Beatles - Greatest Hits - Swedish Parlophone - Unique Cover / Rare Misprint
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The Beatles – Greatest Hits – Parlophone LP PMCS 306 (Sweden)
Please note that I’ve listed two copies of this album this week; this is not a duplicate listing. Of the two, this is the better one!
Before you is not just a fine copy of the very rare Swedish Greatest Hits album by The Beatles – stamped matrix numbers XSTX 115 1 and XSTX 116 1, respectively – but an extremely rare variation of it, with a misprinted A-side label, listing track number six, ‘She Loves You’, before number five, ‘This Boy’. A few copies of this album have passed through my hands over the years, but I’ve never seen another one like it. I can find no mention of this variation anywhere on the Internet; I can only surmise that this is a rare copy from the very first run, one of the few that slipped through quality control before the mistake was discovered and corrected. It does not appear on any other copy I’ve ever seen. This particular copy is my own, bought when new in April, 1965, and in surprisingly good nick; please read on.
Vinyl condition: Visually, this copy would be in the VG+ range or thereabouts. Listening to it, it’s quite hard to really fault it. There are hairlines and some small, superficial scratches and scuffs. None of these, however, with two exceptions listed below, affect the playing. Beautifully mastered, as were most of the Swedish Beatles albums in the 1960s, the record sounds great and has hardly any surface noise between the tracks. Please consult the snippets below for confirmation. I’ve added three or four seconds before each song begins, so you can hear how well the album plays. The second track, ‘I Call Your Name’, has a couple of soft clicks, as does ‘She’s A Woman’, but they are really quite non-obtrusive (please listen to the clips below).
Sleeve condition: Not perfect, but not too bad either. No writing and no tears, but there are seam splits and there is a general feeling of light wear, yellowing and creases (particularly on the back of the cover, the front is pretty good). Also, the lamination is a little “loose” (if that’s the word) in parts. The sleeve is of a rather flimsy paper quality to begin with – they all were – but all in all, it’s not bad at all (please see scans).
Label condition: Spindle marks and wear round the centre hole on both sides, but no writing or stains. Please note that this label variation with tracks five and six in the wrong playing order is extremely rare (please see scans).
‘I Feel Fine’
‘I Call Your Name’ (Please note the clicks at 0’23” - 0’26”)
‘I’ll Get You’
‘From Me To You’
‘This Boy’
‘She Loves You’
‘Long Tall Sally’
‘Thank You Girl’
‘Matchbox’
‘She’s A Woman’
Please note the clicks at the end of ‘She’s A Woman’.
‘Slow Down’
‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’
Happy to answer any questions to the best of my ability!
Please send payment via Paypal within five days. While there is a lot to be said for regular post – swift and above all inconspicuous, I used it all the time – I will not be held responsible for uninsured parcels.
Shipping this album to addresses in Europe is $15.00; to all other addresses $17.00. Registered and insured shipping (with a tracking number) is an additional USD $11.00 per parcel to cover a total value not exceeding $80.00. For an insured total value of $1,500.00, which is the maximum, the surcharge is USD $16.00.
Shipping from Sweden is quite expensive – though the rest of the world is surely catching up – not least due to the fact that the weight increments are few and far apart, but it’s usually swift and safe.
American bidders, please note that shipping to the US is not US $4.00; this is eBay’s default setting and not applicable as I am based in Sweden. Please wait for my invoice. Thank you!
Thanks for looking and good luck!
On Oct-24-13 at 01:25:00 PDT, seller added the following information:>p> PS Some slightly better (a sunny day, today!) photos of the labels have been added!
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