Rare Italian singles for export.
pinio65
SP: You Can’t To That / Can’t Buy Me Love
Parlophon QMSP 16361 [Mono]
Label like UK, Parlophone, Made In Italy, QMSP 16361.
Year of issue - 1964, only 500 copies were made.
For what country ???
SP: Ticket To Ride / Yes It Is
Parlophon QMSP 16378 [Mono]
Label like UK, Parlophone, Made In Italy, QMSP 16378.
1965
For what country ???
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The Walrus was Danny
> Parlophon QMSP 16361 [Mono]
> Label like UK, Parlophone, Made In Italy, QMSP 16361.
> Year of issue - 1964, only 500 copies were made.
> For what country ???
> SP: Ticket To Ride / Yes It Is
> Parlophon QMSP 16378 [Mono]
> Label like UK, Parlophone, Made In Italy, QMSP 16378.
> 1965
> For what country ???
The export singles are interesting aren't they?
Dunno about the Italian Export singles (never knew they existed in
fact) but the British ones were sent all over the world.
The common one is If I fell..but there's Michelle, Hey Jude (on
parlophone) and Let it Be (on parlophone). I have a feeling there's
another one.....can't remember....My mate bought his Hey Jude in 68
from a record shop in Malta. So one would think they were for
countries that were remote and small and didn't have their own record
plants. Italy?? - well one would guess any ex Italian Sovereign
countries...Libya?
All the US albums were also pressed in the UK as export records (on
Parlophone!) the commonest is Hey Jude (the LP with the weird track
listing - which I own in fact). One wonders why bother???
Danny
Adam
> All the US albums were also pressed in the UK as export records (on
> Parlophone!) the commonest is Hey Jude (the LP with the weird track
> listing - which I own in fact). One wonders why bother???
Well, a Briton getting the "Hey Jude" LP (or cassette or 8-track) when
it came out would finally have stereo mixes of "Hey Jude," "Don't Let Me
Down," "Rain," "Lady Madonna" and "Revolution." Americans might have
had "Don't Let Me Down" in stereo as the back of the "Get Back" single,
but in addition to those other titles they would also be getting stereo
mixes of "Can't Buy Me Love," "I Should Have Known Better," and
"Paperback Writer" for the first time. ("Ballad of John and Yoko" b/w
"Old Brown Shoe" was already available as a stereo single in both
countries.)
Or are you wondering why they'd bother exporting the US albums at all?
I remember that near the end of the LP era, the British albums were
commonly seen as imports in the USA.
Adam
Bernie Woodham
>
>
> Or are you wondering why they'd bother exporting the US albums at all?
> I remember that near the end of the LP era, the British albums were
> commonly seen as imports in the USA.
Wasn't that a decision to stop the production of the U.S. LPs?
Adam
>> I remember that near the end of the LP era, the British albums were
>> commonly seen as imports in the USA.
>
> Wasn't that a decision to stop the production of the U.S. LPs?
I haven't looked it up, but I don't think so. I remember seeing both
the US LPs and the import versions of the UK LPs in the "Beatles"
section at that store. The UK versions had a note on the cover or a
sticker on the plastic or something to indicate it was the UK version,
and cost a few dollars more. I remember comparing the back of both
versions of "Revolver," 11 songs on the US album, 14 on the UK, but
otherwise looking identical down to the typeface. "Rubber Soul" also
had the same name and cover photo but different songs in the two versions.
Also, I remember seeing the Capitol albums available on cassette into
the early '90s, way after vinyl production had ceased. Usually the
track order was different, probably to use less tape.
Adam