Showing posts with label 1968. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1968. Show all posts

Lady Madonna (Single - Parlophone R5675) 15 March 1968

Lady Madonna
(UK, 1968)

  1. Lady Madonna  (John Lennon-Paul McCartney)
  2. The Inner Light  (George Harrison)
Highest U.K. Chart Position = 1 (2 Weeks)


1988 Re-Issue



Lady Madonna (1968)

Hey Jude (Single - Apple R5722) 30 August 1968

Hey Jude
(UK, 1968)

  1. Hey Jude   (John Lennon-Paul McCartney)
  2. Revolution   (John Lennon-Paul McCartney)
Highest U.K. Chart Position = 1 (2 Weeks)


Hey Jude
(1982 re-issue)


Hey Jude
(1988 Re-issue)


Hey Jude was the first record released on The Beatles new label 'Apple'. As the group were still contracted to Parlophone /EMI, the catalogue number was a continuation of their former label.

Wonderwall Music (George Harrison) 1 November 1968 (Apple S/APCOR 1)

Wonderwall Music
(UK, 1968)
Listen to 'Wonderwall Music' on YouTube

  1. "Microbes" – 3:42
  2. "Red Lady Too" – 1:56
  3. "Tabla and Pakavaj" – 1:05
  4. "In the Park" – 4:08
  5. "Drilling a Home" – 3:08
  6. "Guru Vandana" – 1:05
  7. "Greasy Legs" – 1:28
  8. "Ski-ing" – 1:50
  9. "Gat Kirwani" – 1:15
  10. "Dream Scene" – 5:26
  11. "Party Seacombe" – 4:34
  12. "Love Scene" – 4:17
  13. "Crying" – 1:15
  14. "Cowboy Music" – 1:29
  15. "Fantasy Sequins" – 1:50
  16. "On the Bed" – 2:22
  17. "Glass Box" – 1:05
  18. "Wonderwall to Be Here" – 1:25
  19. "Singing Om" – 1:54

Soundtrack album from the film 'Wonderwall' This was the first truly solo Beatles musical project.
Tracks 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17, and 18 were recorded in England, while tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, and 19 were recorded in India.
All Songs Written By George Harrison

The Beatles (The White Album) 22 November 1968 (Apple PMC 7067/68)

The Beatles
(The White Album)
(UK, 1968)
Listen to 'The White Album' on YouTube

  1. Back In The U.S.S.R.
  2. Dear Prudence
  3. Glass Onion
  4. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
  5. Wild Honey Pie
  6. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
  7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps  (George Harrison)
  8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
  9. Martha My Dear
  10. I'm So Tired
  11. Blackbird
  12. Piggies   (George Harrison)
  13. Rocky Raccoon
  14. Don't Pass Me By  (Richard Starkey)
  15. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
  16. I Will
  17. Julia
  18. Birthday
  19. Yer Blues
  20. Mother Nature's Son
  21. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
  22. Sexy Sadie
  23. Helter Skelter
  24. Long, Long, Long  (George Harrison)
  25. Revolution 1 (version)
  26. Honey Pie
  27. Savoy Truffle   (George Harrison)
  28. Cry Baby Cry / Can You Take Me Back
  29. Revolution 9
  30. Good Night
2018 50th Anniversary Box Set


CD 3: Esher Demos

  1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." 2:59
  2. "Dear Prudence" 4:47
  3. "Glass Onion" 1:55
  4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" 3:10
  5. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" 2:40
  6. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (George Harrison)  2:41
  7. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" 1:55
  8. "I'm So Tired" 3:10 
  9. "Blackbird" 2:34
  10. "Piggies" (George Harrison) 2:05
  11. "Rocky Raccoon" 2:44
  12. "Julia" 3:56
  13. "Yer Blues" 3:31
  14. "Mother Nature's Son" 2:24
  15. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" 3:03
  16. "Sexy Sadie" 2:26
  17. "Revolution" 4:06
  18. "Honey Pie" 1:59
  19. "Cry Baby Cry" 2:27
  20. "Sour Milk Sea" (George Harrison) 3:43
  21. "Junk" (Paul McCartney) 2:36
  22. "Child of Nature" (John Lennon) 2:37
  23. "Circles" (George Harrison) 2:16
  24. "Mean Mr. Mustard" 2:05
  25. "Polythene Pam" 1:26
  26. "Not Guilty" (George Harrison) 3:05
  27. "What's the New Mary Jane" 2:42

CD 4: Sessions

  1. "Revolution 1 (Take 18)" 10:28
  2. "A Beginning (Take 4) / Don't Pass Me By (Take 7)" (George Martin / Richard Starkey) 5:05
  3. "Blackbird (Take 28)" 2:15
  4. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (Unnumbered Rehearsal)" 2:43
  5. "Good Night (Unnumbered Rehearsal)" 0:39
  6. "Good Night (Take 10 with a Guitar Part from Take 5)" 2:31
  7. "Good Night (Take 22)" 3:46
  8. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Take 3)" 2:54
  9. "Revolution (Unnumbered Rehearsal)" 2:16
  10. "Revolution (Take 14 / Instrumental Backing Track)" 3:25
  11. "Cry Baby Cry (Unnumbered Rehearsal)" 3:02
  12. "Helter Skelter (First Version / Take 2)" 12:53

CD 5: Sessions

  1. "Sexy Sadie (Take 3)" 3:08
  2. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic Version / Take 2)" (George Harrison) 3:02
  3. "Hey Jude (Take 1)" 6:44
  4. "St. Louis Blues (Studio Jam)" (W. C. Handy) 0:51
  5. "Not Guilty (Take 102)" (George Harrison) 4:28
  6. "Mother Nature's Son (Take 15)" 3:11
  7. "Yer Blues (Take 5 with Guide Vocal)" 3:57
  8. "What's the New Mary Jane (Take 1)" 2:06
  9. "Rocky Raccoon (Take 8)" 4:57
  10. "Back in the U.S.S.R. (Take 5 / Instrumental Backing Track)" 3:09
  11. "Dear Prudence (Vocal, Guitar & Drums)" 3:59
  12. "Let It Be (Unnumbered Rehearsal)" 1:17
  13. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Third Version / Take 27)" (George Harrison) 3:17
  14. "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (Studio Jam)" (Jerry Leiber-Mike Stoller) 0:42
  15. "Helter Skelter (Second Version / Take 17)" 3:39
  16. "Glass Onion (Take 10)" 2:12

CD 6: Sessions

  1. "I Will (Take 13)" 2:20
  2. "Blue Moon (Studio Jam)" 1:11
  3. "I Will (Take 29)" 0:26
  4. "Step Inside Love (Studio Jam)" 1:34
  5. "Los Paranoias (Studio Jam)" (John Lennon-Paul McCartney-George Harrison-Richard Starkey) 3:58
  6. "Can You Take Me Back? (Take 1)" 2:22
  7. "Birthday (Take 2 / Instrumental Backing Track)" 2:40
  8. "Piggies (Take 12 / Instrumental Backing Track)" (George Harrison) 2:10
  9. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun (Take 19)" 3:09
  10. "Honey Pie (Instrumental Backing Track)" 2:43
  11. "Savoy Truffle (Instrumental Backing Track)" (George Harrison) 2:56
  12. "Martha My Dear (Without Brass & Strings)" 2:29
  13. "Long, Long, Long (Take 44)" (George Harrison)  2:54
  14. "I'm So Tired (Take 7)" 2:29
  15. "I'm So Tired (Take 14)" 2:17
  16. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (Take 2)" 3:12
  17. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road? (Take 5)" 2:03
  18. "Julia (Two Rehearsals)" 4:31
  19. "The Inner Light (Take 6 / Instrumental Backing Track)" (George Harrison) 2:47
  20. "Lady Madonna (Take 2 / Piano and Drums)" 2:25
  21. "Lady Madonna (Backing Vocals from Take 3)" 0:54
  22. "Across the Universe (Take 6)" 3:52

Disc 7: Blu-ray audio

  1. "The Beatles PCM Stereo (2018 Stereo Mix)" 93:35
  2. "The Beatles DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (2018)" 93:35
  3. "The Beatles Dolby True HD 5.1 (2018)" 93:35
  4. "The Beatles Mono (2018 Direct Transfer of ‘The White Album’ Original Mono Mix)"
* Original song, previously unreleased in any form.
All Song Written By John Lennon & Paul McCartney Unless Otherwise Stated
* Revolution 9 is not a song, just a collection of noises and instruments.


Giveaway photographs with the album
Lyric sheet with the album
Giveaway poster with the album





Review 
Rating  =  *****
Best Songs  =   Back In The USSR, Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Cry Baby Cry
Worst Song  =  Revolution 9 (or Wild Honey Pie)
Best Ballad =  Long Long Long
Best Rock Track  =  Back In The USSR
The Single That Never Was!  =  Back In The USSR (it was released as a single in 1976)

Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins (John Lennon & Yoko Ono) 29 November 1968 (Apple SAPCOR 2)

Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins
(UK, 1968)
Listen to 'Two Virgins' on YouTube

  1. Two Virgins 1
  2. Together   (DeSilva-Brown-Henderson) *
  3. Two Virgins 2
  4. Two Virgins 3
  5. Two Virgins 4
  6. Two Virgins 5
  7. Two Virgins 6
  8. Hushabye, Hushabye (Not Listed)
  9. Two Virgins 7
  10. Two Virgins 8
  11. Two Virgins 9
  12. Two Virgins 10
This is an avant-garde album of strange noises and shrieks.
Track credits except * John Lennon & Yoko Ono

The Beatles Sixth Christmas Record (20 December 1968) LYN 1743/44

The Beatles Sixth Christmas Record
(UK, 1968)

  1. Happy Christmas, Happy New Year (Paul McCartney)
  2. Jock & Yono (Poem)
  3. Once Upon A Pool Table (Poem)
  4. Nowhere Man (Performed By Tiny Tim)
The Beatles Sixth Christmas Record
(UK, 1968)

Anthology 3 (The Beatles) 28 October 1996 (Apple PCSP 729)

Anthology 3
UK 1996
Listen to 'Anthology 3' on YouTube

  1. "A Beginning" (George Martin) 22 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  2. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (Kinfauns Home Demo) [Mono] 28 May 1968  Kinfauns,Surrey
  3. "Helter Skelter" (Edited Take 2) [Mono] 18 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  4. "Mean Mr. Mustard" (Kinfauns Home Demo) 
  5. "Polythene Pam" (Kinfauns Home Demo)29 May 1968 at Kinfauns
  6. "Glass Onion" (Kinfauns Home Demo) 
  7. "Junk" (Kinfauns Home Demo) (Paul McCartney) **
  8. "Piggies" (George Harrison)  (Kinfauns Home Demo) [Mono] 
  9. "Honey Pie" (Kinfauns Home Demo, Edited 28 May 1968 at Kinfauns
  10. "Don't Pass Me By" (Takes 3 & 5) (Richard Starkey) 5 June 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  11. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (Take 5) 3 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  12. "Good Night" (Rehearsal & Take 34) Recorded on 28 June & 22 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios,
  13. "Cry Baby Cry" (Take 1)15 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  14. "Blackbird" (Take 4) Recorded on 11 June 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  15. "Sexy Sadie" (Take 6) Recorded on 19 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  16. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Demo) (Harrison) Recorded on 25 July 1968 at EMI Studios, 
  17. "Hey Jude" (Take 2) Recorded on 29 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  18. "Not Guilty" (Take 102) (Harrison) ** Recorded on 7 August 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  19. "Mother Nature's Son" (Take 2) Recorded on 9 August 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  20. "Glass Onion" (Take 33) [Mono] Recorded on 11 September 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  21. "Rocky Raccoon" (Take 8) Recorded on 15 August 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  22. "What's the New Mary Jane" **(Take 4) Recorded on 14 August 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, 
  23. "Step Inside Love"/"Los Paranoias" ** Recorded on 16 September 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, 
  24. "I'm So Tired" (Takes 3, 6 & 9) Recorded on 8 October 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  25. "I Will" (Take 1)Recorded on 16 September 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  26. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" (Take 4) 9 October 1968 at Abbey Road 
  27. "Julia" (Take 2) 13 October 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  28. "I've Got a Feeling" (Savile Row) 24 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London
  29. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" (Rehearsal) (Savile Row) 
  30. "Dig a Pony" (Savile Row) 22 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London
  31. "Two of Us" (Savile Row) 24 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London
  32. "For You Blue" (Savile Row) (Harrison)25 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London
  33. "Teddy Boy" (Savile Row) (McCartney) ** 24 & 28 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, 
  34. Medley: "Rip It Up" (Robert Blackwell, John Marascalco)/"Shake, Rattle and Roll" (Jesse Stone)/"Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins) (Savile Row)
  35. "The Long and Winding Road" (Savile Row) 26 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London
  36. "Oh! Darling" (Savile Row, Edited from 6:37) 27 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, 
  37. "All Things Must Pass" (Demo) (Harrison)  ** 25 February 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  38. "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" **  (Ruth Roberts, Bill Katz, Stanley Clayton) (Savile Row)
  39. "Get Back" (Live at the "Rooftop Concert") Recorded on 30 January 1969  Apple Building Rooftop, 
  40. "Old Brown Shoe" (Demo) (Harrison) 25 February 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  41. "Octopus's Garden" (Takes 2 & 8) (Starkey)26 April 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  42. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (Take 5) Recorded on 9 July 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  43. "Something" (Demo) [Mono] (Harrison) 25 February 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  44. "Come Together" (Take 1)  21 July 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  45. "Come and Get It" (Demo) (McCartney) ** 
  46. "Ain't She Sweet" (Jam) (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen) 24 July 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London
  47. "Because" (A cappella version)  1 August 1969 at Abbey Road Studios,vocal arrangement by Martin
  48. "Let It Be" (Savile Row) 25 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London
  49. "I Me Mine" (Take 16) (Harrison) 3 January 1970 at Abbey Road Studios, Lennon was not present
  50. "The End" (Remix) 23 July; 5, 7, 8, 15 & 18 August 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.

Key

**          -  Previously unreleased Lennon-McCartney or Harrison / Starkey track
Orange - Previously released in a different version
Italics   - Live Recording
Blue    -  George Martin

Yellow Submarine - Songtrack (The Beatles) Apple 521 4812 - C.D (13 September 1999)

Yellow Submarine Songtrack
(UK 1999)


  1. "Yellow Submarine" – 2:38 Lead Vocals: Ringo Starr
  2. "Hey Bulldog" – 3:14 Lead Vocals: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  3. "Eleanor Rigby" – 2:06 Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney
  4. "Love You To" (George Harrison) – 3:01 Lead Vocals: George Harrison
  5. "All Together Now" – 2:10 Lead Vocals: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  6. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" – 3:28 Lead Vocals: John Lennon
  7. "Think for Yourself" (Harrison) – 2:18 Lead Vocals: George Harrison
  8. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" – 2:02 Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney (verses) and John Lennon (bridge)
  9. "With a Little Help from My Friends" – 2:44 Lead Vocals: Ringo Starr
  10. "Baby, You're a Rich Man" – 3:03 Lead Vocals: John Lennon
  11. "Only a Northern Song" (Harrison) – 3:27 Lead Vocals: George Harrison
  12. "All You Need Is Love" – 3:57 Lead Vocals: John Lennon
  13. "When I'm Sixty-Four" – 2:37 Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney
  14. "Nowhere Man" – 2:44 Lead Vocals: John Lennon, (Paul McCartney and George Harrison)
  15. "It's All Too Much" (Harrison) – 6:28 Lead Vocals: George Harrison
All songs written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted.
Every song on this album was remastered and the effect is stunning. All the Beatles albums were remastered in 2009 in Mono & Stereo, but only the tracks on this album were properly filtered.
This is a list of songs from the original 'Yellow Submarine' film (1968) although 'A day in the life' is noticeably absent, this was because EMI were concerned that too much material from Sgt. Pepper would be included.

Lady Madonna (U.S. Single Capitol 2138) 18 March 1968



Lady Madonna
(US Single 1968)

  1. Lady Madonna (John Lennon-Paul McCartney)
  2. The Inner Light (George Harrison)

Hey Jude (U.S. Single Apple 2276) 26 August 1968

Hey Jude
(US Single 1968)

  1. Hey Jude (John Lennon-Paul McCartney)
  2. Revolution (John Lennon-Paul McCartney)
The first U.S. release on The Beatles 'Apple' label. This single was not released in a picture sleeve in the States. 

The Beatles (White Album) (U.S. Double Album Apple SWBO-101) 25 November 1968

The Beatles
(US 1968)


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