4-by the Beatles

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4-By The Beatles
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EP by The Beatles
Released February 1, 1965
Recorded Abbey Road 1964
Genre Rock and roll
Length 10:26
Label Capitol R-5365
Producer(s) George Martin
The Beatles chronology
Beatles '65
(1964)		 4-By The Beatles (EP)
(1965)		 The Early Beatles
(1965)


4-By The Beatles was the second of two Beatles' EPs released by Capitol Records in the United States.

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[edit] History

Though the first Beatles' EP released by Capitol did not succeed as much as the label would have hoped, it did well on the singles chart, which enabled Capitol to create a new series called the "4-By" series, which acted like a "super single." The idea was to market a set of four songs to "complement the artist's singles and albums and not compete with the performer's current hit single."1 Accordingly, the series name is a reference to the limited success of that first EP by The Beatles that Capitol had released: Four By The Beatles.

Although initially intended to appear as a single by releasing the "4-By" in a soft sleeve and thus "distinguish the '4-By' product from EP's," The Beatles "4-By" was released in a hard cardboard sleeve, similar to regular EP releases.2 Billboard did not chart this "4-By" as a single either, instead as an EP, with it charting as high as 68 on the Hot 100, the highest it reached in the Cash Box chart as well.3

Capitol deleted this release from its catalog on December 31, 1965, less than a year after it was released.4

[edit] Track listing

  • The "4-By" featured four songs that were previously released on Beatles '65 in December 1964.

[edit] Side one

  1. "Honey Don't" (Perkins)
  2. "I'm A Loser" (Lennon-McCartney)

[edit] Side two

  1. "Mr. Moonlight" (Johnson)
  2. "Everybody's Trying to be My Baby" (Perkins)

[edit] See also

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[edit] Notes

Note 1: Spizer, Bruce (2000). The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part One: Beatlemania and the Singles, p.65-6. New Orleans, Louisiana: 498 Productions. ISBN 0-9662649-1-6
Note 2: Ibid.
Note 3: Ibid.
Note 4: Ibid.

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Production
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Official studio albums
Please Please Me (1963) • With the Beatles (1963) • A Hard Day's Night (1964) • Beatles for Sale (1964) • Help! (1965) • Rubber Soul (1965) • Revolver (1966) • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) • Magical Mystery Tour (U.S.-1967/UK-1976) • The Beatles (The White Album) (1968) • Yellow Submarine (1969) • Abbey Road (1969) • Let It Be (1970)
Past Masters compilations
Past Masters, Volume One (1988) • Past Masters, Volume Two (1988)
Filmography
A Hard Day's Night (1964) • Help! (1965) • Magical Mystery Tour (1967) • Yellow Submarine (1968) • Let It Be (1970)
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