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Differences And Similarities With "Meet The Beatles" And "With The Beatles"

No you guys! The reason there are two different covers and two different song lists are because "With The Beatles" was their second UK release. Capitol released a similar album entitled, "Meet The Beatles". The UK version had 14 songs. The US version had had 12. "With The Beatles" was the Beatles second LP in the UK. "Please, Please Me" was their first. "Meet The Beatles" was the first Capitol release in the US. The only relationship in similarity between the UK's "With The Beatles" and the USA's "Meet The Beatles" are the following songs: 1. It Won't Be Long 2. All I've Got To Do 3. All My Loving 4. Don't Bother Me 5. Little Child 6. Till There Was You 7. Hold Me Tight 8. I Wanna Be Your Man 9. Not A Second Time. Those are 9 songs that the UK and US versions share on both albums. Now the U.K. version has these additional songs: 1. Please Mr. Postman 2. Roll Over Beethoven 3. Devil In Her Heart 4. Money 5. You Really Got A Hold On Me.

The rumor was that Capitol didn't want to pay royalties to other songwriters whose music appeared on the UK version. The other rumor is that Capitol wanted to hold back the US versions of Beatle albums to eleven or twelve tracks apiece so they could compile those tracks for another US version only album. Most of the world were getting the UK versions of "With The Beatles", but Capitol Records had a completely different vision for marketing the Beatles.

Additional tracks the appeared on the US's "Meet The Beatles" that didn't appear on the UK's "With The Beatles" were two monster singles, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There".

When Capitol released "Meet The Beatles" on CD, it released twelve tracks in stereo and following those tracks, mono versions as they were mixed on the original Capitol master tapes. Some of the songs were in true stereo while other tracks were in simulated stereo. This is probably the reason that the UK CD version, "With The Beatles" is in mono. It seemed that the band didn't take kindly to Capitol's fake stereo mixing and they wanted the same song list on the US version as the UK version. Not only that, but the UK stereo version of "With The Beatles" had a combination of true mono and stereo tracks on different songs. There wasn't any fake stereo on any of their mono tracks.

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Written by Vintage TV Dude "Vince"

Original cover, as expected, but contents weren't

The cover was worn, as described in the description, but there were ink markings on the back that I didn't expect. The vinyl record was NOT "Meet The Beatles", but was "Rubber Soul". I was very disappointed but, as it was a gift that I had framed, I kept it anyway. HOWEVER, I do want to mention that the seller was sincerely apologetic, and refunded all of my cost. I would order from them again.

Written by MissPriss

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I Want to Hold Your Hand