E.P. - Twist And Shout

This E.P. contained four tracks all taken from the first L.P. "Please Please Me".
At the time of release the L.P. had been at the top of the charts for 10 weeks (TEN !), which makes it quite odd that this E.P. then sold over 800,000 copies and remained in the E.P. charts a record 64 weeks ! ... In fact this E.P. turned out to be the fourth biggest seller of 1963, behind three singles ... She Loves You (almost 1 and 1/2 million copies), I Want To Hold Your Hand (1 and 1/4 million copies) and third was the Dave Clark Five's Glad All Over selling almost a million.

Still the biggest selling E.P. in British pop history, it was (like most of the others) ONLY released in glorious MONO.

"Twist And Shout" was also the highest placed E.P. ever in the singles chart, where it actually reached No.2 ! ... in fact, both the press and public treated this 45rpm outing as a new single, and even though Brian Poole and The Tremeloes cover version of the title song was almost half the cost, being a normal single release, The Beatles held them off to No.4.

During the first six months of 1963 there were 2.5 million records sold by Liverpool groups, and these were just seven titles ! ... All seven were produced by George Martin.
If you want to know the titles you'll have to e-mail me !

Beatles own compositions were credited to "McCartney - Lennon".

The E.P. was released in a picture sleeve, and of course, they all were ... so I won't mention this again !
The front cover picture was taken by Dezo Hoffman, and the sleeve notes were by Tony Barrow.

Finally, how do you spot original pressings ? ....
The typeface on more recent issues is both more modern and smaller than on the originals, while the actual catalogue number was actually BIGGER on originals.
Around the edge of the label, the words stating the rights of the publishers started with "The Parlophone Co. Ltd." and the date on the label is shown as "Recording First Published 1963".
Post 1965 pressings have across the press-out centres the words, "sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists", the rights start with "The Gramophone Co. Ltd.", and the date is not preceded with "Recording First Published", but instead has a circled "P".
Re-pressings were also made in the 1970's, these do NOT have across the press-out centres the words, "sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions, see price lists".
For examples of what I mean, see ... The Beatles Hits E.P..