TrackList :
- No Reply (Lennon - Mccartney)
- I'm A Loser (Lennon - Mccartney)
- Baby's In Black (Lennon - Mccartney)
- Rock And Roll Music (Berry)
- I'll Follow The Sun (Lennon - Mccartney)
- Mr. Moonlight (Johnson)
- Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey (Lieber-Stroller/Penniman)
- Eight Day's Week (Lennon - Mccartney)
- Honey Don't (Perkins)
- Every Little Thing (Lennon - Mccartney)
- I Don't Want To Spoil The Party (Lennon - Mccartney)
- What You're Doing (Lennon - Mccartney)
- Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Perkins)
The Beatles fourth official L.P. release.One month BEFORE it's release there were over half-a-million advance orders, which went up to 750,000 ... at the time, the highest advance orders for ANY album. Consequently it went straight to No.1 - knocking "A Hard Day's Night" off the top slot. It also entered the singles chart where it reached number 22.
Sales topped 1,000,000 in Britain alone.
The American equivalent album is "Beatles '65" which once again did NOT have a matching track list (what is wrong with these colonials ??) ... but counting the 3,000,000 sales of this album along with the U.K. proper release, we can estimate a worldwide sales figure of "Beatles For Sale" at over 4 million units.
We could actually count in the sales of the next U.S. album, "Beatles VI", as this included the six tracks left off of Beatles '65 ! ... this means an extra million could be added, making over 5 million sales.
Incredibly, even though studio techniques were advancing (four-track recorders had now been introduced), three of the tracks on this L.P. were recorded in just 1 take.
It should also be noted that during the sessions for this album, on 14th August 1964, The Beatles recorded another track for the album (with 5 takes) that was never returned to, nor remixed ... "Leave My Kitten Alone".
The cover to Beatles For Sale was one of the first "Gatefold" sleeves (was it ACTUALLY the first ??), and included cover photography by Robert Freeman taken in Hyde Park, with sleeve notes by Derek Taylor.
The Collage in the inside sleeve (take a look at your copy of the album !) was only a segment taken from a larger print.
You can see the full print above.
The album was also part of "The Beatles Collection" 13 album box set (see Beatles Collection).
On 26th February 1987 this album had it's first release on C.D. which was published in Mono(!) with a catalogue number of CDP 7 46438 2
And on the same day, the record shop H.M.V. produced a special 12" numbered 4 CD Box Set Comprising:
Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Days Night
Beatles For Sale
+ Bill Harry - "Book Of Beatle Lists" (see Book of Beatle Lists, The)
This set had a catalogue number of BEA CD 25, and was in a limited edition of just 2,500 copies.
The C.D. was also part of "The Beatles Box" 15 C.D. box set (see Beatles C.D. Box).
09/09/09 (Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine) - the album was re-released as part of the Beatles In Stereo Remasters collection.
13th September 2009 it re-entered the chart again at number 56 in the fifteenth highest position of SEVENTEEN chart positions The Beatles captured in one amazing week.
(see the box set detail for the chart position of all 17 titles together)
20th September 2009 - dropped fourteen places down to number 70.
27th September 2009 - dropped out of the Top 100 completely.
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