The Beatles' Ballads

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The Beatles' Ballads
The Beatles' Ballads cover
Compilation album by The Beatles
Released 14 October 1980
Recorded Abbey Road 1962–1970
Genre Rock and roll
Length 58:59
Label Parlophone/Capitol PCS 7214/SL 9612
Producer George Martin
The Beatles UK chronology
Rarities
(1978)		 The Beatles' Ballads
(1980)		 Reel Music
(1982)

The Beatles' Ballads is a compilation album featuring a selection of ballad songs by The Beatles. The album was not released in the United States, but in the UK, Canada and Australia. In the latter the album was a giant hit, spending 7 weeks at #1.

The cover art had been created in 1968 as a possible cover for what would become The White Album. Its style and concept appears to support the original working title of A Doll's House.

The Beatles' Ballads was never released on CD.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney except where indicated.

[edit] Side one

  1. "Yesterday"
  2. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
  3. "Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
  4. "For No One"
  5. "Michelle"
  6. "Nowhere Man"
  7. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
  8. "Across the Universe" ("Wildlife" version from a British various artists charity album titled No One's Gonna Change Our World)
  9. "All My Loving"
  10. "Hey Jude"

[edit] Side two

  1. "Something" (Harrison)
  2. "The Fool On the Hill"
  3. "Till There Was You" (Willson)
  4. "The Long and Winding Road"
  5. "Here Comes the Sun" (Harrison)
  6. "Blackbird"
  7. "And I Love Her"
  8. "She's Leaving Home"
  9. "Here, There and Everywhere"
  10. "Let It Be"
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The Beatles' compilations
Bert Kaempfert recordings
(Polydor/Bear Family)
My Bonnie (Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, Germany, 1962) • The Beatles' First (Germany, 1964 / UK, 1967) • In the Beginning (Circa 1960) (1970) • The Early Tapes of The Beatles (1984) • Beatles Bop - Hamburg Days (2001)
1962–1970 (Parlophone/
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Hits: A Collection of Beatles Oldies (1966) • 1962–1966 (1973) • 1967–1970 (1973) • 20 Greatest Hits (1982) • 1 (2000)

Themes: Rock 'n' Roll Music (1976) • Love Songs (1977) • The Beatles' Ballads (1980) • Reel Music (1982)
Non-album tracks: Hey Jude (US, 1970 / UK, 1979) • Rarities (UK, 1978) • Rarities (US, 1980) • Past Masters, Volume One (1988) • Past Masters, Volume Two (1988)
Alternate versions: Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999) • Let It Be… Naked (2003)
Other: The Beatles' Christmas Album (US) / From Then to You (UK) (1970) • Love (2006)

Unreleased: Sessions (due date 1985)
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Capitol/Lingasong)
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Apple/Capitol)
Anthology 1 (1995) • Anthology 2 (1996) • Anthology 3 (1996)
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Apple/Capitol)
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