March 1964
LP: Beatlemania
Odeon MOFB 274 [Tylko w Mono] Brazylia
The Beatles
1st press on dark blue label.
Plastic covered picture sleeve
The liner notes are translated into Portuguese.
For records pressed during 1964, the dark blue label featured a box containing the words "ALTA FIDELIDADE," which translate to "high fidelity."
In the beginning, the Brazilian albums did not reproduce the original UK ones. As in the US, the early albums were compilations or edited versions of original LPs, with different cover and title.
This was the first Brazilian album. The cover was taken from "With The Beatles", and in fact, most of the tracks too. It also features I Want To Hold Your Hand, She Loves You (songs from their first Brazilian single) and I Saw Her Standing There.
There was also a Canadian LP with the same name and similar cover - that release was just a copy of "With The Beatles"
WHAT IS A SANDWICH COVER ?
It's a brazilian version
the proper cover is made of two separate parts made of thin board
these are wrapped on both sides by a large, slightly oversized, transparent plastic sheet (at this moment open at all 4 sides)
the plastic plus cover boards are now folded over along what becomes the bottom seam (which is thereby closed)
lastly the spine and the top seam of the plastic are moulded together (closing them thus, making 3 sides closed)
the 'open' side, where the disc is inserted stays open, of course
now the cover boards are completely protected both from the inside (no inner sleeve needed) and the outside and, no, there is no glue anywhere: the boards can move around inside the plastic (just a tiny bit, of course, since the outer sheet is only slightly oversized....)