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The individual albums:

    

    

    

And the complete box (The Beatles' Story is exclusive to this set):

Product Description
On February 7, 1964, The Beatles arrived at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, greeted by scores of screaming, swooning fans who rushed the gate to catch a glimpse of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as they took their first steps on American soil. Two nights later, on Sunday, February 9, 73 million viewers in the U.S. and millions more in Canada tuned in to CBS to watch The Beatles make their American television debut on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’ In what remains one of the world’s top-viewed television events of all time, The Beatles performed five songs on the live broadcast and ‘Beatlemania,’ already in full, feverish bloom in The Beatles’ native U.K., was unleashed with blissful fervor across America and around the world. The British Invasion had begun. The new 13 CD box set THE U.S. ALBUMS commemorates the 50th anniversary of these history-making events, spanning 1964’s MEET THE BEATLES! to 1970’s HEY JUDE. The Beatles’ U.S. albums differed from the band’s U.K. albums in a variety of ways, including different track lists, song mixes, album titles, and art. The box set includes the following titles: (Disc 1) MEET THE BEATLES!, (Disc 2) THE BEATLES’ SECOND ALBUM, (Disc 3) A HARD DAY’S NIGHT [ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK], (Disc 4) SOMETHING NEW, (Disc 5) THE BEATLES’ STORY, (Disc 6) BEATLES ’65, (Disc 7) THE EARLY BEATLES, (Disc 8) BEATLES VI, (Disc 9) HELP! [ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK] , (Disc 10) RUBBER SOUL, (Disc 11) YESTERDAY AND TODAY, (Disc 12) REVOLVER, (Disc 13) HEY JUDE. These albums were originally issued between 1964 and 1970 by Capitol Records, Apple Records, and United Artists in the United States. These new releases seek to replicate the unique listening experience heard by Americans at the time by preserving the sequences, timings, and artwork found on the albums. Capitol’s engineers in the 1960s took great care to produce what they believed to be the best possible sound for the playback equipment in use at that time. Due to the limitations of the record players of the day, engineers often compressed the sound by raising the volume of the softer passages and lowering the volume for the louder parts of the songs. They also reduced the bass frequencies since too much bass could cause the record to skip. In some cases, reverb was added to the tracks to make them sound more “American.” The CDs are packaged in miniature vinyl sleeves that faithfully recreate the original U.S. LP releases down to the finest detail, including the inner sleeves. 11 original U.S. albums presented in both mono and stereo. Hey Jude and The Beatles’ Story are in stereo only. A Hard Day’s Night [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack], The Beatles’ Story, Yesterday And Today, Hey Jude and the U.S. version of Revolver are presented on CD for the first time. Yesterday And Today features the original album cover of The Beatles posing with raw meat and baby dolls. The package also comes with a collectible sticker of the subsequent Yesterday And Today cover art. Also included is a 64-page booklet which includes a new essay examining the U.S. albums and their historical significance, written by American author and television executive Bill Flanagan. The box set’s dimensions are: 6 inches wide x 6 1/8 inches tall x 3 ¼ inches thick.

Amazon USA
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H8XF9I0/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00H8XF9I0/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00H8XF9I0/?tag=imwan-21

Hmmm...no "Rarities"?

What I've been waiting for (and I'm being serious) are updated versions of the singles box and EP box.

Wow.
I never thought we'd see the day when the rest of the US albums would be officially released.
This probably won't mean as much to everyone as it does to those of us who originally heard The Beatles songs presented
in this way.

Cool news. I wonder if they will include both the "butcher" and "trunk" covers on Yesterday and Today.

It would be nice if Capitol continued with this. It wouldn't take much, would it? Something that would include "Hollywood Bowl", "Rarities", and whatever else is still hanging out there. Could even add a bonus disc of any tracks edited or mixed differently on those compilations (Rock and Roll, Love Songs, At the Movies, etc).

And then, ... on to Germany.

oh what a groove !!

Fraxon: are there any mono or stereo mixes on the original US LP versions of Magical Mystery Tour that are different from the original UK mono and stereo EPs?

And ditto for Sgt Pepper LP, mono and stereo US vs. mono and stereo UK? Muchos nachos...

I hope they're not going to be screechy bright like the 2 USA version box sets were. I sold both of those boxes when the UK version boxes came out.

For Pepper, none of the mixes are different, but neither of the US lps had the run-out groove gibberish at the end of the album.

On the mono MMT, the only difference is "I Am The Walrus", and it's a difference of exactly 3 seconds (the US version is shorter)

The stereo MMT, features an alternate mix of "I Am The Walrus" (an edit of RS6 & RS7 - whereas the standard stereo mix is an edit of RS25 & RS7), an alternate mix of "Strawberry Fields Forever" (RS3 - the standard is the unnumbered stereo mix done in 1971 for the German release of the LP) & fake stereo mixes (created from the mono) of "Penny Lane", "Baby You’re A Rich Man" (both of which were officially mixed into stereo in 1971) & "All You Need Is Love" (which got it's official stereo mix in late 1968 for the upcoming Yellow Submarine lp).

One question: Is the "Commercial Marketing" label a legit company?

Yes. "Commercial Marketing" is the name that some UK wholesalers use for Universal label releases. Amazon UK almost always lists Universal titles that way.

Fair enough, but then that begs the question: Why isn't EMI releasing these? I can't believe they're okay with somebody else raking in the Beatle-bucks.

Wasn't EMI acquired by Universal? The new BBC titles say Universal.

I think you're right, though I thought somehow EMI still existed as a separate entity only with/for the Beatles.

Linda, can you clarify? My senior memory again.............

EMI, Capitol and Apple are all under Universal now. You're thinking of the Parlophone imprint, which Universal didn't get, but The Beatles are no longer on.

Well then... carry on, I guess.

The good news, is that UNI & Warner seem to have the biggest commitment to high quality hi rez. The last thing I want to do is buy the Beatles catalog AGAIN, but if they offered 192/24 flat (uncompressed) original Stereo transfers, it would be awfully tempting.

Thanks Frank!! So theoretically they should eventually give us a US mono / stereo MMT, too.

While I'm here: is the mono US White Album LP identical to the mono UK? And are the stereo US White Album, Yellow Sub, Abbey Rd, and Let It Be LPs identical to the stereo UK LPs?

IIRC, there was no mono US White Album LP...?

There is no mono US White Album, it was only released in stereo over here, and it's identical to the UK stereo lp. The other lps are also identical to their UK counterparts, except the Yellow Submarine album has slightly different packaging (the phrase "Nothing Is Real" is missing from the front, and the back has a very bizarre synopsis of the plot of the film instead of a review of The White Album).

Thanks Frank, euda mane!

I may have to get a couple of these.

Crazy question that just occurred to me:

To what extent were the original U.S. versions available in the UK? Were they always an import-only item, prior to the two Capital boxed sets back in the mid-aughts?