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jordansongs ●
29th Mar 2014		Cassette Album
The Beatles - Abbey Road		There has been much debate on this subject on the Revolver page. The fact that the first edition has an alternate track listing probably means it deserves a separate entry. I guess it's down to the mods to decide what to do with the Beatles cassettes, but at the moment they seem to be causing quite a bit of confusion and disagreement!

jordansongs ●
29th Mar 2014		Cassette Album
The Beatles - Abbey Road		Biggie, your scans should have a separate entry as they are a later pressing of the original 1969 cassette release rather than the 1987 re-issue.

jordansongs ●
27th Mar 2014		Cassette Album
The Beatles - Revolver		I would suggest then that there are two distinct issues of the Beatles cassettes. If we use the aforementioned website as a guide (unless there is any more reliable information) then the first phase would be:

1968 - Sgt Pepper
Late 1969 - Abbey Road
(May?) 1970 - Let It Be
Sep 1970 - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Oldies But Goldies
Oct 1970 - Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Days Night, Beatles For Sale, Help!
Mid 1971 - White Album

The 1972 gold editions should then be listed as repressings under these entries. In addition to these you also have Magical Mystery Tour (issued in 1973) and Yellow Submarine (issued in 1974).

Then you would have the second phase issues in 1987 with the corrected track listings as new
entries (which, by and large, I think they already are).

What are your thoughts Beatles peeps?

jordansongs ●
27th Mar 2014		Cassette Album
The Beatles - Revolver		I agree to a large extent Phil, but I was also thinking of how the Beatles 45s are presented on 45cat. All the original singles were reissued with the same catalogue numbers but with new packaging in 1976 and again in 1982. All of these are listed separately on 45cat. The first edition of TC-PCS 7009 would appear to have been in September 1970 (with the white inlays), so it could make sense to have that as the release date and have the gold editions as later pressings under the same entry. But then, what do you do with the 1987 issues which had the same catalogue numbers but with the track listings reverted back to correspond with their vinyl counterparts?

Pesky Beatles complicating things again!

jordansongs ●
27th Mar 2014		Cassette Album
The Beatles - Revolver		According to this great site all the Beatles albums were reissued on cassette with gold inlays in 1972, replacing the earlier white inlays, most of which appeared in 1970. Wouldn't it make more sense to list all the gold editions as 1972 releases? They were in production for around fifteen years so there are going to be many minor changes in inlay shades and cassette shells, it could get confusing if a new entry were made for each subtle variation.

So far Biggie has done great work in uploading Sgt Pepper, Let It Be, With The Beatles as well as this one. Perhaps it would be better to list these all as 1972 releases and then any variations can be uploaded under one entry?

Just a thought!



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