 Capitol 3rd. State Sleeve |
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TITLE
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"Yesterday"... And Today |
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| CATALOG
NUMBER |
ST-2553 |
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RELEASE DATE
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20th. June 1966 / Third State (First
Press: 15th June. 1966) |
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| TITLE LISTING |
SIDE
1 |
SIDE
2 |
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| Drive My Car
(BMI-2:25) |
And Your Bird Can
Sing (BMI-2:02) |
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| I'm Only Sleeping (BMI-2:58) | If I Needed
Someone (BMI-2:19) |
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| Nowhere Man (BMI-2:40) | We Can Work It
Out (BMI-2:10) |
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| Dr. Robert (BMI-2:14) | What Goes On? (BMI-2:44) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yesterday (BMI-2:04) | Day Tripper
(BMI-2:47) |
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| Act Naturally
(BMI-2:27) |
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| FRONT--> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK --> Click! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| INNER SLEEVE | FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! |
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Capitol Company Sleeve Type-6-2:
Orange sleeve (Sound Great!) Curved cut top. "Printed in U.S.A." mark was printed at the bottom of the back. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP --> Click | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The "New
Improved Full Dimensional Stereo" arrow logo was appeared at
the top of the front cover slick. |
The exposed
portion of the back liner that wrapped around to the top of
the jacket has the phrase "File Under: The Beatles" as well
as a large black dot and the catalogue number. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | BACK COVER CLOSE UP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Capitol logo in black at the upper
right corner of the front cover. |
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The Capitol/EMI logo box is in the upper
left corner. |
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The FDS logo and "Also available in
regular monophonic" in uppercase letters in the upper right
corner with the record number. |
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Most of the back liners have a small
numeral located near the lower right or left corner. These
numbers were used by Capitol to identify where the album
cover was manufactured. (2=Scranton factory) |
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Bill Miller: An American producer and from 1952, director of Capitol Records' international A&R operation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The lower portion of the back liner contains "Made in U.S.A. • Factories: Scranton, Pa. - Los Angeles, Calif. - Jacksonvilles,Ill." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The original issue Capitol albums were manufactured with black label backdrops with an outer rim colorband. | Catalog No. "ST-2553" was printed at the right side of the center hole. The labels for records manufactured on the East Coast were printed by Keystone Printed Specialties, Inc. in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The labels for the West Coast were printed by Bert-Co Enterprises in Los Angeles, California. The labels can be differentiated by the font of the number "one" at nine o’clock on the side one labels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The text of the perimeter print in blue on
the original issue discs states "MFD. BY CAPITOL RECORDS.
INC. U.S.A. T.M." to the left of a small Capitol logo" to
the right. |
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| SIDE 1 --> Click! |
SIDE 2 --> Click! |
The First Pressings'
credits all songs on both sides as BMI. |
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OTHER ITEM: Recall
Letter
(This is a copy. I don't have the original.) |
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Capitol sent a recall letter to reviewers
who had been sent copies of the album with the butcher
cover. |
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| LABEL | Capitol
Black
label
with color band type-1 |
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| MIX | MONO |
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| VINYL COLOR | Black |
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| PRESS FACTORY |
SLEEVE | West
Coast: Bert-Co Enterprise of Los Angeles |
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| VINYL | Los
Angeles, California |
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| FACTORY CODE | 6 |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 |
ST -
1 - 2553 - A3 IAM
mark (machine stamped) |
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| SIDE 2 |
ST -
2 - 2553 - A1 IAM
mark (machine stamped) |
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| PUBLISHER'S NAME |
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"SUBSIDIARY" PRINT
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| COVER FORM |
Single
type.
Housed
in a cardboard jacket. “Peeled” versions with the trunk cover removed |
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| INNER SLEEVE | Capitol
Company Sleeve Type-6-2 Orange sleeve (Sound Great!) / Tub cut top / with "Printed in U.S.A." mark on back. |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo:
Robert
Whitaker
(from an March, 1966 photo session) |
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| PRODUCER | Produced
by
Geore
Martin |
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COMMENTS
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"Yesterday and Today" is the
Beatles' tenth Capitol Records release in the United States.
The LP was released in both mono and stereo versions. This was Capitol Records remedy to marketing an acceptable album cover for their latest album issued on JUNE 20, 1966, entitled THE BEATLES' "YESTERDAY and TODAY". This variation is referred to as a 2nd STATE MONO BUTCHER COVER because the original cover was pasted over with this new and more publicly acceptable cover design as shown here. Since the original was found to be somewhat offensive, over the top and rejected by public opinion, reviewers, disc jockeys and especially the record executives at Capitol Records. TRUNK COVER The newly pasted over photo is known as the "TRUNK COVER". This corrected cover version was released on JUNE 20, 1966. To make certain that the album is an actual 2nd STATE BUTCHER COVER, one easy way to tell is to look at the right side on the front cover about midway down. You will see a faint depiction of Ringo's Black V-Neck Shirt underneath. If you don't see this, it's only a standard LP. Overall it's a magnificent piece, a highly sought after collectible, and of Museum Quality in this condition. It's also a 1st PRESSING from Capitol's LA Pressing Plant. On the back of the cover, you will note the Number "6" in the lower right corner. This signifies that it is an LA Pressing which were the VERY FIRST to be produced. As Beatles albums had continued to sell well since their arrival in America in early 1964, Capitol had high hopes for sales of Yesterday and Today. In anticipation of this, the company printed some 750,000 covers at their three pressing plants 1) Los Angeles, California 2) Scranton, Pennsylvania 3) Jacksonville, Illinois. At the Jacksonville, Illinois, plant, all of the returned copies had the records removed and the covers were reportedly taken to a landfill, where they were dumped into a hole that was then filled with water. At the Los Angeles and Scranton plants, a different decision was reached – the cover slicks with the new artwork would be pasted over the existing “Butcher cover” slicks. This process proved to be less expensive than reprinting the covers completely, but was also more time consuming. Not only was the process of precisely aligning a new slick over the old one a difficult task, but the finished covers also had to be trimmed at the mouth (the right edge) to account for any misalignment at the opening of the cover. Once the covers were either reprinted (Jacksonville) or modified (Los Angeles and Scranton), the albums were again shipped to distributors for their June 20, 1966 release date. It’s worth noting that the Butcher cover was released in the United States only in the vinyl format. Reel to reel tape and 8 track tape versions of the album were not issued until about a month after the record. By this time, the decision to use the second cover had already been made. Cassette copies of Yesterday and Today were not released until two years later and all of them were issued with the later trunk cover photo. On the day of release, the album that most buyers saw in the stores was the second cover with the steamer trunk photo. Probably half of those actually had Butcher cover slicks underneath them. A small handful of original copies with the exposed Butcher cover slick were sold at retail, though it has been estimated that only a few hundred copies were sold this way. There have been a couple of copies offered for sale on the market over the years that still had both the original shrink wrap and price sticker intact, demonstrating that at least a few copies of the withdrawn original cover did reach store shelves. Within a few months, all of the “pasteover” copies of Yesterday and Today had been sold, and by the end of 1966, all of the copies seen in stores were copies that had been manufactured with the trunk cover only. By January, 1967, four distinctly different versions of Yesterday and Today were in existence. 1) 1st. State: the original issues with the “Butcher cover” photo 2) 2nd. State: the second version of the album, with the trunk cover slick pasted over the Butcher cover 3) 3rd. State: the buyer-created “peeled” versions with the trunk cover removed 4) Trunk Cover (4th. state): the fourth version, which was manufactured with the trunk cover slick. (from: RareRecord.net "The Butcher Cover - The Beatles' Best Known Album") The back liner contains "MADE IN U.S.A. • FACTORIES: SCRANTON, PA. - LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - JACKSONVILL, ILL."" and the RIAA (Record Industry Association of America" logo. Most of the back liners have a small numeral located near the lower right or left corner. These numbers were used by Capitol to identify where the album cover was manufactured. Capitol did not fabricate its own album covers. Capitol required the cover manufacturer to place a factory identification number on the back liners. The fabricators added a small number, usually in the lower right corner. The following factories used the following identification numbers in the mid-60s:
The original issue Capitol albums were manufactured with black label backdrops with an outer rim colorband. Label copy information specific to each album appears in silver print. The labels for records manufactured on: 1) The East Coast were printed by Keystone Printed Specialties, Inc. in Scranton, Pensylvania. 2) The West Coast were printed by Bert-Co Enterprises in Los Angeles, California. The East Coast and West Coast mono label variations: 1) First pressings of the East Coast label has master number centered. 2) First "West Coast" Pressings have master number aligned right. 3) Jacksonville pressings of the album have West Coast labels prepared by Bert-Co. From the not-yet-released Revolver, the tracks "I'm Only Sleeping", "Dr. Robert" and "And Your Bird Can Sing". The mono mixes were different from those used for the August 1966 release of Revolver, while the stereo version of Yesterday and Today initially contained duophonic ("fake stereo") mixes of the three songs. Subsequent issues of Capitol's album used the true stereo mixes. Capitol sent a recall letter to reviewers who had been sent copies of the album with the butcher cover. In addition to announcing that all consumer copies of the album would be packaged in a new cover, Capitol told reviewers that they would be sent a copy of the LP with the redesigned cover. Reviewers were asked to “disregard” the album or return it C.O.D. to Capitol. Needless to say, very few people sent the cover back to the Tower. (according to "The Beatles on Capitol Records - written by Bruce Spizer" |
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