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#09. With The Beatles (Japanese Edition) (AP-8678)
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 "Forever Series" 1st Sleeve


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#9-1 The Beatles Vol.2 (1973 Press "Toshiba Onko / Light Green Apple Label Type-2-1 / Forever Obi with Order Sheet / H ¥2,000 / Black Vinyl": AP-8678)
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TITLE The Beatles Vol.2 "WITH the BEATLES"
CATALOG NUMBER AP-8678
RELEASE DATE 1973 / Reissue
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
All My Loving
Roll Over Beethoven
Please Mister Postman
Money
Don't Bother Me
I Wanna Be Your Man
It Won't Be Long
Hold Me Tight
All I've Got To Do
Devil In Her Heart
Little Child
Not A Second Time
Till There Was You You Really Gotta Hold On Me
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISC --> Click!
sleeve sleeve label label label
INSIDE --> Click! INNER SLEEVE
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! Gatefold type. Full laminated soft cover.

With Apple custom black inner sleeve.
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FRONT AND BACK CLOSE UP
label label "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd." and "H ¥2,000" were printed at the bottom of the back cover.
"FOREVER" OBI: FRONT CLOSE UP
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catalog number and price "¥2,000" are printed at the top on obi strip. It is a wide Obi characterized by the Apple logo at the top, and has a dark green background. The words "The Beatles Forever" is printed at the bottom.
"FOREVER" OBI: BACK CLOSE UP LABEL CLOSE UP
sleeve The obi remains intactwith the order form on the back uncut. Price "¥2,000" and "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd." were printed on the obi strip. label The phrase "Apple Records - All Rights of the Manufacturer and of the Owner of the Recorded work Reserved." is printed at the perimeter.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label label The words "MFD. BY TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. JAPAN" is printed at the perimeter.  Catalog No. and matrix number are printed at the right side of the center hole.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label The tracklist is the same as the UK release, but the track order has been changed to put the most popular songs in Japan as the first track of each record.
With attached 8-PAGE COLOR BOOKLET
P-1 P-2 P-3 P-4 P-5
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P-6 P-7 P-8 P-6: CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve sleeve sleeve Includes LP-sided 8-page full color picture book.On the booklet, this issue was mistitled the track "You really got..." as "You've really got..".
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RECORD LABEL Light Green Apple label Type-2-1
MIX STEREO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 YEX-110-2     40
SIDE 2 YEX-111-2     30
PRESS MARK 3-6W
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME SLEEVE Toshiba Ongaku kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
LABEL MFD. BY TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD.
JAPAN
SYMBOL/PRICE H ¥2,000
LYRIC SHEET STYLE with attached 8-page color booklet
COVER FORM Gatefold type. Full laminated soft cover
INNER SLEEVE
Apple custom black sleeve
OBI
"FOREVER" Obi (¥2,000 / Toshiba Onko)
Wide Obi characterized by the Apple logo at the top, and has a dark green background.
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES -
COMMENTS
Like "Stereo! This is the Beatles Vol.1 (AP-8675)" this is a commemorative edition of Japan that was planned and edited according to the first visit to Japan
The order of the songs on the UK version "WITH THE BEATLES" has been significantly changed, and songs popular in Japan have been placed at the top of the A and B sides.
The jacket was replaced with a completely different photo.

Light green Apple label Type-2-1 with black print.

In late (September?)1969, Toshiba had to reissue on the Apple label all the records previously issued on the Odeon label.
And in the Apple label, there are two subtypes, TOSHIBA MUSIC and TOSHIBA EMI. Further more, the early copies of the APPLE-TOSHIBA MUSIC type have dark Apple on its label, though the late copies have light one.

Gatefold type. Full laminated soft cover with attached 8-page color booklet.

The obi: "Forever" Obi
This style Obi came into use in the late (October?) 1972 to promote all Beatles releases then currently on the Apple label. The tagline "Beatles Forever" used in Toshiba Onko's campaign began to be used around 1972.
It is a wide Obi characterized by the Apple logo at the top, the words "The Beatles Forever" at the bottom, and has a dark green background.
This is the first obi that was released with the same design.Forever obi was used in the early 70's, and used for the Beatles, solos, and Apple artist LPs.

On 1st October 1973, Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd. was changed its name to Toshiba EMI Ltd. So, there were two kind of Obis --the company name is "Tohiba Musical..." version and "Toshiba EMI..." version.
The order sheet was printed for the first Apple Obi but was discontinued in the early years of the Toshiba EMI/Apple Obi (maybe 1974)



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