Friday, December 12, 2008

The Early Beatles

The Early Beatles LP was on released March 22, 1965

From Beatles-discography.com:

Capitol’s settlement with Vee-Jay in January ‘64 gave them the right to re-release their back catalogue, so they wasted no time in putting out a straight copy of Introducing The Beatles (minus a couple of the songs and with a rearranged song-set). To their credit, they felt a (small) pang of guilt about fleecing the kids (again) so didn’t bother running any trade-ads – perhaps realising that a fifth copy of their debut LP was beyond even the craziest of kids’ budget.
The songs they dumped were I Saw Her Standing There and Thank You Girl (which had both appeared on a Capitol LP), Misery, There’s A Place and From Me To You. These last three songs eventually came out as B-sides on Capitol’s budget label – Starline.
The front cover used the same Robert Freeman pic as the back of Beatles For Sale. Some selected videos:


A Taste Of Honey


Anna


Chains

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