The Early Beatles

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The Early Beatles
Compilation album by The Beatles

Publication
(s)

March 22, 1965

Label (s) Capitol Records , EMI , Universal Music

Format (s)

LP , CD , download

Title (number)

11

running time

26 min 26 s

occupation

production

George Martin

Studio (s)

Abbey Road Studios

chronology
Beatles '65
(1964) 		The Early Beatles Beatles VI
(1965)

The Early Beatles ( English The early Beatles ) is the eighth album released in the US by the British band The Beatles . It was released on March 22, 1965. It is the sixth album by the Beatles, which was distributed by Capitol Records .

Emergence

After Capitol Records had turned down the offer to take over the EMI distribution rights for the USA for the Beatles, Vee-Jay Records signed a contract with the Beatles. The three Beatles singles released by Vee-Jay Records failed to make it onto the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1963 .

In December 1963, Brian Epstein , the Beatles' manager, signed a recording deal with Capitol Records for future Beatles releases. On December 26, 1963, the Beatles' first single, I Want to Hold Your Hand / I Saw Her Standing There, was released on Capitol Records. The single rose to number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 18, 1964. Two weeks later, I Want to Hold Your Hand topped the charts. It was the Beatles' commercial breakthrough in the United States.

On January 10, 1964, Vee-Jay Records released the album Introducing ... The Beatles , of which more than a million copies were sold in the United States. Shortly after its release, Capitol Records took legal action on January 15, 1964 to prohibit Vee-Jay Records from distributing Beatles records. Vee-Jay Records was granted the right to publish Beatles records until October 15, 1964. Capitol Records released in the USA six months later, on March 22, 1965, a replacement for the album Introducing ... The Beatles , with the title The Early Beatles , the album only contains eleven songs, in contrast to the British album Please Please Me , which includes 14 tracks. I Saw Her Standing There (published on the album Meet the Beatles! ), Misery and There's a Place , which were re-released on March 24, 1980 on the US album The Beatles Rarities , are missing .

The Early Beatles only reached number 43 on the US Billboard 200 , which is probably due to the fact that many potential buyers had already acquired the album Introducing ... The Beatles . In January 1997, the album went platinum in the United States for one million copies sold.

The album was released in a mono and a stereo version. The mono version is the downmixed British stereo version. In the stereo version of the album, no stereo mixes of the songs Love Me Do and PS I Love You were used , but so-called duophonic mixes ( fake stereo).

The album was released on August 1, 1968 in Canada and in the summer of 1970 in Venezuela with a different cover design.

The British album Please Please Me was only released on CD on July 21, 1987 in the USA .

Cover design

The cover photo is from Robert Freeman . It shows the four Beatles on October 24, 1964 in Hyde Park , London .

Track list

page 1

No. song author Lead vocals length
01 Love me do McCartney / Lennon Lennon and
McCartney 		2:23
02 Twist and Shout Medley / Russell Lennon 2:32
03 Anna (Go to Him) Arthur Alexander Lennon 2:55
04th Chains Gerry Goffin / Carole King Harrison 2:23
05 Boys Dixon / Farrell Rigid 2:24
06th Ask me why McCartney / Lennon Lennon 2:24

Page 2

No. song author Lead vocals length
07th Please Please Me McCartney / Lennon Lennon 2:00
08th PS I love you McCartney / Lennon McCartney 2:04
09 Baby it's you David / Bacharach / Williams Lennon 2:40
10 A taste of honey Ric Marlow / Bobby Scott McCartney 2:03
11 Do you want to know a secret McCartney / Lennon Harrison 1:56

Republication

The album The Early Beatles was first released on CD in April 2006 as part of the box The Capitol Albums Vol. 2 . The CD contains the mono and the stereo version of the album. In January 2014, The Early Beatles was re-released as part of the CD box The US Albums , it was also released separately and also contains the mono and stereo versions of the album. While the original submasters from Capitol Records and not the original masters from Abbey Road Studios were used in the boxes The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 , the albums in The US Albums Box were essentially remastered from the British in September 2009 Mono and stereo tapes used. The album has been available as a download from iTunes since January 17, 2014 .

Chart positions of the album

album Release Date Best placement in the charts Label catalog no.
Type title GB United KingdomUnited Kingdom US United StatesUnited States DE GermanyGermany GB United KingdomUnited Kingdom US United StatesUnited States DE GermanyGermany GB United KingdomUnited Kingdom US United StatesUnited States DE GermanyGermany
compilation The Early Beatles - 22 Mar 1965 - nv 43 nv - Capitol
T 2309 (mono)
ST 2309 (stereo) 		-

Single releases

single Release Date Best placement in the charts Label catalog no.
A side / B side GB United KingdomUnited Kingdom US United StatesUnited States DE GermanyGermany GB United KingdomUnited Kingdom US United StatesUnited States DE GermanyGermany GB United KingdomUnited Kingdom US United StatesUnited States DE GermanyGermany
Do You Want to Know a Secret / Thank You Girl - Aug 10, 1964 - nv - / - nv - Oldies 45 OL 149 -
Please Please Me / From Me to You - - nv - / - nv - Oldies 45 OL 150 -
Love Me Do / PS I Love You - - nv - / - nv - Oldies 45 OL 151 -
Twist and Shout / There's a Place - - nv - / - nv - Oldies 45 OL 152 -

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Spizer: The Beatles Are Coming! 498 Productions, New Orleans 2003, ISBN 0-9662649-8-3 , pp. 82 f.
  2. ↑ Platinum award
  3. ↑ Mixing the songs
  4. ↑ Canadian version: The Early Beatles
  5. ↑ Venezuela Version: The Early Beatles
  6. ^ Cover of the album Early Beatles