Beatles Collection Boxset 13 Records Complete Parlophone BC13 Blue Box Import

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328

This auction is for the blue box, "The Beatles Collection." It contains the 13 original British LP releases plus "Rarities."

THE BEATLES COLLECTION

1978 BOX SET NUMBER ON SPINE: BC 13 / OC 162-53163/53176

INCLUDES BOX, 14 VINYL LPS / 13 COVERS, POSTER AND PHOTOS

INCLUDES THE "RARITIES" COVER and VINYL LP.

RECORDS LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN PLAYED

 Includes cutout from Sgt Pepper

Includes Posters and Photos from The White Album

This set is a must have for the Beatles Fan!   For the Beatles fan wanting an easy, one-box solution, there is no better source than The Beatles Collection BC-13, also known as The Blue Box.
The Beatles catalog was originally released in the United States and the United Kingdom with slightly different track listings, covers, and packaging. A much more striking difference, however, was the sound. The U.K. releases used minimal processing and offered superior sound, both in the mono and stereo versions of each release. The U.S. versions on the other hand often used second or third generation tapes, and processed the recordings with excessive echo and reverb, particularly on the stereo versions, in an effort to make the records sound more modern--the result was simply inferior sound quality.
The Beatles Collection, catalog number BC-13, was first released as a U.K. import in 1978. A numbered U.S. edition, limited to 3,000 copies was also released. Also known as The Blue Box, this collection contained the stereo versions of all of the proper studio releases, as well as Rarities. The records are housed in a flip-top textured blue cardboard box, which has each of the band member's signatures embossed in gold on the front.

 

 

Contains:
1 - Please Please Me 2 - With The Beatles 3 - A Hard Day's Night 4 - Beatles For Sale 5 - Help! 6 - Rubber Soul 7 - Revolver 8 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 9 - The Beatles (White Album) 10 - Yellow Submarine 11 - Abbey Road 12 - Let It Be 13 - Rarities   Sound quality is universally excellent throughout this set. Although the deadwax information contained on most of the records in the collection represents later cuts of each title, the original analog tapes were used throughout and sound quality never suffers.

Blue Boxes contain the last pressings of truly all-analog Beatles vinyl, as anything released during the past twenty years or so has been from the same digital sources as the 1987 compact discs.

Original U.K. Beatles pressings are now expensive, extremely difficult to come by in excellent condition, and often suffer from groove distortion caused by the heavy tracking forces employed by cartridges in the 1960s. If you haven't yet heard the U.K. vinyl versions of your Beatles favorites, you'll be in for a very pleasant surprise when you do. This box is the easiest and fastest way to have them all.