Tuesday 23 April 2024

The Beatles – Please Please Me (LP 1963)





The Beatles – Please Please Me (Parlophone LP – PMC 1202, March 22, 1963).
Producer : George Martin.
Genre : Rock, Pop/Rock, Beat.


“ Please Please Me ” is the band's album recorded in the studio and released by the Beatles on March 22, 1963, over 61 years ago. On February 11 of this year, the Beatles and producer George Martin begin work at Abbey Road Studios. The album contains 14 songs, heard written by the Lennon/McCartney duo. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed the album at number 39 on the list of 500 best albums of all time. Rolling Stone also placed the songs "I Saw Her Standing There" (no. 130) and "Please Please Me" (no. 184) on the list of 500 best songs of all time, in addition to being tied to the current days, on the album This is the most sold in history, with 52 million copies sold today. In the United States, most of the songs from “Please Please Me” were released on the Vee-Jay Records album “Introducing…The Beatles”, in 1964. The LP “Please Please Me” was not released in the USA until global standards two Beatles catalogue.

Faixas / Tracklist:

A1 - I Saw Her Standing There (Lennon, McCartney) 2:55
A2 - Misery (Lennon, McCartney) 1:50
A3 - Anna (Go To Him) (Alexander) 2:57
A4 - Chains (Goffin/King) 2:26
A5 - Boys (Dixon, Farrell) 2:27
A6 - Ask Me Why (Lennon, McCartney) 2:27
A7 - Please Please Me (Lennon, McCartney) 2:03
B1 - Love Me Do (Lennon, McCartney) 2:22
B2 - PS I Love You (Lennon, McCartney) 2:05
B3 - Baby It's You (David, Williams, Bacharach) 2:38
B4 - Do You Want to Know a Secret (Lennon, McCartney) 1:59
B5 - A Taste of Honey (Scott, Marlow) 2:05
B6 - There's a Place (Lennon, McCartney) 1:52
B7 - Twist And Shout (Medley, Russell) 2:33

Musicians/Musicians:

John Lennon: voice, guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica and clapping
Paul McCartney: voice, bass and clapping
George Harrison: guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals and clapping
Ringo Starr: drums, voice, tambourine, maracas and clapping

Participations:

George Martin: piano on "Misery" and celesta on "Baby It's You"
Andy White: drums and percussion on "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You"

NOTE : No UK The Beatles released 12 original studio albums (including 1 double album), 1 album/compilation, 13 EPs (including 1 double EP) and 22 singles (including 4 A-sided double singles). The first albums and singles released from 1962 to March 1968 were originally on Parlophone, and the next albums and singles from August 1968 to 1970 were not their subsidiary Apple. 

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