Beatlemania!
With The Beatles

This is a unique release from Canada, and is a second incarnation on the cassette format. This variation features the new "color inlay" (or J card), a series that featured a uniquely Canadian design. Variation K7.6051.6.1 features a black shell with silver print.

Availability

K7.6051.6.1 was introduced in 1985 and remained available up until around 1991, after which the general numbering system changed from the 4XT format to the C4 format. To date, no copies have been documented with a newer C4 number, which leads to believe that this variation was produced approximately until 1991 (see the formats page for details).

Later cassettes of Twist and Shout (K7.6054.6.3 and K7.6054.7E1) and Long Tall Sally (K7.6063.9A.1) have been documented, so there is a possibility that Beatlemania was also produced until the late 1990s, but this needs to be confirmed, as no copy has yet been documented.

General Information

The three unique Canadian Beatles album from the 6000 series were never issued in another format than vinyl before 1982 (unlike the rest of the catalog that saw cassettes, 8-tracks, reel tapes and CDs issues), and overall, the cassette was the only other format that these three albums were ever reissued on.

This second cassette incarnation was on the "color inlay (or J-card) format", a series design by Capitol of Canada, only for Canadian Capitol cassettes.

Pressing Information

This "pressing" was released between 1985 and approximately 1991, and features the same black shell with silver print as the previous SDR variation. The catalog number remained "4XT-6051". Early tapes from the 1980s (up until the mid 1990s) used the distinctive "futuristic robot font" (see the big "1" and "2"). These were later changed to a more standard font in the mid to late 1990s.

Different types of shells were used simulteneously and seemingly, also interchangeably. To further deepen the confusion, between 1982 and 1999, catalog numbers randomly went back and forth between "4XT" and "4T" prefixes. All these variations have been verified under different combinations from various sealed tapes that were unsealed to document this archive (sometimes even having a 4T tape in a 4XT J-card, or a 4XT tape in a 4T J-card).

Cover

The cover (or inlay, or "J Card") was under the new unique Canadian format: the "color inlay (or J-Card)" design. The layout and design were generic to all Capitol releases, but the colors of the cards were selected to match the album's artwork, making a very colorful series when looking at them side by side.

The J-card color of this release was BLACK.

Packaging

Tapes were sold in a black back jewel case , and sealed in either a firm wrap that was folded shut, or a regular heat-tightened shrink wrap.

Both types of wrapper have been verified to be used randomly between 1982 and 1995.