· "CON LOS BEATLES" (With The Beatles Argentinian LP)

Recording first published:
Mono, 7 February 1964
Stereo, June 1972

Mono:  https://mega.co.nz/#!zZkEnY4b!cAgEsDR8AfdDIUDGidyEjBOtT-Q-TKRRWJR_Xrr_ccU

Stereo:  https://mega.co.nz/#!6NUQjRLT!E3L-6C4v4DxTObCnQYPv917iRDp2S9r1Cx2h-hKrbc0

· "POR FAVOR, YO" (Please Please Me Argentinian LP)

Recording first published:
Mono, 7 February 1964
Stereo, April 1972

Mono:  https://mega.co.nz/#!yFckzLJQ!euUxL02urD8Fi89PrWQW_T1cnUk4TOpGRWBZvuMPjjM

Stereo:   https://mega.co.nz/#!mUMS1DRZ!CWMXLzQQriVB3TrudGLJY2-6zGsOhHq9Jubm30H1xTc

· "MEET THE BEATLES!" - The Beatles USA 1964

Meet The Beatles! was the second Beatles' album released in the United States, despite the "first album" claim on its cover. Released on 20 January 1964, it was the first Capitol Records Beatles' album, issued in both mono and stereo. Capitol is a sister company to Parlophone, the Beatles' British label, and both are subsidiaries of EMI. Ten days prior to the release of Meet the Beatles!, Chicago's Vee-Jay Records released The Beatles' first album, Introducing... The Beatles, which had been delayed for release from the previous summer. Perhaps as a result of the Vee-Jay release, Liberty Music Shops advertised in the New York Times of 12 January 1964 that Meet The Beatles! was available for purchase, an ad not authorized by Capitol. The cover featured Robert Freeman's portrait that was used for the U.K. With The Beatles release with a tinted blue hue added to the original, stark black-and-white photograph. Meet The Beatles! reached the number one spot on Billboard album charts starting on February 15th, 1964. It remained at number one for an impressive 11 weeks before being replaced by The Beatles' Second Album; the first time that an artist replaced itself at the number one album position. In 2003, Meet The Beatles! was ranked number 59 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2004, the album was released on CD in stereo and mono as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set.

Mono:  https://mega.co.nz/#!fYkhwSgR!Xv7qBTqvr9JyaPtmHV8bXlTgEsUCOIJwFh1jlljj7Y4

Stereo:  https://mega.co.nz/#!fANAzLiI!BY4uInSxZh1Km_0FtbcELjlyj0o52NGSc8WViaT9Jt4

01- I Want to Hold Your Hand
02- I Saw Her Standing There
03- This Boy
04- It Won't Be Long
05- All I've Got to Do
06- All My Loving
07- Don't Bother Me
08- Little Child
09- Till There Was You
10- Hold Me Tight
11- I Wanna Be Your Man
12- Not a Second Time

· "INTRODUCING THE BEATLES" - The Beatles USA 1964

Introducing... The Beatles is the first Beatles album in the United States. Originally scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP finally came out on 10 January 1964, mere days before Capitol's Meet The Beatles!. It was the subject of much legal wrangling, but ultimately, Vee-Jay Records was permitted to sell the album until the fall of 1964, by which time it had sold more than 1.3 million copies. When it issued the "Please Please Me" single in the United States, Vee-Jay Records signed a licensing agreement with Transglobal, an EMI affiliate that worked to place foreign masters with U.S. record labels, giving it the right of first refusal on Beatles records for five years. As part of that agreement, Vee-Jay planned to release the UK Please Please Me album in the U.S., and received copies of the mono and stereo master tapes in late April or early May of 1963. Originally, Vee-Jay considered releasing the album exactly as it appeared in England. A surviving acetate made by Universal Recording Corporation of Chicago, probably in May 1963, contains all 14 songs in the same order as on the UK album, with the title still listed as Please Please Me. But in keeping with the American norm of a 12-song album, Vee-Jay chose instead to delete the songs "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" and change the album's title to Introducing... The Beatles. Also, the engineer at Universal in Chicago thought that Paul McCartney's count-in at the start of "I Saw Her Standing There" was extraneous rather than intentionally placed there, so he snipped the "one, two, three" from Vee-Jay's mono and stereo masters. Except for those deletions, the order and contents of the album were untouched, resulting in a U.S. album that bore the closest resemblance to a British Beatles LP until Capitol’s Revolver in 1966. Preparations for the LP's release continued in late June and early July 1963, including the manufacturing of masters and metal parts and the printing of 6,000 front covers. But, despite the claims of many older books that Introducing The Beatles was first released on 22 July 1963 no paper trail exists to suggest that the album was released at any time in 1963. After a management shake-up at the label, which included the resignation of company president Ewart Abner after he used company funds to cover gambling debts, Vee-Jay canceled Introducing The Beatles. On 14 December 1963, Billboard magazine mentioned that Capitol Records planned an all-out promotional campaign for the Beatles in the United States. On 7 January 1964, Vee-Jay's board of directors met for the first time since that announcement, and it discussed the Beatles' material it had in the vault. Desperate for cash, the board decided to release IntroducingThe Beatles, even if it meant legal trouble in the future. Metal parts were already at Vee-Jay's three primary pressing plants, and 6,000 front covers were already printed. All of these were available on the market within days of the 10 January release date. On 16 January 1964, Introducing... The Beatles was finally released, but Vee-Jay was served with a restraining order stopping further distribution. Beechwood Music, Inc., Capitol Records' publishing subsidiary, owned the American publishing rights to "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You", and because the two songs had not yet been officially released in the U.S., Beechwood refused to issue a license for Vee-Jay to release them. Approximately 80,000 copies of the album had been already released with the two songs on them, with only 2,000 or so in stereo. So in order to circumvent the restraining order, Vee-Jay quickly reconfigured the song list by removing "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" and replaced them with the previously deleted "Ask Me Why" and "Please Please Me”. The new versions were prepared in late January and began appearing in stores approximately 10 February 1964. Because of the initial restraining order, Introducing... The Beatles did not enter the Billboard album charts until one week after Meet the Beatles!. Once it did, it quickly rose to the #2 spot, where it stayed for nine straight weeks. It also peaked at #2 in Cash Box, and it got to #1 in Record World magazine. It is interesting to note that the song "I Saw Her Standing There", which was first released in the U.K. on the album Please Please Me, appeared in the U.S. on both the Vee-Jay album as well as Capitol's Meet The Beatles! LP. These two albums were initially issued almost simultaneously, marking the only time that 2 different Beatles albums, each from a different record label, were released at around the same time with one song appearing on both albums. In the other hand, the songs “Misery” and “There’s a Place” were first released by Capitol as part of the Rarities US album in 1980, and remained almost as unreleased songs since October 1964 when Vee Jay stopped distributing Introducing The Beatles. The rest of the songs were included in The Early Beatles, released by Capitol in mid-1965, which had very poor sales compared to the rest of the other Beatles records released back then, mainly due to the previous Vee Jay release of Introducing... The Beatles. Here’s the second version released on early February 1964 from the original Vee Jay stereo and mono LPs.

 

Mono: https://mega.co.nz/#!zZkhlCQY!UVa-9kfvEJWePWbH4lisYS4uIvJnl6tur8s6ur2lbjM

Stereo:  https://mega.co.nz/#!jRUS3ShZ!d8MGbigp7VHy2OqTJVojfHpqtqo8qN51lhdKhl9UbBM

01- I Saw Her Standing There
02- Misery
03- Anna [Go to Him]
04- Chains
05- Boys
06- Ask Me Why
07- Please Please Me
08- Baby It's You
09- Do You Want to Know a Secret?
10- A Taste of Honey
11- There's a Place
12- Twist & Shout

· "WITH THE BEATLES" UK LP - stereo

And this time the stereo version was released at the same time...

https://mega.co.nz/#!bJVxTL5S!SAw4pn_rqcE9cw10rlCYHF6Bs81_3ktORmp3C5gtR4Q

01- It Won't Be Long
02- All I've Got To Do
03- All My Loving
04- Don't Bother Me
05- Little Child
06- Till There Was You
07- Please Mister Postman
08- Roll Over Beethoven
09- Hold Me Tight
10- You Really Got A Hold On Me
11- I Wanna Be Your Man
12- Devil In Her Heart
13- Not A Second Time
14- Money [That's What I Want]

· "WITH THE BEATLES" UK LP - mono

With The Beatles is The Beatles' second UK album, recorded four months after the band's first album and released on 22 November 1963. The album features eight original compositions (including the first by George Harrison) and six covers, mostly of Motown and R&B hits. The LP had advance orders of a half million and sold another half million by September 1965, making it the second album to sell a million copies in the UK (the first being the South Pacific soundtrack). It stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that the Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks. It even reached number eleven in the "singles charts" (because at the time UK charts counted all records sold, regardless of format). In 2003, the album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

https://mega.co.nz/#!yAkmmKRK!cDrjZk2zLp0NQkVrYfEWQFWQOic1zI9nKdbfd1_eklE

01- It Won't Be Long
02- All I've Got To Do
03- All My Loving
04- Don't Bother Me
05- Little Child
06- Till There Was You
07- Please Mister Postman
08- Roll Over Beethoven
09- Hold Me Tight
10- You Really Got A Hold On Me
11- I Wanna Be Your Man
12- Devil In Her Heart
13- Not A Second Time
14- Money [That's What I Want]

· "WITH THE BEATLES" LP recording sessions

By mid 1963 the group started to record their second LP...

https://mega.co.nz/#!HVFFQZZQ!JOj3h3nvSNBmHSMvVIChaiG2OKEEaYR3QcrnLh9lbNc

01- Piano + Drums instrumental
02- Please Mr. Postman (take 3)
03- Please Mr. Postman (take 9)
04- It Won't Be Long (take 7)
05- It Won't Be Long (take 10)
06- Messages to Australia
07- Hold Me Tight (rehearsal 1 - studio chat)
08- Hold Me Tight (remake - take 20)
09- Hold Me Tight (take 21 - [called 23])
10- Hold Me Tight (take 22)
11- Hold Me Tight (take 23)
12- Hold Me Tight (take 24)
13- Hold Me Tight (rehearsal 2)
14- Hold Me Tight (take 25)
15- Hold Me Tight (take 26 [plus fragment])
16- Hold Me Tight (take 27)
17- Hold Me Tight (take 28)
18- Hold Me Tight (take 29)
19- Don’t Bother Me (remake - take 10)
20- Don’t Bother Me (take 11)
21- Don’t Bother Me (take 12)
22- Don’t Bother Me (take 13)
23- I Want to Hold Your Hand (take 1)
24- I Want to Hold Your Hand (take 2)
25- I Want to Hold Your Hand (take 4)
26- I Want to Hold Your Hand (take 9)
27- I Want to Hold Your Hand (take x)
28- I Want to Hold Your Hand (take y)
29- I Want to Hold Your Hand (take 17)
30- I Want to Hold Your Hand (mono instrumental track)
31- I Want to Hold Your Hand (main vocals)
32- I Want to Hold Your Hand (basic track)
33- I Want to Hold Your Hand (overdubbings)
34- I Want to Hold Your Hand (basic track + overdubbings)
35- I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963 stereo mix)
36- This Boy (rehearsal)
37- This Boy (take 4)
38- This Boy (take 12)
39- This Boy (take 13)
40- This Boy (take 15)
41- This Boy (guitars)
42- This Boy (isolated vocals)
43- This Boy (RMRS 15)