THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM ULTRA-RARE ORIG'68 #ED UK MONO LP w/DIFF MIXES+EXTRAS

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·       THE BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM - ORIGINAL BRITISH MONO PRESSING (NEVER RELEASED IN MONO IN THE UNITED STATES)  - ORIGINAL 1968 APPLE RECORDS (UK)  MONO 2-LP SET PMC 7067/8 WITH LOW SERIAL NUMBER (# 055389) EMBOSSED AND “RAISED” LETTERS IN THE ALBUM TITLE (“THE BEATLES”)

·       ORIGINAL BRITISH  PRESSING

·       RARE, LOW-NUMBERED COVER, WITH THE PRINTED SERIES ONLY IN THE 5-DIGIT RANGE; JUDGING BY THE NUMBER (BELOW 60,000) THIS COPY MUST HAVE BEEN SOLD ON THE FIRST OR SECOND DAY UPON THE ALBUM’S OFFICIAL RELEASE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

·       THE ALBUM INCLUDES ALL FOUR PHOTOS OF THE BEATLES, AND ALSO INCLUDES  THE LARGE, ORIGINAL POSTER

·       RARE ORIGINAL BRITISH–ONLY POSTER WITH PAUL McCARTNEY’S “PRIVATE PARTS” UNCENSORED (UK VERSION OF THE POSTER SHOWS A SMALL SECTION OF HIS CROTCH CLEARLY VISIBLE; THIS “OFFENSIVE” AREA WAS NEATLY AIRBRUSHED ON AMERICAN VERSION (YES, EVERYBODY’S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE, EVEN PAUL AND HIS MONKEY); ALSO: THIS ORIGINAL UK POSTER HAS UNCENSORED ABSTRACT DRAWING OF JOHN AND YOKO’S (ON AMERICAN VERSION, JOHN AND YOKO’S PRIVATES ARE TAKEN OUT)

·       THE “WHITE ALBUM” WAS THE NEXT-TO-LAST BEATLES ALBUM TO BE RELEASED IN U.K. IN MONO IN THE GROUP’S LIFETIME (THE FINAL BEING YELLOW SUBMARINE). THIS IS INSANELY RARE BRITISH-ONLY MONO COPY; MONO PRESSINGS OF THIS ALBUM WERE NEVER RELEASED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA

·       ORIGINAL APPLE LABEL (WHOLE APPLE ON ONE SIDE, SLICED ON THE OTHER)

·       NO "AN EMI LTD RECORDING" CREDIT ON THE LABELS

·       ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER (EUROPEAN STYLE)

·       ORIGINAL LAMINATED COVER

·       ORIGINAL “TOP-LOADER” COVER (RECORDS ARE INSERTED AND TAKEN OUT FROM THE TOP OF THE COVER)

·       INCLUDES ORIGINAL, CUSTOM (ALL-BLACK) INNER SLEEVES, UNIQUE TO THIS TITLE (VISIBLY WORN, BUT MOSTLY INTACT).

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MONO version of this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1…'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

 (?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view (definitely the latter -- op.ed.) , but what makes the so-called White Album interesting is its mess. Never before had a rock record been so self-reflective, or so ironic; the Beach Boys send-up "Back in the U.S.S.R." and the British blooze parody "Yer Blues" are delivered straight-faced, so it's never clear if these are affectionate tributes or wicked satires. Lennon turns in two of his best ballads with "Dear Prudence" and "Julia"; scours the Abbey Road vaults for the musique concrète collage "Revolution 9"; pours on the schmaltz for Ringo's closing number, "Good Night"; celebrates the Beatles cult with "Glass Onion"; and, with "Cry Baby Cry," rivals Syd Barrett. McCartney doesn't reach quite as far, yet his songs are stunning -- the music hall romp "Honey Pie," the mock country of "Rocky Raccoon," the ska-inflected "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," and the proto-metal roar of "Helter Skelter." Clearly, the Beatles' two main songwriting forces were no longer on the same page, but neither were George and Ringo. Harrison still had just two songs per LP, but it's clear from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," the canned soul of "Savoy Truffle," the haunting "Long, Long, Long," and even the silly "Piggies" that he had developed into a songwriter who deserved wider exposure. And Ringo turns in a delight with his first original, the lumbering country-carnival stomp "Don't Pass Me By." None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow The Beatles creates its own style and sound through its mess.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

A piece of history: one of the most creative, inventive, subversive, funny, not to mention impeccably composed, crafted, played, arranged and produced albums of all time. This is the album that sent Charles Manson off the deep end, but don't worry. There is hardly a sinister overtone here. These 30 tracks (count    'em) are a monument to harmony and heartfelt emotion, even where such emotion is sarcasm or parody. By far my favorite Beatles album, and probably the only one to outshine Sergeant Pepper. This rare double set hardly ever comes with the such a low serial number (frankly, we never - ever - expected to hold in our hands anything lower than #00001000). This is your rare chance to grab one such copy. And, oh, did we forget to mention Eric Clapton,who makes his famous cameo on "While my guitar gently weeps"?

Track listing: Back In The U.S.S.R.  --- Dear Prudence  --- Glass Onion  --- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da  --- Wild Honey Pie  --- Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, The  --- While My Guitar Gently Weeps  --- Happiness Is A Warm Gun  --- Martha My Dear  --- I'm So Tired  --- Blackbird  --- Piggies  --- Rocky Raccoon  --- Don't Pass Me By  --- Why Don't We Do It In The Road  --- I Will  --- Julia  ---  Birthday  --- Yer Blues  --- Mother Nature's Son  --- Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey  --- Sexy Sadie  --- Helter Skelter  --- Long, Long, Long  --- Revolution 1  --- Honey Pie  --- Savoy Truffle  --- Cry Baby Cry  --- Revolution 9  --- Good Night.

For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship,  revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565.

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The bidders should note that the UK mono mix of this album and the standard US stereo mix (mind you, the White Album was NEVER released in mono in the United States) are MASSIVELY DIFFERENT and in more ways than one. The following is the partial list of differences between UK mono mix and US stereo mix as compiled by Joseph Brennan.

REVOLUTION 9

Although the mono was made from the stereo, the opening lines are more clear in mono: "I would've gotten claret for you but I've realized I've forgotten all about it, George, I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?". This is evidently a separate piece of tape added during mixing. (Revolution 9 is preceded on the white album by a short song not listed on the album, Can You Take Me Back, which was recorded after Revolution 9 was mixed).

DON'T PASS ME BY

UK mono version runs faster, and it has more fiddle throughout the song, and different fiddle at the end. The fiddle at the end of stereo on US stereo version seems to a repeat of a bit of the chorus. The edit added the intro.

BLACKBIRD

The overdubs of bird sounds were done differently during mixing.

EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT ME AND MY MONKEY

The screaming after "come on" in the last verse are different on UK mono version than on US stereo version

OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA

The UK mono version lacks handclaps in the intro, heard on US stereo version

CRY BABY CRY

The US stereo version has a drop in sound level during "by the children" in the last verse, probably a tape problem.

GOOD NIGHT

On US stereo version, the song fades in; on UK mono version, it does not.

SEXY SADIE

US stereo version has an extra tap at the start. UK mono version lacks bass until the vocal starts.

YER BLUES

The final edit is done from of two takes of the song, each of the two tapes being itself a mixdown from the original 4-track. The edit causes an abrupt transition at the end of the guitar solos. In stereo, traces of other vocal and guitar parts can be heard throughout the song in the left channel, including something shouted over parts of the vocal and what sounds like another different guitar solo. After the edit, the trace lead vocal suggests we are hearing the first part of the song from the other take. The edit in the mixes added the countdown intro, which is louder on UK mono version; also, UK mono version is 11 seconds longer, with a long fade.

WILD HONEY PIE

Of the two vocal tracks, one is louder on US stereo version, the other on UK mono version

BACK IN THE U.S.S.R.

The plane sound effects differ on UK mono version and US stereo version.  UK mono has louder piano, a yell after the opening plane sound, and drumbeats under the closing plane sound.  US Stereo has extra guitar chords at the start of the solo, and shouts and piano during the guitar solo.

DEAR PRUDENCE

US stereo version has slightly more treble and fades to a lower volume at the end.

WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

The Clapton guitar remains loud on UK mono version after the solo break, but not on US stereo version. Near the end of the fadeout only the stereo has "yeah yeah yeah", even though it is a few second shorter than UK mono version

HELTER SKELTER

The basic song runs about 3:10 to a pause shortly after Paul's distorted vocal, too close to the microphone. UK mono version is then is edited into more of the same take, with sound effects noises, and fades at 3:36. US stereo version is edited instead to a different part of the take, fading out and then back in again, with another edit, ending finally at 4:29 after Ringo shouts "I've got blisters on my fingers!".

GLASS ONION

US stereo version is lacking Paul's added vocal "oh yeah" at the end of the break.

UK mono version has various sound effects, of which only the whistle after "fool on the hill" was used in the US stereo version

I WILL

The "bass" (vocal) starts later on UK mono version, after the first verse.

BIRTHDAY

The last "daaaance" starts twice, maybe a double-track error or a leak from a guide vocal, as heard on US stereo version, but covered up by other sound on UK mono version

PIGGIES

The overdubs of pig sounds differ. The guitar is louder on UK mono version

HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN

UK mono version has tapping (organ) on the beat from the start until the drums come in, but it is soft and mixed out 4 beats earlier on US stereo version. In the "I need a fix" section on US stereo version, by error, although the first line was mixed out, the last "down" is just audible.  UK mono version has louder bass in the "I need a fix" section. UK Mono has laughter near the very end, just before the last drumbeat, not heard on US stereo version

HONEY PIE

UK mono version has the full lead guitar break, slightly shortened on US stereo version

SAVOY TRUFFLE

UK mono version has sound effects during the instrumental break, and the lead guitar continues through the break into the refrain after it. The organ is missing from the last verse in UK mono mix.

LONG LONG LONG

Doubletracking starts at the first "long" on US stereo version, the third "long" on UK mono version, and sounds somewhat different thereafter. In mono the rhythm guitar is softer but the lead guitar is louder, especially in the later part of the song.

I'M SO TIRED

Paul's harmony at the first "You'd say" is louder on UK mono version. The muttering after the song is part of this recording.

WHY DON'T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD

UK mono version lacks handclaps in the intro.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VERY GOOD+(+) . CAUTION: The vinyl is NOT MINT or NEAR MINT, but is nevertheless in a very nice and clean condition. There are some surface marks and abrasions, mostly light and superficial, although some may be longer than 1.1/4 inches (1 inch = 2.5 centimeters)

(b)          The records are pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)           The album comes with the original poster still intact.

(d)          The album comes with the original BONUS PHOTOS 

(e)           The records come in their original, custom (all-black) inner sleeves, unique to this title.

(f)            Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more  preferable to its stereo counterpart. We estimate that stereo copies of this album outnumber monos by a ratio of at least 10:1.

·       COVER (this is the original, glossy, laminated, cover)

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2  (the serial number is almost completely obliterated; only the pressure mark remains).

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine 

-        The cover has a few tiny scratch marks and pressure marks (nothing significant)

-        Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.  Yellowing is also noted on the INSIDE gatefold

-        Cover has two corners slightly worn / dinged (nothing significant)

-        Tiny water stain noted on the bottom left corner (less than 1/2 square inch in size)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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