Beatles Hey Jude Sealed unopened w/ very rare stickers

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The Beatles – Hey Jude – Sealed Unopened Original with a extremely rare sticker

-         Apple catalog # SW 385

-         Release date February 26, 1970

-         Unopened Sealed

-         The spine is perfect

-         Price sticker is still adhered to the shrink wrap

-         This is a rare find in this condition with this sticker.

-         Monte loves this album. There was a lot of confusion as to what this album should be named. At first the title was the “Beatles Again”. But the big bold sticker states “Hey Jude”. So there.

-         Westie loves this album too.

Please email me with any questions

Hey Jude (original title: The Beatles Again) is a 1970 collection of non-album Beatles singles and B-sides, as well as "I Should Have Known Better" and "Can't Buy Me Love", two singles released by Capitol Records whose only previous American album appearance had been on the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack album track which had been released by United Artists Records.

The Hey Jude album offered Capitol an opportunity to create a compilation album out of songs that had not been previously released on a Capitol album in the United States. In part this was a consequence of the Beatles' unwillingness to include single releases on their contemporaneous albums, and partially it was a consequence of Capitol's habit of recompiling the Beatles' Parlophone releases for the American market. Strangely, the album failed to include "A Hard Day's Night", which had been released as a single by Capitol and was available on the United Artists soundtrack album, "I'm Down", which was the B-Side of "Help!", and "The Inner Light", which was the B-Side of "Lady Madonna". Capitol also overlooked "From Me to You", "Misery" and "There's a Place", three early Beatles songs, the first of which was released as a single by Vee Jay Records and latter two of which had been included on the long out-of-print Vee Jay album, Introducing... The Beatles. "Sie Liebt Dich", a German language version of "She Loves You" was also ignored. While this may seem an unlikely choice, Capitol had released "Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand", which is the German version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", on Something New in 1964.

Originally, the album was to be named The Beatles Again. Before the disc was released, however, the title of the album was changed to Hey Jude, after the top selling song that led off side two. Unfortunately, the name change occurred after the label was printed, and an untold number of copies of the album were sold with an Apple label sporting the title The Beatles Again. (Neither the front nor the back of the album displayed the record's title, but most copies were sold in a jacket whose spine read Hey Jude. Furthermore, in an attempt to clear up any confusion caused by the misprinted label, initial copies of the album also displayed a sticker on the cover bearing the title Hey Jude.) The edition of the album with the The Beatles Again label bore catalogue number SO-385 on the label, but not on the jacket. The record jacket (which listed Hey Jude as the title on the spine) listed the catalogue number as SW-385. The SW-385 catalogue number replaced SO-385 on the label of later pressings which bore the title Hey Jude on the label.

The front and back cover pictures were taken at the last-ever Beatles photo session, on 22 August 1969, at John Lennon's new house, Tittenhurst Park (seven years to the day after they were filmed at the Cavern in Liverpool performing Some Other Guy (22 August 1962). Allen Klein authorised release of the album as a sales buffer during post-production of the delayed Let It Be. In 2007 Neil Aspinall revealed that the back cover was supposed to be the front cover and vice-verse, but that Klein had reversed them in error.[1]

The compilation was originally released only in the United States, although it was a popular import to the U.K. Because of its popularity as an import, Parlophone finally released Hey Jude in Britain in 1979. (If a fan who owned all twelve studio British Beatles albums augmented his or her collection with Hey Jude, Magical Mystery Tour, A Collection of Beatles Oldies, and the British version of Rarities, his or her collection would include every official Beatles song, although a handful of officially released alternate takes would still be missing.) Until the release of 1967–1970 in 1973, Hey Jude was the only way to own the extremely popular "Hey Jude" single on LP or in a stereo mix. The songs "Lady Madonna", "Don't Let Me Down", "Paperback Writer", "Rain", and "Revolution" also appeared for the first time in stereo on this album. Prior to the release of the "Get Back" single (45 RPM record) in Spring 1969, all Beatles singles were issued in monophonic sound. If nothing else, this compilation, while skimpy, showcased stereo versions of previously single-only mono Beatles songs.

Interestingly, on the audio tape versions of this album (Reel to Reel and Cassette Tape), the A and B-sides are flipped. Although it is clear on the vinyl version that "Hey Jude" opens side two, when compiling this issue for audio tape, the powers that be at Capitol Records wrongly assumed that "Hey Jude" (being the title track) should lead off the album. The fact that the songs ran in chronological order was lost on them. The error was never corrected. Although this was undoubtedly an error, there is another theory as to why this error was made. It is speculated that those who made the mistake had assumed that the record itself would have had the same running order as the tape if not for concern over how the record should look assuming side one would be more commonly displayed than side two. Previous Capitol albums with fewer than twelve songs still had six on side one, fewer on side two. Due to the length of the title track, it had to go on the side with fewer tracks and the banding with one large track and two small ones would have looked too odd for display as side 1, but this would not be of concern on a tape and so it might have been assumed that the tape was being put out the way the record would have been if not for these considerations that are moot when using something other than a two sided vinyl record format. The people making the change may also have believed that they were bringing the tape format into line with how most people actually played the record, side two first.

Track listing

All tracks written by Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Can't Buy Me Love" (1964) – 2:19
2. "I Should Have Known Better" (1964) – 2:39
3. "Paperback Writer" (1966) – 2:14
4. "Rain" (1966) – 2:58
5. "Lady Madonna" (1968) – 2:14
6. "Revolution" (1968) – 3:21

Side two

1. "Hey Jude" (1968) – 7:06
2. "Old Brown Shoe" (1969) (Harrison) – 3:16
3. "Don't Let Me Down" (1969) – 3:30
4. "Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969) – 2:55