RARE UK PARLOPHONE E.P THE BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour SWIRL PSYCH PENNY LANE

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SCARCE TOP COPY ! 1967 BRITISH ORIG! + 28 PAGE BOOKLET!

          

                                                     

        

                             

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\                                          UK - PARLOPHONE - SMMT - 1 (stereo)

 

Nice MINTY CLEAN... original 1967 BRITISH first pressing DOUBLE EXTENDED PLAY (E.P.) of the BEATLES Famous "Magical Mystery Tour" complete with laminated fold-out cover and a 28 page booklet complete with somg lyrics which differ from the USA issued album.

Contains both black original inner sleeves!

The flipped out acid drenched psychedelia of "I Am The Walrus" alone justifies this DOUBLE EP, released as such only in England. This was a wonderful release. Despite the high cost at the time of a double EP, it would have been a number one had it not been for the Beatles single "Hello Goodbye" which had been released a week earlier. For the second time in 4 years (after 1963) the Beatles held both the number one and number two slots on the UK Christmas singles chart! If they'd delayed this release until January it would have been a chart topper!   Magical Mystery Tour was produced by George Martin, both including the six-song soundtrack to the 1967 film of the same name. The material was released in the United Kingdom on 8 December 1967 as a six-track double EP on the Parlophone label; in the United States the record, released on 27 November 1967, was an eleven-track LP compiled by Capitol Records, adding the band's 1967 single releases. The EP was also released in Germany, France, Spain, Yugoslavia, Australia and Japan. The first official release of the recordings in the UK as an eleven-track LP did not occur until 1976.
The soundtrack was a critical and commercial success, a #1 album in the US and Grammy-nominated, despite the widespread media criticism of the Magical Mystery Tour film.
After Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney wanted to create a film based upon The Beatles and their music. The film was to be unscripted: various "ordinary" people were to travel on a coach bus and have unspecified "magical" adventures. The Magical Mystery Tour film was made and included six new Beatles songs. The film originally screened on BBC-TV over the 1967 Christmas holidays but was savaged by critics. The number of songs used in the film posed a challenge for The Beatles and their UK record company EMI, as there were too few for an LP album but too many for an EP. One idea considered was to issue an EP which played at 33? rpm but this would have caused a loss of audio fidelity that was deemed unacceptable. The solution chosen was to issue an innovative format of two EP's packaged in a gatefold sleeve with  a 28-page booklet containing the lyrics and colour pictures. Of the package, Bob Neaverson wrote "While it certainly solved the song quota problem, one suspects that it was also partly born of The Beatles' pioneering desire to experiment with conventional formats and packaging". The package was released in the UK on 8 December, in time for the Christmas market.
In the US, EPs were not popular at the time so (and against The Beatles' wishes) Capitol Records decided to release the soundtrack as an LP by adding tracks from that year's non-album singles.



 

• Magical Mystery Tour (2:52)

  Recorded: April 25, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added April 26-27, 1967 (vocals), May 3, 1967 (trumpets), and November 7, 1967
  John Lennon - acoustic guitar, background vocal
  Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano (with echo effects)
  George Harrison - lead guitar, background vocal
  Ringo Starr - drums, tambourine
  Session musicians - three trumpets
• Your Mother Should Know (2:29) Recorded: August 22, 1967 at Chappell Recording Studios, London, England with overdubs added August 23, 1967 and September 29, 1967
  John Lennon - organ, background vocal
  Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano, background vocal
  George Harrison - tambourine, tabla, background vocal
  Ringo Starr - drums
• I Am the Walrus (4:37) Recorded: September 5, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 6, 1967 and September 27, 1967
  John Lennon - lead vocal, mellotron (at the beginning)
  Paul McCartney - bass guitar, background vocal
  George Harrison - tambourine, background vocal
  Ringo Starr - drums
  Session musicians - eight violins, four cellos, three horns
  Choir - six boys singing "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper", six girls singing "Everybody's got one"
• The Fool on the Hill (3:00) Recorded: September 25, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 26, 1967 and October 20, 1967 (flutes)
  John Lennon - harmonica, maracas
  Paul McCartney - lead vocal, piano, double-tracked recorder, flute
  George Harrison - lead guitar, harmonica
  Ringo Starr - finger cymbals
• Flying (2:17) Recorded: September 8, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 28, 1967
  John Lennon - mellotron, chanting, tape loop at end
  Paul McCartney - guitars, chanting
  George Harrison - guitars, chanting
  Ringo Starr - drums, maracas, chanting, tape loop at end
• Blue Jay Way (3:57) Recorded: September 6, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added September 7, 1967 and October 6, 1967
  John Lennon - tambourine
  Paul McCartney - bass guitar, background vocal
  George Harrison - double-tracked lead vocal, Hammond organ, background vocal
  Ringo Starr - drums
  Session musician - cello

 

CONDITION: The Cover: The BRITISH gatefold sleeve is colorful and laminated, all 28 pages of photos, song lyrics are intact, final collection copy rated M- with no bends, no writing and no split seams

The Vinyl: both E.P.'s are clean M- look and play fantastic! All the Parlophone labels are clean

       

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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