A1	Back In The U.S.S.R.	2:45
A2	Dear Prudence	4:00
A3	Glass Onion	2:10
A4	Obladi Oblada	3:10
A5	Wild Honey Pie	1:02
A6	Bungalow Bill	3:05
A7	While My Guitar Gently Weeps Written-By – George Harrison	4:46
A8	Happiness Is A Warm Gun	2:47
B1	Martha My Dear	2:28
B2	I'm So Tired	2:01
B3	Blackbird	2:20
B4	Piggies Written-By – George Harrison	2:04
B5	Rocky Racoon	3:33
B6	Don't Pass Me By Written-By – Richard Starkey	3:52
B7	Why Don't We Do It In The Road	1:42
B8	I Will	1:46
B9	Julia	2:57
C1	Birthday	2:40
C2	Yer Blues	4:01
C3	Mother Nature's Son	2:46
C4	Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey	2:25
C5	Sexy Sadie	3:15
C6	Helter Skelter	4:30
C7	Long, Long, Long Written-By – George Harrison	3:08
D1	Revolution No. 1	4:13
D2	Honey Pie	2:42
D3	Savoy Truffle Written-By – George Harrison	2:55
D4	Cry Baby Cry	3:11
D5	Revolution No. 9	8:15
D6	Goodnight	3:14

Companies, etc.

Manufactured By – Apple Records, Inc.
Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Scranton

Credits

Producer – George Martin
Written-By – John Lennon-Paul McCartney* (tracks: A1 to A6, A8 to B3, B5, B7 to C6, D1, D2, D4 to D6)

Notes

First pressing has "Mfd. by Capitol...." in white rim text on sides 2 and 4, with various title mistakes and unique number on the front cover.

This 1st press has A4 "Obladi Oblada", A6 "Bungalow Bill", B7 'Why Don't We Do It In the Road' (without question mark) , D1 "Revolution No. 1", D5 "Revolution No. 9" and D6 "Goodnight".
Variant 5: has A4 "Obladi Oblada", A6 "Bungalow Bill", B7 'Why Don't We Do It In the Road?' (with question mark) , D1 "Revolution No. 1", D5 "Revolution No. 9" and D6 "Goodnight".

Cover has "The Beatles" embossed, located towards the lower right corner, and sequentially numbered.

Pressed at Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Scranton, as identified by the "IAM" in a triangle stamp in the run-outs.

Comes with fold-out lyric poster and 4 glossy photos on card stock.

Variant 4 (A28, A29, B28, B29) are from a rejected stamper that was used in the initial pressings (see: The Beatles - The Beatles for individual entry). All stampers from this master were pulled from production at the request of George Harrison because of Capitol's mastering changes. Variant 4 is very rare as only one set of stampers were ever officially used containing Capitols rejected mastering. Some of these stampers have been found mixed up among other copies from this plant.

Read here for more details: http://wogew.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-compressed-white-album.html

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society: BMI
Rights Society: ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Label side 1): SWBO1-101
Matrix / Runout (Label side 2): SWBO2-101
Matrix / Runout (Label side 3): SWBO3-101
Matrix / Runout (Label side 4): SWBO4-101
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Runout A): SWBO-1-101-J46
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Runout B): SWBO-2-101-J46 #2
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Runout C): SWBO-3-101-J47
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Runout D): SWBO-4-101-J45 #2
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Runout A Etched & Stamped): SWBO1-101-J46 #2 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Runout B Etched & Stamped): SWBO2-101-J46 #2 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Runout C Etched & Stamped): SWBO3-101-J47 #3 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Runout D Etched & Stamped): SWBO4-101-J44 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: Side 1 run-out, etched & stamped ): SWBO-1-101-J46¹¹ #2 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: Side 2 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO-2-101-J45¹¹ IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: Side 3 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO3-101-J47 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3: Side 4 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO4-101-J44 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 4: Side 1 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO-1-101-B29 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 4: Side 2 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO-2-101-B28 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 4: Side 3 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO-3-101-A28 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 4: Side 4 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO-4-101-A28 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 5: Side 1 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO-1-101-J46¹¹ #2 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 5: Side 2 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO-2-101-J45¹¹ #2 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 5: Side 3 run-out, etched & stamped): SWBO3-101-J47¹¹ #2 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 5: Side 4 run-out, etched & stamped): WBO4-101-J44¹¹ #3 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 6:Side 1 runout, etched & Stamped): SWBO1-101-J58 #4 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 6:Side 2 runout, etched & Stamped): SWBO2-101 J45 " #3 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 6:Side 3 runout, etched & Stamped): SWBO3-101-J48 #2 IAM
Matrix / Runout (Variant 6:Side 4 runout, etched & Stamped): SWBO4-101-J44 #5 IAM

Other Versions (5 of 734)View All

Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
The Beatles (2×LP, Album, Numbered, Stereo)	Apple Records	PCSO-7067-8	Australia	1968
The Beatles (2×LP, Album, Numbered, Stereo)	Apple Records, Apple Records	PMCQ 31513/4, SMO 2051/52	Italy	1968
The Beatles (2×LP, Album, Misprint, Numbered, Mono)	Apple Records	PMC 7067/8	UK	1968
The Beatles (2×LP, Album, Numbered, Gatefold)	Apple Records	SMO 2051/52	Germany	1968
The Beatles (2×LP, Album, Numbered, Stereo)	Apple Records	PCS 7067/8	UK	1968

Reviews

jwhiteker May 5, 2019

My copy of this one had J46 #4 which I don't see as a listed variant. Should I just add it to the variants in the database? All the other identifiers match correctly.

jc4411 Aug 31, 2015

When opening up the gatefold I noticed that the inside is upside down. Is that normal? I have determined that I have this pressing based on the way the number is on the front cover and how the labels look. Etchings are variants though.

jadedtom Jan 26, 2012

Edited 9 years ago

As unpopular as the opinion may be, I'm with George Martin who claimed this would have been better edited down to one album.
My reflections some forty four years after this album's release: John Lennon simply KICKS ASS on this album. The curiously simple "Dear Prudence" has only become better with age. "I'm So Tired", "Yer Blues", "Sexy Sadie" and the magnificent "Happiness is a Warm Gun" are Beatles' (and Lennon) classics. The acoustic version of "Revolution" is a vast improvement over the electric one. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide" is joyful, rocking nonsense, while McCartney's "Helter Skelter" and "Birthday" are just nonsense. McCartney slips into terminal cuteness with the awful "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" and the fairly minor "Rocky Raccoon".

McCartney scores high for "Back in the USSR". "Martha My Dear" and "I Will" may be minor songs, but McCartney's charm shines through on these numbers, as well as "Honey Pie" and "Mother Nature's Son".

Now for the garbage. The following songs should have been doomed to unreleased acetates: "Don't Pass Me By" (terrible mix of violin and organ), "Revolution 9" (remains an uninteresting collection of sound effects), "Wild Honey Pie" (simply awful), "Long Long Long" which is essentially Harrison masturbating. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" may be considered classic, but the song has long since bored me and it is painful to listen to now.

Guilty pleasures: Paul's vocal on "Why Don't We Do It In The Road". Lennon's hauntingly hip "Cry Baby Cry" and Harrison's spirited "Savoy Truffle". "Goodnight" is terribly hokey but in the universe of the Beatles, the song strangely works.

I did say John Lennon kicked ASS on this album, didn't I?

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