Recent Updates

September 2008
Added scans of "Ringo", "Walls & Bridges" &
"Tripping the Live Fantastic", thanks to Gary for these.
A 1970 "Oldies but Goldies" cassette (white inlay/
yellow lables) was recently auctioned on eBay and fetched £70!!!!!

August 2008
Added scans of "Live at the BBC", "1", Lennon's "Rock N Roll",
"Woman" & "Watching the Wheels" Cassingles.
Check out Moptop's web-page here for a detailed look at
Beatle cassette inlays.

July 2008
More scans added to the Gallery and Solo page,
latest additions include 'Ringo's Rotogravure', 'All Those Years Ago' (single),
an original 'Yellow Submarine' shell with Apple logo'd white label,
Gold top 'Rock N Roll Music', Reel Music and others.
Check out the Heineken cassette gift card variations too!
Thanks again to Gary and Ian.

June 2008
Another batch of inlay and tape scans have been added,
thanks to Gary and Ian.

May 2008
The mystery of cassette track orders solved?
I've had an e-mail from Steve Binnie who has an interesting and seemingly
very plausible explanation for the bizarre nature of cassette track re-ordering.
He says; "8-track cartridges used an endless loop of tape divided into four 'programmes'.
The first time around the loop, the player would play programme 1; on returning to the
start of the loop the playback head would move down to programme 2, and so on.
For this reason the four programmes had to be of equal length, which explains why
tracks were often juggled around for timing purposes. A quick scan through
http://www.beatlesvinyl.com/uk/uk8.htm shows that many of the cassette versions
use the same jumbled tracklistings as the 8-track cartridge versions. This explains, for
example, why "Goodnight" ends up in the middle of side two of the White Album
cassette - it was the last track on programme 3 of the 8-Track!"
One exception to the identical cassette/8-track orders is "Abbey Road",
see the tracklistings page here.
 

New scans are still being added to the Gallery and Solo page.
Further scans for inclusion would be much appreciated,
send them to urthepob@hotmail.com

April 2008
Details of the rare 1984 cassette "Their Greatest Hits" have been
added to the History page. Thanks to Paul for the scan.

Other new scans have been added which can be accessed via the foot
of the Gallery page. There are also a number of Solo inlay links
to be found on the Solo page.

February 2008
"Yellow Submarine Songtrack" is confirmed to have been officially
released in the UK on cassette in 1999.

Correction to the January update, George Martin's "Off The Beatles Track"
was actually issued on cassette during the first half of 1969. The inlay includes
the "Sold in the UK..." notice and the tape label is lime green with the
boxed Parlophone logo. (Thanks Paul).

January 2008
George Martin's August 1964 album "Off The Beatles Track" was issued
on cassette in 1971 with a slightly different cover (using just the one
photo as included on the far right of the vinyl sleeve montage).
Sides One and Two were reversed for the cassette release and
"I Feel Fine" was added as a bonus track  - this track was
originally released as a single by George Martin in 1965
(Parlophone R5256)
thanks Paul....

Side one
1. FROM ME TO YOU
2. THERE'S A PLACE
3. THIS BOY
4. PLEASE PLEASE ME
5. LITTLE CHILD
6. I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND
7. I FEEL FINE

Side two
 7. ALL MY LOVING
8. DON'T BOTHER ME
9. CAN'T BUY ME LOVE
10. ALL I'VE GOT TO DO
11. I SAW HER STANDING THERE
12. SHE LOVES YOU

The UK version of the "Rock 'N' Roll" cassette was issued with
a gold top/circular EMI logo style inlay (not - as previously stated -
with a 'full height' cover). Thanks Gary!

A version of the "Let it be" cassette with an old style Parlophone
logo on yellow labels has been sold for £26 on eBay. I believe this
is an original Australian copy.

The "Live Jam" cassette is confirmed to have had the same
track-listing as the vinyl version. Thanks Paul!
We're still looking to confirm the running orders for the
"Some time in NYC" studio cassette and Ringo's
"Beaucoups of Blues"

October 2007
Thanks to John Carfizzi for pointing out that the first 7 Beatle cassettes
re-issued on XDR format in the USA in 1987 inexplicably had the re-arranged
British tracklistings!!! How on Earth did they allow that to happen???
The cat numbers for the re-arranged US cassettes are:-
Please Please Me (C4J-46435)
With The Beatles (C4J-46436)
A Hard Day's Night (C4J-46437)
Beatles For Sale (C4J-46438)
Help (C4J-46439)
Rubber Soul (C4J-46440)
Revolver (C4J-46441)

There's also been a general tidying up of the text on the main page.

August 2007
George's "Extra Texture" cassette label included the unique 'munched' Apple logo -
as found on the vinyl version, but unlike the vinyl cover the cassette inlay was not textured.
The cassette tracklisting is identical to the vinyl version. Thanks Paul!

Ringo's "Sentimental Journey" cassette tracklisting has been added.

June 2007
Jeff Russell's 1982 book 'The Beatles Album File and Complete Discography' claims that:
"In 1973 EMI decided to issue a cassette version of the Magical Mystery Tour album".
This would explain why MMT has the all gold look and not the circular EMI logo design
as one would have expected to see had it been released at the same time as the
vinyl version in 1976. Thanks to Gary for this very important piece of info.

A yellow labelled edition of the Sgt.Pepper cassette has turned up with
the original Parlophone logo stamped on it, this begs the question -
which came first, green or yellow? Perhaps both were produced
concurrently with the colour depending on the factory it was produced.

George's 1974 "Dark Horse" cassette included a lyrics booklet,
this was slightly smaller than the cassette so that it could be tucked
inside the cassette case.

The "Venus and Mars" cassette tracklisting is identical to the vinyl.

April 2007
We now have an original White Album cassette inlay scan,
the publishing credits for the Harrison tracks suggests that this
was from mid-1969, thanks to Ian Hossack for the photo, see it here

March 2007
The site now includes a page on solo cassettes see here
The 'full height' inlay era now has its' own section and
details of cassette singles and compilation albums have
also been added.