The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

180 Gram Black Vinyl LP Record, Remaster

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A Hard Day's Night is the fourth studio album released in the US by British rock band The Beatles, originally released in June 1964 via United Artists.

The American version of A Hard Day's Night was released by United Artists Records in both mono and stereo and was the fourth Beatles album released in the United States. The album went to number one on the US Billboard album chart, spending 14 weeks there, the longest run of any album that year.

United Artists rushed the album into stores over a month before the film's US premiere; as a result, The Beatles had both the number-one album and number-one single in the country when A Hard Day's Night opened on 11 August 1964.

All seven songs from the film, the first side of the UK album, were featured along with "I'll Cry Instead", which, although written for the film, was cut at the last minute.

The American version also included four orchestral instrumental versions of Lennon and McCartney songs arranged by George Martin conducting an orchestra of studio musicians: "I Should Have Known Better", "And I Love Her", "Ringo's Theme" (featuring Vic Flick on lead guitar), and "A Hard Day's Night".

Using the original 1964 mono master, new lacquers have been cut all-analogue by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios. By constantly referring to the original first pressing, the album is faithful to the original release while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before. Featuring faithfully replicated artwork and a new four-panel insert with essay by American Beatles historian, Bruce Spizer. 180gram audiophile pressing.

By 1964 The Beatles had conquered the UK, Europe and other parts of the world, but the US was still uncharted territory. History shows that on February 9th 1964 they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show and suddenly the world changed. Watched by over 73 million people, the show was to launch Beatlemania in the USA and led to their first record-breaking tour in August of the same year.

Thus started one of the greatest stories in music history and a run of albums that has never been rivalled: 5 albums released between January and December 1964. Because they were so far behind the rest of the world, Capitol execs decided to release their own versions of albums that changed track lists, added singles, left some out, etc and for which they often created different mono mixes to those supplied by Abbey Road.

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of this incredible year, the original US albums are to be reissued, all released in 1964 and early 1965, using the original master tapes, cutting them on the original lathe used by Capitol Studios at the time (now housed in Nashville).

This is the first time since the 1980’s that these albums have been released on vinyl using the US masters as cut for the original albums in 1964/65.

This album is a 2024 reissue in mono on 180 gram audiophile black vinyl housed in single pocket sleeve with a printed inner sleeve, printed insert and plain polylined inner sleeve, pressed in France via Apple and United Artists.

(20246)

Tracklisting:

 

No.

Track

Time

A1

A Hard Day's Night (Vocal)

2:28

A2

Tell Me Why (Vocal)

2:04

A3

I'll Cry Instead

2:06

A4

I Should Have Known Better (Inst.)

2:16

A5

I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (Vocal)

0:59

A6

And I Love Her (Inst.)

3:42

B1

I Should Have Known Better (Vocal)

2:42

B2

If I Fell (Vocal)

2:16

B3

And I Love Her (Vocal)

2:27

B4

Ringo's Theme (Inst.)

3:06

B5

Can't Buy Me Love (Vocal)

2:15

B6

A Hard Day's Night (Inst.)

2:00

SKU 20246
Record Label United Artists
Label / Model # Universal
Catalogue Number UAL 3366
Country FR - France
Release Date (Year) 06 November 2024
Original Release Date (Year) 26 June 1964
Barcode # 602468019770
Shipping Weight 0.3600kg
Shipping Width 0.010m
Shipping Height 0.314m
Shipping Length 0.314m
Shipping Cubic 0.000986000m3
Type New
Format Limited Edition LP Record, 180 Gram Audiophile Black Vinyl, Single Pocket Sleeve, Printed Inner Sleeve, Printed Insert, Plain Polylined Inner Sleeve, Remastered Audio, Mono, Reissue
Vinyl Colour Black
Format VINYL LP
Genre Rock & Popular

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