Something New

LP.2108.6.5 uses the same Columbia (CBS) disc as LP.2108.6.4, now in a new regular cover: the deep blue square behind the printer's logo on the front cover was removed, and the legal text at the bottom of the back cover is in its normal layout.

Availability

This variation was available in 1973 (for approximately one year) until the second generation of orange labels appeared (see LP.2108.7.1).

General Information

Although orange pressings are generally quite common, these early orange labels are more difficult to find today; 2nd generation and third generation orange label pressings are much more common. The first generation is the scarcest of all three generations of orange labels.

First generation orange labels can be identified by the GOLD perimeter print around the label, second generations have black text that is much easier to read. This pressing was made in small quantities when demand required a new run of pressings to restock the warehouse. Another interesting fact is that this label generation was unique to Canada since Capitol USA opted for the Apple label for their Capitol reissues instead.

The cover oddities of the previous two variations (the deep blue square and the overlapping legal text) are gone on this variation, and the back cover returned to the regular Modern Graphics layout. The cover is similar to that of LP.2108.6.1, but holds smaller inner seams (7 mm instead of 10 mm), showing the use of a different cardboard frame model.

Pressing Information

The record is the same Columbia (CBS) pressing as LP.2108.6.4, still made from the same master as the RCA-era pressings, and therefore carries the same markings:

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

These pressings feature a 68 mm thin pressing ring, a hallmark of CBS pressings, instead of RCA's 70 mm deep groove. The first generation orange label, with its gold perimeter print, is unchanged.

Cover

The cover of this variation is similar in design to previous variations, and was also manufactured by Modern Graphics. These covers have the same 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).

The Modern Graphics logo is back to its regular presentation, with no blue square, and the legal text no longer overlaps. The cover construction itself is identical to all previous variations, with a front slick construction.

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.

The front cover keeps the BLOCK STEREO designation. The albums on the back remain in the correct chronological order (Beatlemania before Twist and Shout).

Packaging

Copies of LP.2108.6.5 were packaged with a tight shrink wrap.

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