Beatles discography: Canada

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1. chris Saturday 12 May 2012

   great site.been a beatle fan since the old days.sitting in front of radiogram ,with my sister,singing she loves you.
   keep up the good work

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2. Von Bontee Tuesday 11 September 2012

   Damn, everytime I see the covers of “Beatlemania!” and “Twist And Shout” I think of the scratchy old copies I saw in dollar bins in the mid-80s and think “Why why why didn’t I buy them??”

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• Joseph Brush Tuesday 11 September 2012

  I still have original copies.

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3. moonstoneroad@yahoo.com Friday 11 January 2013

   I have a Canadian release on Mono ‘Meet the Beatles” with side 2 label printed on both sides.

   Any thoughts on the miss print ?

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• Kevin Holland Friday 15 February 2013

  I’ve been trying to locate a canadian mono meet the beatles . Let me know if you want to part with it .

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4. Piotr Kaczmarczyk Tuesday 15 January 2013

   http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.476172682424655.102114.266092880099304&type=3

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5. J Roger Gardy Thursday 4 April 2013

   ‘Don’t Bother Me’ on the Canadian Issue has a Glitch Vocal, by George, that’s not on the US Version…

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6. Peter Kearney Monday 17 June 2013

   Two questions about vinyl issues: 1. The Apple collection of various tracks titled “Hey Jude” on the album sleeve actually gives the album title as “The Beatles Again” on the disc itself. Which is the official title? 2. Another title question: is the correct album title “Yesterday… and Today” or “”Yesterday”… and Today”, with the second choice obviously punning on the hit song “Yesterday”, which is included. Any help out there?

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7. John Carsell Saturday 13 July 2013

   Recently acquired a very hard to find Canadian 1980’s retro black and rainbow labeled Yesterday & Today. The 3 previous douphonic tracks I’m only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing and Dr. Robert are presented here in full glorious stereo. These tracks are also flat copies from UK masters and have no eq changes or limiting and therefore sound better than all the other songs which have been treated to Capitol’s limiting and processing. This LP seems to be more scarce than the US butcher cover.

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8. Bongo Sunday 18 May 2014

   I’m just missing the 1964 Canada Capital Long Tall Sally to finish my Canadian set. I was so happy to find an original 1967 Cnd mono Magical Mystery Tour Album. Nice to see Canada Capital release Beatles music in 1963, before their US counterpart.

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9. rick Saturday 7 June 2014

   Other variations exist, including five singles unique to Canada.

   Any body know what these 5 unique singles were? 1) Thank You Girl 2) ?, 3) ?, 4) ?, & 5) ?

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• Lewis Tyler Friday 24 July 2015

  Canada 9 Beatles Capitol swirl: Love me do 1st version, Ask me whyPlease please me, From me to you/Thank you girl, She loves you/ I’ll get you, Beethoven/Postman, This boy/Loving, Sie liebt dich/I’ll get you, Secret/Thank you girl, Twist and shout/There’s a place. Beatle Lew.

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10. Bongo Tuesday 8 July 2014

    Joe, great site, keep up the great work, from a beatlesbible fan in Canada!

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11. David Coll Thursday 10 July 2014

    The Butcher cover shown for Yesterday and Today album is incorrect. In Canada, this was the trunk cover only.

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12. Bongo Monday 28 July 2014

    Joe, If I could just correct you on a few dates on Canada’s all important 3 unique To Canada Capitol Albums.
    1) Beatlemania! With The Beatles was released November 25 1963, just 3 days after the UK LP
    2) Twist And Shout was released February 03 1964 and finally
    3) Long Tall Sally was released April 27 1964.
    Our CND BeatlesBible reference is http://www.capitol6000.com Again, txs for the great job, just absolutely love this site.

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• Joe Tuesday 29 July 2014

  Thank you! That’s a useful site. The books look expensive though…

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• George Rollo Saturday 13 June 2015

  Hi again Joe,

  George here again, I can’t remember if I wrote to you before about some single missing from your list,
  they are as follows.

  1) Capitol Star line 45-6061 Twist & Shout / There’s A Place issued 18th Oct 1965
  2) ” ” ” 45-6062 Love Me Do / P.S.I Love You issued 18th Oct 1965
  3) ” ” ” 45-6063 Please, Please Me / From Me To You issue 18th Oct 1965
  4) Apple 2531 Ballad Of John & Yoko / Old Brown Shoe.

  Hope this info helps,

  Regards, George

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13. Bongo Wednesday 30 July 2014

    No, thank you sir!

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14. Bongo Wednesday 20 August 2014

    Just for the record (no pun intended) in Canada, The U.S. versions of “Meet The Beatles”, then “Beatles Second Album” were released February 1st 1967 to make up for the delay of “Sgt Pepper”, (Like the U.K. put out “A Collection Of Oldies”).

    Then finally they released the U.S. “Early Beatles” August 1st 1968 between “Magical Mystery Tour” LP and the long awaited “White Album”. This way, they had released all the U.S. Albums to the Canadian market, that they had previously missed, while keeping record sales up.

    Source: http://www.capitol6000.com/beatlesdiscs.html

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15. Piotr Kaczmarczyk Tuesday 11 November 2014

    24.VIII.1964
    SP: Slow Down / Matchbox
    Capitol 5255 [Mono] Kanada
    The Beatles

    Slow Down – A side.

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16. socorro Tuesday 18 November 2014

    Kevin Holland: Good luck finding a mono copy of MTB. I’m looking for one too.

    J Roger Gardy: The double “Don’t” in Don’t Bother Me appears only on a specific pressing on the purple Capitol label, circa 1978. Congratulations, it is a cool and semi-rare variation.

    David Coll: A tiny number of genuine Canadian butcher sleeves have surfaced. It must have the Litho in Canda reference found on the other mid-60s sleeves. A paste-over butcher has been confirmed from Jamaica, although it was a standard US sleeve exported to Jamaica to house a Jamaica-pressed copy of Y&T. The Jamaican Y&T disc is far rarer than the butcher sleeve.

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17. Bongo Friday 7 August 2015

    Kind of disappointed Canada didn’t follow Parlophone’s lead and release an EP here.

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18. Ed Henderson Tuesday 11 October 2016

    There is a vary unique used stuff store where I live in Campbell River BC Canada. They have bins and bins and bins of used vinyl but none of it is categorized. You never know what you’re going to find. Today I lucked out and found good clean original copies of Beatlemania, Twist and Shout and Something New. My lucky day!.

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