| Label |
Parlophone |
| Catalogue No. |
R 6013 |
| Country of Origin |
England |
| Release Date |
8th March 1976 |
| U.K. Chart Detail : |
| Entry Date : | 14th March 1976 |
| Highest Position : | 8 |
| Weeks in Chart : | 7 Weeks |
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Value :
(of this version) |
£5 (as at Feb.2000) ... (no significant versions of this one) |
| Detail : |
Part of the March 1976 release, "The Singles Collection".
On February 6th 1976 the Beatles nine year recording contract with EMI expired. This left EMI with the rights to re-release
anything from their back catalogue, which they did, with gusto. Starting with EVERY single ... plus.
This single was part of that E.M.I. campaign to reissue all the Beatles official singles. All 23 (the original 22 plus this
one) were issued in a similar green picture sleeve with different pictures on the reverse. ALL 23 again made the Top 100
(at one point ALL simultaneously) with 6 of them reaching the top 50 and therefore being mentioned again in The Guinness
Book of Hit Singles.
Here are the Beatles chart positions for Sunday April 4th 1976 :
| 10 | Yesterday |
| 45 | Hey Jude |
| 46 | Paperback Writer |
| 53 | Strawberry Fields Forever |
| 55 | Get Back |
| 59 | She Loves You |
| 61 | Help ! |
| 62 | Love Me Do |
| 63 | Eleanor Rigby |
| 64 | Let It Be |
| 66 | A Hard Days Night |
| 68 | Can't Buy Me Love |
| 69 | I Want To Hold Your Hand |
| 71 | All You Need Is Love |
| 72 | From Me To You |
| 74 | Hello Goodbye |
| 75 | Please Please Me |
| 76 | Lady Madonna |
| 79 | Day Tripper |
| 81 | I Feel Fine |
| 83 | Ticket To Ride |
| 84 | Something |
| 88 | Ballad of John and Yoko |
The first "new" Beatles single since the break-up, "Yesterday" had been released in the U.S. way back in '65.
As you can see above, the small "rights of the manufacturer" writing around the rim is now no longer preceded by "The
Gramophone Co.", but now shows "EMI Records Ltd", and under the title there is a boxed EMI logo. Clearly EMI were totally
in control at this point. |
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