Vinyl Album - The Beatles - The Beatles Ballads - Parlophone

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Beatles
Title:	The Beatles Ballads
Label:	Parlophone
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	PCS 7214 / 0C 062-07.356
Date:	13 Oct 1980
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	40 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Beatles	Yesterday	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A2	The Beatles	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A3	The Beatles	Do You Want To Know A Secret?	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
A4	The Beatles	For No One	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A5	The Beatles	Michelle	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A6	The Beatles	Nowhere Man	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A7	The Beatles	You've Got To Hide Your Love Away	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A8	The Beatles	Across The Universe	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A9	The Beatles	All My Loving	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
A10	The Beatles	Hey Jude	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
B1	The Beatles	Something	Harrison	Rate
B2	The Beatles	The Fool On The Hill	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
B3	The Beatles	Till There Was You	Willson	Rate
B4	The Beatles	The Long And Winding Road	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
B5	The Beatles	Here Comes The Sun	Harrison	Rate
B6	The Beatles	Blackbird	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
B7	The Beatles	And I Love Her	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
B8	The Beatles	She's Leaving Home	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
B9	The Beatles	Here, There And Everywhere	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
B10	The Beatles	Let It Be	Lennon, McCartney	Rate

Notes

UK Chart Entry: 15 Nov 1980
Highest Position: 17
Total Weeks on Chart: 16
Produced by George Martin except for The Long And Winding Road which was produced by Phil Spector.

Cover painting by John Patrick Byrne. Rear cover photograph: Stephen Goldblatt. Art Direction: Peter Shepherd. Design: Shoot That Tiger!

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OldMod67 11th Jun 2019		I'd forgotten all about this LP! I recall it coming out, but had the tracks so passed on it. I did however cadge the display sleeve from my local record shop,even without buying one. I loved the illustration,which I had in a book, despite Ringo's 'wrong' hand freaking me out and it was on the bedroom door for most of 1981. Regarding the cover, the illustration is included in The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics, edited by Alan Aldridge (pages 6 & 7),1969, reissued in 1980.



Record Collector 17th Oct 2015		as I got five beatles CDs to go I can easily make up my own copy



roboleyton 4th Jan 2015		Post 1982 labels added, with 'All Rights Of The Producer' rim text.



Bluemeanie 4th Jan 2015		Whilst in the basement of EMI in Manchester Sq I found a box of framed posters for this album. Did I take them NO! another doh moment.



Record Collector 29th Dec 2014		what I have right in front of me as I type is the original Australian issue of The Beatles Ballads released with price sticker included at the cost of $8.95 (a lot of money in those days people) as I carefully take the record out of the cover and its record slip looking closely (trying not the breath on the record) it states produced by George martin *except phil spector and yes I do have have the original organge parlophone label played it today oh how I do miss those snap crackle and pop lol



TopPopper 29th Dec 2014		As I understand it, George Martin wasn't involved in the recording of the Long and Winding Road at all. It was left to Glyn Johns to record, and he subsequently prepared it for release on the "Get Back" album. Spector, when he got hold of it, did a massive amount of work bringing it to the state it's heard on this LP - ie with choirs and strings. I don't see how George Martin can claim to be the producer if this is correct.



Record Collector 29th Dec 2014		Bought this album when it first came out in 1981 when the label was orange the following year (1982) when all beatles albums switched to parlophone and I remember seeing a cassette copy of essential beatles that was still available in 1984



Neil Forbes 29th Dec 2014		Take a look at the composer credit at the bottom of the Side 1 label.... "six of one, half-a-dozen of the other" is a phrase that springs immediately to mind! Also, It's a bit unnecessary to have the EMI logo twice on the label, at top AND bottom! And production of The Long & Winding Road rightly does belong to George Martin. You've got to remember that the Let It Be album sessions were recorded in 1968 and 1969 with Martin in charge as producer, but arguments between the members of the group left the album in an unfinished state - indefinitely shelved. It was Alan Klein who brought Spector in to sort out the album and he was given producer credit over Martin, And I'm sure George Martin would've felt justifyingly pissed off about it, too!



Record Collector 29th Dec 2014		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 Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, India, South Korea and Australia. In Australia, the album was a big success, spending 7 weeks at #1. The cover art by "Patrick" (John Byrne) had been created in 1968 as a possible cover for what would become The Beatles (also known as The White Album). Its style and concept appears to support the original working title of A Doll's House. The album was released in 1985 on LP and cassette under the EMI-ODEON label in Brazil using identical front and back cover art. It has never been officially released on compact disc. Despite a running time of almost one hour the vinyl edition of this release has only ever been available as a single LP, rather than as a double set as sometimes presumed.[1][2] Also note that for some of the tracks, such as "Norwegian Wood," EMI Records did not use the mixes of the originally-released versions of the tracks. In South Korea, "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" was censored until 1993, so it was replaced with "Girl".



Record Collector 21st Dec 2014		Bought this album back in June 1980 the label was orange then by 1982 when all the Beatle albums were issued by parlophone it was black right up to 1992



TopPopper 22nd Sep 2013		Cover painting was originally intended for the cover of the White Album, but was left unused until this 1980 album.