The Beatles Box (1980)

Eight-record compilation of Beatles recordings, initially issued in 1980 by World Records, a mail-order subsidiary of EMI. It was also issued in 2 formats by Reader’s Digest in New Zealand and Mexico.

Disc 1, Side A

1. Love Me Do (original UK single with Ringo on drums)
2. P.S. I Love You
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Please Please Me
5. Misery
6. Do You Want to Know A Secret
7. A Taste Of Honey
8. Twist And Shout

Disc 1, Side B

1. From Me To You
2. Thank You Girl (mono)
3. She Loves You (mock stereo remix from A Collection Of Oldies)
4. It Won’t Be Long
5. Please Mr. Postman
6. All My Loving (hi-hat intro)
7. Roll Over Beethoven
8. Money

Disc 2, Side 1

1. I Want To Hold Your Hand
2. This Boy
3. Can’t Buy Me Love
4. You Can’t Do That
5. A Hard Day’s Night
6. I Should Have Known Better
7. If I Fell
8. And I Love Her (from U.S. Rarities)

Disc 2, Side B

1. Things We Said Today
2. I’ll Be Back
3. Long Tall Sally
4. I Call Your Name
5. Matchbox
6. Slow Down
7. She’s A Woman (stereo)
8. I Feel Fine (whisper version)

Disc 3, Side A

1. Eight Days A Week
2. No Reply
3. I’m A Loser
4. I’ll Follow The Sun
5. Mr. Moonlight
6. Every Little Thing
7. I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
8. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!

Disc 3, Side B

1. Ticket To Ride
2. I’m Down
3. Help! (mono)
4. The Night Before
5. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
6. I Need You
7. Another Girl
8. You’re Going To Lose That Girl

Disc 4, Side A

1. Yesterday
2. Act Naturally
3. Tell Me What You See
4. It’s Only Love
5. You Like Me Too Much
6. I’ve Just Seen A Face
7. Day Tripper (U.S. Yesterday And Today mix)
8. We Can Work It Out

Disc 4, Side B

1. Michelle
2. Drive My Car
3. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
4. You Won’t See Me
5. Nowhere Man
6. Girl
7. I’m Looking Through You
8. In My Life

Disc 5, Side A

1. Paperback Writer (stereo A Collection Of Beatles Oldies mix)
2. Rain
3. Here, There And Everywhere
4. Taxman
5. I’m Only Sleeping
6. Good Day Sunshine
7. Yellow Submarine

Disc 5, Side B

1. Eleanor Rigby
2. And Your Bird Can Sing (U.S. Stereo)
3. For No One
4. Doctor Robert
5. Got To Get You Into My Life
6. Penny Lane (U.S. Rarities edit)
7. Strawberry Fields Forever

Disc 6, Side A

1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help from My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Fixing A Hole
5. She’s Leaving Home
6. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
7. A Day In The Life (from 1967-1970)

Disc 6, Side B

1. When I’m Sixty-Four
2. Lovely Rita
3. All You Need Is Love
4. Baby, You’re A Rich Man (stereo)
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Your Mother Should Know
7. The Fool On The Hill
8. I Am The Walrus (U.S. Rarities composite)

Disc 7, Side A

1. Hello Goodbye
2. Lady Madonna
3. Hey Jude
4. Revolution
5. Back In The U.S.S.R.
6. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Disc 7, Side B

1. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (minus the opening mellotron obbligato)
2. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
3. Martha My Dear
4. I’m So Tired
5. Piggies
6. Don’t Pass Me By
7. Julia
8. All Together Now

Disc 8, Side A

1. Get Back (LP version)
2. Don’t Let Me Down
3. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
4. Across The Universe
5. For You Blue
6. Two Of Us
7. The Long And Winding Road
8. Let It Be (LP version)

Disc 8, Side B

1. Come Together
2. Something
3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
4. Octopus’s Garden
5. Here Comes The Sun
6. Because
7. Golden Slumbers
8. Carry That Weight
9. The End
10. Her Majesty

Release history

• Parlophone/World Records Ltd. SM 701 – SM 708, released November 3, 1980
• Reader’s Digest Music RDCP4-331, released 1980
• Odeon 10C 164-007560/67 (Germany), released 1981