E.P. - A Hard Day's Night (Extracts From The Film)

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A Hard Day's Night - Front Cover A Hard Day's Night - Rear Cover
A Hard Day's Night - Front Cover A Hard Day's Night - Rear Cover

A Hard Day's Night - Front Cover A Hard Day's Night - Rear Cover
A Hard Day's Night - First pressing A-Side Label A Hard Day's Night - First pressing B-Side Label

A Hard Day's Night - Front Cover A Hard Day's Night - Rear Cover
A Hard Day's Night - Rear Cover
A Hard Day's Night - First pressing A-Side Label Detail of sleeve showing curved flip-back edges and E.J.D. (The printer)

Label Parlophone
Catalogue No. GEP 8920
Matrix No.'s
 A-side B-Side
First Issue :7TCE 832-1N 7TCE 833-2N
     (Plus Tax code of KT on both sides)
Release Date 4th November 1964
U.K. E.P. Chart Detail : 
Entry Date :14th November 1964
Highest Position :1 ... for 6 weeks ... 3 stints, as ...
             2 weeks from 12th December 1964, then,
             3 weeks from 9th January 1965, then,
             1 week from 6th February 1965.
Weeks in Chart :30 Weeks
The Tracks :
Side 1    Side 2
I Should Have Known Better     Tell Me Why
If I Fell     And I Love Her
Detail : The Beatles sixth official E.P.
The full title of the E.P. is actually;
"Extracts from the film A Hard Days Night", and was the first of two E.P.'s with tracks from the latest L.P.
This E.P. contains four tracks all featured in the film, the other contains four tracks from the album that were NOT in the film.

What this E.P. also provides is that, every track on side one of the album, except "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" was available on 45rpm format in 1964 !

With these two E.P.'s from the album, EMI were once again trying to get as much mileage as possible from The Beatles output. But neither this E.P. nor any until Magical Mystery Tour broached the top 30 singles chart. The E.P. using the cover art from the album, reached No.34 in the singles chart. Of course in the E.P. chart it was yet another number one for the fab four.

The E.P. had sleeve notes by Tony Barrow.

Finally, how do you spot original pressings ? ....
The typeface on more recent issues is both more modern and smaller than on the originals, while the actual catalogue number was actually BIGGER on originals.
Around the edge of the label, the words stating the rights of the publishers started with "The Parlophone Co. Ltd." and the date on the label is shown as "Recording First Published 1964". Across the press-out centres are the words, "sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists".
The embossed "KT" tax code is visible on the side 1 record label.
Post 1965 pressings, the rights start with "The Gramophone Co. Ltd.", and the date is not preceded with "Recording First Published", but instead has a circled "P".
Re-pressings were also made in the 1970's, these do NOT have across the press-out centres the words, "sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists".

The sleeve also has marked differences. For starters (surprisingly !) the quality of new editions is worse, which suggests that EMI copied old sleeves rather than the actual photos ! ... I could demonstrate this with my copy of "A Hard Days Night", I have an original and a newer edition, and it is astonishing how much worse the newer one is !
Next, look out for the edges of the fold of the front cover onto the back. The edges of the fold used to be curved, now they are sharp, straight.
Finally, the fold itself is no longer laminated, and the cover itself feels thinner than before.

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