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TITLE
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RUBBER SOUL |
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| CATALOG
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ST-8-2442 |
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RELEASE DATE
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1971? / Second Press | ||||
| TITLE LISTING |
SIDE
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SIDE
2 |
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| I've Just Seen A
Face (BMI-2:04) |
It's Only Love
(BMI-1:53) |
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| Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown) (BMI-2:00) |
Girl (BMI-2:26) |
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| You Won't See Me
(BMI-3:19) |
I'm Looking
Through You (BMI-2:20) |
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| Think For
Yourself (BMI-2:16) |
In My Life
(BMI-2:23) |
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| The Word
(BMI-2:42) |
Wait (BMI-2:13) |
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| Michelle (BMI-2:42) | Run For Your Life (BMI-2:21) | ||||
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sleeve (Sorry, I don't have it.) |
Plain White sleeve (Sorry, I don't have it.) |
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The Capitol logo and the
phrase "HIGH FIDELITY" appear in black at the right side of
the front cover. |
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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 cover to Rubber Soul, appearing only on black-label copies, has the gNew Improved Full Dimensional Stereoh banner in black on the back cover – wrapped around to the front. Later black-label copies and all green-label copies have the stereo banner in color on the front cover slick. None of the original record-club covers have the gFile Underh dot. |
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Have three "hash marks" at the
upper right hand corner of the front cover. Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2442". With "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, WITHOUT "Also Available In Regular Monophonic" letters under the FDS logo. |
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"Printed in U.S.A." in a circular pattern. |  |
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. |
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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.
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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SIDE
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The
club
issue album labels have full "John Lennon-Paul McCartney"
credits. (excepted #4 on side-1) |
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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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| 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-1-82442-A1 2 111 (hand etched) | |||
| SIDE 2 |
ST-2-82442-A1 2 11 (hand etched) | ||||
| PUBLISHER'S NAME |
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"SUBSIDIARY" PRINT
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| COVER FORM |
Single type. Housed in a cardboard jacket. Front cover: with gloss varnish | ||||
| INNER SLEEVE | Plain
white inner sleeve |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo:
Robert Freeman |
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| PRODUCER | George
Martin |
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COMMENTS
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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. Longines altered the record number of the LPs by adding the number "8" to the prefix. "Rubber Soul (Capitol ST 2442)" is designated ST-8-442. The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and labels and in the trail off areas. None of the original record-club covers have the gFile Underh dot. The first records pressed for Longines have the Capitol rainbow label backdrops, while later issues have either green Capitol labels. The first cover to Rubber Soul, appearing only on black-label copies, has the gNew Improved Full Dimensional Stereoh banner in black on the back cover – wrapped around to the front. Later black-label copies and all green-label copies have the stereo banner in color on the front cover slick. Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2442". With "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, WITHOUT "Also Available In Regular Monophonic" letters under the FDS logo. 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) Label: Capitol Green Target label with R" in a circle. 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. 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 lowercase. The club issue album labels have full "John Lennon-Paul McCartney" credits. (*) 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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