 Club Issue1st. Sleeve |
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TITLE
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MEET THE BEATLES! | ||||
| CATALOG
NUMBER |
ST-8-2047 |
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RELEASE DATE
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early 1969 / First Press | ||||
| TITLE LISTING |
SIDE
1 |
SIDE
2 |
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| I Want To Hold
Your Hand (BMI-2:24) |
Don't Bother Me
(ASCAP-2:28) |
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| I Saw Her
Standing There (BMI-2:50) |
Little Child
(BMI-1:46) |
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| This Boy
(BMI-2:11) |
Till There Was
You (ASCAP-2:12) |
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| It Won't Be Long
(BMI-2:11) |
Hold Me Tight
(BMI-2:30) |
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| All I've Got To
Do (BMI-2:05) |
I Wanna Be Your
Man (BMI-1:59) |
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| All My Loving
(BMI-2:04) |
Not A Second Time
(BMI-2:03) |
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| FRONT--> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK | |
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| INNER SLEEVE | FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | ||||
| FRONT |
BACK |
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| Plain white
inner sleeve (maybe) |
Plain white inner sleeve (maybe) |
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The Capitol logo and the
phrase "HIGH FIDELITY" appear in black at the right side of
the front cover. The upper right portion of the wraparound back liners do not have the gFile Underh information present on most of the jackets manufactured by Capitol. |
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| On stereo jackets,
the front cover slicks is cut and positioned to reveal the
Capitol Full Demensional Stereo arrow logo at the top. The words "MEET THE" are in light blue block letters. The remainder of the album's title, "BEATLES!" is usually either tan or brown. Copies of non gatefold Capitol albums that were released through the record club from 1969 through 1972 have three "hash marks" at the upper left hand corner of the cover. These are visible from the front and distinguish the albums from Capitol's regularly issued LP's. |
The first copy of Meet The
Beatles! has the number "ST 8-2047" in the upper
right corner of the front cover. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | BACK COVER CLOSE UP | ||||
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Beginning in late 1968 or 1969, some stereo covers were printed with a gold RIAA Gold Record Award seal below the Capitol logo. |  |
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| The Capitol original issue of mono and stereo covers did not list the album's producer. New back liner prepared in late February 1964, which added the phrase "Produced by GEORGE MARTIN" in the lower left corner. | |||||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP --> Click! | |||||
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Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2047", the "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo and "Also Available In Regular Monophonic" in uppercase letters in the upper right corner. |  |
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The back liners have a small numeral located near the lower right or left corner. These numbers were used by Capitol to identify where the album cover was manufactured. (16 = Longines) | |
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| After Longines took over the
record club in 1969, Capitol quit supplying albums to the
club. Instead, Longines arranged for the manufacture of
Capitol albums using cover artwork and label backdrops
supplied by Capitol. Most of the back liners for the album
jackets prepared for Longines contain the legend
"Manufactured under license from Capitol Records, Inc.,
Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif." in uppercase
letters and "Printed in U.S.A." in a circular pattern. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
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The original issue was manufactured with black label backdrops with an outer rim colorband. "STEREO" indicator on the label has a chubby printing type. | |||
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Longines altered the record
number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix.
Meet The Beatles! (Capitol ST 2047) is designated ST-8-2047.
The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and
labels and in the trail off areas. Longines began pressing
Capitol Beatles albums in 1969, mono discs had been phased
out. Thus, there are no mono Longines pressings of Beatles
albums. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
| SIDE 1 |
SIDE
2 |
The
club issue credits only the 1st. & 3rd. songs of the
SIDE-2 ASCAP. The other 4 songs on SIDE-2 and all songs on
SIDE-1 credited to BMI. |
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The text of the perimeter print in blue on
the club issue discs states "Manufactured under license from
Capitol Records, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets,
Hollywood, Calif." in uppercase. |
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OTHER ITEM
(Pamphlet for record club members)
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| BACK | FRONT | INSIDE | |||
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The Capitol Record Club prepared a pamphlet
marketing the Beatles to its members. The front cover has an
image of Meet The Beatles! along with references to media
coverage, a list of the albumfs songs and a series of
quotes, including praise from Britainfs Queen Mother. |
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| The back of the
pamphlet plugs crooner Al Martinofs Painted, Tainted Rose
(Capitol (S)T 1975), which was released in September 1963. |
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The bookletfs inner spread discusses the
gphenomenon called Beatlemaniah and features personal
profiles of the boys below their individual pictures.
Incredibly, John is identified as George and vice versa. |
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| LABEL | Capitol
Black
label with color band (Record Club Edition) |
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| MIX | STEREO |
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| VINYL COLOR | Black |
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| PRESS FACTORY | Longines |
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| FACTORY CODE | 16 |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 |
ST
1 82047 W1 2 (hand etched)
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| SIDE 2 |
ST 2 82047 - W2 2 (hand etvhed) | ||||
| PUBLISHER'S NAME |
- |
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"SUBSIDIARY" PRINT
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- |
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| COVER FORM |
Single
type.
Housed in a cardboard jacket. |
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| INNER SLEEVE | Plain
white inner sleeve (maybe) |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo:
Robert
Freeman / Notes: Tony Barrow |
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| PRODUCER | George
Martin |
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COMMENTS
|
When the Capitol Record Club began
operations in 1958, it entered a mail-order market dominated
by two clubs owned by other labels - Columbia and RCA. the
Capitol Records record club enticed people to join by
offering half-dozen or so "free" records in exchange for the
new member buying one record and agreeing to club membership
rules. Capitol's only hope of catching the competition was
to exploit the strength of its talent roster. Then in December 1968, Capitol had agreed to sell its direct marketing corporation, which included the Capitol record club to the Longines (Longines-Wittnauer) company. prior to Longines' purchase of the record club, The Beatles albums issued to club members were the same as the records shipped by Capitol to distributors and stores. After Longines took over the club in 1969, Capitol quit supplying albums to the club, instead Longines arranged for the manufacture of Capitol albums using cover artwork and label backdrops supplied by Capitol. The LP back covers have three angled black bars in the upper right hand corner which wrap around to the front cover in the upper left hand corner, and do not have the "File Under" information. Longines also altered the record number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix. By the time Longines began pressing Capitol Beatles albums in 1968, mono discs have been phased out. Thus, there are no mono Longines pressings of Beatles albums. These Longines Beatles albums are less common than the standard Capitol albums, which sold in the millions. The first records pressed for Longines have the Capitol rainbow label backdrops, while later issues have either green Capitol labels. Longines altered the record number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix. Meet The Beatles! (Capitol ST 2047) is designated ST-8-2047. The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and labels and in the trail off areas. The first copy of Meet The Beatles! has the number "ST 8-2047" in the upper right corner of the front cover. Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2047", the "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo and "Also Available In Regular Monophonic" in uppercase letters in the upper right corner. The back liners have a small numeral located near the lower right or left corner. These numbers were used by Capitol to identify where the album cover was manufactured. (16 = Longines) On the label, The text of the perimeter print in blue on the club issue discs states "Manufactured under license from Capitol Records, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif." in uppercase. (*) The Longines Symphonette Society: The Longines Symphonette Society was a direct marketing company working out of Larchmont and, later, New Rochelle, New York. These addresses were also printed on the labels of their releases. The company operated from the late-1960s until 1974, headed by Alan Cartoun, president, and son of Longines Watch Company Chairman, Fred Cartoun. The Longines Symphonette Society was a pioneer of using personalized computer-generated letters to promote LP records, 8-track tapes, electronics, books, and collectors' medallions. But their main business was mail-order LP box sets of classical and easy listening music, as well as releasing LPs of "old time radio" (OTR) programs. It purchased the record club edition rights to the catalog of Capitol Records from the label for its Capitol Record Club in 1968 and continued to press Capitol LPs for the club until 1975, when it was shut down. (from Discog) |
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TITLE
|
MEET THE BEATLES! | ||||
| CATALOG
NUMBER |
ST-8-2047 |
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|
RELEASE DATE
|
mid 1969? / Second Press | ||||
| TITLE LISTING |
SIDE
1 |
SIDE
2 |
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| I Want To Hold
Your Hand (BMI-2:24) |
Don't Bother Me
(ASCAP-2:28) |
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| I Saw Her
Standing There (BMI-2:50) |
Little Child
(BMI-1:46) |
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| This Boy
(BMI-2:11) |
Till There Was
You (ASCAP-2:12) |
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| It Won't Be Long
(BMI-2:11) |
Hold Me Tight
(BMI-2:30) |
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| All I've Got To
Do (BMI-2:05) |
I Wanna Be Your
Man (BMI-1:59) |
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| All My Loving
(BMI-2:04) |
Not A Second Time
(BMI-2:03) |
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| FRONT--> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK | |
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| INNER SLEEVE | FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | ||||
| FRONT |
BACK |
||||
| Plain white
inner sleeve (maybe) |
Plain white inner sleeve (maybe) |
 |
The Capitol logo and the
phrase "HIGH FIDELITY" appear in black at the right side of
the front cover. The upper right portion of the wraparound back liners do not have the gFile Underh information present on most of the jackets manufactured by Capitol. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP --> Click! | |||||
 |
|
 |
|||
| On stereo jackets,
the front cover slicks is cut and positioned to reveal the
Capitol Full Demensional Stereo arrow logo at the top. The words "MEET THE" are in light blue block letters. The remainder of the album's title, "BEATLES!" is usually either tan or brown. Copies of non gatefold Capitol albums that were released through the record club from 1969 through 1972 have three "hash marks" at the upper left hand corner of the cover. These are visible from the front and distinguish the albums from Capitol's regularly issued LP's. |
The late copy of Meet The
Beatles! was removed the number "ST 8-2047"
in the upper right corner of the front cover. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | BACK COVER CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
 |
Beginning in late 1968 or 1969, some stereo covers were printed with a gold RIAA Gold Record Award seal below the Capitol logo. |  |
||
| The Capitol original issue of mono and stereo covers did not list the album's producer. New back liner prepared in late February 1964, which added the phrase "Produced by GEORGE MARTIN" in the lower left corner. | |||||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP --> Click! | |||||
 |
Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8-
2047", the "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, the phrase
"Also Available In Regular Monophonic" was removed. |
 |
 |
The back liners have a small numeral located near the lower right or left corner. These numbers were used by Capitol to identify where the album cover was manufactured. (16 = Longines) | |
 |
|||||
| After Longines took over the
record club in 1969, Capitol quit supplying albums to the
club. Instead, Longines arranged for the manufacture of
Capitol albums using cover artwork and label backdrops
supplied by Capitol. Most of the back liners for the album
jackets prepared for Longines contain the legend
"Manufactured under license from Capitol Records, Inc.,
Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif." in uppercase
letters and "Printed in U.S.A." in a circular pattern. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
 |
The original issue was manufactured with black label backdrops with an outer rim colorband. "STEREO" indicator on the label has a chubby printing type. | |||
 |
 |
 |
Longines altered the record
number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix.
Meet The Beatles! (Capitol ST 2047) is designated ST-8-2047.
The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and
labels and in the trail off areas. Longines began pressing
Capitol Beatles albums in 1969, mono discs had been phased
out. Thus, there are no mono Longines pressings of Beatles
albums. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
| SIDE 1 |
SIDE
2 |
The
club
issue credits only the 1st. & 3rd. songs of the SIDE-2
ASCAP. The other 4 songs on SIDE-2 and all songs on SIDE-1
credited to BMI. |
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 |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
The text of the perimeter print in blue on
the club issue discs states "Manufactured under license from
Capitol Records, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets,
Hollywood, Calif." in uppercase. |
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OTHER ITEM
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| - |
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| LABEL | Capitol
Black
label
with color band (Record Club Edition) |
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| MIX | STEREO |
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| VINYL COLOR | Black |
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| PRESS FACTORY | Longines |
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| FACTORY CODE | 16 |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 |
ST 1 82047 W1 2 III (hand etched) | |||
| SIDE 2 |
ST 2 82047 - W2 2 III (hand etvhed) | ||||
| PUBLISHER'S NAME |
- |
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|
"SUBSIDIARY" PRINT
|
- |
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| COVER FORM |
Single
type.
Housed
in a cardboard jacket. |
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| INNER SLEEVE | Plain
white inner sleeve (maybe) |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo:
Robert
Freeman
/ Notes: Tony Barrow |
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| PRODUCER | George
Martin |
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|
COMMENTS
|
When the Capitol Record Club began
operations in 1958, it entered a mail-order market dominated
by two clubs owned by other labels - Columbia and RCA. the
Capitol Records record club enticed people to join by
offering half-dozen or so "free" records in exchange for the
new member buying one record and agreeing to club membership
rules. Capitol's only hope of catching the competition was
to exploit the strength of its talent roster. Then in December 1968, Capitol had agreed to sell its direct marketing corporation, which included the Capitol record club to the Longines (Longines-Wittnauer) company. prior to Longines' purchase of the record club, The Beatles albums issued to club members were the same as the records shipped by Capitol to distributors and stores. After Longines took over the club in 1969, Capitol quit supplying albums to the club, instead Longines arranged for the manufacture of Capitol albums using cover artwork and label backdrops supplied by Capitol. The LP back covers have three angled black bars in the upper right hand corner which wrap around to the front cover in the upper left hand corner, and do not have the "File Under" information. Longines also altered the record number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix. By the time Longines began pressing Capitol Beatles albums in 1968, mono discs have been phased out. Thus, there are no mono Longines pressings of Beatles albums. These Longines Beatles albums are less common than the standard Capitol albums, which sold in the millions. The first records pressed for Longines have the Capitol rainbow label backdrops, while later issues have either green Capitol labels. Longines altered the record number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix. Meet The Beatles! (Capitol ST 2047) is designated ST-8-2047. The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and labels and in the trail off areas. The late copy of Meet The Beatles! was removed the number "ST 8-2047" in the upper right corner of the front cover. Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2047", the "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, the phrase "Also Available In Regular Monophonic" was removed. The back liners have a small numeral located near the lower right or left corner. These numbers were used by Capitol to identify where the album cover was manufactured. (16 = Longines) On the label, The text of the perimeter print in blue on the club issue discs states "Manufactured under license from Capitol Records, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif." in uppercase. |
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|
TITLE
|
MEET THE BEATLES! | ||||
| CATALOG
NUMBER |
ST-8-2047 |
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|
RELEASE DATE
|
mid 1971? / Third Press | ||||
| TITLE LISTING |
SIDE
1 |
SIDE
2 |
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| I Want To Hold
Your Hand (BMI-2:24) |
Don't Bother Me
(ASCAP-2:28) |
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| I Saw Her
Standing There (BMI-2:50) |
Little Child
(BMI-1:46) |
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| This Boy
(BMI-2:11) |
Till There Was
You (ASCAP-2:12) |
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| It Won't Be Long
(BMI-2:11) |
Hold Me Tight
(BMI-2:30) |
||||
| All I've Got To
Do (BMI-2:05) |
I Wanna Be Your
Man (BMI-1:59) |
||||
| All My Loving
(BMI-2:04) |
Not A Second Time
(BMI-2:03) |
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| FRONT--> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK | |
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 |
 |
 |
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| INNER SLEEVE | FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | ||||
| FRONT--> Click! | BACK --> Click! | ||||
 |
 |
 |
The Capitol logo and the
phrase "HIGH FIDELITY" appear in black at the right side of
the front cover. The upper right portion of the wraparound back liners do not have the gFile Underh information present on most of the jackets manufactured by Capitol. |
||
| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP --> Click! | |||||
 |
|
 |
|||
| On stereo jackets,
the front cover slicks is cut and positioned to reveal the
Capitol Full Demensional Stereo arrow logo at the top. The words "MEET THE" are in light blue block letters. The remainder of the album's title, "BEATLES!" is usually either tan or brown. Copies of non gatefold Capitol albums that were released through the record club from 1969 through 1972 have three "hash marks" at the upper left hand corner of the cover. These are visible from the front and distinguish the albums from Capitol's regularly issued LP's. |
The late copy of Meet The
Beatles! was removed the number "ST 8-2047"
in the upper right corner of the front cover. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | BACK COVER CLOSE UP | ||||
 |
 |
Beginning in late 1968 or 1969, some stereo covers were printed with a gold RIAA Gold Record Award seal below the Capitol logo. |  |
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| The Capitol original issue of mono and stereo covers did not list the album's producer. New back liner prepared in late February 1964, which added the phrase "Produced by GEORGE MARTIN" in the lower left corner. | |||||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP --> Click! | |||||
 |
Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8-
2047", the "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, the phrase
"Also Available In Regular Monophonic" was removed. |
 |
 |
The back liners have a small numeral located near the lower right or left corner. These numbers were used by Capitol to identify where the album cover was manufactured. (16 = Longines) | |
 |
|||||
| After Longines took over the
record club in 1969, Capitol quit supplying albums to the
club. Instead, Longines arranged for the manufacture of
Capitol albums using cover artwork and label backdrops
supplied by Capitol. Most of the back liners for the album
jackets prepared for Longines contain the legend
"Manufactured under license from Capitol Records, Inc.,
Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif." in uppercase
letters and "Printed in U.S.A." in a circular pattern. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
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| Capitol's green
label was first issued in July, 1969 (to April 1971). It
sports a new Capitol logo: a gCh surrounding a record.
So did the record club; the change likely came in October.
On this new label, the licensing statement still indicates
that the records were made for Capitol Records. On early
copies, the word "STEREO" appears in the same type face that
had been used on the black-label issue – with "round"
letters like the ones that were being used on regular-issue
Capitol albums. The trademark registration can be found in one of two configurations: either as TM to the right of the word "Capitol" or as (R) underneath the l in "Capitol." Early 1969 wiith the "TM" next to "Capitol", later, in 1971, the "TM" was replaced with the more traditional "R" in a circle. |
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 |
 |
Longines altered the record
number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix.
Meet The Beatles! (Capitol ST 2047) is designated ST-8-2047.
The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and
labels and in the trail off areas. Longines began pressing
Capitol Beatles albums in 1969, mono discs had been phased
out. Thus, there are no mono Longines pressings of Beatles
albums. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
| SIDE 1 |
SIDE
2 |
The
club
issue
credits only the 1st. & 3rd. songs of the SIDE-2 ASCAP.
The other 4 songs on SIDE-2 and all songs on SIDE-1 credited
to BMI. |
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 |
 |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
The text of the perimeter print in black on the club issue discs states "Manufactured under license from Capitol Records, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif." in lowercase. | ||||
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OTHER ITEM
|
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| - |
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| LABEL | Capitol
Green Target label with R" in a circle (Record Club
Edition) |
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| MIX | STEREO |
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| VINYL COLOR | Black |
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| PRESS FACTORY | Longines |
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| FACTORY CODE | 16 |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 |
ST 1 82047 W1 2 III (hand etched) | |||
| SIDE 2 |
ST 2 82047 - W2 2 III (hand etvhed) | ||||
| PUBLISHER'S NAME |
- |
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|
"SUBSIDIARY" PRINT
|
- |
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| COVER FORM |
Single
type.
Housed
in
a cardboard jacket. |
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| INNER SLEEVE | Plain
white inner sleeve |
||||
| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo:
Robert
Freeman
/
Notes: Tony Barrow |
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| PRODUCER | George
Martin |
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|
COMMENTS
|
When the Capitol Record Club began
operations in 1958, it entered a mail-order market dominated
by two clubs owned by other labels - Columbia and RCA. the
Capitol Records record club enticed people to join by
offering half-dozen or so "free" records in exchange for the
new member buying one record and agreeing to club membership
rules. Capitol's only hope of catching the competition was
to exploit the strength of its talent roster. Then in December 1968, Capitol had agreed to sell its direct marketing corporation, which included the Capitol record club to the Longines (Longines-Wittnauer) company. prior to Longines' purchase of the record club, The Beatles albums issued to club members were the same as the records shipped by Capitol to distributors and stores. After Longines took over the club in 1969, Capitol quit supplying albums to the club, instead Longines arranged for the manufacture of Capitol albums using cover artwork and label backdrops supplied by Capitol. The LP back covers have three angled black bars in the upper right hand corner which wrap around to the front cover in the upper left hand corner, and do not have the "File Under" information. Longines also altered the record number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix. By the time Longines began pressing Capitol Beatles albums in 1968, mono discs have been phased out. Thus, there are no mono Longines pressings of Beatles albums. These Longines Beatles albums are less common than the standard Capitol albums, which sold in the millions. The first records pressed for Longines have the Capitol rainbow label backdrops, while later issues have either green Capitol labels. Longines altered the record number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix. Meet The Beatles! (Capitol ST 2047) is designated ST-8-2047. The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and labels and in the trail off areas. Label: Capitol Green Target label with R" in a circle. The text of the perimeter print in blue on the club issue discs states "Manufactured under license from Capitol Records, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif." in lowercase. The late copy of Meet The Beatles! was removed the number "ST 8-2047" in the upper right corner of the front cover. Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2047", the "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, the phrase "Also Available In Regular Monophonic" was removed. The back liners have a small numeral located near the lower right or left corner. These numbers were used by Capitol to identify where the album cover was manufactured. (16 = Longines) |
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