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10. The Beatles (A.K.A. White Album) (PMC 7067-68)
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#10-1 The Beatles (1st. Press "without An EMI Recording credit / Factory Sample": PMC 7067~7068)
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TITLE
THE BEATLES
CATALOG NUMBER PMC 7067-8
RELEASE DATE
22th. November 1968 / First Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
Back In The U.S.S.R.
Martha My Dear
Dear Prudence
I'm So Tired
Glass Onion
Blackbird
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
Piggies
Wild Honey Pie
Rocky Raccoon
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
Don't Pass Me By
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
Happiness Is A Warm Gun I will
  Julia
 SIDE 3 SIDE 4
Birthday
Revolution 1
Yer Blues
Honey Pie
Mother Nature's Son
Savoy Truffle
Everybody Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
Cry Baby Cry
Sexy Sadie
(" Can You Take Me Back...")
Helter Skelter
Revolution 9
Long, Long, Long Good Night
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! INSIDE --> Click!
DISK
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SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! SIDE 3 --> Click! SIDE 4 --> Click! INNER SLEEVE
label label label label cover
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label label The front cover has “The BEATLES” embossed in raised block letters. Each LP is sequentially numbered.
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"Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod and Lofthouse International Ltd." was printed at the bottom of the cover.
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label This cover had outlets at its top, as it was called as the "Open Top" cover. Flaps inside the gatefold cover were visible at the left and the right sides.
label Dark green label with an image of an apple on side 1 and sliced apple on side 2.
“Apple Records - All rights...” printed at the start perimeter print.
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label "Sold In U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists." statement was printed at the center of the label.
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label label label label Label don't have "("An E.M.I. Recording")" text on two lines.The left hand side of the label should only have "33 1/3", "Mfd. in U.K."
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label Publishing year printed with small copyright symbol (p).
label Have the credits "Production by GEORGE MARTIN"  and "Orchestrations by GEORGE MARTIN" below the group's name.
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label With a "FACTORY SAMPLE" sticker on the label of side-3.
After the test pressings were approved, and copies were run with the promo labels on them, the printer then loaded the machines with the proper labels for the disk's standard release. Then samples were taken from possibly each press machine making the records, and affixed with a sticker (red ink on white) and checked for quality.
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SIDE 1 SIDE 2 SIDE 3 SIDE 4 Matrix No. is
Side-1: XEX  709 -1 Side-2: XEX  710 -1 Side-3: XEX  711 -1 Side-4: XEX  712 -1
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OTHER ITEM
PORTRAITS POSTER
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sleeve sleeve
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! The sleeve design was by Richard Hamilton, who suggested the minimalistic approach and the consecutively numbered sleeves which would give a limited edition feel to it. Richard also came up with the montage idea for the large free poster, which included the lyrics on it's rear.
sleeve sleeve
Each LP was issued with large 85.8 x57.2 cm poster and four 28.8×20 cm glossy photos of each Beatle taken by John Kelly.
Early copies were issued with a separator sheet placed on the top of each photo.
poster

LABEL Dark Green Apple label Type-1
MIX MONO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 XEX  709 -1
SIDE 2 XEX  710 -1
SIDE 3 XEX  711 -1
SIDE 4 XEX  712 -1
VINYL COLOR BLACK
SERIAL NO. No. 0008564
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME LABEL
Label:Apple Records / without "An E.M.I. Recording" credit
SLEEVE EMI Records (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.) Hays, Middlesex, England
CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K."
YES
RECORDING  PUBLISHED CREDIT (P) 1968     (small (P))
COVER FORM Gatefold type. "Open Top" cover.
PRINTER CREDIT Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod and Lofthouse International Ltd.
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Art Design: Richard Hamilton,Gordon House and Jeremy Banks
Photo: John Kelly
INNER SLEEVE Black inner sleeve with a die-cut circular opening on one side
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS Initial numbered edition with top opening G & L gatefold sleeve, black inners, poster & 4 color portraits, dark green Apple labels with ? & "Sold In The UK...." text.
This was released in error omitting the text 'An E.M.I. Recording' on the label, so a second version was promptly released with the corrected labels.
Eric Clapton uncredited on A7 for contractual reasons.

First Press:
Dark green label with an image of an apple on side 1 and sliced apple on side 2.
First label variation have "33 1/3" text at the top line of the left side and "Sold In U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists" text.
Publishing year printed with small copyright symbol (p).
"An E.M.I. Recording" text was not printed on the label.
Matrix numbers:
Side 1: XEX 709-1; Side 2: XEX 710-1; Side 3: XEX 711-1; Side 4: XEX 712-1.

Full laminated white gatefold cover have flaps on the left and right sides of the open gatefold with openings at the top.
The front of the cover has "The BEATLES" embossed in raised block letters.
The stamped seven-digit number appears in gray on a slight downward angle towards the lower right corner.
The back of the mono cover is completely blank. The right panel of the open gatefold has the four John Kelly black and white portraits running left to right (John, Paul, George and Ringo). The left panel has the titles to the album’s songs in gray on 12 row. The records were housed in black inner sleeves with a die-cut circular opening on one side to expose the Apple label. These sleeves were most likely manufactured by Harrison & Sons.

The White Album contained: Four 28.8×20 cm glossy John Kelly color portraits of the band, were normally inserted into the left-side sleeve, sometimes with light-colored separator sheets.
And 85.8 x57.2cm. While Hamilton collage poster, with the lyrics on the back, were normally inserted into the right-side sleeve.

With a "FACTORY SAMPLE" sticker on the label of side-3.
After the test pressings were approved, and copies were run with the promo labels on them, the printer then loaded the machines with the proper labels for the disk's standard release. Then samples were taken from possibly each press machine making the records, and affixed with a sticker (red ink on white) and checked for quality.



#10-2 Back to the top of the line
TITLE
THE BEATLES
RELEASE DATE
22th November.1968/First Press
FRONT BACK LABEL --> Click!
white whiteback label
INSIDE INNER SLEEVE
whiteinside whiteinside blacksleeve
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SIDE-1 & SIDE-2 SIDE-3 & SIDE-4 MUSIC PUBLISHER
emi
              recording non
              emi recording layout
This disk has a credit saying "An E.M.I. Recording" at the left upper portion of the label. This disk does not have a credit saying "An EMI Recording". This label was printed in chubby "Sans Serif" printing type.
The music publisher's name for George's and Ringo's songs was printed "Apple Publishing Ltd."
cf. ..See "The Beatles/mono version (reissued in 1981)"
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emboss (Left)
Album title was embossed
(Right)
Serial Number
serial
OTHER ITEM
PORTRAITS POSTER
johnpaul
georgeringo
posterposterback



TRACK LISTING CATALOG NUMBER
SIDE 1 SIDE 2 PMC 7067-8
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
Wild honey pie
The continuing story of Bungalow Bill
While my guitar gently weeps
Happiness is a warm gun
Martha my dear
I'm so tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
Don't pass me by
Why don't we do it in the road?
I will
Julia

LABEL
APPLE

MIX
MONO

VINYL COLOR
BLACK

SIDE 3 SIDE 4 SERIAL NO.
Birthday
Yer blues
Mother nature's son
Everybody got something to hide except me and my monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, long, long
Revolution 1
Honey pie
Savoy Truffle
Cry baby cry
(" Can you take me back...")
Revolution 9
Good night
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PRODUCER
George Martin

COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES
Art Design: Richard Hamilton,
Gordon House and
Jeremy Banks
Photo: John Kelly
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME
Label:
Side-1 & Side-2:Apple Records + An EMI Recording
Side-3 & Side-4:Apple Records
Album Cover: EMI Records (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.) Hays, Middlesex, England
CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K..."
YES
COVER FORM
Gatefold type. "Open Top" cover.
PRINTER CREDIT
Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod and Lofthouse International Ltd.
COMMENTS
Double LP with gatefold cover. The first cover had outlets at its top, as it was called as the "Open Top" cover.
Flaps inside the gatefold cover were visible at the left and the right sides.
Each LP was issued with large poster and four glossy photos of each Beatle.
Early copies were issued with a protector sheet placed on the top of each photo and have custom black inner sleeve.
Each LP is sequentially numbered on lower right of front cover.
The music publisher's name for George's and Ringo's songs was printed "Apple Publishing Ltd." Afterward, "Harrisongs Ltd." and "Startling Mus."

Usual Beatles' Apple records have a credit saying "An EMI Recording" at the left upper portion of the label. But the early label has not.
So, my album has the credit at the side-1 and side-2, but the second record (side-3 and side-4) does not have it. It seems that they are changing the label little by little.



#10-3 Back to the top of the line
TITLE
THE BEATLES
RELEASE DATE
1981
FRONT BACK LABEL --> Click!
white whiteback label
INSIDE LABEL CLOSE UP
whiteinside whiteinside layout
layout
This cover looks less glossy because of the thinner vinyl coating. The song list at the left side of the gatefold cover was printed slightly darker and clearer than the early ones. They also added the following words below the song list, "1968 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Limited".
The flaps were made at both the top and the bottom, though they were not easily visible as they were folded and glued at inside.
The characteristic of the reissued label are:
1) "MONO" credit on the right upper portion
2) Slender "Sans Serif" printing type
3) a credit "An EMI Recording" in parentheses
4) "Harrisongs Ltd." and "Startling Mus." printed as the music publisher's name for George's and Ringo's songs.
cf. ...See the previous style "The Beatles' Stereo version"
OTHER ITEM
PORTRAITS POSTER
johnpaul
georgeringo
posterposterback



TRACK LISTING CATALOG NUMBER
SIDE 1 SIDE 2 PMC 7067-8
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
Wild honey pie
The continuing story of Bungalow Bill
While my guitar gently weeps
Happiness is a warm gun
Martha my dear
I'm so tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
Don't pass me by
Why don't we do it in the road?
I will
Julia

LABEL
APPLE

MIX
MONO

VINYL COLOR
BLACK

SIDE 3 SIDE 4 SERIAL NO.
Birthday
Yer blues
Mother nature's son
Everybody got something to hide except me and my monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, long, long
Revolution 1
Honey pie
Savoy Truffle
Cry baby cry
(" Can you take me back...")
Revolution 9
Good night
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PRODUCER
George Martin

COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES
Art Design: Richard Hamilton,
Gordon House and
Jeremy Banks
Photo: John Kelly
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME
Label:Apple Records + An EMI Recording
Album Cover: EMI Records (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.) Hays, Middlesex, England
CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K..."
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COVER FORM
Gatefold type. "Open Side" cover.
PRINTER CREDIT
Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod and Lofthouse International Ltd.
COMMENTS
The reissued mono album in 1981.
This album, their only original two record set, came in a white double LP cover, laminated both in and out, and the pockets for the records opened at the side.
Each LP was issued with large color poster bearing a photo collage on one side, and the song lyrics on the other, and four glossy 8*11" color photos of each Beatle.



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