The Beatles "Yesterday and Today" LP T 2553 Butcher Baby Cover John Lennon

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The Beatles "Yesterday and Today" LP Capitol Records T 2553 (US)

Vinyl is G, Jacket is G+

3rd State

Cover is splitting on the top and bottom

Mono

Out of Print!!

Track Listing:

Underneath the regular cover in the picture shown is the so-called ''butcher'' cover of this release which induced such an outrage that the album was recalled and new artwork was created from an earlier Beatles photoshoot. A small number of copies escaped and appeared on the market nonetheless. These are known as ''first state'' butcher covers. Not wanting to lose time with waiting until the new covers were ready, Capitol decided to first use the new front slicks and glue them over the original artwork, to hide its offensive picture from the public eye. The (not too many) copies of this that came unto the market are known as ''second state'' butcher covers. These are descernible by checking the cover in the middle on the right hand side. If the ''butcher'' artwork is underneath, a dark triangle (of Ringo's turtleneck) shines through (see ''more images''). If the pasted slick is removed and the orginal artwork thus restored the release is known as a ''third state'' butcher cover. All three states are known in stereo too. This entry in discogs is the second state cover version.
Released on a black Capitol label with rainbow rim.
On the label the cat.nr. appears as T-2553, on the cover as T 2553.

Yesterday and Today (rendered as "Yesterday" ...and Today on the record label and in most published discographies) is the ninth Capitol release by The Beatles and the eleventh overall American release. It was issued only in the United States and Canada. The album is remembered primarily for the controversy surrounding its original cover image, the "butcher cover" featuring the band dressed in white smocks and covered with decapitated baby dolls and pieces of meat. The album's title is based on the song "Yesterday". Early album cover proofs show the word "Yesterday" in quotes.

Yesterday and Today compiled tracks from the Beatles' two most recent British LPs which had not yet been included on American albums, plus three from their upcoming LP in the United Kingdom:

• from the UK LP Help!, the tracks "Act Naturally" and "Yesterday" (earlier issued by Capitol as a single)
• from the UK LP Rubber Soul, the tracks "Nowhere Man" and "What Goes On" (also earlier issued by Capitol as a single), plus "Drive My Car" and "If I Needed Someone".[4]
• both sides of the single "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out"
• from the upcoming UK LP Revolver, the tracks "I'm Only Sleeping", "Doctor Robert", and "And Your Bird Can Sing", issued here in duophonic mixes (see below).

The hodgepodge nature in which Capitol Records compiled their albums irritated the group, who felt they had "put a lot of work into the sequencing" of the British versions.

Apart from the butcher cover, the Yesterday and Today album is of interest to collectors for the appearance of unique mixes unavailable on CD. Until 2009, the Help! and Rubber Soul tracks were not available in their original 1965 mixes. Because of Capitol Records' haste to release new product, duophonic ("fake stereo") mixes of "Dr. Robert", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "I'm Only Sleeping" were made from the original US mono mixes made on May 1966 and were treated with a degree of compression and reverb not found elsewhere. On the stereo mix of "Day Tripper", the guitar intro is heard on the left channel and jumps into the right channel (and has John's extra "yeah" on the first chorus). On the stereo LP, "We Can Work It Out"'s harmonium is moved to the center during the refrain and the bridge. The mono mixes on "Dr. Robert", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "I'm Only Sleeping" are also different from the ordinary UK mixes released on Revolver. For example, in the US mono of "I'm Only Sleeping", the backwards guitar doesn't come in until the line "taking my time". "Dr. Robert" lasts longer than the 2:13 time given on the label; John Lennon is heard to say either "OK Herb" or "Hey there" at the end during the fade-out of the mono version only. Also the chorus sections in the US mono version have different vocals and extra percussion. The hand-claps on "And Your Bird Can Sing" are louder.

Pressings by the Capitol Records Club and all tape copies have the Revolver tracks in true stereo. Some later pressings (1973 onwards) can be found with the tracks in either true stereo or duophonic.

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