THE BEATLES "A Hard Day's Night" 1964 Stereo OST LP
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The Beatles / A Hard Day's Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - United Artists Records UAS-6366 (Stereo)(US)(1964) ...This auction is for an original first issue Record pressing on U.S. vinyl.
A Hard Day's Night arrived in early 1964, and was a cinéma vérité-style motion picture comedy/musical that cemented The Beatles image as "the Fab Four": happy-go-lucky, individualistic, cheeky, funny lads with nonstop energy.
The soundtrack was a major triumph, consisting entirely of Lennon-McCartney tunes, including such standards as the title tune, "And I Love Her," "If I Fell," "Can't Buy Me Love," and "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You." George Harrison's resonant 12-string electric guitar leads were hugely influential; the movie helped persuade the Byrds, then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles (along with Bob Dylan) would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965.
Track listing and reviews below...
Detailed item info:
Track listing(Side One)
1. A Hard Day's Night (Vocal)
2. Tell Me Why (Vocal)
3. I Cry Instead (Vocal) [label reads "I'll Cry Instead"]
4. I Should Have Known Better (Instrumental)
5. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You (Vocal)
6. And I Love Her (Instrumental)
(Side Two)
1. I Should Have Known Better (Vocal)
2. If I Fell (Vocal)
3. And I Love Her (Vocal)
4. Ringo's Theme (This Boy) (Instrumental)
5. Can't Buy Me Love (Vocal)
6. A Hard Day's Night (Instrumental)
Details Contributing artists: George Martin Producer: George Martin Distributor: United Artists Records, Inc.
Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo
Album notes A Hard Day's Night was the first Beatles album of all-original material, and the first to feature George Harrison playing his Rickenbacker electric 12-string guitar (on the opening chord of "A Hard Day's Night," for instance). The distinctive sound of the 12-string inspired countless guitarists including Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds. The film from which these songs hail remains a classic combination of happy '60s naïveté and nascent hipster wit. Many of the most important rock bands to emerge in the latter half of the '60s came into being because of A Hard Day's Night's irresistible vibrancy. The tunes flow like the finest red wine, as the title track leads to the glorious harmonica of "I Should Have Known Better" and the powerfully poignant "If I Fell."
Editorial reviews Included in Q Magazine's Best Happy Albums of All Time - ...the sound of young men almost astonished by their fecundity and melodic gifts....they never sounded happier.
Q (09/01/1999)
Ranked #5 in Q's 100 Greatest British Albums
Q (06/01/2000)
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