October 4, 2024

A new box set that collects the Beatles’ U.S. albums from 1964 will arrive later this year.

The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums in Mono includes seven albums originally released by Capitol Records (and in one case United Artists) between January 1964 and March 1965 in mono sound. The vinyl collection was cut from the original mono masters of the LPs and will be available on Nov. 22.

The box gathers the albums from their debut Capitol release, Meet the Beatles!, through The Early Beatles, which collected songs from the group’s first U.K. album, Please Please Me, most of which were included on the Vee-Jay Records release from 1964, Introducing the Beatles.

The mono mixes of these albums have been unavailable since 1995. You can watch a trailer for the upcoming box set below.

The soundtrack to the animated Beatles movie (which they didn’t provide the voices for, by the way) includes two previously released cuts, a handful of leftover session tracks from the era and an entire side of orchestra music from the film. Completists probably need the four new songs; everyone else can skip them.
Released as an EP in the U.K. and as an album in the U.S., ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ is spotty, especially when compared to the Beatles’ other records from the era. But several of its songs – “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “Penny Lane” and “All You Need Is Love,” especially – rank among the group’s all-time best.

 

 

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