The Early Beatles


The Early Beatles



Side 1

  1. Love Me Do

  2. Twist And Shout (Russell/Medley)

  3. Anna (Go To Him) (Alexander)

  4. Chains (Goffin/King)

  5. Boys (Dixon/Farrell)

  6. Ask Me Why


Side 2

  1. Please Please Me

  2. P.S. I Love You

  3. Baby It's You (David/Williams/Bacharach)

  4. A Taste Of Honey (Scott/Marlow)

  5. Do You Want To Know A Secret?

All songs composed by Lennon/McCartney unless otherwise specified.


Background

Here we go again!! For no less than the fifth time around, American record buyers were buying these already released Vee Jay Beatles tracks all over again!! Only this time Capitol records was the record label and the album The Early Beatles was the result.


In 1962, Vee Jay records had acquired most of the tracks from the Beatles first British album Please Please Me after Capitol initially rejected the group. When the Beatles and Beatlemania broke out in early 1964, Capitol decided it wanted the Vee Jay tracks it had passed up on a year and a half earlier. This wound up in the courts with Capitol winning back the rights to the Beatles songs from the Please Please Me album.


Capitol decided to make a couple of minor changes to the album's lineup, eliminating I Saw Her Standing There, There's a Place and Misery, and reinstated Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You. Other than that, this "new" album was tossed out to Beatles fans hungry for more product. It sold well enough to chart on the three major record charts, but not in the Top Ten. Maybe Beatles fans were wising up to this after all!!



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