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Love Songs
Compilation album by The Beatles
Released 21 October 1977
Recorded 1962–1970, mostly at Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom
Genre Rock music
Length 59:05
Language English
Label Capitol
Producer George Martin and Phil Spector
Professional reviews
The Beatles chronology
Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962
(1977)		 Love Songs
(1977)		 The Beatles Collection
(1978)

Love Songs is a compilation album that comprises love songs recorded by The Beatles between 1962 and 1970. It was released by Capitol Records in the United States on 21 October 1977 (catalogue number SKBL-11711) and on Parlophone in the United Kingdom on 19 November 1977 (PCSP 721.) The compilation peaked at #24 in Billboard's Top LPs & Tape chart during a thirty-one week stay that began on November 12, 1977.[1] The RIAA certified the album with sales of three million units in 2000 even though the compilation was deleted in the late 1980s.[1]

The LP's original packaging included an 11 x 11" booklet, with the songs' lyrics printed, calligraphy-style, on simulated parchment paper. For the first several pressings, the cover itself was simulated leather, and the Beatles' image (a re-working of Richard Avedon's 1968 portrait, featured in Look Magazine) was simulated gold-foil. The LP was also available on yellow vinyl.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (see Lennon/McCartney), except where noted.

Side one
  1. "Yesterday" – 2:03
  2. "I'll Follow the Sun" – 1:47
  3. "I Need You" (George Harrison) – 2:27
  4. "Girl" – 2:30
  5. "In My Life" – 2:24
  6. "Words of Love" (Buddy Holly) – 2:12
  7. "Here, There and Everywhere" – 2:22
Side two
  1. "Something" (Harrison) – 2:59
  2. "And I Love Her" – 2:28
  3. "If I Fell" – 2:18
  4. "I'll Be Back" – 2:21
  5. "Tell Me What You See" – 2:35
  6. "Yes It Is" – 2:38
Side three
  1. "Michelle" – 2:40
  2. "It's Only Love" – 1:55
  3. "You're Going to Lose That Girl" – 2:16
  4. "Every Little Thing" – 2:01
  5. "For No One" – 1:58
  6. "She's Leaving Home" – 3:33
Side four
  1. "The Long and Winding Road" – 3:37
  2. "This Boy" – 2:11
  3. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" – 2:01
  4. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" – 2:07
  5. "I Will" – 1:44
  6. "P.S. I Love You" – 1:59

Canceled single

Capitol Records originally intended to release a single in promotion of the compilation. The song "Girl" was going to be backed with "You're Going to Lose That Girl" as Capitol 4506, but the single was cancelled in early October 1977.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Spizer (2007), pp159-162.
  2. ^ Spizer (2007), p157.

References

  • Spizer, Bruce (2007). The Beatles Swan Song. New Orleans: 498 Productions, L.L.C.. ISBN 0-9662649-7-5.  

External links

The Beatles' compilations
Bert Kaempfert recordings
(Polydor/Bear Family)
My Bonnie (Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, Germany, 1962) • The Beatles' First (Germany, 1964 / UK, 1967) • In the Beginning (Circa 1960) (1970) • The Early Tapes of The Beatles (1984) • Beatles Bop - Hamburg Days (2001)
1962–1970 (Parlophone/
Apple/Capitol)

Hits: A Collection of Beatles Oldies (1966) • 1962–1966 (1973) • 1967–1970 (1973) • 20 Greatest Hits (1982) • 1 (2000)
Themes: Rock 'n' Roll Music (1976) • Love Songs (1977) • The Beatles' Ballads (1980) • Reel Music (1982)
Non-album tracks: Hey Jude (USA, 1970 / UK, 1979) • Rarities (UK, 1978) • Rarities (USA, 1980) • Past Masters, Volume One (1988) • Past Masters, Volume Two (1988)
Alternate versions: Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999) • Let It Be… Naked (2003)
Other: The Beatles' Christmas Album (USA) / From Then to You (UK) (1970) • Love (2006)

Unreleased: Sessions (due date 1985)
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