1962-1966 Inner Lable errors

I was just looking at the inner insert that came with the RED Album and noticed a bunch of weird
mistakes. Here is what it says for the first two sides:

Side One
Love Me Do ......................................The Early Beatles
Please Please Me ............................The Early Beatles
From Me To You .................................................Help!
She Loves You ........................ .Beatles Second Album
I Want To Hold Your Hand ..................Meet The Beatles
All My Loving .....................................Meet The Beatles
Cant Buy Me Love..........................................Hey Jude

SIDE TWO
A Hard Day's Night.................................................Help!
And I Love Her........................................Something New
I Feel Fine................................................... Beatles '65
Eight Days A Week...................................... Beatles '65
Norwegian Wood.........................................Rubber Soul

crw59...

I have an album with the song title "Tell Me Who" Never could
figure that one out.

fishandchipp...

Gotta Capitol 45 "Eight Arms To Hold You"

So many mistakes. Wasnt there any quality control back then?
From Me To You on Help?!? What are the thinking of, that instrumental version?
A Hard Days Night on Help??? Again, were they thinking of Another Hard Days Night?

For the BLUE album, the info is correct. The only weirdness is that all the Pepper songs were listed
on the Sgt Pepper's Band" lp.

Wasnt "Hey Jude" just an unofficial name for the LP and The Beatles Again was the real name? These
lps came out just 3 years after The Beatles Again. You would think they would call it by the right
name. Oddly, the entire "Hey Jude LP was included in these 2 sets minus Rain and I Should Have Known

Chris Jepson...

The name was originally "The Beatles Again" but it was changed to "Hey
Jude". IIRC, the "Hey Jude" copies are a little more collectible than
the "Beatles Again" copies.

Dr. Strangemonde...

I would think so as well -- in any case, the title "Hey Jude" would've
been the more familiar one at the time the red & blue albums were
released, so the reference is not what I would call an error.

- Dr Strangemonde

Chris Jepson...

I don't know the details regarding exactly when the name switch
occurred. I've seen plenty copies of both, so I assume there was a
large first pressing of "Beatles Again", after which the name changed to
"Hey Jude" and stayed that way... if the change occurred after the
initial rush of sales dropped off, then a copy of the *earliest*
pressing of "Hey Jude" would be rarer than a copy of "The Beatles
Again". Nonetheless, in my book, "The Beatles Again" is a cooler
collectible because it's the original, and because that name was in
effect for only a relatively brief period.

Chris Jepson

Chris Jepson

Better. As much as I love Old Brown Shoe, Dont Let Me Down and Ballad Of J&Y but do they really
belong on the greatest hits.

Tazmanian Devil...

The insert was made by Capitol records, and ignored any other releases
outside of the Capitol universe at the time of the printing. With that in
mind, these were not technically errors.

For instance the only version of "From Me to You" was the instrumental bit
on the Capitol Help LP. The "Hey Jude" LP (which was titled,"The Beatles
Again" on the label was actually a collection of single and 'B' side
material that hadn't made it to LP (at that time, remember). So, while most
of the songs were fairly new, Hey Jude contained a couple of early numbers
(relatively speaking--this was over 30 years ago), "I sjould Have Known
Better (stereo version), and "Can't Buy Me Love". The LP "A Hard Day's
Night" was released in America on the United Artists label, not Capitol, so
again, as far as Capitol was concerned, it didn't exist. Capitol did release
most of AHDN songs on "Something New" but the song itself was only a Capitol
single.
So, the only Capitol LP that they could reference was, again an instrumental
version on Capitol's "Help" LP.

I don't have the insert in front of me, so I'll take your word for it that
"Eight Days.." was listed as being on "Beatles 65" instead of "Beatles VI".
In that case and only in that case would there have been an error.

Some Other Guy...

My error. Eight Days a Week does say Beatles VI. Sorry.

Considering what Capitol had out on LPs at the time, it was foolish, and
misleading to reference the songs in this manner, but it was customary to
list LP sources of songs on greatest hit compilations, presumably to spur
the listener to go out and buy the album, and Capitol wouldn't want you to
buy a United Artists LP, or a Parlophone import, because they wanted your
hard-earned money.

I know it's bizzare, but that's what they did.