THE BEATLES IN MONO vinyl boxed set

Capitol/EMI/Apple/UMG finally did the right thing and issued (most of) the Fab Four's catalog in mono -- on vinyl, from the original analog tapes -- in 2014!  Here's a look at the box, plus comparisons to the American albums.



The core catalog through the "White Album" is here, including the UK track listings for "Sgt. Pepper," "Revolver," "Rubber Soul," "Help!," "Beatles For Sale," "A Hard Day's Night," "With the Beatles," "Please Please Me" and the U.S. "Magical Mystery Tour."

I also look at what's not in the box: the Abbey Road and Let It Be LPs, the single mix of "Let It Be," the 45 "Ballad of John and Yoko"/"Old Brown Shoe," all of which were issued in stereo-only.

I'll show you and discuss the UK "Let It Be" boxed set, the rare TMQ bootleg set "From the Vault," the American "Rarities" album (and its bootleg predecessor, "Collector's Items"), "The Beatles Christmas Album" (1970, aka "From Then To Us" in the UK), "Live at the Hollywood Bowl," "Beatles Anthology 3," "Yellow Submarine," "Let It Be Naked," "1962-66" and "1967-70," "Introducing the Beatles," "Hear the Beatles Tell All" (both on Vee-Jay), "Live at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany, 1962," "Live at the BBC," "The Black Album," "The Beatles Ballads," The Decca Audition tape, the original version of "Let It Be" (titled "Get Back") and US-only disks like "Meet the Beatles," "The Beatles Second Album," "The Beatles Story," "Something New," the United Artists "A Hard Day's Night," "Beatles '65," "The Early Beatles," "Beatles VI" and "Yesterday and Today."

I did not have time for "Hey Jude," "A Collection of Beatle Oldies," "Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Beatles," "Jolly What! The Beatles and Frank Ifield Live" or "The Early Tapes" with Tony Sheridan.

And for good measure, here's a Usenet database of Beatles' mix variations between mono and stereo.