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Long Tall Sally
EP by The Beatles
Released 19 June 1964
Recorded 1 March and 1 June 1964,
Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre Rock
Length 9:06
Language English
Label Parlophone
Producer George Martin
Professional reviews
The Beatles chronology
With The Beatles
(1963)		 Long Tall Sally
(1964)		 A Hard Day's Night
(1964)

Long Tall Sally by The Beatles was their fifth official EP release, and the first British EP that included songs not previously released on an album or single.[1] It was put out by Parlophone in mono with the catalogue number GEP 8913 and released in the UK on 19th June 1964. The four songs from this EP were remastered for compact disc by George Martin, and released in 1988 on the Past Masters, Volume One compilation.

"I Call Your Name" was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, a song they originally gave to Billy J. Kramer and his backing band the Dakotas. Kramer released it as the B-side to "Bad to Me", a Lennon song that Kramer took to number 1.[1][2] The remaining songs were covers.

The picture on the album cover is taken by the Swedish photographer Bosse Trenter in Stockholm 25 October 1963. (Source: Börje Lundberg och Ammi Bohm: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles erövrar Sverige, pages 76-79)

Contents

Track listing

Side one
# Title Lead vocals Length
1. "Long Tall Sally" (Johnson-Penniman-Blackwell) McCartney 2:03
2. "I Call Your Name"   Lennon 2:09
Side two
# Title Lead vocals Length
3. "Slow Down" (Williams) Lennon 2:56
4. "Matchbox" (Perkins) Starr 1:58

Other releases

  • In 1976, the four tracks on this EP were issued as part of the double album, Rock 'n' Roll Music, a collection of 28 Beatles recordings. With the release of this album, these four tracks were issued in stereo on a British-released Beatles album for the first time.
  • In 1978, the tracks were included in the UK LP Rarities which was first released as part of The Beatles Collection, then individually in the UK, with all four of these songs appearing in mono. The U.S. version of Rarities was different and did not include the Long Tall Sally EP songs.[3]
  • The EP was compiled with Beatles singles in the late 1980s as part of the Past Masters collection, which made all of the Beatles' releases available on compact disc when added to the 13 original British albums. Once again, these four songs were in stereo.
  • The EP was reissued in 1992 as part of a 15-disc Compact Disc EP Collection, with the songs in their original Monophonic sound.
  • In December 2004, Capitol Records issued a four-disc CD boxed set, entitled "The Capitol Albums, Volume 1". The set included reissues of the first 4 American Capitol albums on Compact Disc for the very first time. The songs "Long Tall Sally" and "I Call Your Name" were on disc 2, with "Slow Down" and "Matchbox" on disc three. All of the songs on the CDs were presented in both Monophonic and Stereo.

Sources

  • Börje Lundberg och Ammi Bohm: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles erövrar Sverige (Premium Publishing, Sweden 2003, ISBN 91-89136-03-9)

Notes

  1. ^ a b Calkin, Graham. "Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages". http://www.jpgr.co.uk/gep8913.html. Retrieved 2004-12-21. 
  2. ^ Cross, Craig (2005). The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc.. pp. 372–373. ISBN 0-595-34663-4. 
  3. ^ Cross, Craig (2005). The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record. pp. 511, 570. 
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