All My Loving / This Boy

This variation (45.72144.5.1) features the new target label design, but has a printing mistake where text from the logo (part of the generic label design for all Capitol singles) and the printed information (added afterwards for each title) overlap. A batch of copies was cleared and sent to record shops around the country, but the mistake was quickly corrected (see entry 45.72144.5.2). These mistake copies seem to all have the GLOSSY (varnished) labels from pre-December 1971.

Availability

This variation was available sometime in late 1970 - 1971 (before December 1971, when the labels began appearing unvarnished), but was quickly replaced with a corrected version in early 1972 with flat target labels. This title was NOT released on the earlier target label with a DOME logo in 1969-1970 (nor was it on the Apple label) which is why the listing jumps from 45.72144.2.1 to 45.72144.5.1.

General Information

Very few titles from the Beatles' back catalogue were reissued on the target label. These titles were not selling as much anymore, and only two of them are known to have been repressed in that 1969-1970 period on the target label with a DOME logo (Help and Lady Madonna). Sometime around late 1970-1971, a few more titles were reissued on the new label design, but this time with the TARGET logo on the label. These were glossy until December 1971 when RCA stopped varnishing their labels. Later reissues (like All My Loving) have seen a "1972 flat label reissue" on the target label as well (see 45.72144.5.2). For a complete list of titles released on the target label see Releases by Label Type page of this website.

These mistake copies can be found with various degrees of overlap (always with a glossy label). While this seems curious when looking at the mistake from a printing point of view (all black text would be from one single printing "master", and elements should not move in relation to themselves), there are at least two variations in placement. Below is the second known variation:

Pressing Information

45.72144.5.1 (with glossy labels) have the same matrix numbers as the previous swirl with brackets label copies, with a -2 on Side A and still no dash on Side B:

Later repressings have been found with -2 matrix numbers on the B-Side:

Side A: 7XCE 17560A-2
Side B: 7XCE 17560

Later reissues from 1972 on the flat label have an added -2 on the B-Side as well (see 45.72144.5.2).

Packaging

These new label designs would have been sold in a blue and yellow target Capitol sleeve.

Sales

No reported sales have been found by the authors, but it is doubtful that this was pressed in anything other than marginal numbers to fill sporadic demand for their back catalogue (that was much lower at this point in time).