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Encyclopedia > Beatles discography

The Beatles released an impressive 13 albums in a mere seven years. This was an astonishing achievement considering the relatively small amount of time in which they made them.


The first four Beatles vinyl albums differ based on their location of release. Those released in the US were of lower sound quality and had some of their songs omitted. Additionally, even though the first four Beatles albums were originally released as both monaural and stereo recordings in the United Kingdom, stereo phonographs were quite rare in England at the time. Naturally, then, George Martin and The Beatles only spent a lot of time on the mono mixes. Many early songs were later remastered by Capitol Records for the US as artificial stereo with bass on one side and treble on the other side, with loads of added echo, much to the disgust of fans today.


When it came time to release the Beatles catalog on CD, the decision was made to use the original British versions of the albums, since those were the "way the Beatles originally intended them to be." The initial release of the first four CDs were of the original mono mixes. In 2004, Capitol Records released the first four American albums on CD and they represent the current official Stereo versions. No official stereo mix of the first four British albums had been released on compact disc, but there were plenty of "official looking" bootleg CDs floating around that include the US stereo mixes and even bear the "Apple" logo. Martin and the Beatles started to spend more time on stereo mixes by 1965.

Contents
1 In the UK
2 Compilations and other releases in the UK
3 Christmas records
4 In Canada
5 In the US
6 Compilations and other releases in the US
7 Extended plays (EP's)

7.1 UK EP's
7.2 US EP's

8 Singles

8.1 UK singles
8.2 US singles

9 Filmography
10 External links

In the UK

Originally signed to Parlophone/EMI in the UK, the Beatles' (UK) official studio albums (not including compilations and the like) were:

Compilations and other releases in the UK

Note: The reason for the Past Masters compilations are so that every song the Beatles released in 1962-1970 could be on a CD. They include singles and B-sides, two songs sung in German, the contents of an EP released in 1964 that had four additional songs, the "single" versions of the songs "Get Back" and "Let It Be", and a version of "Across the Universe" that had bird-like sound effects.

Christmas records

The Beatles also recorded annual Christmas records for their fan club members. From 1963 to 1969 these were released as 7" flexidiscs on LYN. In 1970 the 7 previous records were put onto a 12" vinyl record. These remain largely unavailable today, with the exception of one track, "Christmas Time Is Here Again", which was edited and released on the Free As a Bird CD single in 1994:

  • The Beatles Christmas Record, LYN 492, 1963
  • Season's Greetings From The Beatles, LYN 757, 1964
  • The Beatles 3rd Christmas Record, LYN 948, 1965
  • Everywhere It's Christmas, LYN 1145, 1966
  • Christmas Time Is Here Again, LYN 1360, 1967
  • Beatles 1968 Christmas Record, LYN 1743/4, 1968
  • Happy Christmas 1969, LYN 1970/1, 1969
  • From them to you - The Beatles Christmas Record 1970, (UK) Apple LYN 2154, (US) Apple SBC 100, 1970

In Canada

The division of Capitol Records in Canada released three albums and a number of singles in 1963 and 1964 before aligning with the American division and releasing the same albums as in the US.

In the US

In the United States, as noted above, the Beatles albums were rearranged, retitled and remixed. Some of the US releases were nearly identical to their UK counterparts, often times only varying by one or two songs. Most releases contained songs that were also found on other records, which made things difficult for the American Beatles fan trying to purchase the band's entire catalog. By 1967, all US releases matched the UK releases exactly. Some of the US releases included:

Compilations and other releases in the US

Extended plays (EP's)

UK EP's

US EP's

Singles

UK singles

US singles

  • Please Please Me / Ask Me Why - February 25, 1963
  • From Me To You / Thank You Girl - May 27, 1963
  • She Loves You / I'll Get You - September 16, 1963
  • I Want To Hold Your Hand / I Saw Her Standing There - December 26, 1963
  • My Bonnie / The Saints - January 27, 1964
  • Please Please Me / From Me To You - January 30, 1964
  • All My Loving / This Boy - February 8, 1964
  • Roll Over Beethoven / Please Mister Postman - February 15, 1964
  • Twist And Shout / There's A Place - March 2, 1964
  • Can't Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That - March 16, 1964
  • Do You Want To Know A Secret / Thank You Girl - March 23, 1964
  • Why / Cry For A Shadow - March 27, 1964
  • Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You - April 27, 1964
  • Sie Liebt Dich (German She Loves You) / I'll Get You - May 21, 1964
  • Sweet Georgia Brown / Take Out Some Insurance on Me - June 1, 1964
  • Ain't She Sweet / Nobody's Child - July 6, 1964
  • A Hard Day's Night / I Should Have Known Better - July 13, 1964
  • I'll Cry Instead / I'm Happy Just To Dance With You - July 20, 1964
  • And I Love Her / If I Fell - July 20, 1964
  • Matchbox / Slow Down - August 24, 1964
  • I Feel Fine / She's A Woman - November 23, 1964
  • Eight Days A Week / I Don't Want To Spoil The Party - February 15, 1965
  • Ticket To Ride / Yes It Is - April 19, 1965
  • Help! / I'm Down - July 19, 1965
  • Yesterday / Act Naturally - September 13, 1965
  • We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper - December 6, 1965
  • Nowhere Man / What Goes On - February 21, 1966
  • Paperback Writer / Rain - May 30, 1966
  • Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine - August 8, 1966
  • Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane - February 13, 1967
  • All You Need Is Love / Baby You're A Rich Man - July 17, 1967
  • Hello Goodbye / I Am The Walrus - November 27, 1967
  • Lady Madonna / The Inner Light - March 18, 1968
  • Hey Jude / Revolution - August 26, 1968
  • Get Back / Don't Let Me Down - May 5, 1969
  • The Ballad Of John and Yoko / Old Brown Shoe - June 4, 1969
  • Something / Come Together - October 6, 1969
  • Let It Be / You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) - March 11, 1970
  • The Long And Winding Road / For You Blue - May 11, 1970

See Beatles Bootlegs for a run down of some of the more popular unauthorized, illegal bootleg material.


Filmography

External links

  • Lyrics (http://frogcircus.org/beatles/)
  • The Beatles Lyrics (http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/the_beatles_lyrics.html)
  • Stereo Reissue of Initial Four American albums (http://www.beatles.com/capitolAlbums/)
  • Beatles LP and CD Discography (http://www.beatletracks.com/btlps.html)
  • Beatles Singles and EP Discography (http://www.beatletracks.com/bt45s.html)
  • The Beatles Complete U.K. Discography (http://www.jpgr.co.uk/)
  • beatles-discography.com (http://www.beatles-discography.com/index.html)
  • The Beatles Discography 1962-1970 (http://www.thebeatlesongs.com/index.html)


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