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From: ae3@pucc-h (Duane Mantick)
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Subject: Re: Beatles Trivia
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 13:15:16 EST
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As regards your questions about the first Beatles album, the first
British release was entitled "Please Please Me" (Parlophone records)
BUT, "Meet the Beatles" (Capitol-1964) does NOT correspond exactly,
i.e., song-for-song (if memory serves me correctly...the album is not
here at work) to the earlier British release.  This was, in fact, the 
case up till about the time of "Sgt. Pepper", with Capitol Records here
in the states milking the songs for as many albums and EP's as they
possibly could.  Capitol might put, say, 5 or 6 songs on a side, whereas
British consumers got 7 or 8.  

     Note also that the sound quality of the British releases is considerably
better than their Capitol counterparts (term used loosely).  One of the 
most notable songs in this regard is "I Feel Fine".  BIG difference.

     I just bought a Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs half-speed mastered copy
of the British "Rubber Soul".  Marvelous!  Everything is audible, perhaps
even some studio-type noises, but the bass lines are all clear as a bell
and there is even a good, audible edge to the vocals.  This is never
evident on the over-processed, over-compressed Capitol versions but
can be heard to a certain extent on the British releases.

     Now on the the other questions.  The exact release date for any
of the albums escapes me (my copy of one or the other of the discographies
is not with me) but I have this nagging feeling that one of their
albums was released on the same day that JFK was shot in dallas (if not
the same day, it was VERY close).

     I will post a trivia question in return.  Name three different guitars
played by George Harrison and the two basses most commonly associated
with Paul McCartney (as a Beatle).

                                    Duane Mantick
                                    Purdue University Computing Center
                                    ae3 at pucc-h