A Hard Day’s Night

1964 Beat Pop Rock Rock & Roll Soundtrack

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Tracklist

Songs From The Film “A Hard Day’s Night”
A1 A Hard Day’s Night
A2 I Should Have Known Better
A3 If I Fell
A4 I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
A5 And I Love Her
A6 Tell Me Why
A7 Can’t Buy Me Love
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B1 Any Time At All
B2 I’ll Cry Instead
B3 Things We Said Today
B4 When I Get Home
B5 You Can’t Do That
B6 I’ll Be Back

Musicians

Production

George MartinProducer

Also credited. Words By: Lennon-McCartney. Music By (Words And Music:): Lennon-McCartney. Written-By: Lennon-McCartney. Liner Notes (Cover Notes By): Tony Barrow.

Release notes

The main differentiator of this early pressing, compared to later versions, is the black and yellow label with the perimeter rim copyright text, ‘THE PARLOPHONE CO LTD • ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDING WORK RESERVED • UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED’. Above the spindle hole the centre text, ‘SOLD IN THE U.K. SUBJECT TO RESALE PRICE CONDITIONS, SEE PRICE LISTS’.

There are a number of other differentiators present on both the labels and the cover.

Label:
1 - Has a ‘chubby’ font with the right-hand side indicator numerals appearing under the ‘2’ in the catalogue number ‘PMC 1230’ above them.
2 - The publishing copyright date is given as ‘RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964’, and is nearly left-aligned compared to the matrix number above it.
3 - The group’s name ‘THE BEATLES’ is closer to the ‘Northern Songs Music Ltd.’ publishing credit below it than the ‘(Lennon-McCartney)’ credit above it. There exists a very similar version with this text placed differently -.
4 - A2 ‘I Should Have Known Better’ has its title split over 2 lines.
5 - All of the song titles on side 2 appear on separate lines.
6 - The KT purchase tax code embossing on the label on either side of the spindle hole. A similar variant has the code MT.

Cover:
1 - Front laminated, tri-flipback and printed by , with a medium ‘MONO’ indicator on the front, top, right hand corner.

Cover details:

E . M . I . RECORDS LIMITED
(Controlled By Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.)
HAYES • MIDDLESEX • ENGLAND
Made and Printed in Great Britain

Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents pending PMC 1230 PCS 3058

Runouts are stamped

Tax code is embossed on either side A or B