BEATLES, A Hard Day's Night stereo UK 4th pressing Excellent- LP

$

90

The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night Label: Parlophone – PCS 3058 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue Country: UK Released: Genre: Rock, Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack, Rock & Roll, Beat Tracklist 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 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 Companies, etc. Record Company – E.M.I. Records Limited Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Published By – Northern Songs Credits Liner Notes [Cover Notes] – Tony Barrow Producer [For Records] – George Martin Words By, Music By – John Lennon And Paul McCartney* Written-By – Lennon-McCartney Notes Silver/Black Parlophone label. The "All rights of the manufacturer" message around the edge of the label starts with "EMI Records Ltd." (which started with the 1969 4th pressing) and the label has two EMI boxed logos, as opposed to one boxed logo on the 1969 version. 'Made in Great Britain' on label at 4 o'clock. Has “stereo” on the front cover. Bottom, rear cover, on right says, “Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Full title on back cover is 'Songs from the film A Hard Day's Night'. Side 1 is taken from the soundtrack of the United Artists film 'A Hard Day's Night'. E.M.I. Records Limited (Controlled by Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.), Hayes • Middlesex • England. Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. ℗ 1964. All songs published by Northern Songs.

UK 4TH STEREO PRESSING (circa 1970 onwards) VINYL ALBUM WITH GENERIC BLACK INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: YEX 126-2 /  SIDE B: YEX 127-4.

MOTHER / STAMPER:  SIDE A: 5 / 64.  SIDE B: 2 / 21.

SLEEVE: ECXELLENT MINUS, STILL IN IMPORTERS SHRINK WRAP WITH ORIGINAL PEN WRITTEN PRICE ON TOP OF BOTTOM REAR SHRINK. 

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW VERY LIGHT HAIRLINES. DISC DOES NOT LOOK PLAYED MORE THAN ONCE OR TWICE. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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