Yesterday And Today (Butcher Cover)
Yesterday And Today (Butcher Cover)
Yesterday And Today (Butcher Cover)
Yesterday And Today (Butcher Cover)

The Beatles

Yesterday And Today (Butcher Cover)

$1,295.00 USD

RARE 2nd State Butcher Cover Scranton Pressing!

Vinyl is in nice condition as well. (Marked VG+) It still has it's original inner sleeves, though we have the disc in a new inner sleeve for protection.

What is a "Butcher Cover"?

Good Question! When Yesterday and Today initially released, it had an entirely different cover (see the 4th included picture for an example), nicknamed the "butcher" cover, it depicted the Beatles in butcher coats with raw meat and broken baby dolls strewn about. Reasoning's given for this image ranged from a critique of the public's obsession with the band, a statement on the Vietnam war, to a protest of Capitol records method of altering track lists for North American releases ("butchering" the records).

No matter what, in the 60's this image was seen as obscenely gory, and Capitol almost immediately withdrew the small amount of records that had been released. The records that were withdrawn were pasted over with the new cover.

There are 3 States of a Butcher cover; a 1st state is the rarest, being a copy that never got a new cover pasted on top. A 2nd State (like this one) is a copy that still has the new cover pasted on top. You can tell these are a Butcher cover by looking in a spot of the lower right side of the cover where Ringo's black V-neck from the original is still semi-visible (see the third attached picture). The 3rd state means a copy where the new cover was removed, which tended to damage the original cover underneath. 

Release Information:

  • Format: Vinyl LP Album Compilation Stereo
  • Year: 1966
  • Country: US
  • Label: Capitol Records, Capitol Records
  • Matrix/Runout: ST-X-1-2553

Notes:

Scranton pressings are denoted by "IAM" in a triangle in each runout
#2 appears at lower right hand corner of the rear sleeve, indicating cover fabricated by Imperial Paper Box Corp., Inc. of Brooklyn, NY
Released on a black Capitol label with rainbow rim.

The mono and stereo labels on the "Butcher" LPs pressed in Scranton are similar to those pressed in Los Angeles -- [r2288667] -- but differ in two respects: 1) On the Scranton labels, the “ST-2553” is centered above the “(ST-X-1-2553)” (to the left of "Side 1/2"); and 2) "Side 1/2" -- is in a sans serif font. On Los Angeles pressings, the “ST-2553” is right aligned over the “(ST-X-1-2553)” and the side number is in a serif font.

Tracklist:

A1. Drive My Car (2:25)
A2. I'm Only Sleeping (2:58)
A3. Nowhere Man (2:40)
A4. Dr. Robert (2:14)
A5. Yesterday (2:04)
A6. Act Naturally (2:27)
B1. And Your Bird Can Sing (2:02)
B2. If I Needed Someone (2:19)
B3. We Can Work It Out (2:10)
B4. What Goes On? (2:44)
B5. Day Tripper (2:47)
Condition
Condition: VG+
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