The Beatles Help! U.S Capitol Red Label Stereo SMAS 2386 Vinyl Rip Flac
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Help! is the title of the fifth British and ninth American album by The Beatles, and the soundtrack from their film of the same name. Produced by George Martin for EMI's Parlophone Records, it contains fourteen songs in its original British form, of which seven appeared in the film Help!. These songs took up the first side of the vinyl album and included the singles "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride". The second side contained seven other releases including the most covered song ever written, "Yesterday".
The American release was a true soundtrack album, mixing the first seven songs with orchestral material from the film. Of the other seven songs which were on the British release, two were released on the US version of the next Beatles album, Rubber Soul, two were back-to-back on the next US single and then appeared on Yesterday and Today and three had already been on Beatles VI.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 332 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[1]
North American release
Help!
Soundtrack album by The Beatles and Ken Thorne
Released 13 August 1965[11]
Recorded 15–19 February, 13 April, 10 May & 14–17 June 1965,
EMI Studios, London
Genre Rock
Length 28:43
Language English
Label Capitol
Producer George Martin, Dave Dexter, Jr.[12]
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Singles from Help!
1. "Ticket to Ride"
Released: 19 April 1965
2. "Help!"
Released: 19 July 1965[11]
The US version, the band's eighth Capitol Records release and tenth overall, includes the songs in the film plus selections from the orchestral score composed by Ken Thorne and performed by the George Martin Orchestra, which contains one of the first uses of the Indian sitar on a pop album. "Ticket to Ride" is the only song on the US release in duophonic stereo (also known as "fake stereo") reprocessed from the mono mix. This album is available on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 2 box set. This set also includes the mono version of the US release, which is purely a stereo-to-mono fold-down mix, including the "fake stereo" duophonic "Ticket To Ride" folded down to mono, despite Capitol already having the mono mixes for the single releases of both that song and "Help!".
Track listing
All songs written by Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.
Side one
1. "Help!" (preceded by Ken Thorne's James Bond Theme instrumental arrangement)[12] – 2:39
2. "The Night Before" – 2:36
3. "From Me to You Fantasy" (instrumental) (Lennon/McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:08
4. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" – 2:12
5. "I Need You" (Harrison) – 2:31
6. "In the Tyrol" (instrumental) (Ken Thorne) – 2:26
Side two
1. "Another Girl" – 2:08
2. "Another Hard Day's Night" (instrumental) (Lennon/McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:31
3. "Ticket to Ride" – 3:07
4. Medley: "The Bitter End" (Ken Thorne)/"You Can't Do That" (instrumental) (Lennon/McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:26
5. "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" – 2:19
6. "The Chase" (instrumental) (Ken Thorne) – 2:31
Personnel
According to Mark Lewisohn[13][14] and Alan W. Pollack.[15]
* John Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals; rhythm and acoustic guitars; electric piano and Hammond organ; percussion
* Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals; lead, acoustic and bass guitars; electric and acoustic piano; guiro
* George Harrison – lead and background vocals; lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; percussion
* Ringo Starr – lead vocals and backing vocals; drums and percussion
Additional musicians
* George Martin – piano and production
* John Scott – flutes on "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
* String quartet on "Yesterday", arranged by Martin in association with McCartney.
Release history
Country Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 6 August 1965 Parlophone mono LP PMC 1255
stereo LP PCS 3071
United States 13 August 1965 Capitol mono LP MAS 2386
stereo LP SMAS 2386
Worldwide reissue 15 April 1987 Apple, Parlophone, EMI Compact Disc CDP 7 46439 2
United States 21 July 1987 Capitol stereo LP CLJ 46439
Japan 11 March 1998 Toshiba-EMI CD TOCP 51115
Japan 21 January 2004 Toshiba-EMI Remastered LP TOJP 60135
Worldwide reissue 11 April 2006 Apple/Capitol/EMI CD reissue of US LP CDP 0946 3 57500 2 7
Worldwide reissue 9 September 2009 Apple/Capitol/EMI CD stereo remaster CDP 0946 3 82415 2 2
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