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Help! is a 1965 album by the George Martin Orchestra, the second in a series of albums by Martin featuring instrumental arrangements of Beatles songs. United Artists released the LP in the United States on 19 September 1965, and EMI 's Columbia Graphophone label released it in the United Kingdom on 19 November. [ 2]
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Help! è il quinto album in studio del gruppo musicale britannico The Beatles, pubblicato nel 1965 e prodotto da George Martin.
3 apr 2023 · Album nr. 599 - The George Martin Orchestra – Help! Columbia – TWO 102 (1965) Track List: A1 Help! A2 Another Girl A3 You're Going To Lose That Girl A4 I Need You A5 You've Got To Hide Your...
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- Critical Reception
- North American Capitol Release
- Certifications and Sales
- Personnel
- Surround Versions
In 1964, the Beatles appeared in their first feature film, A Hard Day's Night. Despite initial skepticism, reviews were near universal in their acclaim, elevating the Beatles' prestige as artists. With the aim of making one film a year, work began on a second Beatles picture for 1965 release. It would once again be directed by Richard Lester and pr...
Recording history
Following their Christmas 1964 shows, the Beatles took a month's break before beginning work on Help! The album was recorded between 15 February and 17 June 1965 in Studio Two at EMI Recording Studios (now Abbey Road Studios). In this timeframe the Beatles also shot the Help! film, including at locations in the Bahamas and Austria, and made appearances on Ready Steady Go!, Thank Your Lucky Stars, BBC Radio, and at the New Musical ExpressPoll-Winners' All-Star Concert. Several songs recorded d...
Innovations and techniques
Lewisohn writes that 1965 introduced the part of the Beatles' career where they put less focus on live performances and took "a more serious application in the recording studio." He identifies multiple new recording practices used on Help!, one being "to rehearse songs with a tape machine running, spooling back to record properly over the rehearsed material." Another involved adding numerous overdubs to rhythm tracks without considering them as comprising new takes; because of this, many song...
Side one
The song "Help!" was written primarily by Lennon. He originally conceived it at a slower tempo and regretted speeding it up to make it more commercial. Although it was only written out of need for a titular song, Lennon remained extremely proud of "Help!" from the Beatles' break-up to his death, even once calling it his favorite Beatles song he wrote. He felt it was one of his "real" songs, explaining in an interview: "The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. I was eating and dri...
Side two
"Act Naturally", written by Johnny Russell and first recorded by Buck Owens in 1963, was chosen by Ringo Starr to be his vocal contribution to the album. Recorded at the end of the Help! sessions, it was the last-recorded cover song the Beatles would officially release until "Maggie Mae" in 1970. In 1989, Owens and Starr recorded another versiontogether. "It's Only Love" was originally written by Lennon under the title "That's a Nice Hat (Cap)". Five guitar layers were used on the track, incl...
The album cover shows the Beatles with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters 'HELP'. But when we came to do the shot, the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up wi...
There have been four CD releases of Help! The first was on 30 April 1987, using the 14-song UK track line-up. Having been available only as an import in the US in the past, the original 14-track UK version replaced the original US version with its release on LP and cassette as well on 21 July 1987. As with the CD release of the 1965 Rubber Soul alb...
Contemporary reviews
Help! was another worldwide critical success for the Beatles. Derek Johnson of the NME said that the LP "maintains the Beatles' usual high standards" and was a "gay, infectious romp which doesn't let up in pace or sparkle from start to finish – with the exception of one slow track".Despite the band's introduction of new instrumentation into their sound, particularly a string quartet on "Yesterday", the reviewer also wrote of the album: "It's typical Beatles material, and offers very few surpr...
Retrospective assessments
In his review of the Beatles' 1987 CD releases, for Rolling Stone magazine, Steve Pond remarked on the "unstoppable momentum" evident in the band's pre-Rubber Soul albums and recommended Help! "for the relatively quiet and understated way in which they consolidated their strengths". Writing in 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Rob Sheffield says that the US version of Help!was "utterly ruined" through the replacement of the Beatles songs with the soundtrack music, and that, as a...
The North American version, the band's eighth Capitol Records album and tenth overall, includes the songs in the film plus selections from the film's orchestral score composed and conducted by Ken Thorne, which contains one of the first uses of the Indian sitar on a rock/pop album, and its very first use on a Beatles record. "Ticket to Ride" is the...
In the US, the album sold 1,314,457 copies by 31 December 1965 and 1,594,032 copies by the end of the decade. Original release North American release
According to Mark Lewisohnand Alan W. Pollack. The Beatles 1. John Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals; rhythm and acoustic guitars; electric piano, organ on "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"; tambourine on "Tell Me What You See"; snare drumon "I Need You" 2. Paul McCartney– lead, harmony and background vocals; bass, acoustic and lead guitars; piano, ele...
The songs included in the soundtrack of the film Help! (tracks 1–7) were mixed into 5.1 surround soundfor the film's 2007 DVD release.
Sir George Henry Martin è stato un produttore discografico, compositore e arrangiatore britannico. Storico produttore dei Beatles, è talora definito «il quinto Beatle» per il suo ruolo nello sviluppo delle sonorità del gruppo in termini di arrangiamento orchestrale, scrittura delle partiture ed esecuzione di parti strumentali ...
Help! is a 1965 album by the George Martin Orchestra, the second in a series of albums by Martin featuring instrumental arrangements of Beatles songs.
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