Something New

LP.2108.6.2 uses the same record as LP.2108.6.1: a first generation orange label with the GOLD perimeter text, the RCA 70 mm deep-groove pressing ring, still pressed from the same Canadian stereo plates as the target-label pressings. The front cover keeps the regular white printer's logo, but this variation is recognized by its back cover, where the legal text overlaps at the bottom since it mistakenly used an old leftover mono back slick instead of the proper stereo back slick.

Availability

This variation was available in 1972, until covers showing a deep blue square behind the printer's logo appeared (see LP.2108.6.3 and LP.2108.6.4).

General Information

The overlapping legal text on the back cover was clearly a layout mistake: an older leftover mono back slick was used instead of the current stereo slick. The mistake survived the following run (the blue square covers of LP.2108.6.3) and was only corrected with the stereo slick of LP.2108.6.4.

It is quite possible that LP.2108.6.2 and the blue square LP.2108.6.3 were in fact produced at the same time: covers were seemingly assembled from whatever slick stock was left at the warehouse, resulting in several hybrid assembly configurations circulating together.

Pressing Information

Once again, Capitol of Canada subcontracted the RCA pressing plant in Smiths Falls (Ontario) to manufacture new batches of albums with the first generation of orange labels. The records were still pressed from the same Canadian stereo plates as the previous variations, and therefore carry the same markings:

Side 1: ST-1-2108
Side 2: ST-2-2108

These pressings feature the same 70 mm deep-groove RCA pressing ring as previous pressings. The label design was new (the orange label with its gold perimeter print), replacing the target design used since 1970.

Cover

The cover of this variation is similar in design to previous variations, and was also manufactured by Modern Graphics, with the regular white MG printer's logo on the front. These covers have a 7 mm straight inner seam.

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).

On this variation, the Modern Graphics logo is printed directly over the cover art, in its regular white presentation, with no blue square.

The back cover keeps the Canadian-market list of albums introduced with the first pressing: 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.

This particular variation mistakenly used a mono back slick, which resulted in an odd text overlap on the bottom of the back cover. The top right corner shows the T-2108 catalogue number with the HIGH FIDELITY logo, while the front cover and the labels are stereo (ST-2108). The overlapping legal text is clearly visible at the bottom of the back cover.

The front cover keeps the BLOCK STEREO designation (but notice the mono T-2108 number at the top; this is part of the mono back slick wrapping over to the top, below the front slick). The albums on the back remain in the correct chronological order (Beatlemania before Twist and Shout).

Packaging

Copies of LP.2108.6.2 were packaged with a tight shrink wrap.

These were now sold with a generic plain paper LP inner sleeve.