Beatles: "A Collection of Beatles Oldies" 1969 (EMI UK PCS 7016) UK Import EX+
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You are bidding on a rare Vinyl LP of The Beatles album “A Collection Of Beatles Oldies.” This is a UK Import, issued on the EMI Parlophone label. (EMI UK PCS 7016). This collection was originally released in 1966; ours appears to be a 1969 issue. If you have questions, please ask; we will be glad to check Matrix and runoff numbers.
We actually purchased this item decades ago, and it has been sitting in our home (vertically) for the last few decades.
The LP is in near mint condition; it looks pretty much perfect. The label is the black Parlophone label.. The album Jacket is in Excellent+ condition but does show some signs of wear on the corners. (See Photos). Please remember that this album was well taken care of, but it was played as part of our record collection decades ago. (See Photos).
Regarding the music, there is nothing here you don’t have elsewhere. But the sound is great, and this is a beautiful piece.
This item has been stored at room temperature, in a smoke free home. Please see photos of actual item being sold.
“A Collection of Beatles Oldies is a compilation album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released in the United Kingdom in December 1966, it features hit singles and other songs issued by the group between 1963 and 1966. The compilation served as a stopgap release to satisfy EMI's demand for product during the Christmas period, since the Beatles had only begun recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the follow-up to their Revolver album, late the previous month. It was the band's first official greatest hits collection”.
“It was Christmas time, 1966. Though hard at work on the beginnings of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, the Beatles had nothing for EMI to put out during the holiday season (aside from the annual Christmas record for the fan club). Revolver had come out in the first week of August, too early to exploit. What to do? So EMI issued this stopgap collection of 16 older recordings for the European market, in effect creating the first "Beatles Greatest Hits" album. Actually, it's not a predictable hits anthology, for it omits obvious hit singles like "Please Please Me" and "Love Me Do," and includes popular album cuts like "Yesterday" and "Michelle" that were not issued as singles in the U.K. But it doesn't skimp on quantity, offering 16 songs instead of the usual 14, taking the saga all the way up to Revolver, and collecting some British singles into album format for the first time. As for English fanatics who simply had to have everything but might balk at purchasing an album entirely composed of retreads, EMI thought of them too, slipping in the Larry Williams song "Bad Boy" for the first time in Britain (it was included on Beatles VI in America in 1965). The front cover is a period piece of Carnaby Street kitsch, while the back features a casual Beatles photo circa 1966. Today the album seems like a decent summing up of the Beatles' achievement just before the plunge into "Strawberry Fields" and Sgt. Pepper, though obviously not taking in the whole story”.
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