THE BEATLES We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper SOLID CENTRE 1968/69 No Central KT
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More Information to follow! But Please check out my other items! This week I have some of the very rarest Beatle's UK 7"s (more Rare Solid Centre Beatles singles than I've ever seen listed together before! Both the EMI AND The ORIOLE Solid Centre I Want To Hold Your Hand etc!), some of the rarest FREAKBEAT singles and PSYCH DEMOS (The Eyes, Mickey Finn, Linda Van Dyck, Stone Graphics etc etc etc.), plus Megarare Overseas Pressings Suck as The YARDBIRDS' Heart Full Of Soul German EP Original and the to my knowledge UNDOCUMENTED BEATLES' South Rhodesian Scroll Label/Tri Centre Ain't She Sweet with Sweet Georgia Brown on the B-side! I have loads of rarities, but this week, I'm pulling out a fair chunk of the Cream of the Crop for you! Bid with confidence! I'll ship to anywhere in the world, though if the item goes above the standard £20 insurance value, I insist on FULLY INSURED postage paid for by the winning bidder, so please bear this in mind! Please click here to check out my other items!
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As bidding started a little earlier on this item than I had anticipated (and I am very grateful for your eagerness!), I am unable to upload any further pictures at the top of this listing, so I am including more photos below my description/grading text…
Here we have one of the very rarest UK Beatles singles known to exist… No?… OK! Admittedly, this title crops up on most car boot sales you care to frequent, HOWEVER, look at your copy, with the push out centre, and then look at this copy, with a solid centre, and then look at Popsike.com, and check how many Solid Centre We Can Work It Out's there have ever been for online auction… Yes, 4! 2 with the Sold In The U.K. central text, and 2 without. This copy is a third known copy WITHOUT SITUK text on either side. Having read through the descriptions of the other two, this does sound like it is the best copy of the 3, but judge for yourself off the audio above! Listen in it's entirety and you'll hear that beautifully clear intro, crisp audio throughout and then just the slightest crackle as the fade out drops right down. On the AA-side, a notoriously sparse intro is remarkably clear with only the slightest "static" which very quickly drops to nothing. This is a very well cared for single, which falls around the 1968/69 pressings, lighter weight vinyl with a slightly different edge, and no embossed tax code anywhere except the deadwax, HOWEVER neither does it show any signs of central pressing "ring", that new set, later 1969 pressings supposedly have… Both labels are still pretty much in line with the o'clock matrices/9/3o'clock lacquer/stamper codes, the We Can Work It Out label certainly is, the Day Tripper label is skewed perhaps 5 or 10 degrees clockwise. Both sides have THE LIGHTEST hairlines/surface marks (of the type you might sustain from withdrawing from the sleeve), only visible under strong direct light, though as you can tell, audibly, these do not affect it! Day Tripper has a surface hairline, that is also audibly beautiful, but visually slightly more visible than the others, and can be seen when angled into normal light,though as always the proof is in the pudding! Listen! I have a number of variants of this, though not nearly as rare (to my knowledge!), and this is still my second best audible copy… regardless of variants' rarity! The labels are wonderful and clean, free of writing, finger-prints, rips or stains! I have tried to capture in the photos any imperfections at all, and will talk you through what to look for in the photos below! On the We Can Work It Out label, there are the very slightest spindle rubs only visible when angled into the light, and strangely not near the centre hole, around the centre hole it is very clean! Outside the central raised area at 2 o'clock (on the lower part of the "4" of "45 RPM", there is a spindle indent (not breaking the lovely rich black surface of the label, of course!) and a couple of very short ones around the "We" of the song title! Again, these are only indents and do not break the surface of the rich balk printed surface!) Around the centre hole, is the slightest "stretch lines" of the paper just around the very centre hole, there is the very slightest spindle rub too, though the two are not to be confused! The quarter of a millimetre (tiny!) rub intermittently around the centre hole is probably from spindle rub, whereas the 2 more vertical lines about 2 or 3mm near 12 o'clock do not look like rubs as much as "stretch" from the original application of the paper label around the centre hole punch, there are 3 very light spindle marks apart from that, inside the raised centre. On The Day Tripper side, the label is nigh on perfect, with only 1, half cm spindle trail, only visible under strong, direct light, and, if you look very closely in strong light, 2 points of very light "stacking groove" rubs, 1 near the Parlophone symbol, and 1 below the title of the track, both are incredibly faint, and in no way fading any of the blackness of the print etc. After having written this, and then read through it, I'm worried I've made this copy not sound like an incredible copy, and it really is, it is as good as it sounds, which is pretty damn impressive, I've just described EVERYTHING, in possibly rather a bit too much depth! Ja!
Weight: 34.5g Labels (according to Bruce Spizer and Frank Daniels' code): PAR 5389.03A (both sides, though just to reiterate NO central pressing ring which these labels all purportedly had…) Sleeve (according to Bruce Spizer and Frank Daniels' code): RS.10B (nice condition too, no rips/stains/writing/discolouration etc, just a little bit of storage fold/crinkle!) "This sleeve was used for 1969 and later pressings of earlier Beatles singles." (Bruce Spizer and Frank Daniels' "Beatles For Sale On Parlophone Records".)
Gramophone Rims, No SITUK, but No central tax code, No central pressing ring
Record Condition: Visually EX-, Audibly EX-/EX (Judge for yourself!)
Labels Condition: Very Strong EX-
(Please check photos below! And grading guide below them!)
DEADWAX INFO/MATRICES ETC:
Side 1:
7XCE 18341 - 4 12 A (double stamped) R L KT (at 12 o'clock- No embossed centre code, but neither is there the small pressing circle of late 1969 pressings)
Side 2:
7XCE 18342 - 1 : 12 A A L KT (at 12 o'clock- No embossed centre code, but neither is there the small pressing circle of late 1969 pressings)
Whilst uploading photos this way is a lot more time consuming, when I have loads of other extreme rarities to update, I figure it takes almost the same to upload 5 as it does to upload 20-odd! So here you go! There can be absolutely no doubt of this item in your mind now!!!
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GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY BIDDING!
My Grading system:
Based on a slightly stricter version of the Record Collector, Rare Record Price Guide system.
I Don't believe in Mint, I almost only ever hear it from sellers who don't know the grading systems, therefore, you won't hear me using "MINT". If an Item is sealed I will state it as such, but still will only go as high as EX+.
EX+: Sealed, or seemingly NEVER played, if EX+ were to ever spill over to an item that may have been played a handful of times, but incredibly carefully, I will explain this thoroughly!
EX: The top end really, someone has very much cared for this record, else forgotten they've had it! Again only played with reverence, and not played much!
EX-: Very similar to EX, but slightly more realistic, many cared for collections may have a few EX- discs in them, though usually they'll be those James Last records your Auntie bought for you and (hopefully) you've never listened to since!
VG+: Again a very well looked after record, though with noticeable surface marks/hairlines when caught in the light, the worst one may hear is the lightest, very occasional background noise, often not even this on many players!
VG: Same as above, except more surface marks, and a little more audio background noise, though certainly not detracting from the listening experience. A good playing copy for someone who buys to play the record.
VG-: A little worse, still very listenable, and plays though fine, though might not be the end of the world, if someone drunkenly adds a few more surface marks to it one night! Background noise will be there in some form!
G+: "Good" doesn't really mean good does it?! G+ means it still plays though, though someone in the room, un-used to records (and probably born when minidiscs were already a thing of the past!), will probably make a comment about the crackliness.
G: You won't want to use your best stylus on this one probably! We're definitely in "filler" territory now, unless it's a particularly rare copy, this is a party copy, you shouldn't mind when this one gets a scratch, (you might not even notice!).
G-: If crackling gives vinyl it's "warm" sound, then this one is beginning to become a fire hazard! The likelihood is you won't catch me selling a record at this condition or less, unless there really is special cause (rarity/signed/mispressed etc.).
I often won't even grade things lower than a "decent playing copy" (VG-), though if they don't play through or are warped etc (even if they do play through), I will mention "JUMPS", "WARPED" etc. etc. either in the title, or near the beginning of the item's description, so there can be no doubt!
I endeavour to be as meticulous as possible when grading, and almost always play test the entirety of every LP and 7" I'm selling (often I make an MP3 back-up of it too... yes I know it's obsessive), but I'm sure one of these days I will overlook something, or someone will have reason to question my gradings (so far I have only had the honour of being told that I'm shooting myself in the foot by undergrading! If an honour, that is!), in which case please do contact me, and we will sort the issue out!
Please check out my other rare punk/new wave/indie in my other items!
And I'll be listing loads more over the next few weeks so be sure to add me to your favourites list and check in regularly
Alittle about me!
I've collected records for about 20 years, and now have TONNES! I want to go travelling for as long as I can, and as such don't want to have too many possessions to have to store, I also need dosh to travel as freely as I'd like, and therefore selling the bulk of my collection seems the best of both worlds! I love records and will still keep buying them, I'm sure, but I really need to downsize in a big way! I do have some seriously RARE records to list over the next few months, and will price them to sell, so please do watch this space!
And if you're at all unsure, please check my previous feedback for tales of satisfied customers, many of whom return again and again!!
I will of course, if you aren't ENTIRELY happy with your item offer you a full refund upon a quick return of the item, in exactly the same condition I sent it out in, I wont however cover the postage costs- just in order to put off any time-wasters, I hope you understand. I do have here some REAL MEGA-RARITIES, and I understand perhaps your confidence in me might not be complete, as I haven't listed for a while, which is why I offer this offer of full re-embursment. However I am not a fan of the trend of people trying it on and asking to keep the item but want a partial re-fund, I haven't had it happen to me, and want to keep it that way, so please don't try that, I will happily offer your full winning bid money back upon the safe return of the item, and I think that's fair.
I am very strict with my grading, having been a collector myself for many years, and I try to include as much relavent information as possible on sales, however if you have any further questions please don't hesitate to ask, I will gladly resond as soon as I can.
One thing I would ask is that the winning bidders do leave feedback, as it's annoying when people overlook it.
I happily offer reductions of postage costs on multiple-items,
I try grade using direct sunlight which shows up more than anything (hence where poss I take my photos in direct sunlight too), however living in the Pennine Hills, contrary to popular rumour it isn't sunny here EVERY day! So when this isn't always possible, as a backup I also use a 100 Watt lightbulb, though when poss I try to use both.
I feel my grading system is stricter than many I see used, but the sellers I respect on Ebay and elsewhere seem to be of the same mind as me, I'd much prefer to be known as someone who undergrades and you can get a good record from, than someone you have to wonder, "actually is their VG+ quite what I'd expect from that?". Hope I can win you over!
(SOMETIMES I MAY COME ACROSS A RECORD OF SIGNIFFICANT RARITY/DESIRABILITY THAT MAY HAVE A JUMP/STICK IN IT. IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THAT I THINK SOMEONE MAY WANT IT (EG. IT'S COVER'S IN GOOD NICK, OR IT'S A PRIVATE PRESSING/PROMO OF LIMITED AVAILABILITY) I'LL CLEARLY MARK THIS IN THE TITLE "JUMPS" OR "WARPED" ETC.)
Good luck and Happy Bidding! Loads more punk/new wave etc. etc. every genre really to come over the next 2 months! so...
Be sure to add me to your favourites list!River.Dog.
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