The BEATLES on Vinyl & CD

Beatles
Richard Donner

When I was a toddler my Aunt Debby was a teenager & she loved Dave Clark 5 & The BEATLES. She used to play her 45 Records (because back then Most people bought 45 singles not LPs) on her Recordplayer & apparently I would standup & move back & forth (the equivalent of dancing) there’s even 8mm film footage of me doing so. It’s now been 50 years since The BEATLES 1st appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, on Sun 9 Feb 1964, (oddly enough my friend Crazy Rob’s birthday, only a few years later) Davy Jones later of The MONKEES was 1 of the acts on the same bill, he was part of the cast of “Oliver”. The BEATLES performed these songs on this night:
All My Loving
Till There Was You
All My Loving
I Saw Her Standing There
I Want To Hold Your Hand

This time round I thought I would write about The BEATLES as they are Thee Most Collected Band in the Entire World. A useful comparison a beatup BEATLES Record is still worth more than a Sealed Elton John record. In this article I am going to cover just some of the major Vinyl, CD & Film releases by The BEATLES, as it would be Impossible to cover everything by The BEATLES, even if I were to write several articles with several hundred pages.
The 1st thing to keep in mind is The BEATLES UK releases were somewhat different than those released in the USA, as well as some USA releases were not released in the UK at all. There were several songs released Only On 45 Singles & not on any LP whatsoever, until some compilation LP or CD. The 1st BEATLES records to appear in the USA were on the Tollie, Swan & VeeJay labels & then later on Capitol.

45rpm: “Love Me Do b/w P.S. I Love You” 5 Oct 1962 Parlophone UK
45rpm: “Sie Liebt Dich” 5 Mar 1963 Swan #4182
45rpm: “Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand” 5 Mar 1963 Swan #4197
“Please, Please Me” 22 Mar 1963 Parlophone UK
45rpm: “She Loves You b/w I’ll Get You” 16 Sep 1963 Swan 4152 w/ picture sleeve
“With The BEATLES” 22 Nov 1963 Parlophone UK
“Introducing The BEATLES” 10 Jan 1963 VeeJay USA (Revised Feb 1964)

The 1st Capitol releases had a Black Label with a Rainbow around the edge, in the UK they were released on Parlophone Records.

“Meet The BEATLES” 20 Jan 1964 Capitol USA
45rpm: “Twist & Shout b/w There’s A Place” 2 Mar 1964 Tollie
“Second Album” 10 Apr 1964 Capitol USA
45rpm: “Love Me Do b/w P.S. I Love You” 27 Apr 1964 Tollie #9008 w/ picture sleeve

The BEATLES 1st Film was “A Hard Day’s Night” there was a “Soundtrack” LP in the USA & in the UK it was an actual LP by the band.

“A Hard Day’s Night” (soundtrack) 26 Jun 1964 United Artists USA
Film: “A Hard Day’s Night” 6 Jul 1964 United Artists
“A Hard Day’s Night” (album) 10 July 1964 Parlophone
“Something New” 20 July 1964 Capitol USA
“Story” 23 Nov 1964 Capitol USA 2LP interview album
“For Sale” 4 Dec 1964 Parlophone UK
“BEATLES ’65” 15 Dec 1964 Capitol USA

It is around this time period you can see the the USA & UK releases do not match up.

“BEATLES IV” 14 Jun 1965 Capitol USA
Film: “HELP!” 29 July 1965 United Artists
“HELP” (album) 6 Aug 1965 Parlophone UK
“HELP” (Soundtrack) 13 Aug 1965 Capitol USA

The band did play one concert here in the Twin Cities, my friend Larry S. was in attendance, there has been plenty written about their stay here in town. They did a press conference for radio WDGY, Harrison was presented with a Rickenbacker 12 String from Ron @ B-Sharp Music, & McCartney had a run in with the law, the BEATLES Vowed to never to return to the Twin Cities. (McCartney came back in 1976). Here is the setlist The BEATLES performed that night.

Beatles: Live in Concert
21 August 1965 Saturday @ 7:30pm
Minneapolis, MN. @ Metropolitan Stadium
She’s A Woman (Paul)
I Feel Fine (John)
Dizzy Miss Lizzy (John)
Ticket To Ride (John)
Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby (George)
Can’t Buy Me Love (Paul)
Baby’s In Black (John)
I Wanna Be Your Man (Ringo)
A Hard Day’s Night (John & Paul)
Help! (John)
I’m Down (Paul)

It’s interesting to me The BEATLES would put a 45 Single with 1 or 2 songs that would Not be on the follow-up LP. Since The BEATLES stopped touring in Sep 1966 & could not perform everywhere in the USA a Concert Film was made “Shea Stadium” & played in movie theaters & then eventually on TV.

“Rubber Soul” 3 Dec 1965 Parlophone UK
45rpm: “We Can Work It Out b/w Day Tripper” 3 Dec 1965 w/ picture sleeve
“Rubber Soul” 6 Dec 1965 Capitol USA
45rpm: “Paperback Writer b/w Rain” 30 May 1966 w/ picture sleeve
Film: “At Shea Stadium” 1 May 1966 Ed Sullivan Productions
“Yesterday & Today” 15 Jun 1966 Capitol USA

“Y & T” was the 9th LP by Capitol in the USA a sort of “Best Of” culled from 3 previous LPs & a Non-LP Single, some 750,000 copies were manufactured at 4 Capitol locations in Scranton, PA, Winchester, VA, Jacksonville, Il, & Los Angeles Mono copies of this LP outnumber the Stereo about 6 to 1. The original cover was the band’s response to Capitol “Butchering” their work, songs in a certain order on specific albums. Photographer Robert Whitaker took the photos for a session entitled “A Somnambulant Adventure”. The original cover was deemed in poor taste here in the USA so there was a recall of the remaining unsold copies, some retailers pulled the LP off the self after the 1st day, however there could have been as many as 100,000 copies sold with the original cover intact.

Back in the 60s there was not a hard release date therefore retailers put the records out when they received them. Generally the order would be placed by phone on a Monday, processed on a Tuesday, pulled & shipped on Wednesday & arrived on Friday, so in reality the original cover could have been for sale anywhere from 7 to 10 days. Most of the 250,000 copies produced in Jacksonville went to a landfill to be destroyed. An additional 200,000 were repackaged in a new sleeve with the new “Steam Trunk” Cover & the remainder had the new “Steam Trunk” cover pasted over the original “Butcher Cover”. This is by far 1 of the most sought after albums on the planet earth.

“Revolver” 5 Aug 1966 Parlophone UK
“Revolver” 8 Aug 1966 Capitol USA
“A Collection Of BEATLES Oldies” 9 Dec 1966 Parlophone UK
45rpm: “Penny Lane b/w Strawberry Fields Forever” 13 Feb 1967 w/ picture sleeve
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” 1 Jun 1967
“Magical Mystery Tour” 27 Nov 1967 Capitol USA
Film: “Magical Mystery Tour” 26 Dec 1967 Apple Corps.
45rpm: “Lady Madonna b/w The Inner Light” 15 Mar 1968 w/ picture sleeve

The UK “Sgt. Pepper” had no banding on the vinyl to separate the tracks, & was the 1st LP released with inner sleeve artwork, this was created by “The Fool” & came with a sheet of cutouts to play with, & “Magical Mystery” came with a booklet. In Jan 1968 The BEATLES formed “Apple Corps” to put out their own records & films, as well as other artists like BadFinger, Billy Preston & Mary Hopkin. The 1st record on Apple was the 45 Single “Hey Jude/ Revolution”.

Film: “Yellow Submarine” 17 July 1968 UK & 13 Nov 1968 USA: United Artists
45rpm: “Hey Jude b/w Revolution” 26 Aug 1968 w/ picture sleeve
“The Beatles (white album)” 22 Nov 1968 Apple
In 1968 the record industry stopped manufacturing Mono records to sell to the public (they were made for AM Radio until 1980) The “White Album” came with a 2×3 Poster & 4 photos of the individual BEATLES.

“Yellow Submarine” 13 Jan 1969 Apple
45rpm: “Ballad Of John & Yoko b/w Old Brown Shoe” 30 May 1969 w/ picture sleeve
“Abbey Road” 26 Sep 1969 Apple
“Hey Jude (Beatles Again)” 26 Feb 1970 Apple
45rpm: “Let It Be b/w You Know My Name (look up the number)” 6 Mar 1970 w/ picture sleeve

“Let It Be” 8 May 1970 (red) Apple
Film: “Let It Be” 13 May 1970 United Artists
“From Then To You: The BEATLES Christmas Album” 18 Dec 1970 Apple
“1962- 1966 (red)” 19 Apr 1973 Apple
“1967- 1970 (blue)” 19 Apr 1973 Apple

Sometime in 1974 or 1975 “Apple Corps” cease to put out records, The BEATLES catalog was briefly issued on Capitol Records with a Lime Green label & then around 1976 with a Red Label.

“Rock N Roll Music” 7 Jun 1976 (2 lp Best Of)
“Live At The Star Club Hamburg Germany 1962” 8 April 1977 Lingasong UK

“At The Hollywood Bowl” 4 May 1977
“Love Songs” 21 Oct 1977 (2 lp Best Of)
“Rarities (blue & gold)” 2 Dec 1978 Parlophone Uk (songs from 45s on 1 LP)
About 1980 The BEATLES records were issued with a Maroon Label.

“Rarities” 24 Mar 1980 Capitol USA (rare versions of songs on 1 LP)
“Reel Music” 22 Mar 1982 (songs from the 5 films)
Film: “Complete Beatles” 28 May 1982 MGM (documentary)
“20 Greatest Hits” 11 Oct 1982

In Dec 1985 Michael Jackson out bid McCartney to purchase The BEATLES “Maclen” catalog the 1st thing he announced was to stop production on the current USA version of The BEATLES albums & issue the UK versions of the LPs. This never came to pass, however in 1988 when The BEATLES catalog came out on CD, they were in fact the UK versions. Then contrary to public belief all 6 Major Record Labels BMG, EMI, PGD, Sony, UNI & WEA stopped making & supplying Retail Stores with Vinyl Records in Dec 1987, (although you could Special Order many titles until Oct 1989 & there were some very limited releases on Vinyl in the 90s). Jackson eventually sold a large portion of ownership to Sony ATV music sometime in 1995.

“Past Masters Vol. 1 (black)” 7 Mar 1988 (45s compilation)
“Past Masters Vol. 2 (white)” 7 May 1988 (45s compilation)
“Yellow Submarine Songtrack” 13 Sep 2000
“1 (red & yellow)” 13 Nov 2000 (CD & Cass greatest hits)
“Let It Be…Naked” 17 Nov 2001 (original “Get Back” LP)

The BEATLES Were:
John Winston Ono Lennon: 9 Oct 1940 Liverpool – 8 Dec 1980 NYC
James Paul McCartney: 18 Jun 1942 Liverpool
George Harrison: 25 Feb 1943 Liverpool- 29 Nov 2001 L.A. USA
Richard Starkey aka Ringo Starr: 7 Jul 1940 Liverpool
Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe: 23 Jun 1940 Edinburgh, Scotland – 10 April 1962 Hamburg, Germany: Bass
(Randolph Peter) “Pete” Best: 24 Nov 1941 Madras British India: Drums

Well there you are fans I have just scratched the surface, however this gives you something to start a checklist for your collections.
Until the next time … like Ringo said in “HELP!”
“Well I… I thought she was a sandwich, ’til she went spare on me hand”

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