Orchestral Ensemble - In Tribute To Brian Epstein: 16 Great Beatles Hits - LP, Album, Club - Very Good Plus (VG+)

Format:                      LP, Album, Club

Media Condition:     Very Good Plus (VG+)

Sleeve Condition:     Very Good Plus (VG+)

Country:                       Australia  

Record Label:              World Record Club,World Record Club

Catalog No:                  S/T 4415, ST-4415

Released:                     Dec 1967

Genre:                           Jazz, Pop

Style:                             Big Band

Tracklist:

A1. A Hard Day's Night
A2. Help!
A3. When I'm 64
A4. Baby, You're A Rich Man
A5. Yesterday
A6. Strawberry Fields
A7. She's Leaving Home
A8. She Loves You
B1. Yellow Submarine
B2. All You Need Is Love
B3. Ticket To Ride
B4. Michelle
B5. Norwegian Wood
B6. Eleanor Rigby
B7. Nowhere Man
B8. Can't Buy Me Love

Comments:
Very clean vinyl and labels. Sleeve has light ring wear, no splits or writing. Record is in excellent condition, only one or two visible superficial hairlines. Supplied with new high-quality sleeve protector.

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Notes:

"A Fiona Bentley Production, released exclusively in Australia by World Record Club." 

Australian WRC 1st pressing, sourced from original stampers and featuring unique sleeve art. Not issued in mono. "S/T 4415" on back and spine of flipback sleeve, "ST-4415" on green 'strobe' labels. No mention of the "Session Men" (present on other versions), but individual players are credited on the back.

The album was announced (as 'the LP of the year'!) in December 1967, for issue on LP and reel-to-reel - evidently a rush release, the number was tacked on to the end of the sequence for the upcoming December 1967 to November 1968 Programme, but the album was not part of the programme - it was only promoted once, as a special offer in the December 1967 News (the second pressing did feature in the next programme, running from June 1968 to May 1969). The reel's number (not given in the advert) is either ST49 or 8002-8003 (World Tape Club's numbering system changed from "ST" to the 8000s at the end of 1968, but was maybe planned a year in advance - there is a gap in the numbers for 8002-8003, but ST49 would have been reissued as 8100-8101 - allocated to a Mozart album).

The addresses on the back are the standard 1968 combination, which, however, appeared on a few LPs at the end of 1967.

299 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
177 Elizabeth St., Sydney
Newspaper House, 93 Queen St., Brisbane
Stafford House, 23 Leigh St., Adelaide
Barnett's Building, Council Avenue, Perth

Published By Northern Songs
Recorded By Fiona Bentley Productions