iefje wrote:I have heard one of The Beatles (I think it was John Lennon) say around 1963, that they didn't release singles off of their albums, but in fact their very first album "Please Please Me", did feature both sides of their first two Parlophone singles. The singles being "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You" and "Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why". Or maybe he meant that they didn't do that after the album had been released. In any case, their albums "Please Please Me", "A Hard Day's Night", "Help!", "Revolver", "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be" all included tracks which were also used on UK singles. Tracks from the albums "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "The Beatles" (aka "The White Album") were issued as singles in the UK in 1978 and 1976 respectively, some years after the group had broken up.
The very first Shadows album which had tracks released as singles in the UK was "Rockin' With Curly Leads" from 1973. The single taken from that album was "Turn Around And Touch Me"/"Jungle Jam".
"Please Please Me" didn't contain the A-side of the first (1962) single.
The version of Love Me Do used on that 12" disc was an alt take, with Andy White on drums and Ringo on tambourine.
Ringo had played drums on the take used on the single (45-R 4949).