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| TITLE | LET IT BE |
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| CATALOG NUMBER | AP-80189 |
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| RELEASE DATE | 25th. February 1971 / First Press |
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| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | |||
| Two Of Us |
I've Got A Feeling |
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| Dig A Pony |
One After 909 |
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| Across The Universe |
The Long And Winding Road |
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| I Me Mine |
For You Blue |
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| Dig It |
Get Back | ||||
| Let It Be |
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| Maggie Mae | |
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| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK | |
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| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! | With Apple custom black inner sleeve. | |||
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| LYRIC SHEET (Slip Sheet Type) |
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Company name "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd." was printed on the lyric sheet. | ||||
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Catalog number
"AP-80189" was printed at the upper right corner of the
front cover. |
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| The "RED" Apple logomark was printed on the back cover. "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd." and "H ¥2,000" was printed at the bottomof the back cover. | |||||
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design and credits are the same as the UK version, with Phil
Spector listed as "Phil Spector" (in lowercase). |
On the US version,
the name of "Harold Seider" has been added to the "Thanks
to..." section at the bottom of the back cover, which is not
present on the UK version, but his name does not appear on
the Japanese version. |
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| SPINE: CLOSE UP | |||||
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This Version has ''STEREO''
printed in RED letters on the spine (and not white) and also
the red dot after catalogue number. |
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| Apple Gourd in Green OBI: FRONT TOP | Apple Gourd in Green
OBI: FRONT BOTTOM |
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Issued with a narrow Obi with a large round Apple logo at
the top, has a green back. The word "STEREO", Apple logo
mark and catalog No. were printed on the bottom. |
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| Gold OBI | Apple Gourd in Green OBI: BACKCLOSE UP | ||||
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The album is wrapped in a green gourd Obi
and a gold Obi that reads "Academy Award Winning Record." |
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1st. pressing had a priced
¥2,000 on the obi strip. Has a order sheet on the back side of the Obi. Catalog No, price "¥2,000" and "Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd."were printed at the order sheet. |
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The phrase "Apple Records - All Rights of the Manufacturer and of the Owner of the Recorded work Reserved." was printed at the perimeter. | ||
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The words "MFD. BY TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. JAPAN" was printed at the bottom of the label. | ||
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Apple Dark green label. Slender font. |
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OTHER ITEM (Campaign Application Postcard)
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| POSTCARD: FRONT | POSTCARD: BACK |
POSTCARD: FRONT
CLOSE UP |
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| POSTCARD: BACK CLOSE UP | |||||
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If you purchase albums from 11 artists,
including The Beatles, you will be entered into a lottery to
win an original bag, with 10,000 winners. |
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| RECORD LABEL | Dark Green Apple label Type-1 |
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| MIX | STEREO |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | YEX-773 8S 7 |
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| SIDE 2 | YEX-774 6S2 6 |
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| PRESS MARK | 1B
-> 1D |
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| VINYL COLOR | RED |
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| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | SLEEVE | Toshiba Ongaku kogyo Kabusikigaisha |
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| LABEL | MFD. BY
TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. JAPAN |
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| SYMBOL/PRICE | H - ¥2,000 |
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| LYRIC SHEET STYLE | Slip Sheet Type |
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| COVER FORM | Gatefold type. Hard cover. |
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| INNER
SLEEVE |
Apple custom black sleeve |
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| OBI |
"Gourd" in green Obi (a narrow Obi with a
large round Apple logo at the top) / with Order sheet Gold Obi that reads "Academy Award Winning Record." |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Design by John Cosh Photographs by Ethan Russell |
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COMMENTS
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Dark green Apple label
Type-1with black print. The first pressing of the Japanese version was a box set, just like the UK version. It was released on 5th June, 1970. The second pressing was released on February 25th 1971. The record number has changed to AP-80189. The jacket has been changed to a gatefold jacket, like the US version. The obi is a green gourd obi. The film "Let It Be" won Best Original Song at the 43rd Academy Awards, so a thin gold obi commemorating this is included. In Novemver 1968, that was the date when Apple Corp Ltd. of England and Toshiba came to an agreement on the manufacturing and distribution of the Beatles' records in Japan. As part of that agreement, Toshiba had to reissue on the Apple label all the records previously issued on the Odeon label. The sleeves also had to be altered to desplay the Apple logo. Futher still, all the Odeon catalog number prefixes were changed to ones with Apple prefixes. In most cases, only the prefixes were changed and the catalog numbers were left intanct. Odeon singles, EPs, and LPs with the OR or OP prefixes were changed to Apple singles, EPs, and LPs with the AR or AP prefixes, respectively. But Toshiba did not instantly implement all these changes and did not immediately withdraw all Odeon label records. In fact, the phasing out of the Odeon label products and the phasing in of the Apple label was a lengthy process taking several months at least. The very first record in Japan issued under the Toshiba/Apple contract and bearing the Apple label was "The Beatles double LP (the White Album)", released on 21th. January 1969. And unlike elsewhere in the world, the first single in Japan to bear the Apple label was not "Hey Jude / Revolution" but rather "Ob- La-Di, Ob-La-Da / While My Guitar Gently Weeps", released on 10th. March, 1969. 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. Red vinyl: Besides good sound and quality printing, Japanese records also offered some other things of interest to the collector. One of the primary manufacturing companies in Japan, Toshiba, pressed a lot of their records on red, “Everclean” vinyl from 1958 through 1974 (maybe). While not pressed as collectors’ items, these red vinyl pressings are more sought out by collectors than their black vinyl counterparts. The Everclean vinyl was designed to be less prone to collecting static electricity and dust than the more common black vinyl. The obi: Apple "Gourd" in green Obi Issued with a narrow Obi with a large round Apple logo at the top, has a green background. The word "STEREO" and Apple logo mark and catalog number "AP-80189" were printed on the front. 1st. pressing had a priced ¥2,000 on rear sleeve and obi strip. 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. |
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