THE SINGLES COLLECTION 1962 - 1970 (BOX 1976)

On this day: EMI re-released the 22 original Beatles' UK singles in new picture sleeves.

The Singles Collection 1962–1970 is a series of reissued singles, It was released in UK on 5 March 1976 by EMI, following the expiration of the Beatles' contract with the company in January, and close to six years after the band's break-up.

The collection: all 22 of the Beatles' UK singles,which were originally issued between October 1962 and March 1970 on either the Parlophone or Apple record labels,together with a new single pairing "Yesterday" with "I Should Have Known Better".


According to EMI, the series was a re-promotion rather than a reissue campaign, since all the Beatles' singles had remained in print and were widely available. The project resulted from the success of the 1973 double-album sets 1962–1966 and 1967–1970,which the former Beatles had endorsed, and which contained all of their British single A-sides and double A-side tracks.

 



Each of the discs in the 1976 collection was packaged in a green and black sleeve, on one side of which was a photo of the group from a period roughly contemporaneous with the single. The records were available in a matching Singles Collection 1962–1970 box to customers who bought all 23 of the discs.





 





SETLIST:

"Love Me Do" /Parlophone R 4949/5 October 1962
"Please Please Me"/Parlophone R 4983 /11 January 1963
"From Me to You"/Parlophone R 5015/12 April 1963
"She Loves You"/Parlophone R 5055/23 August 1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand"/Parlophone R 5084/29 November 1963
"Can't Buy Me Love"/Parlophone R 5114/20 March 1964
"A Hard Day's Night"/Parlophone R 5160/10 July 1964
"I Feel Fine" /Parlophone R 5200 /27 November 1964
"Ticket to Ride" /Parlophone R 5265 /9 April 1965
"Help!"/Parlophone R 5305/23 July 1965
"We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper /Parlophone R5389/3 Dec 1965
"Paperback Writer"/Parlophone R 5452 /10 June 1966
"Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby" /Parlophone R5493/5 Aug 1966 
"Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane/Parlophone R 5570 / 17 Feb 1967
"All You Need Is Love"/Parlophone R 5620 /7 July 1967
"Hello, Goodbye"/Parlophone R 5655/24 November 1967
"Lady Madonna"/Parlophone R 5675/15 March 1968
"Hey Jude"/Apple R 5722 /30 August 1968
"Get Back"/Apple R 5777/11 April 1969
"The Ballad of John and Yoko"/Apple R 5786/30 May 1969
"Something"/"Come Together"/Apple R 5814/31 October 1969
"Let It Be"/Apple R 5833/6 March 1970
"Yesterday"/Parlophone R 6013 /5 March 1976.