The Beatles will be celebrating Record Store Day Black Friday on November 29 with a special 7-inch reissue of “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “I Saw Her Standing There.”
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With a million preorders for “I Want To Hold Your Hand” in the UK, the single shot to No.1 in December of 1963, which knocked The Beatles’ own “She Loves You” from the top spot.
This was to be the first official single for The Beatles on Capitol Records and was backed by an extraordinary marketing campaign.
With “I Saw Her Standing There” replacing “This Boy” for the b-sidee, the single was rush-released in the USA in January 1964, climbing to No.1 on the Hot 100 by February 1 of that year. Remaining on the chart for 15 weeks, it went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide – and with it, an unstoppable force was unleashed as Beatlemania truly arrived.
This special new 7” is cut from the original US version of the master tapes by Kevin Reeves in Nashville, using an all-analog cutting process and original replica artwork.
In other news from The Beatles, seven albums from the band originally compiled for U.S. release between January 1964 and March 1965 by Capitol Records and United Artists have been analog cut for 180-gram audiophile vinyl from their original mono master tapes.
These will be available for purchase on November 22 by Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. Out of print on vinyl since 1995, the seven mono albums are available now for preorder in a new eight-LP box set titled The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono, with six of the titles also available individually.
All seven albums – Meet The Beatles!; The Beatles’ Second Album; A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack); Something New; The Beatles’ Story (2LP); Beatles ’65; and The Early Beatles – feature faithfully replicated artwork.
Order The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono.
