Capitol records released “Beatles ’65” in the US. The LP was also issued in Germany on the Odeon label. “Beatles ’65” included eight of the fourteen songs from “Beatles for Sale” (omitting “Eight Days a Week,” “Words of Love,” “Every Little Thing,” “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party,” “What You’re Doing” and the “Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey” medley, all of which were issued later on “Beatles VI”). It also includes “I’ll Be Back” from the UK’s “A Hard Day’s Night” album and both sides of the single “I Feel Fine”/”She’s a Woman.” These latter two songs were issued in “duophonic” stereo and included added reverb by Capitol Records’ executive Dave Dexter, Jr. to cover up the use of the mono mixes sent from England. Two of the three songs written by Carl Perkins and recorded by the Beatles appear on this album.In the US, “Beatles ’65” jumped from #98 straight to #1, making the biggest jump to the top position in the history of the Billboard album charts up to that time. It remained at #1 for nine straight weeks beginning January 9, 1965, and was the top selling non-soundtrack LP based on Billboard’s year-end chart for 1965. By December 31, 1964 the album had sold 1,967,261 copies in the US; by the end of the 1960s, sales there were up to 2,327,186.Writing in The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1983), John Swenson described “Beatles ’65” as the first of the band’s “classic ‘concept’ albums.” He said that the LP “worked as a musical whole” rather than merely serving as a collection of “the latest bunch of songs that could be assembled into a record in any order.” Several albums were released and promoted in America during 1965 sporting a similar title to “Beatles ’65.” These included “Sinatra ’65” by Frank Sinatra and “Ellington ’65” by Duke Ellington on Reprise Records, and “Brasil ’65” by Sérgio Mendes on the Beatles’ own Capitol label.
TRACKLIST:1) No Reply2) I’m a Loser3) Baby’s in Black4) Rock and Roll Music (Chuck Berry)5) I’ll Follow the Sun6) Mr. Moonlight (Roy Lee Johnson)7) Honey Don’t (Carl Perkins)8) I’ll Be Back9) She’s a Woman10) I Feel Fine11) Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby (Carl Perkins)
