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Album Information

This is the page where I will put information on the album that I have found. But then that is obvious if you read the page title.

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Label Parlophone
Catalogue No. PCS 3042 (Stereo)
PMC 1202 (Mono)
CDP 7 46435 2 (CD)
Release date 22nd March 1963 (Mono ONLY)
26th April 1963 (Stereo version)
26th February 1987 (CD release)
Total time 31:59
U.K. Album Chart Detail Entry Date: 6th April 1963
Highest Position: 1 ... for 30 weeks from 11th May 1963 (Consecutively!)
Weeks in Chart: 70+ 4 from 7th March 1987 (CD release, reached no.32)

Songs recording date and information:

  1. Please Please Me - 11th February 1963 in 12 takes. Final mix - takes 9 and 12
  2. Misery - 11th February 1963 in 11 takes. Overdubs 20th February 1963 creating takes 12-16. Final mix - take 16
  3. Anna (Go to Him) - 11th February 1963 in 3 takes. Final mix - take 3
  4. Chains - 11th February 1963 in 4 takes. Final mix - take 1
  5. Boys - 11th February 1963 in just 1 take. Final mix - take 1
  6. Ask Me Why - 26th November 1962 in 6 takes. Final mix - take 6
  7. Please Please Me - 26th November 1962 in 18 takes (A slower version was recorded 11th September 1962, but erased). Final mix - mono was one single take, whereas stereo was takes 16/17/18 edited
  8. Love Me Do - 11th September 1962 in 18 takes, with Andy White on drums (The version with Ringo was 1 week earlier on the 4th). Final mix - take 18
  9. P.S. I Love You - 11th September 1962 in 10 takes, with Andy White on drums, and Ringo on Maracas. Final mix - take 10
  10. Baby It's You - 11th February 1963 in 3 takes. Overdubs 20th February 1963 creating takes 4-6. Final mix - take 5
  11. Do You Want to Know a Secret - 11th February 1963 in 8 takes. Final mix - take 8
  12. A Taste of Honey - 11th February 1963 in 7 takes. Final mix - take 7
  13. There's a Place - 11th February 1963 in 13 takes. Final mix - take 13
  14. Twist and Shout - 11th February 1963 in 2 takes (A second take was attempted, but it is Take 1, raw and complete, on record). Final mix - take 1