US version of the Beatles Help

George Martin called it a remix back then, but it may be just a narrowing & reversing. Little known is that the UK Love Songs uses all original mixes EXCEPT tracks from the UK Rubber Soul, which are extremely narrowed the same way tracks from RS were that were on R&RM (probably done at the same time)..

 

Duophonic "Ticket To Ride"

Why did Capitol even create a fake-stereo TTR in the first place? Wouldn't they have received a true-stereo mix with their "Help!" album sub-master? The remainder of the U.S. LP is true stereo, along with the leftover tracks scattered to Beatles VI, Rubber Soul and Yesterday & Today.

 

Ticket To Ride's flip side Yes It Is was mixed for stereo in 1965 and didn't see any release in world until 1986 when appeared on the Heinecken cassette licensed through EMI.

EMI could have used that on the Love Songs compilation instead of the fake stereo job there along with This Boy.

 

I picked up a PROMO copy of the original U.K. Rock & Roll 2 LP set about 1 hour ago at the annual Calgary Record, CD, Comic Book and Toy Fair. I posted a scan of the label in the vinyl thread I started Saturday, May 29.

 

I think by 1977, when Love Songs was compiled, EMI/Capitol had no idea what resided in their vaults. How many labels would have had reissue specialists and if they did, how much access did they have to tape vaults?

 

It was a hastily assembled compilation as well.

I would think that EMI U.K. would have full access to their own vaults though, even back then.