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The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night

Label: Parlophone – PMC 1230

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Garrod & Lofthouse Sleeve

Country: UK

Released: Jul 10, 1964

Genre: Rock, Stage & Screen

Style: Soundtrack, Beat, Pop Rock

Tracklist

Songs From The Film "A Hard Day's Night"

A1A Hard Day's Night

A2I Should Have Known Better

A3If I Fell

A4I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

A5And I Love Her

A6Tell Me Why

A7Can't Buy Me Love

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B1Any Time At All

B2I'll Cry Instead

B3Things We Said Today

B4When I Get Home

B5You Can't Do That

B6I'll Be Back

Media: Very Good (VG) Some light crackle on quiet parts of tracks, 

Sleeve: Good Plus (G+) small chunk of bottom left corner of sleeve missing. 

Companies, etc.

Record Company – The Parlophone Co. Ltd.

Record Company – E.M.I. Records Limited

Published By – Northern Songs Ltd.

Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.

Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.

Credits

Liner Notes [Cover Notes By] – Tony Barrow

Producer – George Martin

Words By, Music By [Words And Music:] – John Lennon And Paul McCartney

Written-By – Lennon-McCartney

Notes

The main differentiator of this early pressing, compared to later versions, is the black and yellow Parlophone label with the perimeter rim copyright text, 'THE PARLOPHONE CO LTD • ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDING WORK RESERVED • UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED'. Above the spindle hole the centre text, 'SOLD IN THE U.K. SUBJECT TO RESALE PRICE CONDITIONS, SEE PRICE LISTS'.

There are a number of other differentiators present on both the labels and the cover.

Label:

1 - Has a 'chubby' font with the right-hand side indicator numerals appearing under the '2' in the catalogue number 'PMC 1230' above them.

2 - The publishing copyright date is given as 'RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964', and is nearly left-aligned compared to the matrix number above it.

3 - The group's name 'THE BEATLES' is closer to the '(Lennon-McCartney)' credit above it than to the 'Northern Songs Music Ltd.' publishing credit below.

4 - A2 'I Should Have Known Better' has its title split over 2 lines.

5 - All of the song titles on side 2 appear on separate lines.

6 - No embossed tax code around the spindle hole.

Cover:

1 - Front laminated, tri-flipback and printed by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd., with a medium 'MONO' indicator on the front, top, right hand corner.

Cover details:

E . M . I . RECORDS LIMITED

(Controlled By Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.)

HAYES • MIDDLESEX • ENGLAND

Made and Printed in Great Britain

Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents pending PMC 1230 PCS 3058

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (A-side label, in brackets): XEX.481

Matrix / Runout (B-side label, in brackets): XEX.482

Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped): XEX 481 - 3N

Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped): XEX 482 - 3N

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