Beatles You Won't See Me EMI Abbey Road 10" Acetate 65
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The Beatles - You Won't See Me
10 inch one sided acetate disc, cut at EMI studios (Abbey Road) in Autumn 1965.
The acetate features a mono mix of what appears to be the right hand side of the standard stereo mix, highlighting the backing vocals with less of the instrumentation. I believe this may have been cut to give to the Beatles, (or a Beatle) in order for them to re-learn their harmony vocal parts for when they performed live, just after "Rubber Soul" was finished, but before the album was actually released.
The playing surface of the disc is in Excellent condition, the disc overall is VG+. it is a genuine EMIdisc acetate, and some of the metal is visable around the spindle hole and also round the edge where the acetate blank was originally made. There are also the standard 2 spindle holes on the back (blank side) of the disc, and as with most of these acetates, the blank side has some light scratches on. I have avoided cleaning this disc of finger prints (you never know who's they may be!!)
Please note, the red lines on the photo were light reflections from the camera flash - you don't get this affect with a normal record owing to the material used to coat the metal disc.
The label has is a little yellowed with age, but is all still intact. There is a small area of black felt tip pen around part of the edge of the label (see photo).
On the disc itself there are some numbers hand etched around the circumference before the track starts - these are
"Ref 14611" and "33621/12" hand-etched by the same person who wrote the label.
UK Postage - £6.00 insured
Overseas -
Standard Airmail £15.00 insured.
After some emails from various helpful ebayers I thought I would mention a few other details. This disc has a typical, rather strong acetate smell - I have a disc of some Stanley Myers film score outtakes which came from Advision Studios, 1967, and it smells/feels the same (cold to the touch and quite heavy), and with regard to the type of sound signal recorded on it, it sounds identical. The label too has a kind of flakey-ness, very similar to the Advision disc. I have had several EMI Discs in the past, and they were identical in the way they were made. This one is made to the same quality. The signal to noise ratio is very good (it sounds fantastic!). My comments on the reason for this item being made "I believe this may have been cut to give to the Beatles, (or a Beatle) in order for them to re-learn their harmony vocal parts for when they performed live, just after "Rubber Soul" was finished, but before the album was actually released. " are just my own thoughts... I'll leave it up to your imagination as to why it was made, who it belonged to etc.
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