The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night
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Parlophone – PMC 1230 |
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Country: |
UK |
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Genre: |
Stage & Screen |
Style: |
Pop Rock |
Tracklist
| Songs From The Film "A Hard Day's Night" | |||
| A1 | A Hard Day's Night | ||
| A2 | I Should Have Known Better | ||
| A3 | If I Fell | ||
| A4 | I'm Happy Just To Dance With You | ||
| A5 | And I Love Her | ||
| A6 | Tell Me Why | ||
| A7 | Can't Buy Me Love | ||
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| B1 | Any Time At All | ||
| B2 | I'll Cry Instead | ||
| B3 | Things We Said Today | ||
| B4 | When I Get Home | ||
| B5 | You Can't Do That | ||
| B6 | I'll Be Back |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – The Parlophone Co. Ltd.
- Record Company – E.M.I. Records Limited
- Record Company – Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.
- Published By – Northern Songs Music Ltd.
- Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
- Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
- Pressed By – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
Credits
- Liner Notes [Cover Notes By] – Tony Barrow
- Producer – George Martin
- Words By, Music By [Words And Music:] – John Lennon And Paul McCartney*
- Written-By – Lennon-McCartney
Notes
The main differentiator of this early pressing, compared to later versions, is the black and yellow Parlophone label with the perimeter rim copyright text, 'THE PARLOPHONE CO LTD • ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDING WORK RESERVED • UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED'. Above the spindle hole the centre text, 'SOLD IN THE U.K. SUBJECT TO RESALE PRICE CONDITIONS, SEE PRICE LISTS'.
There are a number of other differentiators present on both the labels and the cover.
Label:
1 - Has a 'chubby' font with the right-hand side indicator numerals appearing under the '2' in the catalogue number 'PMC 1230' above them.
2 - The publishing copyright date is given as 'RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964', and is nearly left-aligned compared to the matrix number above it.
3 - The group's name 'THE BEATLES' is closer to the 'Northern Songs Music Ltd.' publishing credit below it than the '(Lennon-McCartney)' credit above it. There exists a very similar version with this text placed differently - A Hard Day's Night.
4 - A2 'I Should Have Known Better' has its title split over 2 lines.
5 - All of the song titles on side 2 appear on separate lines.
6 - The KT purchase tax code embossing on the label on either side of the spindle hole. A similar variant has the code MT.
Cover:
1 - Front laminated, tri-flipback and printed by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd., with a medium 'MONO' indicator on the front, top, right hand corner.
Cover details:
E . M . I . RECORDS LIMITED
(Controlled By Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.)
HAYES • MIDDLESEX • ENGLAND
Made and Printed in Great Britain
Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents pending PMC 1230 PCS 3058
Runouts are stamped
Tax code is embossed on either side A or B
There are a number of other differentiators present on both the labels and the cover.
Label:
1 - Has a 'chubby' font with the right-hand side indicator numerals appearing under the '2' in the catalogue number 'PMC 1230' above them.
2 - The publishing copyright date is given as 'RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964', and is nearly left-aligned compared to the matrix number above it.
3 - The group's name 'THE BEATLES' is closer to the 'Northern Songs Music Ltd.' publishing credit below it than the '(Lennon-McCartney)' credit above it. There exists a very similar version with this text placed differently - A Hard Day's Night.
4 - A2 'I Should Have Known Better' has its title split over 2 lines.
5 - All of the song titles on side 2 appear on separate lines.
6 - The KT purchase tax code embossing on the label on either side of the spindle hole. A similar variant has the code MT.
Cover:
1 - Front laminated, tri-flipback and printed by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd., with a medium 'MONO' indicator on the front, top, right hand corner.
Cover details:
E . M . I . RECORDS LIMITED
(Controlled By Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.)
HAYES • MIDDLESEX • ENGLAND
Made and Printed in Great Britain
Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents pending PMC 1230 PCS 3058
Runouts are stamped
Tax code is embossed on either side A or B
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Other (Tax code): KT
- Matrix / Runout (A side label): XEX.481
- Matrix / Runout (B side label): XEX.482
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 1): XEX 481 - 3N
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 1): XEX 482 - 3N
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 2): XEX 481 - 3N MH 1
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 2): XEX 482 - 3N PR 1
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 3): XEX 481 - 3N OA 2
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 3): XEX 482 - 3N OM 5
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 4): XEX 481 - 3N G AM
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 4): XEX 482 - 3N G TO 7
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 5): XEX 481 - 3N G RH 1
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 5): XEX 482 - 3N G AH 6
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 6): XEX 481 - 3N R GA
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 6): XEX 482 - 3N G HD
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 7): XEX 481 - 3N G RG 3
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 7): XEX 482 - 3N G GM
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 8): XEX 481 - 3N R TL 3
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 8): XEX482 - 3N R LA 4
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 9): XEX 481 - 3N AAD J
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 9): XEX 482 - 3N RTA J
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 10): XEX 481 - 3N R HG
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 10): XEX 482 - 3N R OH
- Matrix / Runout (A side runout, variant 11): XEX 481 - 3N TO 5
- Matrix / Runout (B side runout, variant 11): XEX 482 - 3N G GP 5
Other Versions (5 of 839)
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (A Hard Day's Night) - Originals From The United Artists' Picture (LP, Album, Stereo) | Odeon | STO 83 739, ZTOX 5564, 83 739 | 1964 | |||
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A Hard Day's Night (LP, Album, Stereo, Wide Label Font) | Parlophone | PCS 3058 | UK | 1964 | ||
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A Hard Day's Night (LP, Album, Mono) | Parlophone | PMCJ 1230 | South Africa | 1964 | ||
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4 Garçons Dans Le Vent - Chansons Du Film (LP, Album, Mono) | Odeon | OSX 226 | 1964 | |||
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A Hard Day's Night (Reel-To-Reel, 3 ¾ ips, 2-Track Mono, Album) | Parlophone | TA-PMC 1230 | UK | 1964 |
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My copy seems to match everything here except the tax code - mine just has a 'J' embossed next to the B side spindle hole. Any ideas? -
This pressing sounds fantastic Beatles Mono albums have a great sound. I compared this pressing against a (7" Extracts From The Film A Hard Day's Night 1978 Mono) and a (UK 1976 Stereo pressing). I was surprised that the stereo sounded almost as good as the Mono, both have superior sonics although I like the mix on the Mono better. The 7" sounded very good but the sonics on the LP Mono were better. If you can get a clean version of this it is definitly worth it although prices are getting crazy. -
Love this album. Got lucky and found it in a $10 bin the other day! Great sound in mono. I would play his over the stereo version any day.
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Question.. just obtained a stereo copy of the United Artists "A Hard Days Night" LP (USA6366) and all of the Beatles songs sound to be mono mixes, although the label says "high fidelity stereo". The non-Beatles songs do appear to be stereo to my ear. Did UA not have real stereo versions of these songs and actually release it this way?
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I might have found it, it seems to be a German bootleg from the '80s as far as I can tell. -
And it's not the Italian pressing, which has a similar cat. number, only difference being 3C in the beginning, and that one seems to have a red sleeve.
My copy is blue, and there is no stereo or mono info on front. -
Hi, great resource! I have an EEC pressing of "A Hard Day's Night", which I can't seem to find in you list. Cat. number is 064-04145. Maybe you can help?
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