HOT AS THE SUN
Company : No Manufacturer Indicated (OG-Records)
Matrix Number: OG 593 A / OG 593 B (1st pressing, machine impressed)
Release Date: 1973
Country: Japan
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SIDE A
1. I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND
2. ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN
3. John intro IF I FELL
4. Paul intro BOYS
5. John intro A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
6. TWIST AND SHOUT
7. Paul intro LONG TALL SALLY
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SIDE B
8. YOU REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME
9. INTERVIEW
10. INTERVIEW
Sound Quality: VG-mono
Source:
1 to 7: from LIVE AT SHEA
8: from LET IT BE movie
9: by Kenny Everett, June 5, 1968 (EMI Studios) (G); from Italian record
10: Tokyo backstage interview
COMMENTS
Another release by OG Records Company, which produced some of the very first Beatles bootlegs from Japan. This record includes some tracks from LIVE AT SHEA, one song from the film LET IT BE, and interviews taken from a rare Italian release and from the Tokyo concert.
RELEASES
1973 (photo below the title). The exact release date could not be determined, however, it was in 1973. The first pressing had an insert with a collage of various photographs glued to the jacket and the record had a white blank label. It has a TMOQ-Smoking Pig logo stamped on the track listing, this was apparently used to suggest that the record was an import from the USA rather than a Japanese production. It might indeed have been placed at the retailer's shop, since only one copy with this logo was seen (Matsumoto, personal information, it is the copy reproduced in the photo below the title).
1973. A few months after this release, a second version appeared. As always, OG Records prepared a new master, this one numbered OG 614 A 1W / OG 614 B 1W, machine-impressed, with the same cover but lacking the TMOQ logo This version had blank labels in various colors, according to the book Beatles' Bootlegs by Matsumoto, and it was surely released in 1973. A Japanese blog, in reference to the OG-614 version, wrote "... one of the records at hand is credited as "1973. Shinjuku Record" by the previous owner...". Another release with the same insert and white blank labels appears to exist, with matrix numbers scratched out: always from the Japanese blogger: "...The matrix number of another copy at hand has been scratched out ...".
Late seventies. The last appearance of this record dates to the late seventies. This version had the same insert but the disc had custom red labels with the title and an indication of the content, in broken English. Its matrix was OG 853 A / OG 853 B.
INTEREST. This is a very rare release, which has a strong interest for collectors. The first pressing is particularly scarce, but all versions are very difficult to find and surely worth to be present in any important Beatles bootlegs collection (****).