 Club Issue1st. Sleeve |
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TITLE
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"YESTERDAY...AND TODAY |
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| CATALOG
NUMBER |
ST-8-2553 |
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RELEASE DATE
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early 1969 / First Press | ||||
| TITLE LISTING |
SIDE
1 |
SIDE
2 |
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| Drive My Car (BMI
2:25) |
And Your Bird Can Sing (BMI 2:02) | ||||
| I'm Only Sleeping
(BMI 2:58) |
If I Needed
Someone BMI 2:19) |
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| Nowhere Man (BMI 2:40) | We Can Work It
Out (BMI 2:10) |
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| Dr. Robert (BMI 2:14) | What Goes On?
(BMI 2:44) |
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| Yesterday (BMI
2:04) |
Day Tripper (BMI 2:47) | ||||
| Act Naturally (BMI 2:27) | |||||
| 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) |
 |
The Capitol logo and the
phrase "HIGH FIDELITY" appear in black at the right side of
the front cover. 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. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
The New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo
logo was appeared at the top of the front cover slick. |
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| BACK COVER CLOSE UP --> Click! | |||||
 |
Back liner has the catalog
number "ST 8- 2576". With "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, WITHOUT
"Also Available In Regular Monophonic" letters under
the FDS logo. |
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Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2553" | ||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
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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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| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
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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.
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 album labels have full "John Lennon-Paul
McCartney" credits. |
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| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
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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
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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 - 82553 - A1 1
2 (hand etched) |
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| SIDE 2 |
ST - 2 - 82553 - A1 1 21 (hand etched) | ||||
| 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. Front cover: with gloss varnish | ||||
| INNER SLEEVE | Plain
white inner sleeve (maybe) |
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| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo
by ROBERT WHITAKER |
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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. "Yesterday and Today (Capitol ST 2553)" is designated ST-8-2553. The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and labels and in the trail off areas. The New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo logo was appeared at the top of the front cover slick. Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2553". 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) 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 club issue album labels have full "John Lennon-Paul McCartney" credits. Because of the slight delay in receiving the stereo mixes of "I'm Only Sleeping," "Doctor Robert," and "And Your Bird Can Sing," original vinyl pressings of Yesterday...and Today have those songs in rechanneled stereo. They appear in true stereo for the first time on vinyl in the US on the record club release, leading some people to mistakenly believe that "record club issues are superior." In reality, record club releases would typically be of inferior quality later on, to make up for their low sale prices, and the three songs had already appeared in true stereo in every tape format. (*) 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
|
"YESTERDAY...AND TODAY |
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| CATALOG
NUMBER |
ST-8-2553 |
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|
RELEASE DATE
|
1971? / Second Press | ||||
| TITLE LISTING |
SIDE
1 |
SIDE
2 |
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| Drive My Car (BMI
2:25) |
And Your Bird Can Sing (BMI 2:02) | ||||
| I'm Only Sleeping
(BMI 2:58) |
If I Needed
Someone BMI 2:19) |
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| Nowhere Man (BMI 2:40) | We Can Work It
Out (BMI 2:10) |
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| Dr. Robert (BMI 2:14) | What Goes On?
(BMI 2:44) |
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| Yesterday (BMI
2:04) |
Day Tripper (BMI 2:47) | ||||
| Act Naturally (BMI 2:27) | |||||
| FRONT--> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK | |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| 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. 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. |
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| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
The New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo
logo was appeared at the top of the front cover slick. |
||||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP --> Click! | |||||
 |
Back liner has the catalog
number "ST 8- 2576". With "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, WITHOUT
"Also Available In Regular Monophonic" letters under
the FDS logo. |
|
Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2553" | ||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
 |
 |
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) |
||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
|||||
| 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 “C” 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. |
|||||
 |
 |
 |
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. |
||
| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
| SIDE 1 |
SIDE
2 |
The
club
issue album labels have full "John Lennon-Paul McCartney"
credits. |
|||
 |
 |
||||
| 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 / with Round
"STEREO" (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 - 82553 - A1 1
2 (hand etched) |
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| SIDE 2 |
ST - 2 - 82553 - A1 1 21 (hand etched) | ||||
| PUBLISHER'S NAME |
- |
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|
"SUBSIDIARY" PRINT
|
- |
||||
| COVER FORM |
Single type. Housed in a cardboard jacket. Front cover: with gloss varnish | ||||
| INNER SLEEVE | Plain
white inner sleeve |
||||
| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo
by
ROBERT WHITAKER |
||||
| 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. "Yesterday and Today (Capitol ST 2553)" is designated ST-8-2553. The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and labels and in the trail off areas. The New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo logo was appeared at the top of the front cover slick. Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2553". 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 “C” 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. Because of the slight delay in receiving the stereo mixes of "I'm Only Sleeping," "Doctor Robert," and "And Your Bird Can Sing," original vinyl pressings of Yesterday...and Today have those songs in rechanneled stereo. They appear in true stereo for the first time on vinyl in the US on the record club release, leading some people to mistakenly believe that "record club issues are superior." In reality, record club releases would typically be of inferior quality later on, to make up for their low sale prices, and the three songs had already appeared in true stereo in every tape format. (*) 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
|
"YESTERDAY...AND TODAY |
||||
| CATALOG
NUMBER |
ST-8-2553 |
||||
|
RELEASE DATE
|
1972? / Third Press | ||||
| TITLE LISTING |
SIDE
1 |
SIDE
2 |
|||
| Drive My Car (BMI
2:25) |
And Your Bird Can Sing (BMI 2:02) | ||||
| I'm Only Sleeping
(BMI 2:58) |
If I Needed
Someone BMI 2:19) |
||||
| Nowhere Man (BMI 2:40) | We Can Work It
Out (BMI 2:10) |
||||
| Dr. Robert (BMI 2:14) | What Goes On?
(BMI 2:44) |
||||
| Yesterday (BMI
2:04) |
Day Tripper (BMI 2:47) | ||||
| Act Naturally (BMI 2:27) | |||||
| FRONT--> Click! | BACK --> Click! | SIDE 1 --> Click! | SIDE 2 --> Click! | DISK | |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| 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. 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. |
||
| FRONT COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
The New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo
logo was appeared at the top of the front cover slick. |
||||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP --> Click! | |||||
 |
Back liner has the catalog
number "ST 8- 2576". With "Full Dimentional Stereo" logo, WITHOUT
"Also Available In Regular Monophonic" letters under
the FDS logo. |
|
Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2553" | ||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
 |
 |
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) |
||
| BACK COVER CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
|||||
| 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. |
|||||
| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
 |
 |
 |
|||
| Capitol's green label was
first issued in July, 1969 (to April 1971). It sports a new
Capitol logo: a “C” 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. Capitol's record club never did adopt the red label style of 1971, continuing to use the green label during that transitional period. At some point later in the run – most likely in early 1972, Decca/Longines stopped printing labels with the same typeface as had been employed on the black-label copies and on the earlier green-label copies. From this point on, the word "STEREO" appears in narrow print. These copies are considerably more difficult to find than the earlier ones, although there is usually no value difference. |
|||||
 |
 |
 |
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. |
||
| LABEL CLOSE UP | |||||
| SIDE 1 |
SIDE
2 |
The
club
issue
album labels have full "John Lennon-Paul McCartney" credits. |
|||
 |
 |
||||
| 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. |
||||
|
OTHER ITEM
|
|||||
| - |
|||||
| LABEL | Capitol
Green
Target label with "R" in a circle / with Thin "STEREO"
(Record Club Edition) |
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| MIX | STEREO |
||||
| VINYL COLOR | Black |
||||
| PRESS FACTORY | Longines |
||||
| FACTORY CODE | 16 |
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| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 |
ST1
82553 1 2
III (machine stamped) |
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| SIDE 2 |
ST2 82553 1 2 III (machine stamped) | ||||
| PUBLISHER'S NAME |
- |
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|
"SUBSIDIARY" PRINT
|
- |
||||
| COVER FORM |
Single type. Housed in a cardboard jacket. Front cover: with gloss varnish | ||||
| INNER SLEEVE | Plain
white inner sleeve |
||||
| COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES | Photo
by
ROBERT
WHITAKER |
||||
| PRODUCER | George
Martin |
||||
|
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. "Yesterday and Today (Capitol ST 2553)" is designated ST-8-2553. The expanded record numbers appear on the record covers and labels and in the trail off areas. The New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo logo was appeared at the top of the front cover slick. Back liner has the catalog number "ST 8- 2553". 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 “C” 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. Capitol's record club never did adopt the red label style of 1971, continuing to use the green label during that transitional period. At some point later in the run – most likely in early 1972, Decca/Longines stopped printing labels with the same typeface as had been employed on the black-label copies and on the earlier green-label copies. From this point on, the word "STEREO" appears in narrow print. These copies are considerably more difficult to find than the earlier ones, although there is usually no value difference. 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. Because of the slight delay in receiving the stereo mixes of "I'm Only Sleeping," "Doctor Robert," and "And Your Bird Can Sing," original vinyl pressings of Yesterday...and Today have those songs in rechanneled stereo. They appear in true stereo for the first time on vinyl in the US on the record club release, leading some people to mistakenly believe that "record club issues are superior." In reality, record club releases would typically be of inferior quality later on, to make up for their low sale prices, and the three songs had already appeared in true stereo in every tape format. (*) 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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