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Bought a reel to reel beatles tape over weekend called A hard days night and singles , ever seen it ?

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maidmarianx | 21:08 Mon 28th May 2012 | Music
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I bought this tape thinking it was a cine film but it isnt , its about 1/4" and the front of the box shows pictures of them making the film, inside is 2 lists of the songs included, under the heading "yelw leader " and "green leader" crudely typed on what looks like an old typewriter. Ive looked everywhere on the net and cant fiund anything about it anywher ?Hmmmm I remembered this site and thought................Hmmmm Ill give it a go ?
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It sounds like a home-made copy of the original tape
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with some singles included to fill up the time on the tape.
21:36 Mon 28th May 2012
never heard of it. Have you got anything to play it on?
It sounds like a home-made copy of the original tape
http://collectorsfren...lery/140655850560.jpg
with some singles included to fill up the time on the tape.
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Nope nothing to play it on unfortunately, and no I dont think it is a home de copy although it might be, I wish I could upload a picture of it, or can i ?
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Thankyou by the way.......hope its worked
That was quick!

I'm sticking with my original view. The plastic reel looks like a generic one (which would have been provided with a blank tape); a proper Beatles recording should have 'EMI' on the reel. The coloured leaders are also consistent with home-taping. (Commercial tapes usually had white, printed leaders). The type-written insert looks like it was done on a good-quality portable machine (or on an office typewriter).
Your second picture wasn't there when I posted above.

Take a look at the picture to see whether it's printed directly onto the box or stuck onto it. If it's actually printed you might have discovered an extremely rare tape (although I'd still have my doubts!). If it's stuck on then it's almost certainly homemade.

Actually, on looking again, I see that there's a crease mark across the picture at the bottom right. Since it's not there at the bottom-left, I'm guessing that 4 separate photos (probably cut from one of the magazines which you could buy from cinemas at that time) have been stuck onto the box.
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Ive looked at the box and youre right, they are stuck on there. On the original hards days night there are only about 12 tracks but on this one there are about 23,so looks like Ient found a long lost tape !!! Tut...Ill put it on ebay though you never know ?!?
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Thankyou for your help by the way x

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