The Beatles - The Early Beatles
180 Gram Black Vinyl LP Record, Remaster
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The Early Beatles is a compilation studio album released in the US by British rock band The Beatles, originally released in December 1964 via Capitol Records.
The Early Beatles is The Beatles' sixth album released on Capitol Records, and their eighth album overall for the American market. All eleven tracks on this album were previously issued on the Vee-Jay Records release Introducing... The Beatles, originally released in January 1964.
Vee-Jay Records had gained American distribution rights to the tracks on this album before the group became popular in America (because Capitol Records, the US subsidiary of EMI which owned the Beatles' record label Parlophone, had declined to release the group's records in America), and their releases had initially failed to chart.
But after the group became famous, Vee-Jay, still holding the rights to the early material, was able to reissue them in America and this time the records sold in the millions. Capitol filed a lawsuit attempting to stop Vee Jay from distributing the tracks, but was unsuccessful.
In October 1964, Vee-Jay's license to distribute the Beatles recordings it possessed expired, thus giving Capitol the distribution rights for the tracks on the album.
The front cover photo for this album features the same back cover photo for the British LP Beatles For Sale.
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 Capitol Records.
(20249)
Tracklisting:
No. |
Track |
Time |
A1 |
Love Me Do |
2:19 |
A2 |
Twist And Shout |
2:32 |
A3 |
Anna |
2:56 |
A4 |
Chains |
2:21 |
A5 |
Boys |
2:24 |
A6 |
Ask Me Why |
2:24 |
B1 |
Please Please Me |
2:00 |
B2 |
P.S. I Love You |
2:02 |
B3 |
Baby It's You |
2:36 |
B4 |
A Taste Of Honey |
2:02 |
B5 |
Do You Want To Know A Secret |
1:55 |
SKU | 20249 |
Record Label | Capitol Records |
Label / Model # | Universal |
Catalogue Number | T 2309 |
Country | FR - France |
Release Date (Year) | 06 November 2024 |
Original Release Date (Year) | 22 March 1965 |
Barcode # | 602468019862 |
Shipping Weight | 0.3500kg |
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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