"SOMETHING NEW"
PARLOPHONE CPCS 101
RELEASED JULY 1965

THE FIRST AND RAREST OF ALL THREE CAPITOL RECORDS TITLES FOR PARLOPHONE EXPORT

ITEM#: PAR330
PRICE: ------

EMI EXPORTED ITS RECORDS TO COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES THAT HAD LIMITED MANUFACTURING CAPACITY. IN ADDITION, THE COMPANY SENT DISCS TO BRITISH AND AMERICAN MILITARY BASES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND A FEW OTHER OUTLETS. DURING 1965 AND 1966, EMI MANUFACTURED THREE OF THE UNIQUE AMERICAN CAPITOL RECORDS ALBUMS FOR SALE AT U.S. BASES. THESE ALBUMS WERE SOLD AT THE PX, A MILITARY POST STORE WHERE GOODS ARE SOLD TO SERVICEMAN AT REDUCED PRICES. THESE ALBUMS WERE NOT OFFERED FOR SALE FOR BEATLES FANS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AT ALL.

THE THREE CAPITOL TITLES CHOSEN TO BE ISSUED WERE "SOMETHING NEW" (ISSUED BY EMI IN JULY 1965), "THE BEATLES' SECOND ALBUM" (LATE 1965), AND FINALLY "BEATLES VI" (EARLY 1966). THESE THREE EXPORT ALBUMS WERE PRODUCED IN LIMITED NUMBERS, issued only in stereo, THEREFORE MAKING THEM QUITE RARE AND VERY DIFFICULT TO ACQUIRE, ESPECIALLY IN RESPECTABLE CONDITION.

THE COVERS TO THESE ALBUMS WERE MANUFACTURED BY GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE LTD. AND ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME LAYOUT AS THE CAPITOL COVERS, BUT WITH THE PARLOPHONE AND EMI INFORMATION ADDED TO THE FRONT AND BACK, AND WITH THE STANDARD LAMINATED FRONT COVERS AND FLAT SURFACE BACK COVERS.

OFFERED HERE IS THE very first OF THE THREE ISSUED EXPORT CAPITOL ALBUMS, "something new",  released in july 1965. THE COVER IS IN beautiful and solid vg++ CONDITION AND HAS RETAINED A BRIGHT TONE and deep graphics THROUGHOUT. THERE IS A 2" LAMINATION SEPARATION ON THE TOP SEAM CENTER. THE BACK COVER REMAINS A CLEAN WHITE WITH NO AGING, AND JUST ONE LIGHT SCUFF MARK LINE ACROSS THE SIDE TWO TITLES.

THE RECORD IS LOVELY AS WELL WITH A GORGEOUS PAIR OF NEAR MINT LABELS, with just a LIGHT single spindle mark around the side 1 cenTER hole only. the VINYL IS A SHIMMERING, SPARKLING NEAR MINT. IT HAS THE BLACK AND YELLOW PARLOPHONE LABELS WITH THE PARLOPHONE PERIMETER PRINT AND WITHOUT THE "SOLD IN U.K." LINE.  SIDE ONE MATRIX: "YEEX 7-B12". SIDE 2 MATRIX: "YEEX 8-B12". SIDE ONE STAMPERS: "1 / A". SIDE 2 STAMPERS: "1 / G". THERE IS A STAMPED RAISED "KT" tax code AT THE CENTER OF THE SIDE ONE LABEL..

THIS SET IS COMPLETE, ACCOMPANIED BY THE ORIGINAL 1965 NEAR MINT MINUS RICE PAPER-LINED "USE EMITEX...."  INNER DUST SLEEVE.