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#1-1 Please Please Me (1st. Press: PMCO 1202)
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TITLE PLEASE PLEASE ME
CATALOG NUMBER PMCO 1202
RELEASE DATE 17th October 1963 / First Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
I Saw Her Standing There Love Me, Do
Misery
P.S. I Love You
Anna (Go To Him)
Baby, It's You
Chains
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Boys
A Taste Of Honey
Ask Me Why
There's A Place
Please, Please Me Twist And Shout
FRONT -->Click! BACK -->Click! SIDE 1 -->Click! SIDE 2 -->Click! DISK
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INNER SLEEVE FRONT COVER CLOSE UP BACK COVER CLOSE UP
Original Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe)
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Covers for this LP came with no front "mono" indicator.
The cover to this issue was made in England at first; later copies were made in Australia (=this record).
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Housed in a twin-flipback printed cover (Semi wrap-around cover).
BACK COVER CLOSE UP
label "MADE AND DISTRIBUTED IN AUSTRALIA BY E.M.I. (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED" and "SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES" were printed at the bottom of the back cover.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label EMI-Australia was using a black and gold label with the print around the rim of the label reading "MADE IN AUSTRALIA FOR THE PARLOPHONE CO., LTD. SYDNEY, N.S.W."
LABEL CLOSE UP
SIDE 1 SIDE 2 Label variation is type-1:
Music Publ. royalty stamps order & style (text credits only):
Side 1: LEEDS / TU-CON / CASTLE
Side 1: LEEDS / PINCUS-GIL / CASTLE
(According to "The Beatles Australia Album Labelography")
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OTHER ITEM
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LABEL Gold Parlophone Type-1
MIX MONO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 XEX 421-1N
SIDE 2 XEX 422-1N
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME
LABEL THE PARLOPHONE CO. LTD. (capital letter)
COVER E.M.I. (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED
RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT -
COVER FORM Single type. Housed in a twin-flipback printed cover (Semi wrap-around cover).
PRINTER CREDIT -
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Angus McBean / Notes: Tony Barrow
INNER SLEEVE Original Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe)
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS
 In Australia, the first Beatles LP, "Please Please Me" was not issued until October, 1963.
When the album came out, EMI-Australia was using a black and gold label with the print around the rim of the label reading "MADE IN AUSTRALIA FOR THE PARLOPHONE CO., LTD. SYDNEY, N.S.W.(*)" The cover to this issue was made in England at first; later copies were made in Australia.


The album which was originally issued on the first black and gold label.

Australian "Please Please Me" labels all include commas, where grammatically correct, in the following track titles:

       Side-1.7 Please, Please Me
       Side-2.1 Love Me, Do
       Side-2.3 Baby, It's You

*N.S.W.=New South Wales



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