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Hilarious. How have I never seen this before?
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Hilarious. How have I never seen this before?
axolotl
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Hilarious. How have I never seen this before?
I hadn't thought about it, either.
Maybe we were all consumed with the mis-clue of 28IF ...
ETA: ...and Paul's bare feet.
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Well, I learned two new things about that photograph today.
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50 Years Later, We Know Why Paul McCartney Was Barefoot on 'Abbey Road'
Paul McCartney did not die while with the Beatles, but why he went barefoot on the cover of 'Abbey Road' remains a mystery. McCartney himself has recently suggested it was only because it was hot outside, but this doesn't totally answer the question. Here's what Paul said recently ahead of the...
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James Taylor, on how he came face-to-face with Mark David Chapman outside of the Dakota, on the day before John Lennon's death
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Unsomnambulist
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Playing rock n' roll in suits must've been a trip.
Nickyboy
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Why isn't "Hey Jude" on an album?
Actually there are two separate, semi-complicated answers to your question- depending on whether you hail from the US or UK.
It was generally accepted common practice in Britain not to place a single (45) on a full album (33 1/3). For the Beatles, this goes back to their 3rd single- From Me to You. Many other British singles- She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, We Can Work It Out, Penny Lane among others were not originally on any British albums when they were released as singles.
In the US, there was a different” philosophy”. In addition to not including singles on LPs in the UK, it was common for British albums to contain as many as 14 songs while US albums were usually 11–12 songs long. So, the general practice in the US was for Capitol records to take the 14 song British Beatles album, split it two ( 7 songs) and add in a couple of singles, B-sides and oddities (ie. - German language version of She Loves You, Sie Liebt Dich) to come up with TWO US Beatles albums for every one British one.
This formula wasn’t followed 100%. In Britain, some singles (Love Me Do, Help, A Hard Days Night, others) WERE on albums. In the US, some albums included extreme filler- the US version of Help contains a side of George Martin instrumentals.
By 1967, the Beatles had more control over what was released and issued the (essentially) same version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band worldwide and also released NO singles from that album in the UK or US. There were some singles released around this time (Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, Hello Goodbye, All You Need Is Love/Baby Your a Rich Man, etc.) The Beatles next official release was Magical Mystery Tour- a six song double EP (extended play 45). In the US, Capitol Records took the 6 songs and added the five singles listed above to create an 11-song album. It may be the only example where the US philosophy actually created a better listening experience than the UK version.
So, finally to your question, Hey Jude was released as a 45 worldwide in the summer of 1968. This was soon followed by the double album White Album in the fall, the first on the Beatles own label, Apple Records. Capitol Records was no longer in a position to alter the content of Beatles albums. I’m sure they would’ve loved to split the White Album in two and maybe even somehow include Hey Jude on one of them but that wasn’t an option. There also weren’t enough 45 singles released around that time period to allow them to be placed on their own LP at that time.
The first time there were enough non-album songs to be placed together to form an American hodgepodge album was late in 1969. In early 1970, the album called “The Beatles Again” but also known as “Hey Jude” was released in the US. It included some older songs that hadn’t made it to a Beatles US album (Paperback Writer) and newer 45s that also hadn’t made it to the album form including Lady Madonna, Ballad of John and Yoko, and of course Hey Jude.
Hey Jude next appeared on the “greatest hits” album Beatles 67–70 in 1973 in both the US and the UK, marking its first appearance on a British album. It has appeared on other compilation albums since then as well.
So short story long, Hey Jude wasn’t released on an album when it was first released as a single in 1968 because, in the UK that was really the common practice so not unusual or surprising and in the US because they couldn’t find enough other songs laying around to team it up with for a full length album until a year and a half later.
As an aside, because of the different US and UK policies, there were a bunch of Beatles songs that were big hit singles in the US but not in the UK at the time. Among them are Twist and Shout, Eight Days A Week and Yesterday (which was a top ten UK hit single in 1976).
Actually there are two separate, semi-complicated answers to your question- depending on whether you hail from the US or UK.
It was generally accepted common practice in Britain not to place a single (45) on a full album (33 1/3). For the Beatles, this goes back to their 3rd single- From Me to You. Many other British singles- She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, We Can Work It Out, Penny Lane among others were not originally on any British albums when they were released as singles.
In the US, there was a different” philosophy”. In addition to not including singles on LPs in the UK, it was common for British albums to contain as many as 14 songs while US albums were usually 11–12 songs long. So, the general practice in the US was for Capitol records to take the 14 song British Beatles album, split it two ( 7 songs) and add in a couple of singles, B-sides and oddities (ie. - German language version of She Loves You, Sie Liebt Dich) to come up with TWO US Beatles albums for every one British one.
This formula wasn’t followed 100%. In Britain, some singles (Love Me Do, Help, A Hard Days Night, others) WERE on albums. In the US, some albums included extreme filler- the US version of Help contains a side of George Martin instrumentals.
By 1967, the Beatles had more control over what was released and issued the (essentially) same version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band worldwide and also released NO singles from that album in the UK or US. There were some singles released around this time (Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields, Hello Goodbye, All You Need Is Love/Baby Your a Rich Man, etc.) The Beatles next official release was Magical Mystery Tour- a six song double EP (extended play 45). In the US, Capitol Records took the 6 songs and added the five singles listed above to create an 11-song album. It may be the only example where the US philosophy actually created a better listening experience than the UK version.
So, finally to your question, Hey Jude was released as a 45 worldwide in the summer of 1968. This was soon followed by the double album White Album in the fall, the first on the Beatles own label, Apple Records. Capitol Records was no longer in a position to alter the content of Beatles albums. I’m sure they would’ve loved to split the White Album in two and maybe even somehow include Hey Jude on one of them but that wasn’t an option. There also weren’t enough 45 singles released around that time period to allow them to be placed on their own LP at that time.
The first time there were enough non-album songs to be placed together to form an American hodgepodge album was late in 1969. In early 1970, the album called “The Beatles Again” but also known as “Hey Jude” was released in the US. It included some older songs that hadn’t made it to a Beatles US album (Paperback Writer) and newer 45s that also hadn’t made it to the album form including Lady Madonna, Ballad of John and Yoko, and of course Hey Jude.
Hey Jude next appeared on the “greatest hits” album Beatles 67–70 in 1973 in both the US and the UK, marking its first appearance on a British album. It has appeared on other compilation albums since then as well.
So short story long, Hey Jude wasn’t released on an album when it was first released as a single in 1968 because, in the UK that was really the common practice so not unusual or surprising and in the US because they couldn’t find enough other songs laying around to team it up with for a full length album until a year and a half later.
As an aside, because of the different US and UK policies, there were a bunch of Beatles songs that were big hit singles in the US but not in the UK at the time. Among them are Twist and Shout, Eight Days A Week and Yesterday (which was a top ten UK hit single in 1976).
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Dhani Harrison on John Lennon's past comments on 'All Things Must Pass'
George Harrison's landmark solo album is celebrating its 50th anniversary
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axolotl
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I wonder if they ever made them in a stereophonic version.
Unsomnambulist
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The ad says they're stereo.
axolotl
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Sorry. Yes, yes... it does.
I'm on low ebb today. As a consequence, my attempts at humor will be bland and lifeless.
Unsomnambulist
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You're just disappointed that Reinstatement Day isn't going as planned.
axolotl
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Actually, I'm digging on this Friday the 13th. I don't even possess any Koolaid that I know of.You're just disappointed that Reinstatement Day isn't going as planned.
Spoilerized as my situation has nothing to do with The Beatles, or any of them.
No, in troofies, I had a bit of an emotional hit (via telephonic tongue-lashing) on Wednesday from a judge I respect. So, I have to produce two briefs by next Friday, plus a response to proffer brief that needs to be done right away.
Then, I was asked to help yesterday to haul a sleeper-bed up a flight of stairs by a neighbor, and the sheer exertion of the whole endeavor caused me to take a long nap, after which I lost pretty much the remainder of yesterday due to exhaustion. Slept like a log last night, though.
Then, I find out one of my colleagues is going elsewhere, which means we are down one attorney going into next week, which likely means each of us will have three or four extra hearings next week.
Then, I was asked to help yesterday to haul a sleeper-bed up a flight of stairs by a neighbor, and the sheer exertion of the whole endeavor caused me to take a long nap, after which I lost pretty much the remainder of yesterday due to exhaustion. Slept like a log last night, though.
Then, I find out one of my colleagues is going elsewhere, which means we are down one attorney going into next week, which likely means each of us will have three or four extra hearings next week.
axolotl
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You are truly a man ahead of his time.
Nickyboy
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The front door was wide open. Who wouldn't walk in? At least I can say I was inside, if only for a minute or two at the most.
axolotl
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You should be certified as an Honorary Apple Scruff.
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