Comments on: With The Beatles https://www.beatlesbible.com Not quite as popular as Jesus... Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:50:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 By: Big___Al https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-488782 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 14:18:21 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-488782 Your wife just called from the kitchen: You’re running out of tin foil again!

]]> By: Chris https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-488433 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:00:14 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-488433 Now here’s a strange thing. I have a red vinyl Odeon record – OR7041 that is entitled ‘Meet the Beatles’, but carries the same image as ‘With the Beatles’. The tracks are very different too, and there was no lyric sheet with the LP, bought by me in Nagoya, Japan 1964. This pressing is not listed anywhere, so my questions are: why? how rare is it and what’s it worth? Answers on a Christmas card please.

]]> By: MikeP https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-485450 Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:54:39 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-485450 Pure silliness. You weren’t there and you have no knowledge or basis for the suppositions in that last paragraph. You haven’t a clue what the intent or motivation (if any at all, which is doubtful) for any of it.

]]> By: Richard https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-457663 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:30:59 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-457663 The current text states: “On 13 October they appeared on Sunday Night At The London Palladium before a television audience of 15 million, winning over Fleet Street journalists who coined the term Beatlemania to describe their fans’ hysteria, and the following month they appeared before the Queen at the Royal Command Performance.”

This is not right as the Queen didn’t go to the 1963 Royal Command Performance. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret were in attendance, as mentioned in the text at:
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/11/04/live-royal-command-performance/

]]> By: flaxx https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-457633 Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:11:47 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-457633 So you think Ringo was very, very short? The album cover was a design choice to make the faces appear that way. The question is why.

]]> By: rain https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-453985 Thu, 17 May 2018 00:37:02 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-453985 That’s because Paul is standing behind George, who is standing behind John. Simple perspective. He’s just further away.

]]> By: flaxx https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-453376 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 23:05:20 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-453376 Top right. Paul’s face is smaller than John’s and George’s.

]]> By: Dan https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-453344 Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:21:12 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-453344 That’s Ringo in the bottom left corner not Paul

]]> By: Roy Wieselquist https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-452287 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 02:44:24 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-452287 A few cosmic coincidences about this album:
— The UK release date 11,22,63 was the day that JFK’s brains were shot out in the middle of the day in the middle of the street in Dallas, TX, USA. In 1968, after the murders of MLK and RFK, the Beatles released The White Album on that same day 11,22. On purpose, I believe. “The Beatles” is chock full of clues about UMSA, the Ubiquitous Murder States of Amerika. CIA pushed all those idiotic “Paul is dead” ideas to divert. Macca was actually an early, vocal critic of the WARren COmmissioN, read Mark Lane’s manuscript for “Rush to Judgment” and offered to compose a score for the documentary.
— Phil Spector’s masterpiece Christmas album, A Christmas Gift for You, came out that same day 11,22,63. Every one of those songs became iconic season offerings, but much later in 1972 when Apple reissued it. In 1963 it topped out at #14, a big disappointment to the band, but they understood. I spoke with Ronnie Spector on the phone once about this. They were on a plane going to a roll-out show when they heard the news from Dallas. Folks in the States didn’t feel like listening to happy music for a while; that is, until “I Want to Hold Your Hand” came out in December ’63, the perfect antidote for the gloom.
— November 22 is the Feast Day of St. Cecilia, patron of musicians and poets. As if With the Beatles and The White Album were trying to set the world back in balance.
— Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis, who started out as spiritual twins, but ended as opposites, died 11,22,63, but that’s far afield.

]]> By: flaxx https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-451786 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:54:34 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-451786 I never understood why the faces are different sizes. When I was a kid, I thought Paul had to be smaller than the other Beatles.

]]> By: Jack https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-450003 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 20:25:39 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-450003 It was based on an Astrid photograph which she took in the Hamburg days.

]]> By: June Scoular https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-449748 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:04:06 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-449748 Is the Mono version worth more than the Stereo version. ‘With The Beatles’ Album.

]]> By: manteau https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-449233 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 06:52:42 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-449233 I used to have the german pressing of WTB, there were 5 cymbals beat just before the opening of “All my loving” and no percussion at the beginning of “Money”.

]]> By: Reuven Gershon https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-448679 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 14:22:41 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-448679 Sorry but that’s not true. The photo shoot for With…. Was done in a hotel dining room in Bournmouth with the Beatles back against a window by Robert Freeman.

]]> By: Julie https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-448347 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:00:45 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-448347 Astrid Kirchherr. She didn’t take this cover. This was Robert Freeman, who took many classic Beatles shots. 🙂

]]> By: Bongo https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-447269 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 01:53:36 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-447269 The below statement blows my mind regarding mono vs stereo. My, times have changed!

Mono was still the preferred format in 1963. Stereo mixes were made, but The Beatles attended none of the sessions. The stereo mixes were primarily intended to feature a balance between the vocals and instrumentation, with each typically filling one of the available recording tracks.

]]> By: Marc Pepin https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-447082 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:05:00 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-447082 My only complaint about this album as a bass player, the bass is mixed so low on this album you can barely hear it.On Please Please Me it’s louder .The only other thing that I can discuss here, for the cover shoot,only two Beatles were present,the other two were missing. Look at the cover again,the two Beatles where you can see their necks were present for the shoot,the other two Beatle photos with no necks showing,those two photos were pasted on.I read that somewhere.

]]> By: Steve https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-446301 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:47:31 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-446301 Liner notes are pure PR and as such not necessarily reliable.

]]> By: Bongo https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-445739 Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:41:21 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-445739 The Beatles 2 first albums sound amazingly great for 2 track recording. Kudos to George Martin!

]]> By: Biased Lennon-Harrison fan https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-444724 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 23:51:33 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/with-the-beatles/#comment-444724 I like to listen to this album with a modified order, using the 1963 singles as well.

Side one

1. It Won’t Be Long
2. All I’ve Got To Do
3. All My Loving
4. Don’t Bother Me
5. She Loves You
6. Little Child
7. Til There Was You
8. Please Mister Postman
9. Money (side one closer)

Side two

10. I’ll Get You
11. Roll Over Beethoven
12. Hold Me Tight
13. You Really Got A Hold On Me
14. I Wanna Be Your Man
15. This Boy
16. Devil In Her Heart
17. Not A Second Time
18. I Want To Hold Your Hand (album closer)

I like the transition from Don’t Bother Me to She Loves You, the Beatles had an affinity, if even they were unaware of it, of finishing the story they started. Another example of this is It Won’t Be Long being answered a year and a half later by Wait.

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