Something New

LP.2108.1.3 is the third pressing of Something New in Canada, released in mono only in late 1965. This pressing is identical to LP.2108.1.2, but features the corrected album order on the back cover. It is recognized by its rainbow Capitol label with no brackets around the word “CANADA” in the perimeter print, by the corrected back cover, and by its hand-written matrix numbers, denoting the use of Canadian-made pressing plates.

Availability

This variation was available between late 1965, and June 1966 (for approximately 8 months) when the perimeter print changed to a version with brackets around the word CANADA (see LP.2108.2.1).

General Information

It is not known exactly when the cover was corrected, but it certainly appeared in late 1965 or possibly early 1966 before the perimeter text change. By this point, sales for this album were significantly lower, and pressings were made as demand required, while Capitol pushed out the Beatles' newer albums.

Pressing Information

Capitol of Canada subcontracted the same RCA pressing plant in Smiths Falls (Ontario) to manufacture this batch of pressings.

LP.2108.1.3 has the same markings as LP.2108.1.2:

Side 1: T-X-1-2108-3
Side 2: T-X-2-2108-3

These pressings feature the same 70 mm deep-groove RCA pressing ring as previous pressings. Labels still feature the "no brackets" rainbow label (see perimeter print at the bottom of the label: "Manufactured in Canada by Capitol Records of Canada" with no brackets around the word CANADA).

Cover

The jacket for LP.2108.1.3 features an identical build to its predecessors: the inner seams (the inside fold of the cardboard jacket) are still cut straight and measure 10 mm high.

Covers up to the mid 70s used a “front slick” construction (a larger back slick, usually printed in black and white that wrapped around the front of the cardboard cover, onto which a smaller colour front slick was glued, creating a white frame effect all around the front image).

Both slicks were printed by Parr's Print and Litho in Toronto and assembled onto the cardboard frame by Modern albums.

This time though, Capitol of Canada corrected their "mistake cover" used since July 1964: the Canadian album originally adapted the list of albums on the back to reflect the Canadian market, featuring Beatlemania! and Twist and Shout instead of Meet The Beatles and The Beatles' Second Album, with Long Tall Sally added ahead of The Hollyridge Strings' Beatles Song Book. A Canadian back cover lists four Capitol albums, one more than the American.

Early variations before late 1965 feature these albums in the wrong chronological order (Twist and Shout before Beatlemania). This variation is the first with the corrected album order.

Packaging

Copies of LP.2108.1.3 were packaged with a tight shrink wrap.

These were sold with / without a red and white Capitol / Pathé paper LP inner sleeve.

Sales

Sales records show that 9,924 copies sold in 1965 (this includes variations LP.2108.1.2 and LP.2108.1.3) (source: P. Hemmingsen, The Beatles’ Canadian Discography part. 3). From these numbers, one could guess that half might have featured the wrong-order covers, and the other half the corrected covers. All these were MONO copies, since the first stereo pressing was released in 1968.