 Polydor 1st. Sleeve |
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| TITLE | The Beatles' First! |
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| CATALOG NUMBER | SLPM-1189 |
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| RELEASE DATE | Promotional
Use Only (First Press: 21th. August 1964) |
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| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | |||
| Ain't She Sweet | My Bonnie | ||||
| Sweet Georgia Brown | The Saints | ||||
| Swanee River | Ruby
Baby |
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| If You Love Me Baby (Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby) | Nobody's Child | ||||
| Let's Dance | What'd I Say | ||||
| You Are My Sunshine | Ya Ya | ||||
| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK | |
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| INNER
SLEEVE |
FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | ||||
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Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe). |  |
Polydor red and black logo mark and
catalogue number were printed at the lower left corner of the front
cover. |
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| "STEREO" indicator was printed
at the upper right corner of the front cover. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP |
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"ST 33" in the
circle and Catalog number
"SLPM-1189" in white were printed at the upper left corner of the front
cover. |
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| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
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had a
cover with two outer flaps, at the top and the bottom. |
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| catalogue number
"SLPM-1189" and company name "Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd." were printed
at the lower right corner of the back cover. |
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| Price: "¥ 1,800" The credit "Manufactured by Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd., Japan" was printed at the bottom of the back cover. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
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Polydor white label
(promotional use only). The words "Sample" and "Not For Sale" were printed on the label. The release date was not printed on both labels. |
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The
credit "Manufactured by Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd., Japan" was printed
in capital letter at the perimeter. |
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The Japanese version looks
similar to the German version but has a different track listing. |
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OTHER ITEM
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| RECORD LABEL | Polydor Promotional White label with blue half-circle logo | ||||
| MIX | STEREO |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | 60979-A1 Ⓩ SLPM-1189A |
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| SIDE 2 | 60980-A1 Ⓩ SLPM-1189B | ||||
| PRESS MARK | SIDE 1 | G 4/1 | |||
| SIDE 2 | G 4/1 | ||||
| VINYL COLOR | BLACK |
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| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | SLEEVE | Manufactured by Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd., Japan | |||
| LABEL | MANUFACTURED BY
NIPPON GRAMMOPHON CO. LTD. JAPAN |
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| SYMBOL/PRICE | ¥1,800 |
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| LYRIC SHEET STYLE | - |
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| COVER FORM | Single type with two outer flaps, at the top and the bottom | ||||
| INNER
SLEEVE |
Polythene
Inner Sleeve (maybe) |
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| OBI |
Unknown |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Liner Notes: Sadao Kaneko |
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COMMENTS
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Polydor Promotional White
label with blue half-circle logo. Sleeve have "STEREO" text and labels have "ST" for stereo in a circle located next to the "33" circle. This LP is the first LP release recorded in Japan that contains a Polydor session. It was released from Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd. on August 21, 64, between Toshiba LP " The Beatles Second Album" and the LP "A Hard Day's Night" Nippon Grammophon had released the single "My Bonnie Twist" in April 1962 before the Beatles debut.. The album cover is the same as the design of "THE BEATLES' FIRST" (LPHM 46432) released in West Germany at the time in April 1964, but the song order and some of the recorded songs are different. Album features the six songs(*) Hamburg recordings involving the Beatles plus six songs recorded by Tony Sheridan without the Beatles. The songs in which the Beatles are involved are: 1 "Ain't She Aweet" 2 "Sweet Georgia Brown" 3 "If You Love Me Baby" 4 "My Bonnie" 5 "The Saints" 6 "No Body's Child" (*) The Beatles played nine songs in Polydor sessions. However, "Swanee River" has no recording tape left. Sadao Kaneko: A Japanese producer of Radio JOQR (Bunka Housou) He also wrote liner notes in 60s. The famous works are: The Dynamites - Tunnel Heaven, France Gall - Jazz A Go Go, The Beatles - Rock And Roll Music etc |
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| TITLE | The Beatles' First! |
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| CATALOG NUMBER | SLPM-1189 |
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| RELEASE DATE | 21th.
August 1964 / First Press |
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| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | |||
| Ain't She Sweet | My Bonnie | ||||
| Sweet Georgia Brown | The Saints | ||||
| Swanee River | Ruby Baby | ||||
| If You Love Me Baby (Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby) | Nobody's Child | ||||
| Let's Dance | What'd I Say | ||||
| You Are My Sunshine | Ya Ya | ||||
| FRONT --> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK | |
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| INNER
SLEEVE |
FRONT COVER CLOSE UP |
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 |
Polythene Inner Sleeve (maybe). | |
Polydor red and black logo mark and
catalogue number were printed at the lower left corner of the front
cover. |
 |
|
| "STEREO" indicator was printed
at the upper right corner of the front cover. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
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"ST 33" in the
circle and Catalogue number
"SLPM-1189" in white were printed at the upper left corner of the front
cover. |
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| OBI: POLYDOR White and Red Obi |
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| OBI FRONT CLOSE UP |
OBI BACK CLOSE UP | ||||
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had a white / red OBI and priced ¥1,800 on obi strip. The word "STEREO" and Polydor logo mark and catalog number "SLPM-1189" were printed on the front. |
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| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
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had a
cover with two outer flaps, at the top and the bottom. |
|
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| catalogue number
"SLPM-1189" and company name "Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd." were printed
at the lower right corner of the back cover. |
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| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
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 |
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| Price: "¥ 1,800" The credit "Manufactured by Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd., Japan" was printed at the bottom of the back cover. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
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Polydor Red labels with
black half-circle logo. Have "STEREO" text and labels have "ST" for stereo in a circle
located next to the "33" circle. Labels have "BIEM" in the box to the left of the center. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
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The
credit "Manufactured by Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd., Japan" was printed
in capital letter at the perimeter. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
 |
The Japanese version looks
similar to the German version but has a different track listing. |
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OTHER ITEM
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| RECORD LABEL | Polydor Red labels with black half-circle logo | ||||
| MIX | STEREO |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | 60979-A1 Ⓩ SLPM-1189A | |||
| SIDE 2 | 60980-A1 Ⓩ SLPM-1189B | ||||
| PRESS MARK | SIDE 1 | H 4/5 | |||
| SIDE 2 |
H 4/4 | ||||
| VINYL COLOR | BLACK |
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| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | SLEEVE | Manufactured by Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd., Japan | |||
| LABEL | MANUFACTURED BY
NIPPON GRAMMOPHON CO. LTD. JAPAN |
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| SYMBOL/PRICE | ¥1,800 |
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| LYRIC SHEET STYLE | - |
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| COVER FORM | Single type with two outer flaps, at the top and the bottom | ||||
| INNER
SLEEVE |
Polythene
Inner Sleeve (maybe) |
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| OBI |
White and Red Obi |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Liner Notes: Sadao Kaneko |
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COMMENTS
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Polydor Red labels with
black half-circle logo. Sleeve have "STEREO" text and labels have "ST" for stereo in a circle located next to the "33" circle. Labels have "BIEM" in the box to the left of the center. Although the list price is 1,800 yen, some records have a 1,750 yen correction sticker. This LP is the first LP release recorded in Japan that contains a Polydor session. It was released from Nippon Grammophon Co., Ltd. on August 21, 64, between Toshiba LP " The Beatles Second Album" and the LP "A Hard Day's Night" Nippon Grammophon had released the single "My Bonnie Twist" in April 1962 before the Beatles debut.. The album cover is the same as the design of "THE BEATLES' FIRST" (LPHM 46432) released in West Germany at the time in April 1964, but the song order and some of the recorded songs are different. Album features the six songs(*) Hamburg recordings involving the Beatles plus six songs recorded by Tony Sheridan without the Beatles. The songs in which the Beatles are involved are: 1 "Ain't She Aweet" 2 "Sweet Georgia Brown" 3 "If You Love Me Baby" 4 "My Bonnie" 5 "The Saints" 6 "No Body's Child" (*) The Beatles played nine songs in Polydor sessions. However, "Swanee River" has no recording tape left. The obi: Polydor White and Red Obi While most Japanese records feature local music, a lot of music fans there like foreign music, as well. The language barrier in Japan presented a problem – should foreign album covers be changed for Japanese albums? The solution was the obi, which means “belt” or “sash”. The obi is a strip of paper, usually about two inches wide, that wraps vertically around the album cover, containing information about the artist and album in Japanese. As these strips of paper were fragile and easily torn, they are often missing, especially since consumers in the 1950s and 1960s attached little significance to them. Finding Japanese records made prior to 1970 that still have the obi intact can be quite difficult, and for some albums, nearly impossible. The inclusion of the obi can dramatically affect the price of some Japanese records, sometimes increasing the price by a factor of ten. Sadao Kaneko: A Japanese producer of Radio JOQR (Bunka Housou) He also wrote liner notes in 60s. The famous works are: The Dynamites - Tunnel Heaven, France Gall - Jazz A Go Go, The Beatles - Rock And Roll Music etc |
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