MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Parlophone SMMT 1 (Stereo)
Released 14 March 1968
Original recommended retail price: $2.50
The stereo counterpart to Magical Mystery Tour and the only original Australian Beatles EP initially released in stereo.
Tracks
Side 1: Magical Mystery Tour / Your Mother Should Know
Side 2: I Am The Walrus
Side 3: The Fool on the Hill / Flying
Side 4: Blue Jay Way

Matrix Information
Side 1: (stereo) 7YCE18435-1
Side 2: (stereo) 7YCE18434-2
Side 3: (stereo) 7YCE18436-1
Side 4: (stereo) 7YCE18437-1

Overview
Contrary to popular belief, this “EP” was not actually sold as an EP, at least insofar as EMI UK’s marketing was concerned. To use EMI UK’s own terminology, it was “an extended single” and “a pair of 45rpm discs”. Indeed, the masters were catalogued in EMI’s singles series, and the two discs were therefore pressed in both the UK and Australia—the Australian discs being pressed from UK-supplied mothers—with standard silver-and-black single labels rather than yellow-and-black EP labels. The public nevertheless applied the EP moniker and it stuck, perhaps so firmly that when EMI (Australia) re-pressed the stereo set in the early 1970s, it used EP labels, at least on disc one.

The locally produced, fully laminated sleeves were printed by Z. Nosek & Co using its new gatefold-capable machinery, which had been installed only a few months earlier. Slightly smaller than their UK equivalents, the Australian sleeves were prone to laminate lifting along the spine. Separate sleeves were manufactured for the stereo and mono issues, although from late 1969 excess mono sleeves were used for stereo copies, with a standard black-and-white [S STEREO] sticker applied over the mono catalogue number—see example image below. All copies contained the stapled booklet with blue lyric sheet.

This was the only EP released in Australia that did not survive into 1978. Owing to the complexity of its packaging, the mono edition was deleted from the catalogue in 1969 and the stereo edition in 1973, with subsequent copies imported from EMI UK.
Chart Performance

Brisbane

(QLD)

Sydney

(NSW)

Melbourne

(VIC)

Hobart

(TAS)

Adelaide

(SA)

Perth

(WA)

GO-SET

(AUS)

Chart Entry

16-Mar-68

22-Mar-68

23-Mar-68

20-Mar-68

16-Mar-68

29-Mar-68

27-Mar-68

Highest Position

4

2

6

6

1

12

3

Weeks In

10

15

14

9

12

6

13
Listed as "Magical Mystery Tour (EP)"
Silver/Black Style 'A'
AUEPSMMT1ASBA.a
AUEPSMMT1BSBA.a
Only disc 2 has been confirmed with this 'narrow stereo' crossover; disc 1 was as per AUEPSMMT1ASBA.a

Appears to be found exclusively in mono sleeves with STEREO sticker affixed
AUEPSMMT1BSBA.x - 'Crossover'
Silver/Black Style 'B'
AUEPSMMT1ASBB.a
AUEPSMMT1BSBB.a
AUEPSMMT1ASBB.b
AUEPSMMT1BSBB.b
Yellow/Black Style 'B'
AUEPSMMT1AYBB.a

Only disc 1 has been confirmed with this label; disc 2 was as per AUEPSMMT1BSBA.a. Presumably EMI (Australia) found some old side 3/4 label stock to use up before moving to importing full sets

Appears to be found exclusively in UK-made sleeves (with blue lyric pages)