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Disc Twelve: Mono Masters
(Disc One)
1. Love Me Do (Original Single Version)
2. From Me To You
3. Thank You Girl
4. She Loves You
5. I’ll Get You
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. This Boy
8. Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
9. Sie Liebt Dich
10. Long Tall Sally
11. I Call Your Name
12. Slow Down
13. Matchbox
14. I Feel Fine
15. She’s A Woman
16. Bad Boy
17. Yes It Is
18. I’m Down
Disc One
Principal Engineer: Norman Smith
Remastered by Paul Hicks, Sean Magee, Guy Massey, Steve Rooke
Project Co-ordinator: Allan Rouse
Thanks to Simon Gibson, Pete Nash and Staffan Olander
This album has been created from the original mono analogue master tapes with the exception of ‘Love Me Do’, which was remastered from a mono disc. All songs composed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC except: Disc One: Track 1 published by MPL Communications, Ltd., Track 10 composed by Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman, Robert Blackwell and published by Peermusic (UK) Ltd. Tracks 12, 16 composed by Larry Williams and published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd., Track 13 composed by Carl Perkins and published by Carlin Music Corp. Original recordings produced by George Martin. Digital Remaster (P) 2009 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd. Notes for Mono Masters album During The Beatles' first trip to the At the end of 1964, The Beatles appeared on the BBC radio programme Top Gear. They were heard chatting to the host Brian Matthew and performing both sides of their new single – ‘I Feel Fine’ / ‘She’s A Woman’ – and four songs from the latest album Beatles For Sale. Brian Matthew: I’ve heard it said that a lot of these would make good singles. Do you think there’s any likelihood at all of them being released? John: You can’t release singles off an LP after the LP’s been out. Brian: A lot of people do. Paul: Well, in John: Well, they’re different over there, aren’t they? Paul: In Clearly, it was frustrating to The Beatles that they could not control their release schedule outside the When The Beatles' music was first transferred to compact disc in 1987, the opportunity was taken to standardize the catalogue globally by following the form of the British albums – except for Magical Mystery Tour. Through the addition of recent singles, that British double-EP had expanded to an LP in The collection opens with ‘Love Me Do’ [Disc One Track 1] – the first Beatles Parlophone single released on 5th October, 1962. Early pressings featured the version recorded on 4th September, 1962 with Ringo playing drums. Later copies of the single used the recording made a week later with session man Andy White drumming and Ringo on tambourine. That version was also included on the album Please Please Me and eventually became an American number one. The original single rose no higher than number seventeen in the various British charts. Both sides of the first disc were original compositions – a remarkable statement of intent from a group making their first steps in the record business. In fact, their producer George Martin had urged them to record Mitch Murray’s ‘How Do You Do It?’, which he felt was a sure-fire hit. They had reluctantly agreed to try it but were able to persuade George to shelve the recording in favour of their own songs. Just one example of how The Beatles' story might have been so different with a less open-minded record producer. George Martin's faith in The Beatles and their songwriters was soon vindicated by the release of 'Please Please Me'/'Ask Me Why' on 11th January, 1963. The single topped all but one of the Released on 23rd August, the fourth single left no one in any doubt that, in the In this era, the international music market was much less homogeneous. Hits sung in English were less likely to break into the parochial markets of non-English speaking countries. For this reason, The Beatles were asked to record German language versions of their two biggest hits - translated as 'Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand' [D1 Track 8} and 'Sie Liebt Dich' [D1 Track 9). The German version of 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' consisted of the original instrumental track taken from the four-track tape with new overdubbed vocals and handclaps. The English vocal could not be separated from the recording of 'She Loves You' so their German version is a completely new performance. During this unusual session held on 29th January, 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in However, The Beatles did record four songs in the first half of 1964 that would not surface on a Side one of the EP Long Tall Sally featured two songs recorded on 1st March, 1964. Little Richard's 1956 hit 'Long Tall Sally' [D1 Track 10) was captured in Just one take and the session had then progressed to the Lennon/McCartney composition 'I Call Your Name' [D1 Track 11}. The song was originally given to Billy J. Kramer with the During the sessions for their second album of that year, Beatles For Sale, the group worked on two songs that were eventually saved for a single released on 27th November. Beatles singles always had ear-catching openings; for example, their previous hit 'A Hard Day's Night' immediately struck the listener with the chime of its unusual first chord. In that vein, 'I Feel Fine' [D1 Track 14] began with distinctive feedback and distortion before the riff kicked in – a pioneering transformation of a technical problem into something mysterious and futuristic. The song was recorded on 18th October, ten days after the B-side 'She's A Woman' [D1 Track 15) was completed during the afternoon of 8th October. The single topped both the With one exception, the songs completed in The Beatles' sessions from the first half of 1965 were released on their fifth album Help! and as two B-sides. The track that slipped through the net in the Released on 9th April, 1965, 'Ticket To Ride' was the first new single of the year and was then followed by the title song of their second movie Help!. Issued on 23rd July, that record preceded the soundtrack album by two weeks. Both singles were world-wide number ones and had B-sides that could not have been more different. Flip over 'Ticket To Ride' and there was the sensitive ballad 'Yes It Is' [D1 Track 17] – similar to 'This Boy' because of its 12/8 time signature and three-part harmony vocal but also distinguished by on alluring new guitar sound created by a foot-controlled volume pedal. George also used the effect on 'I Need You' recorded on the same day as 'Yes It Is', 16th February. Turn over the 'Help!' single and 'I'm Down' [D1 Track 18) explodes with Paul's Little Richard-style high-pitched vocal. After it was recorded during the afternoon of 14th June, 1965, Paul calmed things down in the evening session when he gently sang one of the most famous and well-loved songs of the twentieth century, 'Yesterday'. Now that's versatility! (Continued on Volume Two, click here to proceed)
Kevin Howlett