The Beatles UK Singles
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- Опубликовано: 31 дек 2024
- The Beatles UK Singles
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A short video giving a rundown of the Beatles UK Singles, their release date, unit sales at the point of the single's highest position in the UK charts.
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Thanks for the video. I'm in Australia and from memory the Aussie releases mirrored those in the UK, with one exception. In Australia, Love Me Do was released as the B side to I Saw Her Standing There - which I got for my 10th birthday in 1964. I've been hooked ever since!
Tudor: Hi. Released on this day(in the U.S.) "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". That would be cool to have one of the full size cardboard cutouts on the cover. Cheers! 🥨
It was clearly more that 20 years ago today then 🤣 I wonder if any of those cut out figures still exist?
@@TudorSmith Sure wish I had one.🥨
Was the mystery artist Maggie May by Rod Stewart, which was originally a B-side to Reason to Believe?
It’s a good shout. Not who I was thinking about but it was Rod Stewart’s first No. 1 as a solo artist I believe!
Great information Tudor.
Cheers 🙏
Strewth, what a remarkable wealth of 'Beatles' information you have. I shall be looking through those remaining videos as time allows.
"The Beatles" the most revered band of the world and all time.
Thank you for your insight, amazing.
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Well I had to write it all down first 🤣 I’ve no doubt people will correct me!
Hopefully you might find something interesting in the playlist. Thanks John.
First correction sir
She loves you wasnt number 1 for 31 weeks
In the charts for 31 weeks...had two spells at the top...4 weeks followed by a further 2 weeks at number 1...petty i know but just a minor detail
That’s cool. It’s good to have information validated/corrected. Cheers!
Tude PPM was #1 in the 3 big northern charts but the London chart , they used on 1, in those days was the smaller chart with half the number of samplings ! Pete Best's drumming was featured on the Anthology and may have even ended up on a few singles not sure. Yes some unusual Beatle songs were released post sixties some doing ok. Them lads had over 50 #1s around the world btw ! 🌈🤡
Hi Tudor.
Hope All is Well.
Nicely Done Video on the UK Beatles Singles.
I gather you know of the Blue Plaque Affixed on George's childhood home- 12 Alcorn Grove last week.
Finally a Well Recognition Bestowed Honor/Commeration!
Take Care
Thanks! All good here. I hadn’t heard about the blue plaque. It’s definitely a worthy recognition 👏
Born in the late 50s this was my childhood. I remember She Loves You, got Dizzy miss LIzzy as a christmas present. What a great time to grow up. Thanks.
I was born in ‘63 and I have memories of hearing The Beatles at home and in my dad’s car.
@@TudorSmith If i'm not mistaken this concert in my country Sweden was their first (?) abroad October 1963 YT: "The Beatles Live At 'Drop In' , Stockholm, Sweden (30th October 1963) (Full Show)"
Would that have been Jimmy Nichols on drums when Ringo was ill?
@@TudorSmith It looks like Ringo in the video but it's a bit blury.
Thanks Tudor! The release of a new Beatles single must have been an event to savour - sadly the only new singles released in my lifetime were Free As A Bird, Real Love and Now And Then. I found the Free As A Bird release very moving at the time. Listening to their heyday singles though, and especially from 1964 onwards, the musical development is astonishing - still! I don’t know of another band whose music developed and changed so much during its lifetime.
They were a ground breaking band that’s for sure and their constant desire to embrace new technology as well as pushing music in a kind of avantgarde way made them trailblazers. It must have been amazing in the 60s anticipating their newest release 👍
The first Beatles record I bought was the White Album, I can’t put it into words what it felt like to have that double album in my hands. I rushed home to play it on our stereogram!
Would you say that the White Album is your favourite Beatles album?
That’s hard to say . . Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road are close calls!
I think The Beatles were at their zenith with Hey Jude. I remember it always on the radio. Their song writing development from Love me do to Let it be is astonishing! Enjoyed the video Tudor!
Their song writing development really exploded over their tenure. The legacy they’ve given us is unparalleled.
Tudor: Hi. Steve Gaines & Peter Brown's Beatles book "All You Need Is Love" is very good. Interviews with Ron Kass, Yoko, Alastair Taylor, Dick James, etc. Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" was a B-side. Cheers! 🥨
Thanks I’ll check that out!
I love all the back stories and other trivia that I've never seen before. Was it Edgar Winter's Frankenstein that was the B side and played by that D.J.?
I’m pretty sure there are many B sides that fared better than the A side eh? I’ve not heard of Edgar Winter’s Frankenstein. I’ll have to check it out!
Great video again Tudor, a good new Beatles album would be the songs that were never on an album.
Aren’t there a number of albums already out there? I’m thinking “Rarities” but maybe that just has songs that were available but never got air-play? It would be a good one to jab in a collection though 👍
I enjoyed that video very much going through their music history I do love their music Especially the middle and later years.
They gave us such variety and they certainly moved with the times. Or probably more likely they dictated the times?
A great overview and I always enjoy your videos. I did notice that you missed the often buried 'Beatles Movie Medley', along with 'Free As a Bird' and 'Real Love'... and I guess, technically, the 'Love Me Do' reissue in 1982. I know some of the boxsets that were released also included singles that weren't released at the time although I'd understand why you wouldn't want to necessarily include those.
I’m d suspected there might be releases after they disbanded. I wanted to cover the singles from their beginning but you’re right about Free As A Bird and Real Love. I missed them!
Tudor: Hello again. Released on this day(August 12) in 1964 in the U.S. "A Hard Day's Night". My favorite line: "You're a real window rattler son". LOL! 🥨
I can only assume that line is an innuendo 🤣
@@TudorSmith It's the scene in the movie when Ringo asks John if he snores.🥨
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Nice lowdown. Been really enjoying your Beatles location vids! Just an idea… How about Hamburg next? 😃
It’s an idea - I’ll have to look into the logistics!
Love me Do says 'Jaunary 5th' in the text. Yesterday went to #8 in 1976.
THE PILGRIMS 1962 to 1967, THE CROSSBEATS 1963 to 1970. THE JOY STRINGS 1964 to 1968 , THE WITNESSES 1966, OUT OF DARKNESS,1970 review these 5 British great bands ,great music
I’ve never heard of them! I’ll check them out!
Great video. Maggie May by Rod Stewart was the B side to "Reason To Believe" . Tequila by the Champs was also a B side.
Doesn’t it show how the “management” can get it wrong? I can see why the Beatles were releasing double A sides. Maybe they were hedging their bets?
Lady Madonna - inspired by the piano riff from Bad Penny Blues by Humphrey Littleton. The vocals were Paul doing his Fats Domino voice!
I just checked out the Humphry Littleton tune. You can definitely hear the similarities.
Your mystery group might have been the Four Pennies with their single Tell Me Girl/Juliet. The up-tempo Tell Me Girl was the original A side but was quickly overshadowed when Juliet went to Number One.
That’s interesting. I’ve not heard of that release. I’ll be checking it out 👍
I was born in 1952, and I loathed the generation of the interwar years. I thought them mummy boys, still do. The Beatles were lucky in that they had all my generation, the Boomers, to appeal to with their music. In fact the Beatles are the only band I care about, though the Rolling Stones, also made an impression. I saw Paul McCartney in Liverpool, he certainly drew a crowd. He's very loved. I'm a John Lennon fan.
Was it Black Water by the Doobie Brothers from 1974? Apparently that was made popular by a dj after the A side, Another Park, Another Sunday, only made it to no.32.
That might be a contender although the Doobies were already big in the mainstream weren’t they?
@@TudorSmithTrue, although Black Water was their first number 1. 🤔
And all because the B side was played in favour of the A side. It’s good stuff 👍
Brentford FC took Hey Jude to its heart. I have been going to matches there for over 40 years. 😊
Yes indeed. I nabbed that clip from a Brentford match 👍
Love your video but did you mean to state that "She loves you" was in the charts for 31 weeks? you actually say it was Number one for 31 weeks! Now that would be a feat . . even for them!!
Yeah slip of the tongue there. It was number 1 for four weeks then slipped to number 2 then number 3. It remained in the charts for 31 weeks! It didn’t match Bryan Adam’s Everything I Do though which can lay claim to being No1 for 16 weeks lol
Singles released in the UK after 1970:
Yesterday/I Should Have Known Better (1976)
Back In The USSR/Twist and Shout (1976)
Sgt. Pepper, With a Little Help From My Friends/A Day In The Life (1978)
Beatles' Movie Medley/I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (1982)
Baby It's You/I'll Follow the Sun/Devil In Her Heart/Boys (1995) - This is really an EP !
Free As A Bird/Christmas Time Is Here Again (1995)
Real Love/Baby's In Black (1996)
Now And Then/Love Me Do (2023), which you've already covered
That’s brilliant. Thanks for sharing 👍
We all know about the singles' EMI policy of the time. But have you ever thought about how the releasing of singles extracted by LPs (Help!, Eleanor Rigby, Something, etc.) fitted within that policy? I recall years ago while trying to explain this, I noticed that all those singles were released after (or in the same day of) the LP, so that could be one explanation - although also in that case people would be still paying for the same song twice!
I was wondering whether you knew any other possible rationale. Thanks!
No I do t know really. I remember seeing an interview with George Martin and how he explained that in the early years (62-65) EMI felt that the buying public would feel cheated buying a single then also buying the album with the single on it. So they made a decision to release the singles separately. In later years this wouldn’t be the case except for a few exceptions like Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields etc.
@@TudorSmith yes, and that would make sense if it weren't for singles like Can't buy me love or Help! (to not even mention Love Me Do or Please Please Me), clearly belonging to 1962-65.
Very Good summary of the UK Beatles "original" single releases (1962-69) but the captions for Love Me Do (should be 5th October 1962; not 5th January & Please Please Me should be January 1963; not 23rd March 1963) are incorrect. For the record; the catalogue remained available but in March 1976 EMI chose to re-promote all 22 singles and put them into new picture sleeves. All 22 made the top 100 - Hey Jude being the highest of six singles that made the top 40 (no.12) along with a brand new 23rd single of Yesterday c/w I should've known better reaching no.8. Then in Late June Back In the USSR c/w Twist & Shout reached no 19. A 3-track single from Sgt Pepper was released in Sept 1978 but with no airplay barely scraped into the top 60 but the next big chart entry was the Movie Medley in May 1982 which reached number 10 and then the re-promotion of Love Me Do on the 5th October of 1982, for its 20th anniversary saw it reach number 4! All of the 22 singles were then re-promoted on their 20th anniversaries right up to Let It Be in 1990 and most charted. In March 1995 a four track EP from the BBC sessions, with Baby Its You as the lead track, reached number 7 and then in December of that year Free As A bird came out and made number 2 and was followed by Real Love in March of 1996 reaching number 4. And then as you quite rightly said, Now & Then gave The Beatles their 18th UK number one in November 2023! Keep up the good work!
Great info. Thanks for sharing 👍
I believe Cliff's move it was a b--side originally and promoted after radio play
That’s interesting 👍
It was intended as a B side to Schoolboy Crush. On my early copy of it with Cliff and The Drifters, Move It is now the A side with its photo sleeve cover of Cliff with Move It being the title on it.
You might be thinking of Rod Stewart’s Maggie May, as the A side was Reason to Believe. Thou, KISS’s Beth was a flipped hit in the States.
Both were great songs. I remember Beth being played at school dances. It was always an opportunity for a slow dance!!
@@TudorSmith Was either of them the song you were thinking about originaly being a B side?
No I wasn’t thinking of Rod Stewart but I didn’t actually know Maggie May was a B side!
George Martin said in interviews in later years that "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" should have been on "Sgt. Pepper", but I'm not sure if I agree. As songs they are better than a couple of the tracks on "Sgt. Pepper", but I can't really see where on the album they would have fitted. The magic of that album lies in the flow, so to speak. Maybe they could have substituted "It's getteing better" for "Penny Lane", since both songs are uptempo songs, but where would they put "Strawberry Fields"?
Yes I’ve heard GM say that. It’s an interesting observation.
Due to an anomaly in the way sales were counted back then the album With the Beatles got to number 11 on the SINGLES chart in Britain. Very strange I know, but just another example of a band that broke every rule due to their gigantic popularity.
I never knew that! That’ll possibly make the Beatles the only band to ever have an album in the singles chart!
technically Please Please Me was also a number one in the UK
The web tells us that it reached No1 for melody maker and New Musical Express but only number 2 for the record retailer chart. Still, no 1 in our hearts! The album of the same name did make No 1 though 👍
@@TudorSmith Well back then the chart where it made number one was as official as the now so called official chart. Just a bit later it became the only official uk chart. Anyway a good song :)
The Beatles had two top ten hits in 1982, the year they would prob have reunited,,,,Yesterday was a hit single in 76...along with others..
Ah yes. I’m pretty sure their singles/songs have reentered the charts on many occasions.
KISS - Beth. Was a b side. The DJ's liked it and kept playing it instead. It became the biggest hit KISS had in America and was sung by their drummer. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?
I think something similar happened with Status Quo too.
Yeah someone commented on that. It wasn’t the band I was thinking of though.
Did Alistair Taylor get a song writing credit?
Nah! But then maybe their word exchange didn’t include all the lyrics of the song eh? Lennon got a writing credit though 🤣