One of those early US Beatles LP:s that hardly ever showed up in
my Swedish home town Luleå in the sixties and therefore was a great joy to
find back then. For us up in the far north they were oddities and
sometimes had formats we couldn't get anywhere else - like this,
carrying stereo versions of "I Call Your Name" and "Long Tall
Sally", whereof the former was a lot different to the more
common UK mono version (and as it turned out much later also
dissimilar to the original UK stereo, first issued on the 1976
"Rock'n'Roll Music" album). I didn't care back then that the
whole album was drenched in reverb, thus making it come out far from the
band's initial intentions. Later, however, as I got more orthodox in my
Beatles listening it started to annoy me and got lost in a trade. Now
after finding another copy over forty years later I'm listening with
more mature ears and finding it's not that bad. For me more accustomed
to the drier UK versions the reverb is still kind of annoying, but it adds some extra width and power, making it more embracing...if you're
into that kind of hugs. And above all - it is an early US Beatles
original, which makes it an important part of the band's history whether
you like it or not. So in a way this copy is a keeper, not in spite of the
sometimes disturbing reverb but because of it...because it's something else. Issued and reissued on
vinyl and CD all over the world through the years, also US reel, 8-track
and cassette. UK export press on Parlophone (CPCS 103). Pressed in so many places in US during the sixties it's hard to find the
exact origin for this copy, but as far as I can figure out from checking the net ones
with the here shown label design are 1965 Jacksonville pressings. (BÄ*) (YZÄ*) (LGÅ*)
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