The First Releases - 1964


In the beginning, the Beatles' albums released by Odeon in Brazil didn't reproduce the original UK albums - something similar happened in the United States, as well as in other countries.
The first releases were two compilation albums (similar to the American VeeJay albums), in 1964. Here are these albums - at least, the little I know about them.

Beatlemania

The first Brazilian album, released also in 1964. The cover was based on "With The Beatles", but the track list was completely different: it joined various songs released in 1963, from albums and singles.

There was also a Canadian LP with the same name and similar cover - that release was just a copy of "With The Beatles"

Simulated cover

The Beatles Again (The Beatles' second album)

The second album, still in 1964. The cover featured the photo used on the "Twist And Shout" EP, and the subtitle was taken from an American album. I'm not sure about the tracks - as far as I can remember, all were from the 1963 releases.

Notes:

The information about these first two albums I've taken from a back cover of an old Odeon album I accidentally seen some years ago. That cover had a kind of catalog featuring the names, covers and track lists of albums of The Beatles and other artists. Unfortunately I couldn't keep more information.

These albums were taken out of print in 1975, when Please Please Me and With The Beatles were finally issued in Brazil.


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