Meanwhile, British releases such as Please Please Me and With the Beatles were unknown in the United States, but that’s another story for another time. If you’re a new Best Classic Bands reader, we’d be grateful if you would Like our Facebook page and/or bookmark our Home page. (Not to be confused with The Beatles’ Story, yet another American album, released by Capitol in late 1964 and featuring mostly interviews and press conference snippets.) For Americans, those albums, alien to British teens, were part of the Beatles’ story. It was, for a while, hard to keep up with them all: Meet the Beatles, The Beatles’ Second Album, Something New, Beatles ’65, The Early Beatles and Beatles VI, as well as several other titles (some on different labels such as Vee-Jay), had been rush-released by Capitol to catch up with the Brits and/or cash in on the phenomenon.
(The song reached #7 on the chart a full six years after the group had broken up.)Īlthough Revolver was actually only the seventh official Beatles studio release, since the onslaught had begun, Americans had been deluged with Beatles albums never issued overseas. single until 1976 when it was used to promote the compilation album Rock ‘n’ Roll Music. “Got to Get You into My Life” wasn’t released as a U.S. “Yellow Submarine” and “Eleanor Rigby” were released as the A-side and B-side of the same 45 the former “only” reached #2, while the latter peaked at #11. The album hit #1 on the sales chart for six weeks but yielded just two singles. felt short-changed though, they were in the minority. Thus, in America, fans knew Revolver, which sported the same Grammy Award-winning Klaus Voormann-drawn black-and-white cover worldwide, as an 11-track LP with this running order: The George Martin-produced Revolver, like Rubber Soul several months earlier, was no different. (Capitol also routinely released shortened versions in the States, lopping off two or three tracks). Unknown at the time to most American Beatle people, Capitol and its parent company in the U.K., EMI, had been releasing different Beatles albums, or at least reshuffling song orders on the group’s albums in the two countries, since the Beatles’ arrival two years ago. Robert”-were excised from the American Revolver on Capitol Records because they’d already been released here and in Canada in June, on Yesterday and Today, a tossed-together compilation of recent singles and other stray tracks. Three of those songs-“I’m Only Sleeping,” “And Your Bird Can Sing” and “Dr. Def Leppard: 10 Things You Might Not Know.New Janis Joplin Photo Book From Elliott Landy.‘The Beatles Rubber Soul to Revolver’ Book Coming.13 Best Rock Organists (& Their Most Killer Tracks).Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons Getting Massive Box Set.The Doobie Brothers’ ‘What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits’: The End of an Era.Radio Hits in August 1972: School’s Out.Vin Scully, Baseball’s Legendary Voice, is Mourned.Julian Lennon Continues to Release Songs From Upcoming Album, ‘Jude’.Talking Heads’ ‘Fear of Music’: A Transitional Gem.The Swinging Blue Jeans: Echoing the Beatles-Until They Didn’t.Stevie Wonder’s ‘Innervisions’: Reaching Higher Ground.Rolling Stones Close 2022 Tour: More To Come?.‘Elton John at 75’ Book To Celebrate 75 Career Highlights.Gordon Lightfoot’s Tale of a Ship’s Crew and Its Captain.New Book, ‘New York Groove,’ Looks at the Lineage of Rock in the Big Apple.Top Selling Albums of 1970: What a Year!.And, in the case of the Beatles, would be. Revolver, finally, signaled that in popular music, anything any theme, any musical idea could now be realized. "The album, which was released in August 1966, made it thrillingly clear that what we now think of as "the Sixties" was fully and irreversibly under way. Features "Good Day Sunshine", "Got To Get You Into My Life", "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby". Revolver reached #1 on the UK and the U.S. Many tracks on Revolver are marked by an electric guitar rock sound in contrast with the previous folk rock inspired Rubber Soul. Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 3/500! 180g Vinyl LP! Cut at Abbey Road Studios using the Non-Limited 24-bit Digital Masters Sourced from the Original Analog Master Tapes!