![]() On the surface, you can understand their reasoning, but after three million copies of the album had been sold by mid March, Capitol was ready to rush-release another album to cash in on the excitement. They decided against including the song on their first album “ Meet The Beatles!” for just that reason. It was actually the first #1 hit the Motown label ever had.Ĭould The Beatles do the song justice? Would American audiences be interested in a young white British group covering a black R&B/pop smash hit? Capitol Records didn’t think so. The original version of the song by the Motown group The Marvelettes peaked at #1 on the Billboard pop charts in December of 1961. ![]() The fifth and final “girl group” song The Beatles picked to record professionally was also the biggest hit they chose. ![]() “Please Mister Postman” was the exception. The songs they chose to record usually weren’t big hits in fact some were so obscure that many Beatles fans assumed that they had written them. When they entered EMI studios for recording sessions in the early years, no matter what they were recording and no matter how rushed their schedules were, they were on top of their game.Īs can be seen by the cover songs chosen for their second album “ With The Beatles,” they were given more leeway to record what they felt strongly about, as opposed to having George Martin or Brian Epstein suggest the track list for them. The Beatles took pride in their recordings, whether it was newly written originals or well loved cover versions. (Georgia Dobbins – William Garrett – Brian Holland – Robert Bateman – Freddie Gorman)
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