The Beatles In mono [Boxed Set]

A lot of the early songs are obvioiusly different as the American versions had reverb and compression added. Most notabale were I Feel Fine and She's a Woman.

I'll Cry Instead was longer on the US single (I don't think it was a UK single at all)

My assumption is the mono box is the UK mono LP mixes.

But someone who has it will have to review it to be sure.

No, only I Feel Fine and She's a Woman had extra reverb added, and POSSIBLY "Please Please Me," though as Aaron, Paul, and I recently deduced, if there is any extra reverb on the US version, it's so subtle that it's not audible. It appears to us that any different sound between the album and single versions of "Please Please Me" (at least, on the new mono remaster) are merely due to different EQing, not to added reverb.

As far as I can tell, the only US mono single mixes that were different from their British counterparts were:

- I Feel Fine (drenched in reverb -- on The Capitol Albums Vol 2)
- She's a Woman (drenched in reverb -- on The Capitol Albums Vol 2)
- And I Love Her (US is single-tracked vocal; on The Capitol Albums Vol 2)
- I Am the Walrus (British mono version is an EDIT -- the US mono single had an extra two-second bit right before the "yellow matted custard" line. This has never been issued on CD.)

I've also read (but have not verified) that the full volume drum hit at the end of the "Ballad of John and Yoko" on "Beatles 1" and the new remaster of "Past Masters" was on the 45, so if that's true, the full length 45 version is really only on those two CDs. (Though I suppose if you could boost the sound of the drum hit with an audio editor.) EDIT: Okay, I guess I verified it. According to the Usenet Guide to Beatles Recording Variations, "The single release has a loud final drumbeat; it is faded on the other releases."

Edited by Brian W.

Has the single version of Yellow Submarine appeared on cd yet? It had a guitar drum on the words "In The", while the mono and stereo album versions do not.

Tom, yes, Yellow Submarine has appeared in single form on CD. It's been on
the Beatles Singles Box all along, and now it appears on the new Beatles in
Mono box.

Brian W. wrote: Here's another difference between a Beatles UK and US 45. According to the Usenet Guide to Beatles Recording Variations, the brief studio chatter at the beginning of "For You Blue" was omitted from the US 45.

Thanks, Brian. I'd been wondering about that, since the chatter is not on either of my re-issue 45s.

"The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue" was not issued as a 45 in the UK, which is why it is not on the singles box.



Edited by Paul C