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I could kick myself for throwing out my domestic copy (Capital) of Rubber Soul. The import (Parlaphone), which I own, doesn't contain this under-rated McCartney song. The only other studio version is on Help! but only on the Parlaphone version, not Capital, and I own the latter.It's interesting how EMI released different albums for American and European Beatles fans. Before CDs, Beatles on Parlaphone was a status symbol among the group's American fans. The packaging is slicker, the sound allegedly better. There are inmates here, I know, who can relate to this thread, and their comments are welcome.
Follow Ups:
Capitol in the U.S. adopted the strategy of "diluting" the original UK albums over different albums, which in some instances led to some songs being completely displaced with respect to the album that originally contained them (I've Just Seen A Face beign a case in point). Also, slighly different versions of certain songs appear in the U.S. albums (e.g. the U.S. version of I'm Looking Through You includes a guitar false start which does not appear in the UK version of Rubber Soul).EMI France would publish for long so-called "extended play" 45 rpm discs including four songs.
EMI Germany had the unique privilege of publishing the Fab Four singing in the local language "Komm, gib mir dein' Hand" (I Want To Hold Your Hand") or "Sie liebt dich" (She Loves You) and generally enjoyed very good pressings (from the same pressing plant used for Electrola classical discs).
While the Boot was toured by the Beatles only once in 1965, EMI Italy had the honor of publishing an extra album entiled "Beatles in Italy" (now a highly coveted collector's item), which does not superpose with any other Fab Four album but is rather a collection of singles (e.g. This Boy, She's A Woman,...)
How the Beatles recordings were differently "packaged" for different countries could easily form the subject matter of a book.
The Capitol versions added artificial reverb that was not in the original tape recordings. This was not authorized or approved by the Beatles.
Capital added reverb to all their versions? I'll have to listen. To me, Let It Be - Naked sounds the best. It has a live freshness to it that their studio work doesn't. Of course, much of it was recorded live and Phil Spector's syrupy wall of sound has been stripped away. Spector's arrangements work well with early 60s pop - not with what the Beatles were trying to do on Let It Be.
Plus, I expect you know the meaning of the suppressed Butcher cover?...
The one hiding near the top is "Ringo"....
Lo, I never heard of that one. I do know that I short-changed myself going with Parlaphone.
(nt)
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