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Vee-Jay included "Ask Me Why" on version 2 of Introducing... The Beatles. Capitol eventually released "Ask Me Why" in 1965 on The Early Beatles when Vee-Jay's rights expired. A live version from December 1962 was released on the German/UK version of Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 album in 1977, but was left off the initial US ...
In 1965, The Beach Boys covered "Tell Me Why" on their Beach Boys' Party! album. In 1982, April Wine covered it on their album Power Play. It reached #46 in Canada. [12] In 1986, The Chenille Sisters covered the song, as a medley with "Chains", on their self titled first album. In 2002, The Punkles did a cover of the song on their second album ...
The single, as initially released with "Ask Me Why" on the B-side, failed to make much impact in the US in February 1963, but when re-released there on 3 January 1964 (this time with "From Me to You" on the B-side), it reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also re-released on 6 December 1982 by Parlophone in the UK.
Between 1962 and 1968, the Beatles released their songs in both mono and stereo versions; [4] [5] Abbey Road and Let It Be were mixed and released only in stereo. [6] Their songs often featured differences between the mixes and the group put the most effort into making the mono mixes. [ 5 ]
The Beatles' discography was originally released on the vinyl format, with full-length long plays (LPs), shorter EPs and singles. Over the years, the collection has also been released on cassette , 8-track , compact disc (CD), on a USB flash drive in MP3 and 24-bit FLAC format, and on digital media streaming services.
The sixteen-disc collection contains the remastered stereo versions of every album in the Beatles catalogue. The first four albums (Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale) made their CD debut in stereo, though most songs from those albums have previously appeared on CD in stereo on various compilations.
Finding the Cavern Club, the band's venue in their native Liverpool, unsuitable for recording, Martin switched to a simple studio album. The Beatles recorded Please Please Me in one day at EMI Studios on 11 February 1963, with Martin adding overdubs to "Misery" and "Baby It's You" nine days later. The A-sides and B-sides of two previously ...
The Beatles performed the song live on 16 February 1964 for their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. An instrumental easy listening arrangement by George Martin , re-titled " Ringo's Theme (This Boy) ", was featured in the film A Hard Day's Night and the United Artists soundtrack album.