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The Beatles Supertracks II Very RARE!! Bootleg label CBM. Contra Band Music Profile: Virginia, USA-based bootleg label active from 1970 to 1977. The FBI shut them down in '76, but they continued to produce records well into 1977. The label is also known as CBM.
COMMENTARY In October 1973 the producer of the CBM records moved from Norfolk, Virginia to Charlotte, North Carolina. In his new location he changed the matrix number style: the previous 3xxx sequence that started, for the Beatles, with 3316 assigned to DON'T PASS ME BY and completed with 3922 assigned to BYE BYE BYE SUPERTRACK 1 was replaced by the 1xxx series, preceded, for the Beatles records, by the letters TB. This is the first Beatles master cut at the new pressing plants in Charlotte, whose products were characterized by the inner ring at 12 mm from the hole and another, lighter ring at 32 mm. The record contains tracks from the Get Back promo LP (track 4) and from the Let It Be movie soundtrack (track 8), plus excerpts from A Hard Day’s Night. The Ed Sullivan appearance features the soundtrack to the Rain and Paperback Writer promo clips, which were simply mimed to the officially released versions. The Hey Jude Session is the same as on L.S. BUMBLE BEE, apart for a few seconds of difference, but it is here in better quality. RELEASES 1. November, 1973 (photo below the title). The first pressing used the same jacket the first issues of BYE BYE BYE - SUPERTRACKS 1, with a large sticker with the new title pasted over the old one; the labels were yellow, with side indication in lower case, probably to avoid confusion with copies of the other record that was simultaneously repressed. Early 1974. All subsequent copies that were seen have an insert cover similar to that used for the repressings of SUPERTRACKS 1, printed in green paper and titled SUPERTRACK 2. Those released in spring and summer, 1974 had the drawing by J. Fish printed on the back side of the jacket and the green label with pirate or a white blank label. Copies with different labels may exist as well, but do not seem to be very common. Currently going price of $49 on discogs.