APPLE LABEL ALBUM COVER STYLE

TITLE	LET IT BE -BOX TYPE (Bluish Green Apple type)
RELEASE DATE	8th May.1970/First Press
BOX: FRONT	BOX: BACK	LABEL
COVER: FRONT	COVER: BACK (Bluish Green Apple type)	BACK COVER CLOSE UP
LABEL CLOSE UP
		This label has the credit "An E.M.I. Recording" in parentheses and the slender "Sans Serif" printing type.
OTHER ITEM
BOOK (TITLE: THE BEATLES GET BACK)		POSTER
Photo: Ethan A Russell / Text: Jonathan Cott and David Dalton		Apple promotional poster
TRACK LISTING		CATALOG NUMBER
SIDE 1	SIDE 2	PXS 1
Two of us Dig a pony Across the universe I me mine Dig it Let it be Maggie May	I've got a feeling One after 909 The long and winding road For you blue Get back
		LABEL
		APPLE
		MIX
		STEREO
		VINYL COLOR
		BLACK
PRODUCER	Phil Spector
COVER DESIGN/PHOTO/NOTES	Cover design: John Kosh / Photo: Ethan A Russell
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME	Label:Apple Records + An EMI Recording Album Cover: Apple Records + An EMI Recording
CENTRAL REMARK "SOLD IN U.K..."	-
COVER FORM	Single type. Full-coated cover.
PRINTER CREDIT	Box cover: Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod & Lofthouse Limited (Patents Pending) Album cover: Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod and Lofthouse Ltd.
COMMENTS	"Bluish Green" Apple label type. The same design as the cover "#14-3" but the inner flap was different. It was made from the front cover and glued with paste to the back cover. My boxed set came with an Apple promotional poster.

Wrap-around cover 1960s	Semi wrap-around cover 1970s(?)	Half vinyl-coated cover 1980s(?)	Full vinyl-coated cover
When you look at the back of the albums from the 1960's, you may notice the three flaps at the top, the bottom and the right. These flaps were glued with paste, wrapping around the cover.	At some point, some albums had a cover with only two outer flaps, at the top and the bottom.	Later, the two flaps were pasted on the inside of the cover, which made them invisible at a glance. In early days, the front side was coated with vinyl (laminated) but the back side wasn't, leaving a border of the coat as a line at the right side of the back cover.	Nowadays, both sides of the cover are coated with thin vinyl film.

Yellow Submarine The Parlophone LPs, and in fact most EMI-company LPs of the 1960's, had good-quality, durable covers. Of the nine Beatles' albums on Parlophone, seven of them came in covers made precisely the same way: The front cover was always laminated, and there were three "fold over" flaps (i.e., extensions of the front cover which were wrapped around the top, bottom and spine, also laminated) which were glued to the back cover. (called "wrap-around cover") The back cover was a separate, flat-finish piece of material. Yellow Submarine was the last album as the same style. Wrap-around cover Abbey Road Let It Be These two album have the "Full vinyl-coated cover". The two flaps were pasted on the inside of the cover, which made them invisible at a glance. But, this type have two variations:
The first type: The early cover was made by "Garrod & Lofthouse", and the inner flap was made from the front cover, which was glued with paste to the back cover.
The second type: It was also made by the same printer, but the inner flap was made from the back cover, which was glued with paste to the front cover.

The Beatles (White Album) "The Beatles" is different way from the other three covers were made, partly because it is gatefold (fold-open) cover, though it is constructed a bit differently from each other. The first cover had outlets at its top, as it was called as the "open top" cover. Flaps inside the gatefold cover were visible at the left and right sides. The bottom of the cover had no flaps. Later cover, the outlets were moved sideways. The flaps were made at the top, though they were not easily visible as they were folded and glued at inside. The bottom of the cover had no flaps.

The Beatles (First Press": open top type)
INSIDE		CLOSE UP

Printer's Name

"The Beatles" printer credit

"Yellow Submarine" printer credit

"Abbey Road" printer credit

"Let It Be" printer credit

"The Beatles" and "Yellow Submarine", you can see the word "stereo" on upper right of the back cover.
The Beatles: Back Cover	Yellow Submarine: Back Cover

First sleeve