THE BEATLES "HELP" 1995 CAPITOL/EMI UNPLAYED REISSUE OUT OF PRINT PROMO STAMPED

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THESE 12”/LP RECORDS COME FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION, SOME ARE PROMO’S FROM THE NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK I WAS AT FOR 19 YEARS OTHERS FROM RECORD STORES, SWAPS,YARD SALES,CHARITY SHOPS, ETC.….ALL OF MY RECORDS COME IN A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVE…MEDIA MAIL IN THE U.S. $4 COVERS THAT AS WELL AS THE COST OF THE RECORD MAILER….I DO COMBINE SHIPPING, .50 EACH FOR THE U.S. FOR EACH ADDITIONAL RECORD. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING BASED ON WEIGHT. CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS.WHEN I CLICK ON EBAY’S “USED” THAT ONLY MEANS THE RECORD IS OPENED, IN MOST CASES IT IS UNPLAYED SO “NEW” IN THAT SENSE. I USE THE GOLDMINE STANDARD GRADING SYSTEM.

I ALSO HAVE MORE OF THE BEATLES “LIMITED EDITION” 1995 VINYL RE-ISSUES, PROMO STAMPED I WILL BE LISTING.

FROM MY GOOD BUDDIES AT CAPITOL/EMI RECORDS HERE IN L.A., I RECEIVED A BOX OF 13 OF THE 1995 LIMITED EDITION BEATLES L.P.S IN THEIR ORIGINAL U.K. CONFIGURATIONS. THEY ALL HAVE A GOLD INK EMBOSSED PROMO STAMPS, (SEE PHOTOS) ALL ARE IN EXCELLENT UNPLAYED CONDITION (SEE ABOVE) UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)….ALL ARE CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT, ALL ARE UNPLAYED ( I REALLY REALLY TOYED WITH THE IDEA OF KEEPING THEM AS THEY ARE FOR THE MOST PART PRISTINE, BUT, I HAVE THE MUSIC AND HOW MANY COPIES OF THIS DOES ONE NEED?). I AM LISTING THEM ONE AT A TIME, BUT WILL COMBINE SHIPPING FOR ANYONE WHO WINS MORE THAN ONE. THANKS FOR LOOKING. HERE GOES.

WHEN I SAW THE BEATLES PLAY LIVE IT WAS IN PORTLAND OREGON AUGUST 22, 1965 (THE 3PM MATINEE SHOW) WAS AROUND THE TIME THAT “HELP” WAS COMING OUT, SO THEY PLAYED THAT AS WELL AS “I’M DOWN” , “TICKET TO RIDE” AND “ACT NATURALLY” IN THEIR SET.

THIS IS THE 1995 REISSUED LIMITED EDITION ISSUE OF 1965’S “HELP!” THE BRITISH VERSION IN STEREO. C1-46439. NICE PARLOPHONE LOGO IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE JACKET. HERE’S MORE ON THE HISTORY OF THIS ALBUM.

“Help!” is the fifth British and tenth North American album by the Beatles, and the soundtrack from their film Help!. Produced by George Martin for EMI's Parlophone Records, it contains fourteen songs in its original British form, of which seven appeared in the film. These songs took up the first side of the vinyl album and included the singles "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride". The second side contained seven other releases including the most-covered song ever written, "Yesterday".

The American release was a true soundtrack album, mixing the first seven songs with orchestral material from the film. Of the other seven songs that were on the British release, two were released on the US version of the next Beatles album, Rubber Soul, two were back-to-back on the next US single and then appeared on Yesterday and Today, and three had already been on Beatles VI.

 In 2012, Help! was voted 331st on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In September 2013 after the British Phonographic Industry changed their sales award rules, the album was declared as having gone platinum.

Music

 The album features Paul McCartney's "Yesterday", arranged for guitar and string quartet and recorded without the other group members. John Lennon's "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" indicates the influence of Bob Dylan and includes classical flutes. While several compositions on 1964's Beatles for Sale, as well as "I'll Cry Instead" from A Hard Day's Night, had leaned in a country and western direction, McCartney's "I've Just Seen a Face" was almost pure country, taken at such a fast tempo that it might have been bluegrass if not for the absence of banjo and fiddle.

 "Ticket to Ride", also released as a single, was felt by Lennon to be "heavy" in its sound compared to the group's previous output and daring in its reference to a boy and girl living together. McCartney called the arrangement "quite radical".

 George Harrison contributed "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much", his first compositions to be included on a Beatles album since "Don't Bother Me" on 1963's With the Beatles. The record contained two cover versions and a few tracks more closely related to the group's previous pop output, yet still marked a decisive step forward. The record sleeve-note shows that Lennon and McCartney made more extensive and prominent use of keyboards, previously played unobtrusively by Martin. Four-track overdubbing technology encouraged this. Lennon, for his part, made much greater use of acoustic guitar, forsaking his famous Rickenbacker. All these developments can be traced to the previous Beatles for Sale, where they were less obvious because that album had been recorded more hastily, lacked chart hits and contained many cover versions.

The original LP's format of featuring songs from the soundtrack on side one and non-soundtrack songs on side two follows the format of A Hard Day's Night

In later years, Lennon stated that the album's title track was a sincere cry for help; he regretted changing it from a downbeat, piano-driven ballad to an uptempo pop song, which was done only as a result of commercial pressures.

“When "Help!" came out in '65, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock-'n'-roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help. It was my fat Elvis period. You see the movie: He — I — is very fat, very insecure, and he's completely lost himself. And I am singing about when I was so much younger and all the rest, looking back at how easy it was. Now I may be very positive — yes, yes — but I also go through deep depressions where I would like to jump out the window, you know. It becomes easier to deal with as I get older; I don't know whether you learn control or, when you grow up, you calm down a little. Anyway, I was fat and depressed and I was crying out for help.”

 John Lennon

The album cover features the Beatles with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters "HELP". But when we came to do the shot the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms."

 On the UK Parlophone release, the letters formed by the Beatles appear to be "NUJV", whilst the slightly re-arranged US release on Capitol Records appeared to feature the letters "NVUJ", with McCartney's left hand pointing to the Capitol logo.[ The Capitol LP was issued in a "deluxe" gatefold sleeve with several photos from the film and was priced $1 more than standard Capitol releases at the time.

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