First-year pressing
Matchbox / Slow Down 1964 Japan Pressing (OR-1156)
Matchbox / Slow Down by The Beatles
Mono
- Artist
- The Beatles = The Beatles
- Title
- マッチ・ボックス = Matchbox / スロー・ダウン = Slow Down
- Label
- Odeon OR-1156
- Country
- Japan
- Released
- November 5, 1964
- Format
- 7", 45 RPM, Single, Mono
Runout and matrix codes
Etched or stamped in the dead wax between the last track and the label. If yours match, you have this pressing.
- 7TCE-823-2Label A
- 7TCE-823-1Label B
- 7TCE-823-2 18 〄Variant 1, runout side A
- 7TCE-823-1 25 〄 K4Variant 1, runout side B
- 7TCE-823-2 4 〄 ⒻVariant 2, runout side A
- 7TCE-823-1 4 〄 K4Variant 2, runout side B
Other Japan pressings of Matchbox / Slow Down
- 1964Odeon OR-11567", 45 RPM, Single
- 1977Odeon EAS-170567", Single, Reissue, Mono
- ?Apple Records AR-11567", 45 RPM, Single, Reissue