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#21-1 Beatles VI (1st Press / Country Obi type-3 / ⓛ ¥2,500": EAS-80566)
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TITLE BEATLES VI
CATALOG NUMBER EAS-80566
RELEASE DATE 5th July 1976 / First Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
Kansas City
What You're Doing
Eight Days A Week
Yes It Is (simulated stereo)
You Like Me Too Much
Dizzy Miss Lizzie
Bad Boy  Tell Me What You See
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Every Little Thing
Words Of Love
 
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISC --> Click!
sleeve sleeve
label label label
INSIDE --> Click!
LYRIC SHEET (Single Sheet)
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve sleeve Single sheet type / Includes Japanese / English bio-lyric sheet insert.
INSIDE: CLOSE UP
label
Printed how to join the Japanese Beatles fan club "Immortal Beatles Fan Club" and "Beatles Cine Club".
The name of Keiichi Ishizaka and Shinichi Miyoshi of Toshiba EMI are listed as "contact information about the Beatles".
LYRIC SHEET (Single Sheet)
label Apple logo and "Toshiba EMI Limited." are printed at the lower right corner of the lyric sheet.


INNER SLEEVE FRONT COVER: CLOSE UP
sleeve Earlier pressings came with black inner sleeve, later pressings clear rice-paper sleeve. label label
Apple mark is printed at the lower right side of the front cover. The word "STEREO" and catalog number are printed at the upper right corner of the front cover.
BACK COVER CLOSE UP
label Company name "Toshiba EMI Ltd." is printed on the back cover.
Country Flag Obi: FRONT CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve sleeve
sleeve It is a wide Obi that has the flag of the country of the LP's origin at the top.
Catalog No. "EAS-80566", and priced "¥ 2,500" were printed on the front of the obi strip.
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
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." is printed at the perimeter.
label label label Catalog number and master number are printed at the right side of the label.
The words "MFD.  BY TOSHIBA-EMI LTD. JAPAN" is printed at the bottom of the label.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label Song titles are printed in narrow sans-serif font on the label.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL Apple type-2-2 Label / Light green Apple
MIX STEREO *excepted as noted
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 ST-X-1-2358       1S    18
SIDE 2 ST-X-2-2358       1S    25
PRESS MARK 7 5 C - C 9 4 G (?)
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME SLEEVE Toshiba EMI Kabushiki Kaisha
LABEL MFD. BY TOSHIBA-EMI LTD. JAPAN
SYMBOL/PRICE ⓛ  ¥2,500
LYRIC SHEET STYLE Single sheet type / Includes Japanese/English bio-lyric sheet insert.
COVER FORM Gatefold type.. No laminated hard cover. Non flipback cover.
INNER SLEEVE
Earlier pressings came with black inner sleeve, later pressings clear rice-paper sleeve.
OBI
Country Flag Obi Type-3: Advertisement Obi2
"White Album" has NO Obi, "Rock and roll music" cover photo
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Cover photo: Fabulous Magazine - Fleetway Publications Ltd.
COMMENTS
1976 "Country Flag" obi / EAS re-issue series of the Beatles Japanese LP catalog. Issue n° 21 in the series, with UK flag obi.

Beatles VI is the seventh Capitol Records studio album by the English rock band the Beatles in the United States.
Beatles VI included:
the remaining six tracks from Beatles for Sale (i.e., those left off Beatles '65, although two such songs had been released on a single in February 1965).
"Yes It Is", the B-side to the single "Ticket to Ride". This is a "duophonic" stereo remix from the original mono track, with additional echo and reverb.
two other tracks from the forthcoming UK release of Help!: "You Like Me Too Much" and "Tell Me What You See".

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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