Beatlemania! With The Beatles (Canada, 1963)

Released two months before the U.S.’s Introducing The Beatles and Meet The Beatles!, Beatlemania! With The Beatles was the first Canadian Beatles album and the first released in North America. It was released in mono only, but in 1978 a stereophonic version was issued as Capitol ST 6051. The album mixes are identical to With The Beatles and does not use the “Dexterization” of the masters as the later U.S. albums did.

Wide & narrow mixes

There exist two different mixes of Beatlemania! With The Beatles in three configurations. The “wide” mix features more significant stereo separation and is generally considered to have the best fidelity of all versions of the album. The “narrow” mix features the left and right channels more centered in the mix. Capitol not only issued separate “wide” and “narrow” mixes of the album, but also configurations which combined both types of mix.

Track list

Side A

1. It Won’t Be Long
2. All I’ve Got To Do
3. All My Loving
4. Don’t Bother Me
5. Little Child
6. Till There Was You
7. Please Mr. Postman

Side B

1. Roll Over Beethoven
2. Hold Me Tight
3. You Really Got A Hold On Me
4. I Wanna Be Your Man
5. Devil In Her Heart
6. Not A Second Time
7. Money

Release history

• Capitol Records, T 6051, released November 25, 1963
• Capitol Records, ST 6051, released 1978