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Tape Media: Cassette Album

Artist:The Beatles
Title:Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Format:Cassette Album
Label:  EMI
Country:UK
Catalogue:TC-PCS 7027
Date:1972
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Community: 10 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
Side 1
01The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandLennon, McCartneyRate
02The BeatlesWith A Little Help From My FriendsLennon, McCartneyRate
03The BeatlesLucy In The Sky With DiamondsLennon, McCartneyRate
04The BeatlesGetting BetterLennon, McCartneyRate
05The BeatlesFixing A HoleLennon, McCartneyRate
06The BeatlesShe's Leaving HomeLennon, McCartneyRate
07The BeatlesBeing For The Benefit Of Mr KiteLennon, McCartneyRate
Side 2
08The Beatles Within You Without YouHarrisonRate
09The BeatlesWhen I'm Sixty-FourLennon, McCartneyRate
10The BeatlesLovely RitaLennon, McCartneyRate
11The BeatlesGood Morning Good MorningLennon, McCartneyRate
12The BeatlesSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)Lennon, McCartneyRate
13The BeatlesA Day In The LifeLennon, McCartneyRate


Notes

Second edition with gold inlay, introduced in 1972.

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TopPopper
13th Apr 2020
 Added: 1980s edition. All that's changed on the inlay is the addition of a barcode, and the shunting up of the text above, to make room for it. The cassette itself is quite different though, with cream-coloured plastic and square bits around the two spools. I guess this didn't have too long a shelf life as the re-issues came out in 1987.
 
 
BiggieTembo
18th Jun 2014
 Thanks, TopP ;-)
 
 
TopPopper
18th Jun 2014
 Original contributor notes:

1 cassette, 1 inlay. Tracks 1-7 make up Side 1. Tracks 8-13 consist Side 2.

EMI "Gold issue" inner, without barcode; without "G&L" printer indentification on inner inlay (earlier issues have this). The gold-colour printing is of the "lighter" variety, suggesting also a later issue than the earlier "metallic gold" inlays. White cassette shell with blue ink.

Blue cassette ink and lighter gold inner suggest a release date of circa 1976-1982.

Bought in 1981, in the great, long-lost Rival Records record shop in Bath, Avon, just after John Lennon's assassination in December 1980.
 
 
BiggieTembo
25th Mar 2014
 Yeah Top P, that's a great site you're making a link to. Ahh it makes me happy that you too served your Beatle apprenticeship with the Gold-Inlay cassettes. I kinda wish that I had the dosh at the time, to get the XDR ones from 1987 onwards too... but by that time I was into the vinyl side of things...

Some of the Beatles' 8-tracks also repeated some tracks to pad out the running times. Sadly I don't have any examples to upload - it all comes from memory. But this link helps - and gives great info for all the EMI cassette, reel-to-reel and 8-track releases, including how to de-code the catalogue numbers, and who printed the sleeves etc.: http://soundhog.moonfruit.com/#/the-beatles-on-8-track/4533430837
 
 
TopPopper
25th Mar 2014
 I've never compared the cassette running orders to the 8-tracks but you're probably right as to why they re-ordered the songs that way. I guess fitting them onto 8-track was more of a demand because there are four sequences to get more or less the same, but when they turned to the cassette, it would have taken someone ten minutes to sit and work out what, if any, differences were needed from the vinyl sequence and stick closely to that.

I was educated in Beatledom through these gold cassettes. It was ingrained in me that "Good Day Sunshine" was the first song on Revolver, and that "Here Comes The Sun" was the first song on Abbey Road. It was a real challenge trying to re-learn the correct sequences when I started getting the CDs.

Revolver in particular was a complete mix up. There's more info on the tape re-sequencing here for anyone interested. (The page mainly shows the very early white inserts, but the more common gold ones were the same.)
 
 
BiggieTembo
25th Mar 2014
 Agree, TopPopper. I collected all the Beatles cassettes after seeing Help! on BBC1, shown as tribute after John Lennon was shot in 1980. The tapes available during my collecting period were the Gold-Inlay series, which came out of the bowels of EMI from the mid-70s to around ’82.

You’re right too – it seems that EMI did sod-all to make these tapes reflect the original LPs: the artwork was minimal, the information sparse, and the materials the cassettes and tape were made of – well... I have to say it was junk. There were drop-outs on many of the cassettes, aural ”thumps” in the silences between songs, and the dreaded Double Play tapes... I don’t think I ever had one that DIDN’T chew up at some point. OK, I know – it’s easy to slag off the materials of the day, and many other pre-recorded tapes at the time were also bad - but the worst thing they did was to re-arrange the running order of the tracks on the Beatles’ releases…

They didn’t tamper with Sgt. Pepper though, as you mention, but some of the others’ track running orders were re-arranged due to, what I assume must be the following factors:
1) EMI wanted to save time for the listener, so they didn’t have to spool so much to get to the start of Side 2, after listening to Side 1.
2) EMI was lazy, and copied the running order of the 8-track Beatles’ releases for their early cassette releases.

Erm... sorry, but I feel that No.2 seems the most likely.

If you know anything about 8-tracks, you’ll know that when an LP was released on an 8-track cartridge, the tracks were ”spaced” out over the 4 bands of the 8-track tape as equally as possible, to ensure that when the loop changed over to the next band (8-tracks had 4 parallel-running “sides”), the next track started as soon as possible. Sometimes this didn’t quite work, so some longer tracks were faded-out at the end of a band, and faded-in again at the start of the next band. It was like splitting Side 1 and Side 2 of a tape into Side 1-Part 1, Side 1-Part 2 etc.

Cassettes were the next big thing after 8-tracks, so EMI simply copied the track orders of the 8-tracks for the Beatles cassette releases. It’s a shame really, because I grew up thinking that ”Here Comes The Sun” was the first track on Abbey Road; the daft "Good Days Sunshine" was the opener of Revolver (and not the classic "Taxman"); ”Goodnight” was somewhere in the middle of Side 2 on The White Album (erm... it’s called ”Goodnight” guys...), and I even had a fight with some kid at school because he said the first track on ”A Hard Day’s Night” was just that (the tape version started with ”I Should Have Known Better”). Help! and A Hard Day's Night were the ones that suffered the most - the track order might have well been backwards, they messed it up so much. After getting the vinyl versions later on, I felt like my world had turned upside down!

Thank God EMI redeemed themselves around 1987, when they brought out proper versions of the Beatles’ LPs on cassette: Good tape materials (no more dastardly Double Play Tapes), good transfers of the recordings with proper Dolby B, artwork expanded and including much of the LP’s images and information – and most of all – CORRECT RUNNING ORDERS ;-)
 
 
Orbiting Cat
25th Mar 2014
 Why would they shuffle the track order? To make the sides equal length?
 
 
TopPopper
25th Mar 2014
 This gold inlay series was my treasured Beatles collection when I was growing up - I had them all. To this day I think it's pretty poor how EMI showed a lack of interest in these cassette releases. Compared to the lavish packaging on the LP, this is just a bog-standard card insert, and I think I'm right in saying this was the only one where they didn't shuffle the order of the songs about for no obvious reason (they wouldn't dare!).
 

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USA - Capitol - 1988

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Portugal - Parlophone

South Africa - Parlophone



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