Twist and Shout (EP)

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Twist and Shout
Extended Play by The Beatles

Publication
(s)

July 12, 1963

admission

February 11, 1963

Label (s) Parlophone

Format (s)

EP on vinyl and CD

Genre (s)

Rock, pop

Title (number)

4th

running time

8 min 32 s

occupation

production

George Martin

Studio (s)

EMI Studios , London

chronology
- Twist and Shout The Beatles' Hits
(1963)

Twist and Shout ( English turning and screaming ) is published on 12 July 1963 EP of the British rock band The Beatles . It was the Beatles' first EP to be released on Parlophone (catalog number GEP 8882). All four tracks on the EP come from the album Please Please Me , the group's debut album. The EP was only released in mono .

background

By the time their first British EP was released, the dominant position of the Beatles was already emerging, at least in Great Britain. Her debut album Please Please Me had been number 1 on the British album charts for several weeks, the single of the same name had reached number 2 on the singles chart and From Me to You , the follow -up single , had been at number 1 since May 4, 1963.

In a statement from their record company to the British music magazine Melody Maker , the choice of the title of the first EP was justified with the enormous demand for the Beatles version of Twist and Shout . Shortly after the EP was announced, pre-orders for more than 50,000 records were available according to EMI .

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.

In Germany, two months before its British release, the EP was released in May 1963 under the simple name The Beatles (catalog number: ODEON O 41560) with a different cover. The Beatles' first German long-playing record, Die Zentral Tanzschaffe of the world-famous four from Liverpool (German title of the album Please Please Me ), was only released on February 6, 1964.

Cover design

The photo of the cover is from Fiona Adams. On the back of the cover is an accompanying text from Tony Barrow, the Beatles' press officer.

Track list

The song selection ensured each of the Beatles' three main singers sang a song, John Lennon sang the title track Twist and Shout , Paul McCartney sang the ballad A Taste of Honey, and George Harrison sang Do You Want to Know a Secret one of the two Lennon / McCartney compositions from the EP. There's a Place Lennon and McCartney sang as a duet .

page 1

  1. Twist and Shout ( Russell / Medley ) - 2:33
  2. A Taste of Honey ( Marlow / Scott ) - 2:05
    • First published as track 5 from page 2 of the album Please Please Me .

Page 2

  1. Do You Want to Know a Secret ( McCartney / Lennon ) 1) - 2:00
    • First published as track 4 from page 2 of the album Please Please Me .
  2. There's a Place (McCartney / Lennon) - 1:53
    • First published as track 6 from page 2 of the album Please Please Me .


1)McCartney was named first in the early Beatles' releases. It was only on the single She Loves You that the name sequence changed to "Lennon / McCartney".

Re-releases

The EP Twist and Shout was pressed until the 1970s. In December 1981, the EP was released as part of the The Beatles EPs Collection box set , which included all UK EPs. On May 26, 1992, this set was released with the slightly changed title The Beatles Compact Disc EP. Collection as CD edition.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records . Something Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-936300-44-4 . P. 91.
  2. ↑ Bruce Spizer: Beatles for Sale on Parlophone Records . 498 Productions LLC, New Orleans LA 2011, ISBN 978-0-9832957-0-9 , p. 350.