Capitol Records were still keen to wring as much money as possible out of Beatles fans in America, leading to the release of The Early Beatles in March 1965.
The Early Beatles contained 11 songs from Please Please Me. ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘Misery’, and ‘There’s A Place’ were omitted.
The catalogue number was Capitol T-2309, and the tracklisting was as follows: ‘Love Me Do’, ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘Anna (Go To Him)’, ‘Chains’, ‘Boys’, ‘Ask Me Why’, ‘Please Please Me’, ‘PS I Love You’, ‘Baby It’s You’, ‘A Taste Of Honey’, and ‘Do You Want To Know A Secret’
Last updated: 23 November 2022
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Basically a truncated version of the US “Introducing The Beatles” on Vee-Jay and the UK “Please Please Me” LP’s. Capitol acquired the US rights in October, 1964 after all the lawsuits.
In fact, the songs that were left off of this truncated LP were released as singles by Capitol on their green swirl label “Star Line” series at roughly the same time.