BEATLES FOR SALE
Parlophone GEPO 70019
Released 24 June 1965
Original recommended retail price: 15/6
An Australian variation of the British EP that replaced the recently issued 'Rock and Roll Music' with 'Words of Love'.
Tracks
Side 1: No Reply / I'm A Loser
Side 2: Words of Love / Eight Days A Week

Matrix Information
Side 1: (mono) 7AXPA908
Side 2: (mono) 7AXPA909

June 1979
Side 1: (stereo) 7AXPA908
Side 2: (mono) 7AXPA909

Overview
Almost identical to the UK release of the same name, this EP differs in that 'Rock and Roll Music', having been released as a single a mere three months earlier, was replaced with 'Words of Love'.

This change was sufficient for EMI (Australia) to jettison Tony Barrow's liner notes, replaced instead with a select list of available Beatles EPs.

The EP remained in print until December 1978. In June 1979, EMI (Australia) recut this EP and the other Australian 70000-series Beatles EPs for reissue with revised artwork. For the recuts, EMI (Australia) went back to stereo tapes but mastered in mono, ostensibly to “maintain the feel of the original sound”. The more practical explanation was that EMI had temporarily misplaced PARLO 99, the original mono compilation tape containing the EP tracks. In this case, the tracks were taken from the Beatles For Sale LP production master tapes—PARLO 510 and 511. Oddly though, both 'No Reply' and 'I'm A Loser' play in stereo. This reissue first appeared in September 1979.
Chart Performance

Brisbane

(QLD)

Sydney

(NSW)

Melbourne

(VIC)

Hobart

(TAS)

Adelaide

(SA)

Perth

(WA)

Chart Entry

13-Mar-65

-

-

18-Jun-65

12-Jun-65*

19-Feb-65

Highest Position

21

 

 

3

41

15

Weeks In

15

 

 

9

7

13
Listed as "Eight Days A Week (EP)" except * "Beatles For Sale (EP)"
Brisbane and Perth may have possibly been playing/charting "Eight Days A Week" from the album prior to the EP's release
Yellow/Black Style 'A'
AUEP70019YBA.a
Yellow/Black Style 'B'
AUEP70019YBB.a

Music publ. for tracks 1.1, 1.2 and 2.2 is 'Northern'
AUEP70019YBB.b

Music publ. for tracks 1.1, 1.2 and 2.2 is 'Northern Songs'
Different font-family used for non-templated text elements
AUEP70019YBB.c

Different font-family used for non-templated text elements
Music publ. for tracks 1.1, 1.2 and 2.2 is 'ATV Northern Songs'

Copies with this label variation also exist with a smaller pressing ring; the result of EMI (Australia) installing new Toshiba-EMI automatic presses in 1980 and changing the 7" mould the following year
Silver/Black Style 'C'
AUEP70019SBC.a

Music publ. for tracks 1.1, 1.2 and 2.2 is 'Leeds'