Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:ae3 From: ae3@pucc-h (Duane Mantick) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Beatles Trivia Message-ID: <1796@pucc-h> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 13:15:16 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1796 Posted: Thu Feb 7 13:15:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:37:31 EST References: <5047@tekecs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 37 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