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#06 Rubber Soul (SMO 984 066)
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#6-1 Rubber Soul (Export Edition / Yellow Odeon Label: SMO 984 066)
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TITLE RUBBER SOUL
CATALOG NUMBER SMO 984 066 / ZTOX 5613
RELEASE DATE December.1965 / Export Edition to Switzerland
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
Drive My Car What Goes On
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Girl
You Won't See Me I'm Looking Through You
Nowhere Man
In My Life
Think For Yourself
Wait
The Word
If I Needed Someone
Michelle Run For Your Life
FRONT -->Click! BACK -->Click! SIDE 1 -->Click! SIDE 2 -->Click! DISK
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INNER SLEEVE FRONT COVER CLOSE UP
Unknown
label Catalog No. "SMO 84 066" was printed at the bottom of the front cover label In the original photo taken for the cover, there is a loose thread on right shoulder of John's jacket. This was airbrushed out on most covers in the U.K. Some countries did not alter the photo (ex. Mexico)
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label Catalog No. "SMO 84 066" was printed at the upper right corner of the back cover.
Old Odeon logo mark was at the bottom of the back cover.
The "(P) 1965" statement was printed on the back cover.
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label label label Catalog number "SMO 984 066" and "CLUB-EDITION" was printed at the right side of the label.
"GEMA" logo was printed on both sides of the label.
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label label label About the song title of the 3rd. song on side-2, this label was misprinted "I'm Looking Throug You" instead of "I'm Looking Through You"
"MADE IN GERMANY" and ST 33 in a circle for stereo edition were printed. The rim print was: "ALLE RECHTE DES PLATTENHERSTELLERS UND EIGENTÜMERS DES AUFGENNOMMENEN WERKES VORBEHALTEN.@VERVIELFÄLTIGUNG, ÖFFENTLICHE AUFFÜHRUNG. RUNDFUNKSENDUNG UNTERSAGT"
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label label Matrix No. is
Side-1: YEX 178 - 2
Side-2: YEX 179 - 1
OTHER ITEM
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LABEL Odeon Yellow / Black label
MIX STEREO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 YEX 178 - 2
SIDE 2 YEX 179 - 1
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME LABEL Odeon (Grammoclub Ex Libris Club edition released in Switzerland only)
SLEEVE Odeon
RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT (P) 1965
COVER FORM Single type. Housed within its original front laminated German printed cover
Cover with the German  regular number SMO 84 066
PRINTER CREDIT -
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Robert Freeman
INNER SLEEVE Odeon Original Inner Sleeve?
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS
Grammoclub Ex Libris Club(*) edition released in Switzerland only.
Made in Germany for export on unique yellow/black Odeon label.
Cover with the German  regular number SMO 84 066

The Original Odeon label (stereo) LP's appear in two slightly different styles. The first of these styles, features the following print around the rim of the label:

ALLE RECHTE DES PLATTENHERSTELLERS UND EIGENTÜMERS DES AUFGENNOMMENEN WERKES VORBEHALTEN.
VERVIELFÄLTIGUNG, ÖFFENTLICHE AUFFÜHRUNG. RUNDFUNKSENDUNG UNTERSAGT
(ALL RIGHTS OF THE OWNER OF SHEET MANUFACTURER AND BEEN EXCLUDED WORK RESERVED. COPYING, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE. RADIO BROADCAST PROHIBITED)

In mid 1966, the rim print was changed on all Odeon releases to read:

URHEBER. UND LEISTUNGSSCHUTZRECHTE, BESONDERS VERVIELFÄLTIGUNG
(AUSSER ZUM PERSÖNLICHEN GEBRAUCH), VERMIETUNG. AUFFÜHRUNG, SENDUNG, VORBEHALTEN
(COPYRIGHT AND  PROPERTY RIGHTS, ESPECIALLY REPRODUCTION (EXCEPT FOR PERSONAL USE), RENT, PERFORMANCE, BROADCAST)

About the song title of the 3rd. song on side-2, this label was misprinted "I'm Looking Throug You" instead of "I'm Looking Through You"

(*)Grammoclub Ex Libris Club (Ex Libris Records):
Swiss record club, label, publisher, and stores. The label belongs to Migros (famous Swiss Supermarket chain). Their releases were never available from any supermarkets, but only to members of the fairly small Ex Libris club. The label was originally called "Grammoclub Ex Libris" (during the 50s and the 60s), but was shortened to Ex Libris towards the mid 60s. Only club members were allowed to buy from their shops. You've had to pay a fairly high fee in order to become a member of them, which is something that only a few wealthy elder people were able to do. In retrospect they mainly seem to have sold their records to some older folks, or to some family-people: They've usually bought Classical Music, Easy Listening, Jazz, Kiddie-Records, and the likes -- only few of their buyers would be interested in Rock 'N' Roll, or Beat back then, therefore only a few copies of their nowadays highly collectable releases by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Elvis Presley (Golden Boy LP) seem to have sold. Most of the young Swiss people would shop someplace else, because they could not afford to pay for the high membership fee in order to buy such a Rolling Stones LP or 45 from Ex Libris.



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