like a hard day’s night motion movie sound track was released in america but the uk the studio album was released same with the movie Help! and the beatles american albums, second album, the early beatles, the beatles 65, yesterday and today, etc. those werent released in the uk and rubber soul was the first studio album released in america in 1965, then came revolver,sgt peppers, magical mystery etc being released in america. how come they didnt release studio albums earlier in america?
The Beatles’ releases in the United States were initially delayed for nearly a year when Capitol Records, EMI’s American subsidiary, declined to issue either "Please Please Me" or "From Me to You". Negotiations with independent US labels led to the release of some singles, but issues with royalties and derision of the band’s hairstyle posed further obstacles. Once Capitol did start to issue the material, rather than releasing the LPs in their original configuration, they compiled distinct US albums from an assortment of the band’s recordings and issued songs of their own choice as singles. American chart success came suddenly after a CBS news broadcast about British Beatlemania triggered great demand, leading Capitol to rush-release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963. The band’s US debut was already scheduled to take place a few weeks later.
All the UK allbums were available in US in 1987. You could only import them before that year.
Beatles albims were released in the USA from 1964, starting with Introducing The Beatles. Then came Meet The Beatles and A Hard Days NIght. THe US did have an annoying habit of messing around with the content of Beatles albums, leaving songs out, adding some and so on. For a faithful reflection of what the Beatles were actually up to in the studio you need to stick with the UK releases.
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Various books and web sites, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_discography#Studio_albums and Revolution in the Head
The Beatles’ releases in the United States were initially delayed for nearly a year when Capitol Records, EMI’s American subsidiary, declined to issue either "Please Please Me" or "From Me to You". Negotiations with independent US labels led to the release of some singles, but issues with royalties and derision of the band’s hairstyle posed further obstacles. Once Capitol did start to issue the material, rather than releasing the LPs in their original configuration, they compiled distinct US albums from an assortment of the band’s recordings and issued songs of their own choice as singles. American chart success came suddenly after a CBS news broadcast about British Beatlemania triggered great demand, leading Capitol to rush-release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963. The band’s US debut was already scheduled to take place a few weeks later.
All the UK allbums were available in US in 1987. You could only import them before that year.
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Wikipedia
1964.
There wasn’t a market earlier. Everyone went nuts after the Ed Sullivan appearance, though.
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old guy – I remember
it was in 1964 i believe when their albums were released in America. that’s when they became really popular in the U.S. and internationally. Their song I Wanna Hold Your Hand was an instant overnight sensation in the United States. not long after that, the beatles really made it big when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan show and every one went crazy (in a good way) to be honest, im not sure why they studio albums weren’t released in America. you should research the american music market in the 60′s.
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Capitol insisted on issuing Beatle albums with only 12 tracks so the UK album format was not used much to the annoyance of producer George Martin who spent a lot of time working out the running order, also many tracks were remixed ‘for the American audience’, this practice stopped with Sgt Pepper when US Beatle fans demanded parity with the UK.
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