The BeatlesBeatles For Sale

Label:

Parlophone – PMC 1240

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album, Mono , Gatefold, KT Tax Code

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Pop

Style:

Pop Rock

Tracklist

A1 No Reply
Written-ByLennon-McCartney
A2 I'm A Loser
Written-ByLennon-McCartney
A3 Baby's In Black
Written-ByLennon-McCartney
A4 Rock And Roll Music
Written-ByBerry*
A5 I'll Follow The Sun
Written-ByLennon-McCartney
A6 Mr. Moonlight
Written-ByJohnson*
A7 Kansas City
Written-ByLieber-Stoller*
B1 Eight Days A Week
Written-ByLennon-McCartney
B2 Words Of Love
Written-ByHolly*
B3 Honey Don't
Written-ByPerkins*
B4 Every Little Thing
Written-ByLennon-McCartney
B5 I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Written-ByLennon-McCartney
B6 What You're Doing
Written-ByLennon-McCartney
B7 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Written-ByPerkins*

Companies, etc.

  • Published ByNorthern Songs Music
  • Published ByJewel Music
  • Published ByChappell
  • Published ByMacmelodies
  • Published BySouthern Music
  • Published ByWorld Music (5)
  • Published ByAberbach (London) Ltd.
  • Published ByKnox Music
  • Manufactured ByThe Parlophone Co. Ltd.

Credits

  • Liner NotesDerek Taylor (2)
  • Photography ByRobert Freeman (4)
  • ProducerGeorge Martin

Notes

Black & yellow Parlophone label with perimeter rim copyright text beginning, 'THE PARLOPHONE CO LTD...', and the text 'RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964' above the side indicator numeral, and the text 'SOLD IN U.K. SUBJECT TO...' across the middle.

There are a 3 variations involving the presence or lack of periods after the NCB credit following two of the songs.

This release has periods after NCB in the publishing credits for B5 'I Don't Want To Spoil The Party' and B6 'What You're Doing'. A similar release omits the period after NCB in the publishing credit for B6 'What You're Doing', whilst another similar release omits the period after NCB in the publishing credit for B5 'I Don't Want To Spoil The Party'.

This release has the UK purchase tax code 'KT' an identical version has the UK purchase tax code 'MT'.

E.M.I. Records Limited (Controlled by Electric & Musical Industries Limited).
Made and Printed in Great Britain.

This album has a fold-out Unipack-style [opens from inside] sleeve.

Copies exist with "FACTORY SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE" stickers on both labels.

Publishing info:
A1 to A3, A5, B1, B4 to B6 - Northern Songs Mus. NCB.
A4 - Jewel Mus. BIEM.
A6 - Chappell. Mecolico. NCB.
A7 - Macmelodies. Mecolico. BIEM. NCB. World Music
B2 - Southern Mus. NCB.
B3 - Aberbach (Ldn.) Ltd. BIEM.
B7 - Knox Music. BIEM

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: BIEM / NCB / Mecolico
  • Other (UK purchase tax code near spindle hole on label): KT
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 1, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-3N
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 1, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 2, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 2, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 3, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 3, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 4, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N ROM 39
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 4, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N ROT 2B
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 5, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-3N
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 5, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 6, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N G GT 36
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 6, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N LL 4
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 7, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N RTR 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 7, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N ∧HH 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 8, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N RPG 36
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 8, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N RLL 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 9, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N TRH 25
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 9, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N RLL 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 10, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N GOH 38
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 10, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N APR 28
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 11, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N GOH 38 TO 25
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 11, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N APR 28 GRT 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 12, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-3N ROA 18
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 12, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N RDA 26
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 13, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-3N AOA 16
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 13, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N RTR 2
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 14, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N OA 3
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 14, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N OO 2
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 15, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N AOP 4
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 15, side B, runout stamped): XEX 503-3N RTR 2
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 16, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N RRD 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 16, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N RDH 2
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 17, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N RAT 1
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 17, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-4N RMP 26
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 18, side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-4N RTH 59
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 18, side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N AMP 28
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 19, Side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-3N GPP
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 19, Side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N GRT
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 20, Side A, runout stamped): XEX 503-3N RDL 3
  • Matrix / Runout (Variation 20, Side B, runout stamped): XEX 504-3N ROP 2

Other Versions (5 of 688)

View All
Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
Beatles For Sale (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) Parlophone PCS 3062 UK 1964
Recently Edited
Beatles For Sale (LP, Album, Mono) Odeon URL 2111 Uruguay 1964
Beatles For Sale (LP, Album, Stereo) Odeon SMO 83 790, 83 790, ZTOX 5581 1964
Recently Edited
Beatles For Sale (LP, Album, Mono) Parlophone PMCJ 1240 South Africa 1964
New Submission
Beatles For Sale (LP, Album, Mono, Gatefold) Parlophon PMCQ 31505 Italy 1964

Recommendations

  • Help!
    1965 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Mono
    Shop
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    1967 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Mono
    Shop
  • Abbey Road
    1969 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Stereo
    Shop
  • A Hard Day's Night
    1964 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Mono
    Shop
  • With The Beatles
    1963 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Mono
    Shop
  • Band On The Run
    1973 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Stereo
    Shop
  • Imagine
    1971 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Stereo
    Shop
  • 1962-1966
    1973 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Compilation, Stereo
    Shop
  • A Hard Day's Night
    1964 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Mono
    Shop
  • Wish You Were Here
    1975 UK
    Vinyl —
    LP, Album, Stereo
    Shop

Reviews

  • DOScarecrow's avatar
    DOScarecrow
    Edited 4 months ago
    I'm currently collating my collection onto Discogs and my copy of this album is not on the database. It is a 1977 Portuguese issue that when/ if I get time I will enter the details. In the meantime proof of its existence can be found here:
    https://uk.rarevinyl.com/products/the-beatles-beatles-for-sale-portugese-vinyl-lp-album-record-8e07204200-363985?srsltid=AfmBOord3NPV6r3TOdBsd1tBiC18eIDgTQJOScKm6WO9qr2YkyIoeQT3

    PS Sorry it is the stereo version - not the mono one,
    • jamesburns181's avatar
      jamesburns181
      While I like this mono version sounds really good and has that delicious tube tone, I still prefer my stereo Japanese copy as the separation really works for the album in my opinion.
      • Walter's avatar
        Walter
        Edited one year ago
        Everyone says the mono version of this record sounds bad (lifeless?) but I think it sounds really good. I compared it to a 1973 stereo (said to be the best pressing aside from an original) and, sure it doesn’t have the separation and the bass blends a bit with the rhythm guitar and the drums aren’t as easy to pick out but they are there. Lots of bass and everything is there. Not muddy at all. Maybe I got a magic mono issue.
        • Stephen_Whitehorn's avatar
          Where can the "UK Tax Codes" "KT" or "MT" be found please?
          • flowerbed's avatar
            flowerbed
            My least favourite Beatles album. In an ideal world, they could've made two fantastic 7" EPs with four songs on each, ditched the covers and kept on the 'masterpiece' track LP-wise. But hey, they were poptastic at the time and a long way off from later perceptions of them being a high watermark in popular culture. Business is business and all that.
            It's telling though that my sister as a child got A Hard Day's Night, Help and Rubber Soul on quarter-inch tape at successive Christmases....but not this one! So even the kids knew what to choose when there was a limit to what Santa could afford.
            • Haiapata's avatar
              Haiapata
              I just bought this copy in a flee market. I just can´t find it here at DC. It´s; Label:
              Parlophone – PCS 3062, EMI Records – YEX 142
              Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold
              Much alike an Irish copy but only one EMI logo in the buttom. Both Parliphone and EMI in yellow. Made in Britain. The first part of the gatefold is missing. Any knows whitch copy this is?
              • MetalQueen's avatar
                MetalQueen
                I have a set of original stampers for this album from 1964. Can anyone tell me what they are worth? They do not appear to be worn.
                • k_dunks's avatar
                  k_dunks
                  Cool story on my copy of this pressing found at a yardsale in Ontario, Canada. Opened up the inner sleeve to find what appears to be an original receipt from John Stephen's men's clothing shop at 9 Carnaby St. London, UK with handwritten notation of Beatles for Sale LP purchased for 1 Pound Sterling. Amazing to think this LP crossed the ocean at some point and that receipt was in there 60 years later.
                  • Federico.t's avatar
                    Federico.t
                    Recorded in only 7 days in a 5 weeks period of time, just after a long US tour and between UK dates, the ‘fourth by the four’ was produced at the very peak of Beatlemania, by an overworked but also more confident band. On one side they are unscrupulous in mirroring themselves as affirmed stars and playing with that, marketing themselves (from the album’s very title) and candidly adding celebrity status themes (the Lennon’s personal complaint about success “I’m a loser”; the Carl Perkins’ ode to idol chaser fans “Everybody’s trying to be my baby”; the awareness about the effort they have to keep putting in to feed their fans’ love: “Eight days a week is not enough to show I care”) and on the other they feel secure enough to mature their songwriting, delivering more grown up lyrics, to the point of placing three consecutive darker and resentful songs at the very beginning of the record (the adulterous stalker case of “No reply”, the confessional get-down-to-yourself in “I’m a loser”, the impossible love desire for the grieving girl in “Baby’s in black”). By the summer of 1964, prior to this album’s recordings, a fundamental artistic exchange had happened: Bob Dylan influences the Beatles to write more autobiographical tunes and the Beatles lead Dylan toward the rock based electrification of his sound. Lennon is the more prone to this development. Nevertheless is Paul to come up with two highlights of the album, in the shape of “Every little thing”, a stunning and powerful melody, panoramic wide and played on the juxtaposition of the uplifting lyrics and the sadder contemplative guitar ages, that much anticipates the power pop injection at the hands of The Kinks and The Who (just to think how the timpani use in the song foresees the thunderous drumming work by Keith Moon), but also “What you’re doing” which cannot have gone unnoticed to the North American emerging pop rock scene, specially to the Byrds. The album is infatuated with american music, ‘50s rock’n’roll and country and western, as the Beatles had finished the US tour just right before the recordings, and has a role in kickstarting the country rock genre.
                    • Holeygami's avatar
                      Holeygami
                      Which version is better, Mono or Stereo? As it has been originally released as a stereo, Thanks!

                      Release

                      See all versions
                      Recently Edited

                      For sale on Discogs

                      Sell a copy

                      283 copies from $5.00

                      Statistics

                      • Last Sold:
                      • Low:$6.76
                      • Median:$23.65
                      • High:$145.95

                      Videos

                      Edit

                      Contributors