Original Release: 1967
Reissue: 1984
| Side One | Side Two |
|---|
| 1 | She Loves You | 1 | Can't Buy Me Love |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | From Me To You | 2 | Bad Boy |
| 3 | We Can Work It Out | 3 | Day Tripper |
| 4 | Help! | 4 | A Hard Day's Night |
| 5 | Michelle | 5 | Ticket To Ride |
| 6 | Yesterday | 6 | Paperback Writer |
| 7 | I Feel Fine | 7 | Eleanor Rigby |
| 8 | Yellow Submarine | 8 | I Want To Hold Your Hand |
| Original - Odeon | Reissue - Som Livre | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mono | Stereo | Stereo | |
| LP | BTL 1003 | SBTL 1003 | 410 7002 |
| Cassette | --- | ? | 750 7002 |
The Som Livre's cassette catalogue number is not confirmed. I guessed it by comparing with other Som Livre's albums.
"Greatest Hits - 1963-1966". This album is the first "official"
Beatles' compilation, issued by the British EMI. It joins the A-sides of
all UK singles from From Me To You to Paperback Writer *
, plus Michelle and Yesterday, and the first worldwide release
of Bad Boy, that had been previously issued only in the United States.
*We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper and Yellow
Submarine / Eleanor Rigby are considered "double-A singles",
since both songs were rated in the singles' charts.
The back cover has a photo with a circle on it with the inscription "But Goldies", and the spine of the most recent pressings has only "Oldies But Goldies", because of this I adopted this sentence as a sub-title.
This album was reissued in 1984 by Som Livre, being this the only Beatles'
album not released by EMI-Odeon in Brazil. Som Livre is the record label
of Globo TV, and is specialized
in budget-line compilations. Differently from common Som Livre's records,
this reissue got a silver gatefold cover, with the lyrics inside (the Odeon
release doesn't have lyrics). The front cover is adorned with the track
list and a shadowed stylized image of the band playing (in a style similar
to the Love Songs logo). Inside, along with the lyrics,
a similar image of the boys on the run, taken from one of their movies.
On the cover, the title of the album seems to be only The Beatles,
in huge letters, although the original title does appear, in smaller font,
on the top of front and back cover, and also on the disc label. The "But
Goldies" doesn't appear anywhere.
Like all Som Livre albums, it was made in big amounts, highly advertised
on Globo TV, but sold only for a few months, so today it's a collectors'
item.
This album seemed to be reissued somehow by EMI in 1972, since this date appears on the back cover (but there's no doubt about its release in 1967 because of the catalog number). The copyright message on the Som Livre issue also mentions that date.
