Untitled Document THE BEATLES-A COLLECTION OF BEATLES OLDIES TYPE SINGLE LP-MONO LABEL/PRESSING INFO

PARLOPHONE 1ST PRESS YELLOW & BLACK LABELS and "SOLD IN U.K." TEXT with matrix numbers: XEX 619-1G XEX 620-1G and stampers: 1H/1H.

CATALOGUE NUMBER PMC 7016 YEAR OF RELEASE 1966 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE SINGLE-GARROD & LOFTHOUSE LAMINATED FLIPBACK INSERTS/EXTRAS NONE   GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s)

EXCELLENT+ (NICE clean record with VERY LIGHT playwear and LIGHT surface only handling and storage marks. Plays well with a great MONO reproduction.

LABELS

EXCELLENT ( CLEAN LABELS with - NO writing rips tears stickers or removal marks with LIGHT spindleusage, but with a few heavier wayward spindlemarks mostly on A and LIGHT handling storage and ageing marks)

SLEEVE

 

Front board.Inner gatefold EX+

Clean sleeve with NO writing rips tears stickers or removal markes- Front laminate is very shiny and relatively unworn with very light handling and storage wear only

Rear Board EX- Rear white board is clean with only light ageing handling and wear, has small pen name and address upper top and initials in the top left corner Flipbacks EX Clean complete and stuck fast with light wear Spine EX+ Complete and uncrushed with clear and complete lettering. light wear and nicely defined sniped ends Top & bottom edges EX+ Top and bottom edges have minimal wear only Opening EX+ Opening has VERY LIGHT usage and VERY LIGHT wear Corners EX+ ALL the corners have VERY LIGHT wear only   INNER /EXTRAS

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It was Christmas time, 1966. Though hard at work on the beginnings of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, the Beatles had nothing for EMI to put out during the holiday season (aside from the annual Christmas record for the fan club). Revolver had come out in the first week of August, too early to exploit.

What to do? So EMI issued this stopgap collection of 16 older recordings for the European market, in effect creating the first "Beatles Greatest Hits" album. Actually, it's not a predictable hits anthology, for it omits obvious hit singles like "Please Please Me" and "Love Me Do," and includes popular album cuts like "Yesterday" and "Michelle" that were not issued as singles in the U.K. But it doesn't skimp on quantity, offering 16 songs instead of the usual 14, taking the saga all the way up to Revolver, and collecting some British singles into album format for the first time.

As for English fanatics who simply had to have everything but might balk at purchasing an album entirely composed of retreads, EMI thought of them too, slipping in the Larry Williams song "Bad Boy" for the first time in Britain (it was included on Beatles VI in America in 1965). The stereo edition features a few anomalies -- an electronic stereo "She Loves You" -- but mostly offers commonly available mixes.

The front cover is a period piece of Carnaby Street kitsch, while the back features a casual Beatles photo circa 1966. Today the album seems like a decent summing up of the Beatles' achievement just before the plunge into "Strawberry Fields" and Sgt. Pepper, though obviously not taking in the whole story.

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