Album: With The Beatles [UK mono]
Year of Release: 1963
Country: UK
Label: Parlophone
Catalogue number: PMC 1206
Matrix codes: XEX 447-7N // XEX 448-7N
[Tracklisting]
1. It Won't Be Long
2. All I've Got To Do
3. All My Loving
4. Don't Bother Me
5. Little Child
6. Till There Was You
7. Please Mr. Postman
8. Roll Over Beethoven
9. Hold Me Tight
10. You Really Got A Hold On Me
11. I Wanna Be Your Man
12. Devil In Her Heart
13. Not A Second Time
14. Money
Total running time: 33:39
[Review]
Here you have a transfer from my original UK mono copy of "With The Beatles" (-7N/-7N), that you can compare to the 2014 reissue. This is a late second pressing, with "You Really Got A Hold On Me" credit on the Side 2 and "Dominion, Belinda (Ldn.) Ltd." publishing credit for "Money". To my ears it's bass shy, when compared to the 2009 remasters.
"With The Beatles carried on where Please Please Me had left off, melding more Lennon-McCartney originals with further highlights from their stage set. It also included the song-writing debut of their twenty-year old, Lead Guitarist, George Harrison. While the majority of their debut album had been completed in one day, The Beatles had to record their second release in-between other engagements that included, concert tours, numerous radio and TV performances (including the prestigious Sunday Night At The London Palladium) and their first international tour to Sweden. It was around this time that the term 'Beatlemania' was first coined and this was very much in evidence when they took part in that year's Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. If that wasn't enough they also had to write, record and promote three new 45's all of which reached the no.1 spot in the UK charts. None of the tracks from With The Beatles was released as a single in the UK and the distinctive black and white cover shot by Robert Freeman also broke new ground for a pop album." (from thebeatles.com)
4 comments:
I believe the UK mono is the only release with the unique version of Money. A completely different mix.
@Jimmy Dee
Unfortunately it seems like the mono version of Money on PMC 1206 is the same as the early CD issue (and, I believe, also as the remastered mono CD released in 2009).
A different mix is on Capitol T 2080.
Source: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/var-1963.html#money
My mono cd has the unique version. It was manufactured in 1987 by Capitol with the Parlophone logo. It's CDP 7 46436 2.
Here is the discogs link to the copy I own:
http://www.discogs.com/Beatles-With-The-Beatles/release/4079430
@Jimmy Dee
If I understood correctly, that version is the official version, available also on the 2009 remasters. So I would not call it "unique".
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