of the lyric sheet.
FRONT COVER CLOSE UP
images This release features the UK original cover for the first time.
Apple logomark was printed at the lower right corner of the front cover.
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Catalogue number "EAS-80550" was printed at the upper right corner of the front cover.
Country Flag Obi: FRONT CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve sleeve
sleeve Catalog No. "EAS-80550", and sales tax included price "¥ 2,348" were printed on the front of the obi strip.
It is a wide Obi that has the flag of the country of the LP's origin at the top. The LP's series number is located on the Apple logo and at an angle at the bottom. Has a red background.
Country Flag Obi: BACK CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve sleeve
Country Flag Obi, which was reissued in 1976, has been released in three parts.
1st time: 5 June, 1976 / 2nd. time: 20 June, 1976 / 3rd. time: 5 July, 76.
Each time, the back of the Obi changes little by little.
  • Type-1: blank Obi (5, June, 1976)
  • Type-2: Advertising Obi1 (20 June, 1976) / "White album" is a gourd Obi, and the cover of "Rock and roll music" is "Now printing"
  • Type-3: Advertisement Obi2 (5 July, 1976) / "White Album" has NO Obi, "Rock and roll music" cover photo
  • Type-4 Advertisement Obi3 (mid 77) Obi's glue is changed to the bottom.
  • Type-5 Advertisement Obi4 (since April 1989) Sales tax is indicated
BACK COVER CLOSE UP
label "TOSHIBA EMI Ltd." and "MADE IN JAPAN ⓛ" were printed on the bottom left of the back cover.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label Light green apple label type-2-2.
The phrase "Apple Records - All Rights of the Manufacturer and of the Owner of the Recorded work Reserved." was printed at the perimeter.
label label Catalog number and master number were printed at the right side of the label.
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The words "MFD.  BY TOSHIBA-EMI LTD. JAPAN" was printed at the bottom of the label.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label Has the same design and track listing as U.K. press.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL Apple type-2-2 Label / Light green Apple
MIX STEREO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 YEX-94      1S2-44
SIDE 2 YEX-95      1S2-42
PRESS MARK ??
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME SLEEVE Toshiba EMI Kabusikigaisha
LABEL MFD. BY TOSHIBA-EMI LTD.  JAPAN
SYMBOL/PRICE ⓛ ¥2,348 (tax included price) / ¥2,280 (tax excluded price)
LYRIC SHEET STYLE 8 Pages Booklet / Includes Japanese/English bio-lyric sheet insert.
COVER FORM Single type
INNER SLEEVE
Earlier pressings came with black inner sleeve, later pressings clear rice-paper sleeve.
OBI
Country Flag Obi Type-5:  Advertisement Obi4 (since 1986) Sales tax is indicated.
Obi's glue is to the bottom.
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Angus McBean / Notes: Tony Barrow
COMMENTS
1976 "Country Flag" obi / EAS re-issue series of the Beatles Japanese LP catalog. Issue n° 3 in the series, with UK flag obi.
This release features the UK original cover for the first time.
Three albums from "Please Please Me (EAS-80550)" to "Hard Day's Night (EAS-80552)", which had been sold in Japanese original covers and song order, were released in the UK version for the first time in Japan.

Light green apple label.
The words "MFD. BY TOSHIBA-EMI LTD.  JAPAN" was printed at the bottom of the label.

The obi: Country flag obi.
This style Obi came into use in June 1976 to promote the EAS series of Beatles reissues.
It is a wide Obi that has the flag of the country of the LP's origin at the top. The LP's series number is located on the Apple logo and at an angle at the bottom. Has a red background.

Country Flag Obi series, which was reissued in 1976, has been released in three parts.
>1st time: 5 June, 1976
>2nd. time: 20 June, 1976
>3rd. time: 5 July, 1976.
Each time, the back of the Obi changes little by little.
  • Type-1: blank Obi (5, June, 1976)
  • Type-2: Advertising Obi1 (20 June, 1976) / "White album" is a gourd Obi, and the cover of "Rock and roll music" is "Now printing"
  • Type-3: Advertisement Obi2 (5 July, 1976) / "White Album" has NO Obi, "Rock and roll music" cover photo
  • Type-4 Advertisement Obi3 (mid 77) Obi's glue is changed to the bottom.
  • Type-5 Advertisement Obi4 (since April 1989) Sales tax is indicated



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