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| Parlophone
Original Inlay and Tape |
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TITLE
|
ABBEY ROAD | |||
| CATALOG NUMBER | TC-PCS 7088 | |||
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RELEASE DATE
|
November 1969 / First Issue | |||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | ||
| Here Comes The Sun | Come Together | |||
| Something | Because |
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| Maxwell's Silver Hammer | You Never Give Me Your Money |
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| Oh! Daring | Sun King |
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| Octopus's Garden |
Mean Mr. Mustard |
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| I Want You (She's So Heavy) | Polythene Pam |
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| She Came In Through The Bathroom Window |
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| Golden Slumbers *no credit on label | ||||
| Carry That Wait *no credit on label | ||||
| The End *no credit on label | ||||
| ( Her Majesty) *no credit on both label and inlay |
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| CASSETTE CASE AND TAPE |
CASE FRONT | CASE BACK | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! |
 |
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|
 |
|
| The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases)
were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. |
The first UK issue of "Abbey Road" has Mint green paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo |
|||
| INLAY |
INLAY: FRONT | INLAY: INSIDE |
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|
 |
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| The first UK issue of "Abbey Road" is
identified by its "white" inlay, its lime green paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo, the circular 1 7/8" I.P.S
(inches per second tape speed) . Aa colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. |
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| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
The circular 1 7/8 " I.P.S mark was printed
at the spine. As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 1⅞ ips (1.875 inches per second). |
 |
Catalog number "TC-PCS
7088" and the EMI country code (*1) were printed on the
inlay. |
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| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | INLAY: INSIDE CLOSE UP | |||
 |
 |
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| "Abbey Road" was
the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first
to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and
"Here Comes The Sun"). Without a credit for the song title "Her Majesty" on the inlay and label. |
"E.M.I.
Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.)" credit was printed at
the bottom of the inside of the inlay. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
 |
 |
have a mint green paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo. With "IE" catalogue number below the "TC-PCS 7088" catalogue number. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | ||||
| SIDE
1 |
SIDE 2 |
|||
 |
 |
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| Without a credit for the song
title "Her Majesty" on both back cover and label. "Here Comes The Sun" and "Come Together" are swapped compared to original LP. |
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| OTHER ITEM | ||||
| - |
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| LABEL | Mint
Green Paper Label without Apple or Parlophone logo |
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| MIX | STEREO | |||
| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | EMI Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) / An E.M.I. Recording | |||
| CENTRAL REMARK "SOLD IN U.K." |
- | |||
| RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT | Ⓟ 1969 | |||
| INLAY FORM | "white" inlay (Foldover) |
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| SHELL | Light Grey Shell |
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| CASSETTE CASE |
"Norelco"
cases: clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. |
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| PRINTER CREDIT | Made and Printed in Great Britain |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo: Iain Macmillan | |||
| PRODUCER | George Martin | |||
| COMMENTS | The original first U.K. release,
Nov. 1969, of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album on mint
green paper label cassette, with its original inlay and
case. "Abbey Road" has the distinction of being the first Beatles album to be released at the same time as the vinyl album, as this was the time that the first cassettes were being marketed. The Dutch electronics company Philips introduced the Compact Cassette Tape in 1963 but it wasn't until October 1967 that the first Beatles album was made available on cassette in the UK, Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. There were many reissues of The Beatles albums during the lifetime of the cassette's popularity 1970 through to the 1990s. This item was the original first release, before EMI opened its new tape duplicating facilities at Hayes, Middlesex in July 1970. Between 1966 and June 1970, EMI's early musicassettes were manufactured by the Dutch firm, Phillips themselves - the inventor and originator of the cassette. This item is one of them. There is no date code on the inlay which dates this cassette manufacture as before July 1970, when EMI brought in the system. The first UK issue of "Abbey Road" is identified by its "white" inlay, its lime green paper label, no Apple or Parlophone logo, (dispute between Apple and EMI), the circular 1 7/8" I.P.S (inches per second tape speed) and a colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases) were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area, and black plastic at the rear. EMI originally issued the Beatles UK albums on cassette tape with re-arranged running orders, the excuse being the need to have two sides of equal length to avoid the problem of listeners stopping the tape at the end of one side and turning over to start mid-way through the opening track on the reverse. "Abbey Road" was the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and "Here Comes The Sun"). (*1) EMI country code: 1E 200 o 04243 The EMI country codes (introduced on 1 June, 1969): In most cases the EMI Codes are the first two letters of the record's catalog#. These EMI Country Codes were used to indicate the country in which the record was pressed. Note this doesn't necessarily means the record was also released in that country (from Discog). OC / 0C / 1E= UK |
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TITLE
|
ABBEY ROAD | |||
| CATALOG NUMBER | TC-PCS 7088 | |||
|
RELEASE DATE
|
1969? / Second Issue | |||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | ||
| Here Comes The Sun | Come Together | |||
| Something | Because |
|||
| Maxwell's Silver Hammer | You Never Give Me Your Money |
|||
| Oh! Daring | Sun King |
|||
| Octopus's Garden |
Mean Mr. Mustard |
|||
| I Want You (She's So Heavy) | Polythene Pam |
|||
| She Came In Through The Bathroom Window |
||||
| Golden Slumbers *no credit on label | ||||
| Carry That Wait *no credit on label | ||||
| The End *no credit on label | ||||
| ( Her Majesty) *no credit on both label and inlay |
||||
| CASSETTE CASE AND TAPE |
CASE FRONT | CASE BACK | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases)
were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. |
The first UK issue of "Abbey Road" has Mint green paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo |
|||
| INLAY |
INLAY: FRONT | INLAY: INSIDE |
||
 |
 |
|||
| The first UK issue of "Abbey Road" is
identified by its "white" inlay, its lime green paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo, the circular 1 7/8" I.P.S
(inches per second tape speed) . Aa colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. |
||||
| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
The circular 1 7/8 " I.P.S mark was printed
at the spine. As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 1⅞ ips (1.875 inches per second). |
 |
Catalog number "TC-PCS
7088" and the EMI country code (*1) were printed on the
inlay. |
|
| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | INLAY: INSIDE CLOSE UP | |||
 |
 |
|||
| "Abbey Road" was
the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first
to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and
"Here Comes The Sun"). Without a credit for the song title "Her Majesty" on the inlay and label. |
"E.M.I.
Records
(The Gramophone Company Ltd.)" credit was printed at the
bottom of the inside of the inlay. |
|||
| LABEL CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| have a mint green paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo. With "IE" catalogue number below the "TC-PCS 7088" catalogue number. The Ⓟ mark on the label is aligned left with the catalog number. |
Containing content as a
prerecorded cassette is called "Musicassette" |
NO mark was moulded into
cassette shells. |
||
| LABEL CLOSE UP | ||||
| SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | Without a
credit for the song title "Her Majesty" on both back cover
and label. "Here Comes The Sun" and "Come Together" are swapped compared to original LP. |
||
 |
 |
|||
 |
On the label,
there is a space between the "Abbey Road" title and
"Produced by George Martin" |
 |
||
"Made in England / Made in U.S.A" was not embossed the shell. |
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| OTHER ITEM | ||||
| - |
||||
| LABEL | Mint
Green Paper Label without Apple or Parlophone logo |
|||
| MIX | STEREO | |||
| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | EMI Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) / An E.M.I. Recording | |||
| CENTRAL REMARK "SOLD IN U.K." |
- | |||
| RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT | Ⓟ 1969 | |||
| INLAY FORM | "white" inlay (Foldover) |
|||
| SHELL | Light Grey Shell |
|||
| CASSETTE CASE |
"Norelco"
cases:
clear plastic at the front and around the spine area, and
black plastic at the rear. |
|||
| PRINTER CREDIT | Made and Printed in Great Britain |
|||
| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo: Iain Macmillan | |||
| PRODUCER | George Martin | |||
| COMMENTS | The original first U.K. release,
Nov. 1969, of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album on mint
green paper label cassette, with its original inlay and
case. "Abbey Road" has the distinction of being the first Beatles album to be released at the same time as the vinyl album, as this was the time that the first cassettes were being marketed. The Dutch electronics company Philips introduced the Compact Cassette Tape in 1963 but it wasn't until October 1967 that the first Beatles album was made available on cassette in the UK, Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. There were many reissues of The Beatles albums during the lifetime of the cassette's popularity 1970 through to the 1990s. This item was the original first release, before EMI opened its new tape duplicating facilities at Hayes, Middlesex in July 1970. Between 1966 and June 1970, EMI's early musicassettes were manufactured by the Dutch firm, Phillips themselves - the inventor and originator of the cassette. This item is one of them. There is no date code on the inlay which dates this cassette manufacture as before July 1970, when EMI brought in the system. The first UK issue of "Abbey Road" is identified by its "white" inlay, its lime green paper label, no Apple or Parlophone logo, (dispute between Apple and EMI), the circular 1 7/8" I.P.S (inches per second tape speed) and a colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. Mint green label type-2: On the label, there is a space between the "Abbey Road" title and "Produced by George Martin" The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases) were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area, and black plastic at the rear. EMI originally issued the Beatles UK albums on cassette tape with re-arranged running orders, the excuse being the need to have two sides of equal length to avoid the problem of listeners stopping the tape at the end of one side and turning over to start mid-way through the opening track on the reverse. "Abbey Road" was the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and "Here Comes The Sun"). (*1) EMI country code: 1E 200 o 04243 The EMI country codes (introduced on 1 June, 1969): In most cases the EMI Codes are the first two letters of the record's catalog#. These EMI Country Codes were used to indicate the country in which the record was pressed. Note this doesn't necessarily means the record was also released in that country (from Discog). OC / 0C / 1E= UK |
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|
TITLE
|
ABBEY ROAD | |||
| CATALOG NUMBER | TC-PCS 7088 | |||
|
RELEASE DATE
|
middle 1971 ? / Third Issue | |||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | ||
| Here Comes The Sun | Come Together | |||
| Something | Because |
|||
| Maxwell's Silver Hammer | You Never Give Me Your Money |
|||
| Oh! Daring | Sun King |
|||
| Octopus's Garden |
Mean Mr. Mustard |
|||
| I Want You (She's So Heavy) | Polythene Pam |
|||
| She Came In Through The Bathroom Window |
||||
| Golden Slumbers *no credit on label | ||||
| Carry That Wait *no credit on label | ||||
| The End *no credit on label | ||||
| ( Her Majesty) *no credit on both label and inlay |
||||
| CASSETTE CASE AND TAPE |
CASE FRONT | CASE BACK | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases)
were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. |
This UK issue of "Abbey Road" has lemon yellow paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo |
|||
| INLAY |
INLAY: FRONT | INLAY: INSIDE |
||
 |
 |
|||
| The second UK issue of "Abbey Road" is
identified by its "white" inlay, its lemon yellow paper
label, no Apple or Parlophone logo, the circular 1 7/8"
I.P.S. (inches per second tape speed) . Aa colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. |
||||
| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
The circular 1 7/8 " I.P.S. mark was printed
at the spine. As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 1⅞ ips (1.875 inches per second). |
 |
Catalog number "TC-PCS
7088" and the EMI country code (*1) were printed on the
inlay. |
|
| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | INLAY: INSIDE CLOSE UP | |||
 |
 |
|||
| "Abbey Road" was
the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first
to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and
"Here Comes The Sun"). Without a credit for the song title "Her Majesty" on the inlay and label. |
"E.M.I.
Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.)" credit was printed at
the bottom of the inside of the inlay. |
|||
| LABEL CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
 |
 |
Have a lemon yellow paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo. With "IE" catalogue number below the "TC-PCS 7088" catalogue number. |
|
| LABEL CLOSE UP | ||||
| SIDE
1 |
SIDE 2 |
|||
 |
 |
|||
| Without a credit for the song
title "Her Majesty" on both back cover and label. "Here Comes The Sun" and "Come Together" are swapped compared to original LP. |
||||
 |
"Made in U.S.A. (capital
letter)" was embossed the shell. |
|||
| OTHER ITEM | ||||
| - |
||||
| LABEL | Lemon
Yellow Paper Label type-1 without Apple or
Parlophone logo |
|||
| MIX | STEREO | |||
| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | EMI Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) / An E.M.I. Recording | |||
| CENTRAL REMARK "SOLD IN U.K." |
- | |||
| RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT | (P) 1969 | |||
| INLAY FORM | "white" inlay (Foldover) |
|||
| SHELL | White Shell / embossed "MADE IN
USA" |
|||
| CASSETTE CASE |
"Norelco"
cases: clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. |
|||
| PRINTER CREDIT | Made and Printed in Great Britain |
|||
| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo: Iain Macmillan | |||
| PRODUCER | George Martin | |||
| COMMENTS | The original first U.K. release,
Nov. 1969, of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album on mint
green paper label cassette, with its original inlay and
case. Like Sgt. Pepper, it was first released in lime green paper label form, and went through the lemon yellow color phase, before matching the bright yellow paper label of the September / October 1970 other first issue albums, all the white retaining the original artwork design of the November 1969 inlay. "Abbey Road" has the distinction of being the first Beatles album to be released at the same time as the vinyl album, as this was the time that the first cassettes were being marketed. The Dutch electronics company Philips introduced the Compact Cassette Tape in 1963 but it wasn't until October 1967 that the first Beatles album was made available on cassette in the UK, Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. There were many reissues of The Beatles albums during the lifetime of the cassette's popularity 1970 through to the 1990s. This item was the original first release, before EMI opened its new tape duplicating facilities at Hayes, Middlesex in July 1970. Between 1966 and June 1970, EMI's early musicassettes were manufactured by the Dutch firm, Phillips themselves - the inventor and originator of the cassette. This item is one of them. There is no date code on the inlay which dates this cassette manufacture as before July 1970, when EMI brought in the system. The second UK issue of "Abbey Road" is identified by its "white" inlay, its lemon yellow paper label, no Apple or Parlophone logo, (dispute between Apple and EMI), the circular 1 7/8" I.P.S. inches per second tape speed) and a colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases) were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area, and black plastic at the rear. EMI originally issued the Beatles UK albums on cassette tape with re-arranged running orders, the excuse being the need to have two sides of equal length to avoid the problem of listeners stopping the tape at the end of one side and turning over to start mid-way through the opening track on the reverse. "Abbey Road" was the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and "Here Comes The Sun"). (*1) EMI country code: 1E 200 o 04243 The EMI country codes (introduced on 1 June, 1969): In most cases the EMI Codes are the first two letters of the record's catalog#. These EMI Country Codes were used to indicate the country in which the record was pressed. Note this doesn't necessarily means the record was also released in that country (from Discog). OC / 0C / 1E= UK |
|||
|
TITLE
|
ABBEY ROAD | |||
| CATALOG NUMBER | TC-PCS 7088 | |||
|
RELEASE DATE
|
middle 1971 ? / 4th Issue? | |||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | ||
| Here Comes The Sun | Come Together | |||
| Something | Because |
|||
| Maxwell's Silver Hammer | You Never Give Me Your Money |
|||
| Oh! Daring | Sun King |
|||
| Octopus's Garden |
Mean Mr. Mustard |
|||
| I Want You (She's So Heavy) | Polythene Pam |
|||
| She Came In Through The Bathroom Window |
||||
| Golden Slumbers *no credit on label | ||||
| Carry That Wait *no credit on label | ||||
| The End *no credit on label | ||||
| ( Her Majesty) *no credit on both label and inlay |
||||
| CASSETTE CASE AND TAPE |
CASE FRONT | CASE BACK | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases)
were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. |
This UK issue of "Abbey Road" has lemon yellow paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo |
|||
| INLAY |
INLAY: FRONT | INLAY: INSIDE |
||
 |
 |
|||
| The third UK issue of "Abbey Road" is
identified by its "white" inlay, its lemon yellow paper
label, no Apple or Parlophone logo, the circular 1 7/8"
I.P.S. (inches per second tape speed) . Aa colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. |
||||
| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
The circular 1 7/8 " I.P.S. mark was printed
at the spine. As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 1⅞ ips (1.875 inches per second). |
 |
Catalog number "TC-PCS
7088" and the EMI country code (*1) were printed on the
inlay. |
|
| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | INLAY: INSIDE CLOSE UP | |||
 |
 |
|||
| "Abbey Road" was
the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first
to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and
"Here Comes The Sun"). Without a credit for the song title "Her Majesty" on the inlay and label. |
"E.M.I.
Records
(The
Gramophone Company Ltd.)" credit was printed at the bottom
of the inside of the inlay. |
|||
| LABEL CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
Have a lemon yellow paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo. With "IE" catalogue
number below the "TC-PCS 7088" catalogue number. "Copyright control / Northern
Songs" credit was erased. "Made in U.S.A. (capital letter)" was embossed the shell. |
|||
| LABEL
CLOSE UP (TYPE-2 = This cassette) |
||||
| SIDE
1 |
SIDE 2 |
|||
 |
 |
|||
| #2-2
LABEL
CLOSE UP (TYPE-1) |
||||
| SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | |||
 |
 |
|||
| On both sides of the label, with the NEW
track
listing layout instead of the lemon yellow type-1
label. The credit "Produced by George Martin" was erased. Without a credit for the song title "Her Majesty" on both back cover and label. "Here Comes The Sun" and "Come Together" are swapped compared to original LP. |
||||
| OTHER ITEM | ||||
| - |
||||
| LABEL | Lemon
Yellow Paper Label type-2 without Apple or
Parlophone logo / "produced by George Martin" erased |
|||
| MIX | STEREO | |||
| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | EMI Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) / An E.M.I. Recording | |||
| CENTRAL REMARK "SOLD IN U.K." |
- | |||
| RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT | (P) 1969 | |||
| INLAY FORM | "white" inlay (Foldover) |
|||
| SHELL | White Shell / embossed "MADE IN
USA" |
|||
| CASSETTE CASE |
"Norelco"
cases:
clear
plastic at the front and around the spine area, and black
plastic at the rear. |
|||
| PRINTER CREDIT | Made and Printed in Great Britain |
|||
| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo: Iain Macmillan | |||
| PRODUCER | George Martin | |||
| COMMENTS | The original first U.K. release,
Nov. 1969, of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album on mint
green paper label cassette, with its original inlay and
case. Like Sgt. Pepper, it was first released in lime green paper label form, and went through the lemon yellow color phase, before matching the bright yellow paper label of the September / October 1970 other first issue albums, all the white retaining the original artwork design of the November 1969 inlay. "Abbey Road" has the distinction of being the first Beatles album to be released at the same time as the vinyl album, as this was the time that the first cassettes were being marketed. The Dutch electronics company Philips introduced the Compact Cassette Tape in 1963 but it wasn't until October 1967 that the first Beatles album was made available on cassette in the UK, Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. There were many reissues of The Beatles albums during the lifetime of the cassette's popularity 1970 through to the 1990s. This item was the original first release, before EMI opened its new tape duplicating facilities at Hayes, Middlesex in July 1970. Between 1966 and June 1970, EMI's early musicassettes were manufactured by the Dutch firm, Phillips themselves - the inventor and originator of the cassette. This item is one of them. There is no date code on the inlay which dates this cassette manufacture as before July 1970, when EMI brought in the system. The 3rd. UK issue of "Abbey Road" is identified by its "white" inlay, its lemon yellow paper label, no Apple or Parlophone logo, (dispute between Apple and EMI), the circular 1 7/8" I.P.S. inches per second tape speed) and a colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. On both sides of the label, with the NEW track listing layout instead of the lemon yellow type-1 label. The credit "Produced by George Martin" was erased. The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases) were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area, and black plastic at the rear. EMI originally issued the Beatles UK albums on cassette tape with re-arranged running orders, the excuse being the need to have two sides of equal length to avoid the problem of listeners stopping the tape at the end of one side and turning over to start mid-way through the opening track on the reverse. "Abbey Road" was the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and "Here Comes The Sun"). (*1) EMI country code: 1E 200 o 04243 The EMI country codes (introduced on 1 June, 1969): In most cases the EMI Codes are the first two letters of the record's catalog#. These EMI Country Codes were used to indicate the country in which the record was pressed. Note this doesn't necessarily means the record was also released in that country (from Discog). OC / 0C / 1E= UK |
|||
|
TITLE
|
ABBEY ROAD | |||
| CATALOG NUMBER | TC-PCS 7088 | |||
|
RELEASE DATE
|
middle 1971 ? / 5th Issue? | |||
| TRACK LISTING | SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | ||
| Here Comes The Sun | Come Together | |||
| Something | Because |
|||
| Maxwell's Silver Hammer | You Never Give Me Your Money |
|||
| Oh! Daring | Sun King |
|||
| Octopus's Garden |
Mean Mr. Mustard |
|||
| I Want You (She's So Heavy) | Polythene Pam |
|||
| She Came In Through The Bathroom Window |
||||
| Golden Slumbers *no credit on label | ||||
| Carry That Wait *no credit on label | ||||
| The End *no credit on label | ||||
| ( Her Majesty) *no credit on both label and inlay |
||||
| CASSETTE CASE AND TAPE |
CASE FRONT | CASE BACK | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases)
were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area,
and black plastic at the rear. |
This UK issue of "Abbey Road" has lemon yellow paper label,
no Apple or Parlophone logo |
|||
| INLAY |
INLAY: FRONT | INLAY: INSIDE |
||
 |
 |
|||
| The third UK issue of "Abbey Road" is
identified by its "white" inlay, its lemon yellow paper
label, no Apple or Parlophone logo, the circular 1 7/8"
I.P.S. (inches per second tape speed) . Aa colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. |
||||
| INLAY: FRONT CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
The circular 1 7/8 " I.P.S. mark was printed
at the spine. As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 1⅞ ips (1.875 inches per second). |
 |
Catalog number "TC-PCS
7088" and the EMI country code (*1) were printed on the
inlay. |
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"Abbey Road" was the 2nd
Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first to
change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and
"Here Comes The Sun"). Without a credit for the song title "Her Majesty" on the inlay and label. |
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Change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and "Here Comes The Sun").Without a credit for the song title "Her Majesty" on the inlay and label. | ||
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"E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.)" credit was printed at the bottom of the inside of the inlay. | |||
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lemon yellow paper label, no Apple or Parlophone logo. With "IE" catalogue number below the "TC-PCS 7088" catalogue number. |
Containing content as a
prerecorded cassette is called "Musicassette" |
The "DP(*2)" logo can often
be found moulded into cassette shells, especially during the
early to mid 1970s |
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| SIDE 1 | SIDE 2 | The label design
has returned to the original layout. ("Produced by George Martin" credited) |
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"Made in England
(capital letter)" was embossed the shell. |
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| LABEL | Lemon
Yellow Paper Label type-1 without Apple or
Parlophone logo |
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| MIX | STEREO | |||
| RECORD COMPANY'S NAME | EMI Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) / An E.M.I. Recording | |||
| CENTRAL REMARK "SOLD IN U.K." |
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| RECORDING PUBLISHED CREDIT | (P) 1969 | |||
| INLAY FORM | "white" inlay (Foldover) |
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| SHELL | Light Grey Shell / embossed "MADE
IN ENGLAND" / embossed "dp" logo mark |
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| CASSETTE CASE |
"Norelco"
cases:
clear plastic at the front and around the spine area, and
black plastic at the rear. |
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| PRINTER CREDIT | Made and Printed in Great Britain |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo: Iain Macmillan | |||
| PRODUCER | George Martin | |||
| COMMENTS | The original first U.K. release,
Nov. 1969, of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album on mint
green paper label cassette, with its original inlay and
case. Like Sgt. Pepper, it was first released in lime green paper label form, and went through the lemon yellow color phase, before matching the bright yellow paper label of the September / October 1970 other first issue albums, all the white retaining the original artwork design of the November 1969 inlay. "Abbey Road" has the distinction of being the first Beatles album to be released at the same time as the vinyl album, as this was the time that the first cassettes were being marketed. The Dutch electronics company Philips introduced the Compact Cassette Tape in 1963 but it wasn't until October 1967 that the first Beatles album was made available on cassette in the UK, Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. There were many reissues of The Beatles albums during the lifetime of the cassette's popularity 1970 through to the 1990s. This item was the original first release, before EMI opened its new tape duplicating facilities at Hayes, Middlesex in July 1970. Between 1966 and June 1970, EMI's early musicassettes were manufactured by the Dutch firm, Phillips themselves - the inventor and originator of the cassette. This item is one of them. There is no date code on the inlay which dates this cassette manufacture as before July 1970, when EMI brought in the system. The 3rd. UK issue of "Abbey Road" is identified by its "white" inlay, its lemon yellow paper label, no Apple or Parlophone logo, (dispute between Apple and EMI), the circular 1 7/8" I.P.S. inches per second tape speed) and a colour reproduction of the back cover of the vinyl jacket on the foldover. The track listings were printed on the reverse of the inlay. On both sides, the label design has returned to the original layout. ("Produced by George Martin" credited) "Made in England (capital letter)" was embossed the shell. The cassette cases ("Norelco" cases) were clear plastic at the front and around the spine area, and black plastic at the rear. EMI originally issued the Beatles UK albums on cassette tape with re-arranged running orders, the excuse being the need to have two sides of equal length to avoid the problem of listeners stopping the tape at the end of one side and turning over to start mid-way through the opening track on the reverse. "Abbey Road" was the 2nd Beatle album to be issued on cassette and the first to change the track order (swapping of "Come Together" and "Here Comes The Sun"). (*1) EMI country code: 1E 200 o 04243 The EMI country codes (introduced on 1 June, 1969): In most cases the EMI Codes are the first two letters of the record's catalog#. These EMI Country Codes were used to indicate the country in which the record was pressed. Note this doesn't necessarily means the record was also released in that country (from Discog). OC / 0C / 1E= UK (*2)Data Packaging Corporation (who also traded as Hellerman Data Packaging Ltd) supplied cassette and 8 track shells, tape and other components to the music industry. The "DP" logo can often be found moulded into cassette shells, especially during the early to mid 1970s. |
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