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| Original Inlay
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TITLE
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THE BEST OF
GEORGE HARRISON |
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| CATALOG NUMBER | TC-MFP 50523 |
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RELEASE DATE
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1981? / Second Issue? | |||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 |
SIDE 2 |
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| The Beatles |
George Harrison |
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| Something |
My Sweet Lord |
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| If I Needed Someone |
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On
Earth) |
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| Here Comes The Sun |
You |
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| Taxman |
Bangla Desh |
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| Think For Yourself |
Dark Horse |
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| For You Blue |
What Is Life | |||
| While My Guitar Gently Weeps | ||||
| CASSETTE CASE AND TAPE |
CASE FRONT | CASE BACK | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! |
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| The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases)
were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. The originals had an oversized card cover wrapped around the outside of the case. |
This UK issue has direct print in red ink
on the shell with "mfp" logo |
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| INLAY |
INLAY: FRONT | INLAY: INSIDE |
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| Custom inlay. The originals had an
oversized card cover wrapped around the outside of the case. |
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| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | ||||
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The "mfp=Music for Pleasure)" logomark, address, and catalog No. were printed on the inlay. |
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The cassette of the album "The Best Of George Harrison" is recorded in the same order as the LP. |
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| INLAY INSIDE AND CASSETTE CASE: CLOSE UP | ||||
| The cardboard cover has two cross cuts to
fit into the reel folder on the cassette case. The original "The Best Of George Harrison (mfp)" cassette had an oversized card cover wrapped around the outside of the plastic case. |
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"TC-MFP 50523" catalogue
number and "EMI Records Ltd." were printed. The mfp
logomark was printed on the label. "DOLBY SYSTEM" logo was printed on the label. |
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| SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | The cassette of
the album "The Best Of George Harrison" is recorded in the
same order as the LP. |
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"The cassette
shell has a circular "plus" mark on each of its four corners
on side-2. |
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| LABEL | Direct print in red ink on the
shell with "mfp" logo |
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| MIX | STEREO / DOLBY B-type |
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| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | EMI Records Ltd |
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| CENTRAL REMARK "SOLD IN U.K." |
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| RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT | (P) 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973,
1974, 1975 |
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| INLAY FORM | Oversized cardboard cover wrapped around the outside of the plastic case. | |||
| SHELL | Light Grey Shell |
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| CASSETTE CASE |
"Norelco"
cases: clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. |
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| PRINTER CREDIT | - |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo: John Kelly |
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| PRODUCER | George Martin | |||
| COMMENTS | Direct print in red ink label with
"mfp (*1)" logo cassette and no central screw. It has a grey tape shell with red on-body text. The original "The Best Of George Harrison (mfp)" cassette had an oversized card cover wrapped around the outside of the plastic case. The cardboard cover has two cross cuts to fit into the reel folder on the cassette case. This release does not have an inlay card which fits within the plastic case. It has a die-cut, folded, thick card outer flip-back cover, which is held in place by- 1. A tab inserted inside the case and over the cassette retaining spindles. 2. The cover flips-back inside the case lid and appears to be glued to the back of the case. The track titles and credits are printed in black. The spine has "The Best Of GEORGE HARRISON" printed in the same font and size in blue as on the front. MFP logo, catalog number, "Stereo" and the boxed EMI logo are all printed in black. No apple logo and no barcode. The card cover results in the lid springing shut and remaining closed. The plain black front edge of the case has an indentation to allow it be opened without damaging the cover. (All of this appears to be a clever idea, but unfortunately the outer card cover has no protection from damage & staining and the the extra thickness prevents it from fitting into most standard cassette cases.) The cassettes were packed in a plastic outer covering with an additional printed "Beatles" cardboard back-plate which served also as a hanging hook for the MFP carousel display hat-stand type thing. The printing on the cardboard back-plate reflected the cover art. (maybe) The Best of George Harrison is a 1976 compilation album by George Harrison, released following the expiration of his EMI-affiliated Apple Records contract. Uniquely among all of the four Beatles' solo releases, apart from posthumous compilations, it mixes a selection of the artist's 7 songs recorded with the Beatles on one side, and later hits recorded under his own name on the other. Side two was made up of Harrison's biggest solo hits: "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life" from All Things Must Pass (1970), "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" from Living in the Material World (1973), the title track from Dark Horse (1974), and "You" from Extra Texture (1975).The sixth solo song was the non-album single "Bangla Desh", released in 1971. The first UK edition contained Bob Cato's colour photo of Harrison sitting in front of an antique car, with art direction for the package being credited to Cream designs. A front-cover with MFP's budget reissue during the 1980s, which reproduced Harrison's 1968 White Album portrait. (*1) Music for Pleasure (MFP) was a budget label, set up by British EMI in 1965. Most of MFP's output were reissues of existing EMI recordings, including records by major artists such as The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Animals and The Beatles. But MFP also issued original material like studio recordings of successful West End musicals. Fame was a sub-label of MFP in the 1980s, which reissued albums from Queen, Paul McCartney, Marillion, and other successful EMI artists. DOLBY B-type: A Dolby noise-reduction system, or Dolby NR, is one of a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analog audio tape recording. The first was Dolby A, a professional broadband noise reduction system for recording studios in 1965, but the best-known is Dolby B (introduced in 1968) for the consumer market, which helped make high fidelity practical on cassette tapes, which used a relatively noisy tape size and speed. From the mid-1970s, Dolby B became standard on commercially pre-recorded music cassettes. |
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