The Beatles 1964 Capitol Albums to be Reissued on Vinyl

Looks like the The Beatles camp is getting set to announce the vinyl re-issue of six US LP’s from released between January, 1964 and March, 1965 on Capitol and United Artists Records. They are Meet The Beatles, Something New, The Beatles’ Second Album, Beatles ’65, A Hard Days’ Night (Original Soundtrack), and The Early Beatles.

The official website briefly had pages published depicting pack shots of each album, but these have have since been taken down.

As you can see, each album comes with a replica inner sleeve from the time, and a sheet or booklet replicating the original tape box. It’s not yet known if the albums will only be available separately or if there’ll also be a box set containing all six LPs on the cards.

Speaking of those images of the tape boxes, before the pages were taken down each album had this Mastering Note text attached:

These albums were cut for vinyl from the original master tapes using a completely analog signal path and with constant reference to first generation pressings of the original albums. They were made using a Studer A80 master recorder with analog preview & program paths, and an Neumann VMS70 cutting lathe originally installed in Capitol Studios in 1971. This specific all-analog cutting technique allows faithful representation of the full musical range and dynamics present on the original tapes.

So, fully analogue AAA pressings is very welcome news. As to whether they’re the original Capitol Mono or Stereo mixes the images seem to confirm Mono as the albums above all show catalogue numbers starting with the “T” prefix – meaning Mono.

These releases tie in well with the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Beatles conquering America and the rumoured The Beatles: The First U.S. Tour re-issue of the famous Mayles brothers’ film – also expected to be announced soon.

UPDATE: It looks like an image of the box set (to be called The Beatles 1964 US Albums In Mono) has also been leaked. This confirms rumours that the box contains a bonus double disc in the form of The Beatles’ Story:

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The discs will be on 180-gram vinyl cut from the original mono master tapes and will have a global release on November 22. They’ll feature faithfully replicated artwork and new four-panel inserts with essays written by American Beatle historian and author Bruce Spizer.

7 thoughts on “The Beatles 1964 Capitol Albums to be Reissued on Vinyl

  1. Nope…. those are NOT Beatles albuns.

    Not the real ones, the original european LPs.

    Never understood why they let such odd things happen….

    Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…..

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  2. Seems like a strange way to do a re-release at this time. After all of the remastering they’ve done to improve the stereo and colored vinyl like the red and blue albums, I expected something more. This would just be a fresh copy of the records I already own.

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  3. Let’s see…in 2004 we see the start of a CD boxset series that *does* contain the original US mixes, but the series is never completed. In 2014, we get a full CD boxset of releases, but the mixes are (mostly) not the original US ones. Is it third time lucky, or will they find yet another way to disappoint us with this lot?

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  4. I was 12 years old when the Beatles first performed on Ed Sullivan. I stood up to my dad and insisted the family watch it (a bold move in my house). Soon afterwards, my buddy Chris Phillips and I immersed ourselves in the Capitol mono LPs as they were released.

    We had no idea who or what Parlophone / EMI was. Didn’t have a clue who Dave Dexter was or his over use of reverb. We didn’t know how the UK releases were bastardized playlists by the Capitolists.

    All we knew was we had a small tabletop ‘record player’ with one 6×9″ speaker and The Beatles filling our virgin ears.

    These re-issue LPs that are Original Analog Tape sourced is as close as I will ever get to being a 12 year old, albeit with a much improved sound system.

    I still can listen to my first introductory love of music, and grin like a monkey.

    al dusoe,

    winchendon massachusetts.

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