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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums50(!) years ago today. The album "Please Please Me" is released...
...and a really GREAT tribute:
tridim
(45,358 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...OUCH!
Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)I really enjoyed the memories this brings flooding back!
msongs
(67,394 posts)music in the left channel and vocals in the right channel lol
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...you became a pioneer of Karaoke!
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)You could chose in those days. I packed up all my early Beatles albums years ago and mailed them to the mother of one my daughter's friends in CA.
"music in the left channel and vocals in the right channel" that's even funnier on early Dylan albums which I've still got.
Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)The first one I ever had was the Second Album. I remember because that's when my dog was a puppy and she chewed all the corners.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...because, during its climb in the charts, JFK was murdered.
Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)Though I had heard of them, thanks to my mother, who hauled me out to watch them on Ed Sullivan. She told me I needed to see that because it was "historic..."
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)She just let her emotions get in the way.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)Up to Abbey Road, anyway. But my brother currently has custody of them.
Leslie Valley
(310 posts)The 1st released album in this country was Meet The Beatles in 1964.
In the fall of '63 we had an exchange student from Britain in my senior class and she had all sorts of strange and exotic records in her collection.
One of them was this one.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)the first Beatles album released in the US was Introducing The Beatles on Vee-Jay Records on Jan. 10, 1964 and Meet The Beatles was released on Capitol Records on Jan. 20, 1964.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introducing..._The_Beatles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Beatles!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...but no one noticed them.
MADem
(135,425 posts)45-sized records with four songs on them, two on each side.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)...from Wikipedia:
Please Please Me was released as an LP album on Parlophone in the UK on 22 March 1963, and has remained on UK catalogue continuously from 1963 to the present.
Release formats:
Vinyl (12" record (stereo and mono)[20][21]
Reel-to-reel (3-3/4-ips) (mono) (paperbox) [deleted late 1960s][22]
Reel-to-reel (3-3/4-ips (mono)+(stereo)) (plastic boxes) [deleted mid-1970s]
8-track tape (stereo) [deleted late 1970s]
Cassette tape (originally released in stereo, re-issued in mono in 1988) [deleted late 1990s][23]
CD (1987 version) (mono) [deleted 2009][24]
CD (remastered in 2009) (stereo and limited edition mono)[25]
Digital Download (remastered in 2009) (stereo)
Vinyl (re-issued of 1963 Vinyl, but used 2009 CD release) (stereo)
In the United States, most of the songs on Please Please Me were first issued on Vee-Jay Records' Introducing... The Beatles in 1964, and subsequently on Capitol Records' The Early Beatles in 1965. Please Please Me was not released in the US until the Beatles' catalogue was standardised for CD.
In New Zealand, the album first appeared only in mono on the black Parlophone label. The following year (1964) EMI(NZ) changed from black to a blue Parlophone label and the album was again available only in mono. Due to constant demand, it was finally made available in stereo, first through the World Record Club on their Young World label in both mono and stereo, and finally on the blue Parlophone label.
The album was released on CD on 26 February 1987 in mono, as were their three subsequent albums, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale. It was not released on vinyl or tape in the US until five months later when it was issued for the first time in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987.[citation needed]
Please Please Me was remastered and re-released on CD in stereo, along with all the other original UK studio albums, on 9 September 2009.[26] The 2009 remasters replaced the 1987 remasters. A remastered mono CD was also available as part of the limited edition The Beatles in Mono box set.[27]
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)dhill926
(16,336 posts)brings back some memories......
Tikki
(14,556 posts)you can see the different prices he made until he paid it off ($4.83) penciled in on the album back. We bought our vinyl at the
furniture stores in our neck of the woods back then.
Tikki
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I keed...
formercia
(18,479 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)i remember dad buying this 45 (with twist and shout on the other side). i was just a kid, but lurrrrrrved dancing to it!
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Really made my day....thanks for posting this.
talkingmime
(2,173 posts)edbermac
(15,937 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)A mix of cheekiness and very addictive rhythms. And, brilliance.
I miss John and George almost as much as I miss my own parents.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)I just love him.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Time flies when you're having fun...!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I remember bouncing on a bed with a friend (as kids bounce on beds) and remarking about the breakup. My first memory regarding their music happened 6 years later, when my sister bought the Red and Blue albums. This happened concurrently with my music teacher (in middle school) playing "Penny Lane" to teach us about time-signature. I went home, put the Blue Album on the turntable (turntable!) and was enraptured! My love for the Beatles grew from there, and hasn't waned in 37 years. I'm not an original fan, but a huge fan, nonetheless.
MADem
(135,425 posts)To be 47 again!!!
Good music is good music, no matter when you find it!
I wasn't an original fan of Puccini, but I love his stuff!!! Hee hee!
Listening to Elvis right now, fixing to go to a funeral...!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...of R&R for me. You're very right about good music being timeless. Sure, recording quality and techniques have improved (and it really shows w/ early recordings), but the content blasts thru the hiss and crackle.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He died a month ago and was ready to go--his family decided to wait to do a "thing" because everyone was so scattered and his wife is very frail, so she had time to get used to him being gone--it gave me an opportunity to get my act together and make the trip. I think that whole "celebration of life" term is over-used but this really was one--a party where everyone shared stories and ate the foods that the dearly departed loved best.
My good buddy was an Elvis fan, too, so we listened to some of his favorite tunes while chowing down on his favorite stuff! Laughter and tears in equal measure...!
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)was "From Me To You" in the spring of 1963 when I was 12. The DJ said there was a guitar group in England that was getting a lot of attention. I absolutely loved the song. When they were on Ed Sullivan a year later, I went crazy. I was lucky enough to see them twice in concert over the years. I still have all my records and Beatle cards, dolls and fan magazines, all these years later.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...although, given the chance to see them live, I might be annoyed because I couldn't hear the music due to a 16 year old girl screaming in my ear!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Never heard of you either. As a matter of fact, where am I and how did I get on this website?
Oh dang, I lost my wallet again.
Is that a squirrel???
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Hilarious...Television is never as good as the real thing, though, ain't it?...Once had an old-timer stick his hand toward an open flame and ask "What's that??"
They gotta be watched!
20score
(4,769 posts)Now that I know, it's obvious and can't believe I didn't catch on all those years.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...but it really is the companion piece to (I can't get no) Satisfaction!