Long Tall Sally (EP)
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| EP by The Beatles | |||||
| Released | 19 June 1964 | ||||
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 1 March and 1 June 1964 |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 9:06 | ||||
| Label | Parlophone GEP 8913 (mono) |
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| Producer | George Martin | ||||
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Long Tall Sally by The Beatles was their fifth official EP release, and the first UK EP that included songs not previously released on any album or single.[1]
I Call Your Name was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, a song they originally gave to Billy J. Kramer and his backing band the Dakotas. Kramer released it as the B-side to "Bad to Me", a John Lennon song that Kramer took to number 1.[1][2] The remaining songs were covers.
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[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "Long Tall Sally" (Johnson-Penniman-Blackwell) — 2:03
- "I Call Your Name" (Lennon/McCartney) — 2:09
[edit] Side two
[edit] Other releases
- In the United States, the EP was split and released on The Beatles' Second Album ("Long Tall Sally" and "I Call Your Name") and Something New ("Slow Down" and "Matchbox").
- In Canada, the first two tracks and the name of the EP were included on The Beatles' Long Tall Sally.
- In 1976, the four tracks on this EP were issued as part of the double-album, "Rock 'N' Roll Music", a collection of 28 classic Beatles recordings. With the release of this album, these four tracks were finally issued in Stereo on a British-released Beatles album for the very first time.
- In 1978, the tracks were included in the UK LP Rarities which was first released as part of The Beatles Collection, then individually in the UK, with all four of these songs appearing in Monophonic sound. The U.S. version of Rarities was different and did not include any of the Long Tall Sally EP songs.[3]
- The EP was compiled with Beatles singles in the late 1980s as part of the Past Masters collection, which made all of the Beatles' releases available on compact disc when added to the 13 original British albums. Once again, these four songs were in Stereo.
- The EP was reissued in 1992 as part of a 15-disc Compact Disc EP Collection, with the songs in their original Monophonic sound.
- In December 2004, Capitol Records issued a 4-disc CD boxed set, entitled "The Capitol Albums, Volume 1". The set included reissues of the first 4 American Capitol albums on Compact Disc for the very first time. The songs "Long Tall Sally" and "I Call Your Name" were on disc 2, with "Slow Down" and "Matchbox" on disc 3. All of the songs on the CDs were presented in both Monophonic AND Stereo.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Calkin, Graham. Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages. Retrieved on 2004-12-21.
- ^ Cross, Craig (2005). The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 372-373. ISBN 0-595-34663-4.
- ^ Cross, Craig (2005). The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record, 511, 570.
