To compile all of the tracks from the UK HDN album from North American albums you have to pick up the United Artists HDN album, as well as Capitol’s Something New and Beatles ’65 albums. There are a number of blatant differences between the North American and UK mono versions of songs from the ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ album… that is the album that really stands out for wildly differing mixes. It is somewhat interesting though – I don’t think that there were any intentional mono reissues in North America, so if you have a mono copy of any North American Beatles album, it is the original pressing.Īlso worth noting, the mono mixes available in North America were not necessarily the same as the UK mono mixes. The ‘white album’ was the first Beatles album that was unavailable in mono in North America (except obviously as an import from the UK – if you could get one). Nope, we had mono records over here in North America right up to and including ‘Magical Mystery Tour’. I may be wrong but I believe that none of The Beatles’ material was released in mono format and so US fans had to wait till the mono box set or purchase UK vinyl versions to catch up on the way most of us this side of the pond first heard The Beatles’ music. All that changed with Sgt Pepper although even here to my ears the mono mix is the superior sound.However it was totally different in the US. He may have even farmed out the stereo mixing to an assistant or if he did do it himself it would not have been a meticulous process. So George Martin would have been most keen to closely supervise the final mixes of the mono versions of the songs because these would be listened to by the vast majority of the record buying public. In the UK stereo reproducers were not common until the late 60’s and all the engineering attention went into mixing tracks which would give maximum sound reproduction on small mono record players which most teenagers had in their bedrooms. At this time and really up to Revolver and probably Sgt Pepper little attention was paid to the stereo versions of Beatles’ material. For purists like me its great that there was no stereo version of Love Me Do.
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