Recent Acquisitions (Friday 10th November 2023)

I don't think I ever owned the Beatles' compilations 1962-1966 or 1967-1970, although I was certainly very familiar with them. They were first released as double-album records in 1973 and were very popular as a means of collecting all the singles, especially those that had not previously been included on albums. CD versions have appeared from 1993, but were superceded by Past Masters, designed to keep all Beatles recordings in catalogue by collecting all those otherwise missing.
Both so-called Red and Blue albums have just been released in expanded editions, all using the "demix remix" technologies enabled by Peter Jackson's MAL (Machine Assisted Learning) on the Get Back TV series, and first employed on record for the recent Beatles Revolver  re-issue.
The added tracks throw out the concept of being collected singles or even would-be singles by adding some quite unsuitable due to their length, including I Want You (She's So Heavy), which I think is a shame.
Whereas the original releases were entirely Lennon-McCartney compositions, the newly added tracks include some of their early cover versions, songs by Chuck Berry, the Isley Brothers and the Miracles, and a handful of George Harrison compositions (but not my favourite, It's All Too Much).
My copy was delivered on release day and so far I have played the first disc of the  Red Album. This includes Love Me Do and She Loves You mixed into true stereo for the first time.
Furthermore Love Me Do is quite rightly not the version from the album Please Please Me, on which Ringo, who had only joined the group a few weeks earlier, was relegated to maracas at George Martin's insistence, while a session drummer sat in. An earlier version of the song from a previous session that did have Ringo on drums had accidentally been used on the first pressing of the debut single, and was the one much heard on the radio at the time. The master was subsequently destroyed to prevent future mishaps so much later releases of the Ringo single version on compilations had to be mastered from vinyl 7" singles. Two such singles were edited together for the 2023 remix which thanks to MAL in the hands of Giles Martin and Sam Okell is restored to pristine  condition and in stereo. In fact the clarity and stereo placement of all the tracks I've heard so far is outstanding, and bodes well for further Beatles re-issues.

L.
Saturday 11.11.2023 (1511 hr)

Blip #3992 (#3742 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #006
Blips/Extras In 2023 #198/265 + #087/100 Extras
Day #4977 (1177 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3132 (#2972 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-5 and Pentax  D FA Macro 100mm F2.8 WR prime lens

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Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Beatles - Help! (2023 Mix) (recorded 13 April 1965, EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road)
There are a number of permutation of this song on different Beatles releases, none of which are quite the same as the one heard in the film. The vocals were re-recorded for the film at CTS studios on 24 May 1965, partly to obscure Ringo's tambourine as the scene in the film did not show a tambourine to be present. There were differences between the mono and stereo versions of the Help! album, and the version in America had a James Bond-style introduction at the start. This 2023 remix seems to be derived from the stereo Help! master, though there is great confusion as to which versions were used where. The song appears on the Help! LP, the US Help! soundtrack, 1962–1966, the Imagine: John Lennon soundtrack, 1, Love, and The Capitol Albums, Volume 2.

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