45cat - The Beatles - Love Me Do / PS I Love You - Parlophone

Record Details

Artist:	The Beatles
Label:	Parlophone
Catalogue:	R 4949
Date:	5 Oct 1962
Format:	7"
Title:
Chart Position:	17
Overall Rating:	6.8

Track

Artist

Title

Composer

Producer

Rating

The Beatles

Love Me Do

Lennon, McCartney

George Martin

6.2 Rate

The Beatles

PS I Love You

Lennon, McCartney

George Martin

6.8 Rate

Notes

1st issue: Red labels. Catalogue number has the prefix 45-R. Some copies have a 'Made in Great Britain' credit. Demo copies miscredit McCartney as McArtney.

2nd issue: Black labels. 'The Parlophone Co Ltd…' text round the edge of the label is in upper and lower case. Released April 1963.

3rd issue: Black labels. 'The Parlophone Co Ltd…' text round the edge of the label is in upper case only. Released in 1964.

4th issue: Black labels with EMI logo. 'Green' picture sleeve. Released March 1976.

5th issue: Red 'shiny' labels. Labels have credit 'Produced by George Martin'. Picture sleeve. Released October 1982. Reached number 4 in the charts. Later copies have a barcode on the back cover of the picture sleeve.

6th issue: Silver injection moulded labels. Barcode on back of picture sleeve. Released April 1995.

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Comments

zabadak 5th Jun 2010		Brilliantly pastiched in The Rutles: I feel good, I feel bad I feel happy, I feel sad Am I in loov I moost be in loov Quality!

Polegateman 20th Mar 2010		There is currently a signed copy of the red label version on ebay.com, with one bid so far of $15,000: reserve not met. The blurb says "The record was signed on Oct 6th 1962 in Dawson's Music Store Widnes Cheshire". Item number: 150424870721

Solzhi 30th Jan 2009		Ahhh the red. Macca, 'imself, described Love Me Do as "the greatest lyric we ever wrote". It was something like that. I cannot find the exact words right now for reasons of beer. Palpable nonsense.Yet Love Me Do remains the first thing that the world heard. I have seen quotes from musicians, no less, stating how strange this single sounded at the time. Play it to an aficianado of cutting edge "dance" music now, and you would doubtless get the same reaction. There is, to this ear, something soothing about this single. All the usual cliches about innocence etc etc apply. Of course, the Beatles were rather less innocent than the average set of middle aged genitalia.Nevertheless...love, love me do.

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