| Past Masters | ||||
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 2009 cover to the combined collection |
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| Compilation album series by The Beatles | ||||
| Released | 7 March 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 4 September 1962 – 4 January 1970 at Abbey Road, Trident, Olympic and Apple studios, London; Pathé Marconi Studio, Paris; EMI Studios, Bombay | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 95:54 | |||
| Language | English, German ("Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" and "Sie Liebt Dich") | |||
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, Apple | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
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| The Beatles chronology | ||||
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Past Masters is a two-volume compilation album set by The Beatles released in 1988 following the 1987 release of the band's original UK studio albums on CD. Past Masters collects tracks that were not released on studio albums, so that the band's entire catalogue could be available on CD. Past Masters contains every song commercially released by EMI from 1962 to 1970 that was not included on the 12 original UK Beatles albums or the Magical Mystery Tour LP. The majority of the album consists of the A- and B-sides of the band's singles, including single versions of songs that appeared differently on albums. The full contents of the UK-only Long Tall Sally EP, two German language recordings, a song recorded for the American market and a track used on a charity compilation complete the collection.
Past Masters was initially released as two separate CDs on 7 March 1988, with a two-LP vinyl set combining both volumes following on 24 October 1988 in the United States and 10 November 1988 in the United Kingdom. The original CDs were included in 1988 The Beatles Box Set. A two-CD set of both volumes with two additional stereo tracks was released on 9 September 2009 as part of the Beatles Remastered project [1]. This release was included in The Beatles Stereo Box Set. In The Beatles in Mono box set, an album entitled Mono Masters took the place of Past Masters, containing a similar track list in original mono mixes. The track lists of the second disc of the two sets are different, reflecting the fact that later songs were mixed or released only in stereo.
This was the final Beatles album released as a vinyl record before the recording industry stopped manufacturing them in large quantities in favour of the compact disc format of prerecorded music. Subsequent new Beatles albums were released in the vinyl record format as limited editions.
Contents |
Tracks are in stereo unless indicated as mono. Dates provided are the dates when the singles or EP/album tracks were released, not recorded.
Volume one contains eighteen recordings originally released between 1962 and 1965:
All songs written and composed by Lennon/McCartney except where noted.
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| Track | Title | Lead vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Love Me Do" (from 5 October 1962, A-side, the original single version on Parlophone, catalogue number 45-R4949, recorded on 4 September 1962 featuring Ringo Starr on drums, mono ) | Paul McCartney, with John Lennon | 2: 24 | ||||||
| 2. | "From Me to You" (from 11 April 1963 A-side, mono, stereo on 2009 remasters ) | Lennon and McCartney | 1:57 | ||||||
| 3. | "Thank You Girl" (from 11 April 1963 B-side, mono, stereo on 2009 remasters ) | Lennon and McCartney | 2:04 | ||||||
| 4. | "She Loves You" (from 23 August 1963 A-side, mono ) | Lennon and McCartney | 2:21 | ||||||
| 5. | "I'll Get You" (from 23 August 1963 B-side, mono ) | Lennon, with McCartney | 2:06 | ||||||
| 6. | "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (from 29 November 1963 A-side ) | Lennon and McCartney | 2:25 | ||||||
| 7. | "This Boy" (from 29 November 1963 B-side ) | Lennon, with George Harrison and McCartney | 2:16 | ||||||
| 8. | "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" ((Lennon/McCartney/Nicolas/Hellmer) (from 5 March 1964 German single) (very narrow stereo, wider stereo on 2009 remasters) ) | Lennon and McCartney | 2:27 | ||||||
| 9. | "Sie Liebt Dich" ((Lennon/McCartney/Nicolas/Montague) (from 5 March 1964 German single) (very narrow stereo, wider stereo on 2009 remasters) ) | Lennon and McCartney | 2:20 | ||||||
| Side Two | |||||||||
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| Track | Title | Lead vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Long Tall Sally" (Enotris Johnson, Robert Blackwell, Richard Penniman) (from 19 June 1964 Long Tall Sally EP ) | McCartney | 2:03 | ||||||
| 2. | "I Call Your Name" (from 19 June 1964 Long Tall Sally EP) ) | Lennon | 2:09 | ||||||
| 3. | "Slow Down" ((Larry Williams) (from 19 June 1964 Long Tall Sally EP ) | Lennon | 2:56 | ||||||
| 4. | "Matchbox" (Carl Perkins) (from 19 June 1964 Long Tall Sally EP) ) | Ringo Starr | 1:59 | ||||||
| 5. | "I Feel Fine" (from 27 November 1964 A-side ) | Lennon | 2:18 | ||||||
| 6. | "She's a Woman" (from 27 November 1964 B-side ) | McCartney | 3:03 | ||||||
| 7. | "Bad Boy" ((Williams) from 14 June 1965 American album Beatles VI, 10 December 1966 British album A Collection of Beatles Oldies ) | Lennon | 2:20 | ||||||
| 8. | "Yes It Is" (from 9 April 1965 B-side of "Ticket to Ride" ) | Lennon, McCartney and Harrison | 2:43 | ||||||
| 9. | "I'm Down" (from 23 July 1965 B-side of "Help!" ) | McCartney | 2:30 | ||||||
Volume two contains tracks from several Beatles singles (including B-sides) and one track from a various artists charity album (the "Wildlife" version of "Across the Universe") that were originally released between 1965 and 1970.
All songs written and composed by Lennon/McCartney except where noted.
| Side Three | |||||||||
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| Track | Title | Lead vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Day Tripper" (3 December 1965 double A-side with "We Can Work It Out") | Lennon and McCartney | 2:48 | ||||||
| 2. | "We Can Work It Out" (3 December 1965 double A-side with "Day Tripper") | McCartney with Lennon | 2:15 | ||||||
| 3. | "Paperback Writer" (10 June 1966 A-side) | McCartney | 2:18 | ||||||
| 4. | "Rain" (10 June 1966 B-side) | Lennon | 3:02 | ||||||
| 5. | "Lady Madonna" (15 March 1968 A-side ) | McCartney | 2:17 | ||||||
| 6. | "The Inner Light" (George Harrison) 15 March 1968 B-side) | Harrison | 2:37 | ||||||
| 7. | "Hey Jude" (30 August 1968 A-side) | McCartney | 7:08 | ||||||
| 8. | "Revolution" (30 August 1968 single version B-side) | Lennon | |||||||
| Side four | |||||||||
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| Track | Title | Lead vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Get Back" (11 April 1969 single version A-side ) | McCartney | 3:15 | ||||||
| 2. | "Don't Let Me Down" (11 April 1969 B-side ) | Lennon with McCartney | 3:35 | ||||||
| 3. | "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (30 May 1969 A-side ) | Lennon | 2:59 | ||||||
| 4. | "Old Brown Shoe" ((George Harrison) 30 May 1969 B-side ) | Harrison | 3:20 | ||||||
| 5. | "Across the Universe" (12 December 1969 "Wildlife" version from a British various artists charity album titled No One's Gonna Change Our World for the World Wildlife Fund) ) | Lennon | 3:49 | ||||||
| 6. | "Let It Be" (6 March 1970 single version A-side ) | McCartney | 3:50 | ||||||
| 7. | "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" (6 March 1970 B-side, mono ) | Lennon and McCartney | 4:19 | ||||||
Both volumes of Past Masters were released on a two-CD set as a part of The Beatles remastered catalogue on 9 September 2009, with two tracks previously issued on CD in mono only compiled in stereo: "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl". It is also included in The Beatles Stereo Box Set.
| Mono Masters | |
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| Compilation album by The Beatles | |
| Released | 9 September 2009 (as part of The Beatles in Mono box set) |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 98:49 |
| Language | English, German ("Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" and "Sie Liebt Dich") |
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, Apple |
| Producer | George Martin |
An all-mono compilation titled Mono Masters was included as part of The Beatles in Mono box set.[2] The premise of this box set was to compile only Beatles material which was released or prepared for release with a dedicated mono mix (the set excludes later albums mixed and released only in stereo). As a result, the tracklisting for Mono Masters differs from Past Masters on the second half of disc two, omitting some later songs that never had a mono mix, and adding several songs released on stereo-only albums that had unreleased mono mixes. Tracks 9-12 and 15 were prepared in March 1969 for release as a 7" mono Yellow Submarine EP, but due to poor reception of the full album, the project was abandoned. Subsequently, the tracks were only released in stereo (and in an electronically-produced mono mixdown, or "fold-down", of the stereo mix), while the true mono mixes remained unreleased. "Get Back" (with B-side "Don't Let Me Down") was the final Beatles single mixed for mono format. It was released in the UK in mono, though the U.S. release was in stereo. Thus, the stereo singles included on Past Masters are omitted on this release.
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