Help! (George Martin album)

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Released
  • 6 September 1965 (1965-09-06) (US)
  • 19 November 1965 (1965-11-19) (UK)
Recorded1965
Studio EMI, London
Genre Easy listening
Label Columbia, United Artists
Producer George Martin
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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] The album consists of Martin's interpretations of songs from the Beatles' own Help! album, which was issued in August 1965.

Contents

Track listing

The following list is for the Columbia version. The United Artists release lists "I've Just Seen a Face", "It's Only Love" and "Yesterday" under their working titles (*) and omits the track "Bahama Sound". [note 1]

All song written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Help!" – 2:37
  2. "Another Girl" – 2:08
  3. "You're Going to Lose That Girl" – 2:16
  4. "I Need You" (George Harrison) – 2:50
  5. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" – 1:58
  6. "The Night Before" – 2:29

Side two

  1. "Ticket to Ride" – 3:00
  2. "Bahama Sound" (George Martin) – 2:40
  3. "I've Just Seen a Face (Auntie Gin's Theme*)" – 2:10
  4. "It's Only Love (That's a Nice Hat*)" – 2:37
  5. "Tell Me What You See" – 2:41
  6. "Yesterday (Scrambled Egg*)" – 2:19

Notes

  1. This instrumental was released in 1967 in the US as the B-side of the single "Love in the Open Air".

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