The Beatles Second Album Capitol Compact 33 Juke Box EP Mini LP No Shrink
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787
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The Beatles Second Album on Capitol Compact 33 EP for juke boxes only
The record is in excellent to near mint condition, with some sleeve stains as I've been told they are, they're cloudy images within the vinyl, probably happened during production, it doesn't hurt anything or disrupt the sound, many records have them, but still the vinyl is almost like new.
The cover is in excellent condition no split seams just slight cover wear here and there on the front the back shows a dirt ring of sorts.The cover as a whole does look a bit dingy and dirty, I can't say why, because it is clean as can be. Maybe just oxidation and time.
The 5 song title strip are in great shape.
The compact 33 was an experimental (and short-lived) disc format of the early 1960s. The disc measures seven inches in diameter (45 sized), has a small center hole, and plays at 33-1/3 RPM. The format was used primarily for mono and stereo singles.
Capitol also put the compact 33 to use in "open-end" interviews - a deceptive yet highly successful technique many record companies employed to promote their artists. Local disc jockeys played the records to stage a fake interview by reading prepared questions from a script between recorded responses. This gave radio stations all over the country an “exclusive” interview.
Capitol (and other companies) manufactured compact 33 records for special jukeboxes but gave up when the 45 single took over the market. Sleeves for the three Beatles jukebox records were a smaller version of the 12-inch sleeve except the back was blank. The record came complete with a song list to display inside the jukebox. Each disc contained six songs - those Capitol probably considered the album's best.
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