The Beatles EPs Collection

The Beatles EPs Collection
Compilation album by The Beatles
Publication (s)	7 December 1981 (vinyl EP box) ( UK ) June 15, 1992 (CD-EP box) ( UK )
Label (s)	Parlophone / Capitol Records / Apple Records / EMI
Format (s)	Single ; CD
Genre (s)	Rock , pop
Title (number)	82
occupation	John Lennon : rhythm guitar , vocals Paul McCartney : bass , vocals George Harrison : lead guitar , vocals Ringo Starr : drums , vocals
production	George Martin
chronology The Beatles Box (1980) The Beatles EPs Collection Reel Music (1982)

The Beatles EPs Collection is a compilation of British EPs from the Beatles . The original box contains the 13 EPs released between 1963 and 1967 plus one EP with rarities. The box was first released on December 7, 1981.

prehistory

The Beatles' first EP was released on July 12, 1963 . The record was titled Twist and Shout and contained four tracks, all from the album Please Please Me . In the first four days after its publication, 150,000 copies had already been sold. By November 1963, the EMI reported 650,000 copies sold. The EP not only reached number one on the Record Retailer's EP charts , but also number two on the Melody Maker singles chart and number four on the New Musical Express (NME) singles chart . It was the first EP that could place in the NME singles charts. The EP became the fourth best-selling record in the UK in 1963.

The Beatles' second EP was released on September 6, 1963. The Beatles' Hits included the three A-sides of their first singles and the B-side of their third single.

In November 1963, three more Beatles records were released. It all started with The Beatles (No. 1) , the third EP released on November 1st. It contained four tracks from the album Please Please Me .

A planned EP titled The Beatles' Golden Discs with the songs I Want to Hold Your Hand ; This Boy / She Loves You ; I'll get You was supposed to be out in early 1964, but it wasn't published.

On February 7, 1964, the fourth EP was released with the title All My Loving . It contained two pieces each from the albums Please Please Me and With the Beatles .

The Beatles' fifth EP, Long Tall Sally , was released on June 19, 1964. Unlike the group's other EPs, it contained previously unreleased material. It contained cover versions of the rock 'n' roll pieces Long Tall Sally , Slow Down and Matchbox as well as the original composition I Call Your Name . The EP came to first place on the EP hit parade, where it could last for seven weeks.

On November 4th, Extracts from the film A Hard Day's Night was released , which, according to the name, contained four songs from the film from page 1 of the album. In December Extracts from the album A Hard Day's Night was released with four songs from page 2. The intensive marketing of the same material was far less successful than with previous EPs. Neither EP made it into the top 30 singles charts.

On April 6, 1965, the EP Beatles for Sale was released . It contained four pieces that had already appeared on the album of the same name in 1964.

On June 4, 1965, the archives were again reached and the EP Beatles for Sale (No. 2) was put together, for which pieces from the album from the previous year were again used.

The last release in 1965 was the EP The Beatles' Million Sellers , on which four songs are, of which more than a million copies had been sold as a single, it was released on December 6, 1965.

Beatles fans had to wait until March 4, 1966 for the group's first release of the year. On that day, Yesterday , the Beatles' eleventh EP, was released. This EP did not contain any new recordings, but four tracks from the album Help! : Yesterday , Act Naturally , You Like Me Too Much and It's Only Love .

On July 8, 1966, Nowhere Man , the twelfth Beatles EP, was released. Once again, only well-known songs were found on the sound carrier, this time the four songs came from the album Rubber Soul : Nowhere Man , Drive My Car , Michelle and You Won't See Me .

The soundtrack for the film Magical Mystery Tour was released on December 8, 1967 in the form of a double EP with six titles. The reason for this unusual format was that there weren't enough tracks for an album, but too many for a single EP. The EP also contained a 24-page booklet with pictures and information about the film. The best position in the singles charts was second place - behind the Beatles single Hello, Goodbye /  I Am the Walrus . By January 1968, 600,000 copies of the EP had been sold in the UK.

No further EPs were released until the Beatles split up in April 1970.

Vinyl EP box

On December 7, 1981, the EMI released a box with 14 Beatles EPs under the title The Beatles EPs Collection (catalog number BEP 14). The box contains the original 13 EPs plus an EP with four "rarities". The 13 EPs have reproduced picture covers and labels of the original editions from the 1960s. Like the originals, the EPs have mono mixes . Magical Mystery Tour (double EP) was released on Parlophone both in mono (catalog number MMT-1) and - as the first Beatles EP - in stereo (SMMT-1). The stereo version was used for the box.

The box includes an EP entitled The Beatles , this has its own picture cover and contains the following four songs:

• The Inner Light : The song was first released in a stereo mix in the UK.
• Baby You're a Rich Man : The song was first released in stereo in the UK in November 1980 on The Beatles Box album. The second release of the stereo version appeared on this EP. The German version of the album Magical Mystery Tour includes a stereoversion ofthe song for the first time worldwide.
• She's a Woman : The song was first released in a stereo mixdown in Great Britain in November 1980 on the album The Beatles Box . This stereo version starts with a count by Paul McCartney "One..Two..Three..Four", which was previously unreleased.
• This Boy : Although the cover says that This Boy was first released in a stereo version in Great Britain on this EP, a stereo version ofthe songwas released on the album Love Songs in October 1977.

The box had a blue hard cardboard cover, on the front at the upper edge is written The Beatles EPs Collection in golden block letters , on the lower edge are the four signatures of the Beatles, also printed in gold.

CD-EP-Box-5 ″ format

On June 15, 1992, EMI released a box with 14 Beatles CD EPs in 5 "format under the title The Beatles Compact Disc EP. Collection (catalog number CDBEP 14).

All 5 "CD EPs were released in the same picture covers as the 7" vinyl singles from the 1981 The Beatles EPs Collection . The respective original catalog numbers were extended by the addition of CD, for example The Beatles Hits has the vinyl catalog number GEP 8080, the CD-EP: CDGEP 8080. Like the originals, the EPs have mono mixes . The CD-EP Magical Mystery Tour (double EP) contains two CDs, one with the mono and the second with the stereo version.

List of UK EPs

EP		Release Date			Best position in the charts: single charts / EP charts			Label catalog no.
title	Songs A-Side / B-Side	UK	US	DE	UK	US	DE	UK	US	DE
Twist and Shout	Twist and shout ; A Taste of Honey / Do You Want to Know a Secret ; There's a place	July 12, 1963	-	-	4/ 1	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8882	-	-
The Beatles' hits	From Me to You ; Thank You Girl / Please Please Me ; Love me do	06 Sep 1963	-	Sep 20 1963	17/ 1	nv	-	Parlophone GEP8880	-	Odeon 41598
The Beatles (No. 1)	I Saw Her Standing There ; Misery / Anna (Go to Him) ; Chains	0Nov 1, 1963	-	-	24/ 2	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8883	-	-
All my loving	All My Loving ; Ask Me Why / Money (That's What I Want) ; PS I love you	0Feb. 7, 1964	-	-	13/ 1	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8891	-	-
Long Tall Sally	Long Tall Sally ; I Call Your Name / Slow Down ; Matchbox	June 19, 1964	-	Aug 1964	11/ 1	nv	-	Parlophone GEP8913	-	Odeon 41638
Extracts from the Film A Hard Day's Night	I Should Have Known Better ; If I Fell / Tell Me Why ; And I Love Her	0Nov 4, 1964	-	-	- / 1	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8920	-	-
Extracts from the Album A Hard Day's Night	Any time at all ; I'll Cry Instead / Things We Said Today ; When I get home	0Nov 6, 1964	-	-	- / 7	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8924	-	-
Beatles for Sale	No reply ; I'm a Loser / Rock and Roll Music ; Eight Days a Week	0Apr 6, 1965	-	-	- / 1	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8931	-	-
Beatles for Sale (No. 2)	I'll follow the sun ; Baby's in Black / Words of Love ; I don't want to spoil the party	0June 4, 1965	-	-	- / 5	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8938	-	-
The Beatles' Million Sellers	She Loves You ; I Want to Hold Your Hand / Can't Buy Me Love ; I feel fine	0Dec 6, 1965	-	-	- / 1	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8946	-	-
Yesterday	Yesterday ; Act Naturally / You Like Me Too Much ; It's only love	04th Mar 1966	-	-	- / 1	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8948	-	-
Nowhere Man	Nowhere Man ; Drive My Car / Michelle ; You won't see me	0July 8, 1966	-	-	- / 4	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8952	-	-
Magical Mystery Tour (Double EP)	EP1: Magical Mystery Tour ; Your Mother Should Know / I Am the Walrus ; EP2: The Fool on the Hill ; Flying / Blue Jay Way	0Dec 8, 1967	-	Dec 1967	2	nv	-	Parlophone MMT-1 (mono) SMMT-1 (stereo)	-	Odeon 39501/2

literature

• Neville Stannard: The Long & Winding Road , ISBN 0-907-08096-0 .
• Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records , ISBN 978-3-936300-44-4 .

Web links

• Information about the EP box box
• Information about the EP The Beatles

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bruce Spizer: Beatles for Sale on Parlophone Records . 498 Productions LLC, New Orleans LA 2011, ISBN 978-0-9832957-0-9 , p. 350.
2. ↑ EP- The Beatles' Golden Discs
3. ↑ Vinyl EP box
4. ↑ CD-EP box