BEATLES ALBUM INFORMATION & BRIEF DESCRIPTION
| Date LP Released: |
March 22, 1965 |
| Dates LP Recorded: |
September 4 & 11, 1962
November 26 & 30, 1962
February 11, 20 and 25, 1963 |
| Studio Recorded: |
EMI Studios, London UK |
| Record Label: |
Capitol Records |
| Album Producer(s): |
George Martin |
| Album Total Length: |
26:26 |
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Brief Album Description:
The Early Beatles is the Beatles' sixth release on Capitol Records, and their eighth album for the American market. All of the
tracks on this album had previously been issued on the early 1964 Vee-Jay release Introducing... The Beatles. The front cover
photo for this album features the same back cover photo for the British LP Beatles for Sale. Vee-Jay had gained American
distribution rights to the tracks before the group became popular in America (because Capitol, the US subsidiary of EMI which
owned the Beatles' record label Parlophone, had declined to release the group's records in America), and their releases had
initially failed to chart. But after the group became famous, Vee-Jay, still holding the rights to the early material, was
able to reissue them in America and this time the records sold in the millions. Capitol filed a lawsuit to stop Vee Jay from
distributing the tracks, but was not successful. In October 1964, Vee-Jay's license to distribute the Beatles recordings they
possessed expired, so Capitol finally got the American distribution rights for the album.
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