The Beatles "CASUALTIES" LP Vinyl SPRO-9469

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 From my personal collection is this one fine LP. It rare and collectable. The condition is VG+ and MINT.  The cover has very mild ring mark on front and back.  The Vinyl is mint minus.  That is M- to all of you Gold Mine pros out there.  I am putting this up as a gift to those of you who need to round out your collections.  The information I found on the net about this Record Album at printed below.  I have played this less than five times on very high quality equipment and very low gram styilist weight has ever touched it.  Be assured its a fine specimen from a great era. I took the photos today to post here on Ebay and put a very low reserve. The label is Black with Silver lettering  Good luck bidders!

Titled Casualties, this record was first issued as a picture disc and like its predecessor, also sported a fictitious Capitol Records catalog number (SEAX 11950). The front of the record featured the full, non-tcropped "Butcher Cover" photo Randall Davis had wanted to use as the Rarities cover. On the back were the track listings with detailed notes about each song, plus rare black-and-white photos of the Beatles, supposedly from Capitol Records' files.

Two of the tracks on this album are "out-fakes" - The included "long version" of I'll Cry Instead is a fake. The original mono "long" mix was composed of two different sections. On the Casualties cut, the first verse of the stereo version has just been spliced into the middle to make it appear like the long version. On Her Majesty, apparently the "final chord" was taken from a bootleg recording and added on. Since the final chord does not appear with Her Majesty on the existing master tape, the version on Casualties is definitely bogus. (HM was spliced out of the middle of the Get Back album, where it lost the chord. With a 20 second leader, it was added onto the tail end of Abbey Road.).

Below is the complete track listing of Casualties:

(Side One) Please Please Me (mono ) / I Want To Hold Your Hand (true stereo) / Money (British mono mix) /A Hard Day's Night (true stereo) / I'll Cry Instead (fake long version) / Ticket To Ride (true stereo) / Yes It Is (mono )/ Day Tripper (British stereo version) / I'm Only Sleeping (mono version from a French EP) / (Side Two) Strawberry Fields Forever (true stereo) / I Am The Walrus (basic track before overdubbing) / Only A Northern Song (mono ) / Revolution (single )/ Her Majesty (faked last note) / Let It Be (Japanese "mono" mix - The Japanese single IS in mono, but there is no actual mono MIX. The two channels were combined into one, in Japan, for the purposes of issuing the single (for their singles were still mono then).

Following the LP's initial release as a picture disc, it was reissued in February 1981 as a conventional album (Capitol SPRO 9469), with the graphics from both sides of the record becoming the front and back covers. In 1982, Casualties was again re-released, this time in a numbered, limited edition of fifty copies, pressed on blue vinyl. When the compact disc bootleg market took off in the early 1990s, a Japanese company released both Collectors Items and Casualties on compact disc, complete with miniature sleeves that were identical to the originals.