All My Loving / This Boy

This variation (45.72144.5.2) features the same new target label design as the previous variation, but has the printing mistake corrected (no text overlap). These corrected copies have been pressed after December 1971 and have the FLAT (unvarnished) labels.

Availability

This variation was available after December 1971, until later in 1972 when the label design changed once again to the new orange label.

General Information

Very few titles from the Beatles' back catalogue were reissued on the target label. Older titles did not sell as much anymore, and only two titles are known to have been repressed in the 1969-1970 period on the target label with a DOME logo (Help and Lady Madonna only). 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 this variation of All My Loving and Eight Days A Week) have seen a "1972 flat label reissue" on the target label as well. For a complete list of titles released on the target label see Releases by Label Type page of this website.

Pressing Information

45.72144.5.2 (with flat labels) were pressed later than 45.72144.5.1 and feature a -2 matrix on BOTH sides:

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

Packaging

These target label pressings 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).