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#2-1 The Beatles (1st. Press "Odéon Dark Blue Label with Standard text": SOE 3741)
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TITLE
THE BEATLES
CATALOG NUMBER SOE 3741
TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
She Loves You (Lennon-McCartney)
Do You Want To Know A Secret (McCartney-Lennon)
SIDE 2
Twist And Shout (Medley-Russell)
A Taste Of Honey (Scott-Marlow)
RELEASE DATE
21st. October 1963 / First Press
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twist twist The English song titles are translated in French on both front and back covers.
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Housed in a twin-flipback printed cover (half laminated printed cover).
"IMPRIMERIE msp" is Printer's name. It was printed at the bottom of the back cover.
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label label label Odéon Dark Blue Label with silver print.

The word "BIEM" in a box was printed on side-1 of the label.
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label Credited to song writing:
SHE LOVES YOU= "Lennon-McCartney"
DO YOU WANT ... = "McCartney-Lennon" on side-1.

"MADE IN FRANCE" was printed at the bottom of the label.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL
Odéon Dark Blue Label with silver print Type-1 (With "Standard")
MIX
MONO
MATRIX NO. SIDE 1 M3 229826 7ARE 2073 21B
SIDE 2 M3 229825 7ARE 2074 21B
VINYL COLOR
BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME
ODÉON
COVER FORM Single type. Housed in a twin-flipback printed cover (half laminated printed cover).
TAG Unknown
PRINTER CREDIT IMPRIMERIE msp
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Fiona Adams
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS
In 1963, while "les Beatles" were ready to play live at Paris concert cityhall "l'Olympia" for 3 weeks, Odéon label published its second French EP : SOE 3741 " She Loves You ".
The French "SOE 3741" exists in 2 different and traditional label colors from "Odéon France". That is to say the dark blue and orange label. The dark blue color was pressed earlier than orange was. "SOE 3741" opened the French Beatles EP trilogy . Afterwards , Odeon France will only use orange label.

The earliest Odeon label style has ODÉON in large letters across the top of the label. Before some time in early 1964, the labels were dark blue in color. There were three EP's which were originally released on the dark blue Odeon label.
  • SOE 3739 Les Beatles (From Me To You +3) ‐‐cover like Introducing the Beatles
  • SOE 3739 Les Beatles (From Me To You +3)‐‐cover has Beatles in French uniforms
  • SOE 3741 Les Beatles (She Loves You +3)‐‐French titles shown first
  • SOE 3741 Les Beatles (She Loves You +3)‐‐English titles first
  • SOE 3745 I Want to Hold Your Hand +3
In UK, "She loves you" was only pressed as a single. In France , it was accompanied by three other extra songs from Beatles' first album.
The English song titles are translated in French on both front and back covers.
"She Loves You" has the wrong time (1' 56)

  • Sleeve
    • 1st. press (21th. Oct. 1963): Title on front "Twist ET Shout", back of sleeve: time for She Loves You 1'56 (=this record)
    • 2nd. press (1963):Title on front "Twist AND Shout", back of sleeve: time for She Loves You 2'16
    • 3rd. press (1963):Title on front "Twiste et Chante", back of sleeve has bigger English titles
    • 4th. press (1964):Back of sleeve shows pictures of 3 more EP's and an LP
  • Label
    • 1st. press (21th. Oct. 1963): Dark blue Odeon label with silver print / Has the word "STANDARD" under the release number (=this record)
    • 2nd. press (1963): Dark blue Odeon label with silver print / No "STANDARD" under the releasenumber, "She Loves You" has time (2'16)
    • 3rd. press (1963): Dark blue Odeon label with silver print / No "STANDARD" under the releasenumber, "She Loves You" has time (3'50)
    • 4th. press (1963):Orange Odeon label with black print / Has the credits next to the titles
    • 5th. press (1964): Orange Odeon label with black print / Has the credits under the titles
    • 5th. press (1964): Orange Odeon label with black print / Lacks number "7" in front of the releasenumber (7 SOE 3741 = SOE 3741)


The prefix "S" does not stand for stereo, but probably rather “standard.” All of the SOE series EP's are in mono.



#2-2 The Beatles (3rd. Press: SOE-3741)
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#2-5 The Beatles (5th. Press "Odéon Orange Label Type-2": SOE-3741)
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TITLE
THE BEATLES
CATALOG NUMBER SOE 3741
TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
She Loves You (Lennon-McCartney)
Do You Want To Know A Secret (McCartney-Lennon)
SIDE 2
Twist And Shout (Medley-Russell)
A Taste Of Honey (Scott-Marlow)
RELEASE DATE
21st. October 1963 / First Press
FRONT -->Click!
BACK -->Click!
SIDE 1 -->Click!
SIDE 2 -->Click! DISK -->Click!
twist twist_back label label label
FRONT COVER CLOSE UP
twist twist Title on front "Twiste et Chante", back of sleeve has bigger English titles.
BACK COVER CLOSE UP
twist twist twist twist
Housed in a twin-flipback printed cover (half laminated printed cover).
"IMPRIMERIE msp" is Printer's name. It was printed at the bottom of the back cover.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label label Odéon orange Label with black print.

The word "BIEM" in a box was printed on side-1 of the label.
LABEL CLOSE UP
label label Credited to song writing:
SHE LOVES YOU= "Lennon-McCartney"
DO YOU WANT ... = "McCartney-Lennon" on side-1.
Has the songwriter credits under the titles.
"MADE IN FRANCE" was printed at the bottom of the label.
TAG
label Has the original re-order tag attached.
(Sorry, I don't have it.)
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL
Odéon Orange Label with black print Type-2
MIX
MONO
MATRIX NO. SIDE 1 M3 229826 7ARE 2073 21B
SIDE 2 M3 229825 7ARE 2074 21B
VINYL COLOR
BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME
ODÉON
COVER FORM Single type. Housed in a twin-flipback printed cover (half laminated printed cover).
TAG Unknown
PRINTER CREDIT IMPRIMERIE msp
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Fiona Adams
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS
From 1964 through the end of 1965, all of Odeon's EP releases were on an orange label with black print.
Title on front cover "Twiste et Chante", back of sleeve has bigger English titles.
Has the songwriter credits under the titles.
  • Sleeve
    • 1st. press (21th. Oct. 1963): Title on front "Twist ET Shout", back of sleeve: time for She Loves You 1'56
    • 2nd. press (1963):Title on front "Twist AND Shout", back of sleeve: time for She Loves You 2'16
    • 3rd. press (1963):Title on front "Twiste et Chante", back of sleeve has bigger English titles (=this record)
    • 4th. press (1964):Back of sleeve shows pictures of 3 more EP's and an LP
  • Label
    • 1st. press (21th. Oct. 1963): Dark blue Odeon label with silver print / Has the word "STANDARD" under the release number
    • 2nd. press (1963): Dark blue Odeon label with silver print / No "STANDARD" under the releasenumber, "She Loves You" has time (2'16)
    • 3rd. press (1963): Dark blue Odeon label with silver print / No "STANDARD" under the releasenumber, "She Loves You" has time (3'50)
    • 4th. press (1963):Orange Odeon label with black print / Has the songwriter credits next to the titles
    • 5th. press (1964): Orange Odeon label with black print / Has the songwriter credits under the titles (=this record)
    • 5th. press (1964): Orange Odeon label with black print / Lacks number "7" in front of the releasenumber (7 SOE 3741 = SOE 3741)



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