RARE BEATLES Hey Jude NZ Lp Paper Back misprint CPCS106 1/1

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The BEATLES
HEY JUDE
 MISPRINTED LABEL!!
RARE N.Z. COPY



In 1970 EMI decided to release Hey Jude in America, even though they had Abbey Road in the charts over there at the time and it was doing quite well. Soon EMI realised, due to the advance orders (around 2million copies!) and the subsequent sale in the USA reaching more than 3.75 MILLION, that it would be a good idea to press export copies IN the UK!



This copy:
Thanks to jongalaxy49 for this detailed description of this rar NZ Lp...

The Hey Jude album was not compiled by Capitol, although many American fans wrongly assumed that this was the case. In actuality, the project was conceived by Allen Klein and Apple Records. Klein had negotiated a more lucrative contract for the group in 1969 and was anxious to sweeten the pot with an additional album. He directed Allan Stickler of Abkco/Apple to work on an album. Steckler chose songs that had not appeared on a Capitol album in the USA and which spanned the group's career. He also focused more on more recent singles than on earlier material. The absence of the songs from a US Capitol album was partially a consequence of the Beatles' willingness to include single releases on their contemporaneous albums, partially a consequence with their arrangement with United Artists in 1964, and partially due to the habit (of EMI affiliates worldwide) of recompiling the Beatles' British releases for local markets. Steckler chose not 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". He also overlooked "From Me to You", "Misery" and "There's a Place", which were first issued in the United States by Vee Jay Records but were not issued on a Capitol album yet. "Sie Liebt Dich", a German-language version of "She Loves You" was also ignored.

Steckler and Apple had become disappointed with the Capitol Records release schedules and determined to promote the new album themselves. Steckler also took the tapes to Sam Feldman at Bell Sound Studios (in New York), rather than delivering them to Capitol. He would do this for several releases thereafter.

Originally, the album was to be named The Beatles Again. Shortly before the record was released, however, the title was changed to Hey Jude, in order to promote the inclusion of the top-selling song that led off side two. Unfortunately, the name change occurred after the labels were printed, and an untold number of copies of the album were sold with an Apple label sporting the title The Beatles Again. This was also true for cassette copies of the album, which retained the original title. 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 preprinted 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. This is because of a similarly-timed decision to reduce the price from $6.98 (SO- prefix) to $5.98 (SW- prefix). The record jacket was prepared late enough so that it lists the catalogue number as SW-385. The SW-385 catalogue number appears on the label of later pressings that bear 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 authorized release of the album as a sales buffer during post-production of the delayed Let It Be. In 2007 Neil Aspinall claimed that the back cover was supposed to be the front cover and vice-verse, but that Klein had reversed them in error. [1] This is not entirely true. At least three prototype cover designs are known to exist, with the earliest of those showing the photos "reversed." Apparently, the art department made the determination that the photo that now appears on the front cover was better suited for that purpose. Bruce Spizer's [2] book, The Beatles on Apple Records, contains many previously-unknown details about the release.

The compilation was originally released in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Spain, Germany, France, Greece, Japan, and most of South America. It was also available to other countries as an "export" from England (Parlophone/Apple CPCS-106) but was not at first issued in England, although it was a popular import to the U.K. Because of its popularity worldwide, 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 number of officially-released alternate mixes 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 in the USA. If nothing else, this compilation showcased stereo versions of previously single-only mono Beatles songs. Several other countries wound up with the original "Beatles Again" title, with Spain's perhaps being the most interesting -- because "the Ballad of John and Yoko" was clipped from the album, having been deemed offensive (either due to its reference to Christ, or to the fact of Lennon's referral of "Gibraltar near Spain", at a time when Spain's Franco administration with contending with the UK over the ownership of Gibraltar. This is discussed further in the article for Ballad of John and Yoko).

Interestingly, on two audio tape versions of this album (Reel-to-Reel and Cassette Tape), sides one and two are inversed. Although it is clear on the vinyl version that "Hey Jude" opens side two, when compiling this issue for audio tape, some compilers (at Capitol and Ampex) thought to make the change, which resulted in "Hey Jude" leading off the album. This was done because side two was the longer side, and it was the practice in some tape formats to lead the album with the longer side. The four-track tape, prepared by Ampex along with the reel-to-reel tape, has the songs in the original, chronological order. (The eight-track tape was treated to the usual re-ordering that eight tracks received.)

The album was released in both stereo and mono in two countries - Brazil and Argentina. While the Argentine mono issue uses a reduction of the common stereo tapes, the Brazilian (Apple BTL 1009)is made of all original UK single mixes and is true mono, with exception of "Ballad of John and Yoko" and "Old Brown Shoe", which are mono reductions of the original UK single mixes.

Catalogue Number: EMI CPCS 106

Matrix Numbers Side 1: YEEX 150-1
Matrix Numbers Side 2: YEEX 151-1

Mothers/Stampers Side 1: 2 P
Mothers/Stampers Side 2: GM (no Mother visible!)

Vinyl:
HEAVY 147g
EX-. Great sound reproduction, with just VERY light and occasional background noise...lovely shine!
There are just very light marks to the vinyl but definately NOTHING to effect play as I have just listened to her all the way through, WITHOUT jumps or skips.
GLORIOUS STEREO
SUPERB DEEP BASS-ESPECIALLY ON THE BALLAD OF JOHN & YOKO and Lady Madonna ;-)
 Really is a lovely piece!
FLAT as the day she was born.
TURN HER UP!!!

Labels: EX. Side 1 has the mispelt crediits for Paperback Writer:
 
3. PAPER BACK WRITER  (instead of the later press Paperback writer).
Deep green apple labels....NOT the later lighter labels.
Spindle marks only visible when looking for them.

"Made In New Zealand By His Masters Voice"
*Not many of these beauties around*

Cover: VG+. The front cover is still lovley, bright and shiny.Nice strong spine with the writing of "The Beatles Hey Jude" and "CPCS 106" printed along the spine without any damage to it.
Being overly critical...there's a handful of half-crescent spiderings to the laminate near the opening, really nothing to worry about at all.
The back non-laminated card has a little patch of lifting to the top right corner.
The very rare and unusual FLIPBACKS are in GREAT SHAPE...carrying the catalogue number to the top right corner.
Text under the text at the top:
"His Master's Voice (N.Z.) Ltd."
STRONG UNCRUSHED SPINE
BRIGHT
GORGEOUS!

Inner: VG. It is a replacement die-cut EMI inner with the Important Notice box to the bottom.
No rips or tears and certainly has done her job in looking after this iconic record.

ALL IN ALL THIS IS A VERY RARE PRESSING OF A CLASSIC BEATLES ALBUM.
MIS-SPELLINGS AND QUALITY SOUND REPRODUCTION.
SHE REALLY IS FOR THE SERIOUS COLLECTOR OUT THERE.

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1 Lp Europe: £6.50 (Up to 500g)
1 Lp Rest Of World: £8.50 (Up to 500g)

1 Double Lp France: £7.50 (Up to 1kg)
1 Double Lp Europe: £9.50 (Up to 2kg MAX: £14)
1 Double Lp Rest Of World: £12 (Up to 2kg MAX: £18)
ROW MAX 3kg: £27

7" Singles:
1 Single France: £3 (Up to 250g)
1 Single Europe: £4.00 (Up to 250g)
1 Single Rest OF World: £5.50 (Up to 250g)

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