The Beatles Ballads 20 Tracks LP Canadian pressing VERY GOOD

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The Beatles

Ballads

Capitol Records  SL 9612   Vinyl, LP, Compilation  1980 (Canada)

Review:  Johnny Boy

4.0 out of 5 stars     Good collection of ballads and love songs

'The Beatles' Ballads' was released worldwide (but not in the US, strangely) in 1980. It was a big hit in Canada and in Australia, and it featured 20 of the Beatles best love songs and ballads, of course.

This was never released in America, and this includes when EMI issued all of the Beatles' albums on CD in 1990. I have always been curious as to why. It's a good collection featuring many good Beatles songs, many of which one may not expect. 

POSITIVES

-You get 20 great songs on one LP! 'Yesterday,' 'Norwegian Wood' (one of my personal favorites), the George Harrison-penned 'Here Comes the Sun,' and of course, 'Let It Be.'

-It isn't your average everyday greatest-hits package. Obscurities like 'And I Love Her' (1964), 'The Fool on the Hill' (1967), 'Do You Want To Know A Secret?' (1963), and several others, appear here.

-Look at the album cover. Folks, that's an outtake from 'The White Album,' the classic album from 1968. The original name of that album was to be 'Dollhouse,' and that was a very good possibility as the cover. Nevertheless, it fits this package perfectly, in my opinion.

NEGATIVES

-This disc faces a problem many greatest-hits albums face, it's too skimpy. 

Overall, if you want a collection of the Beatles softer songs and ballads, 'The Beatles Ballads' is for you. It may be expensive and remember it is an import, but if this is the side of The Beatles you prefer, it's well worth the money.

Recommended.

Tracklist

A1 Yesterday

A2 Norwegian Wood

A3 Do You Want To Know A Secret

A4 For No One

A5 Michelle

A6 Nowhere Man

A7 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

A8 Across The Universe

A9 All My Loving

A10 Hey Jude

B1 Something

B2 The Fool On The Hill

B3 Till There Was You

B4 The Long And Winding Road

B5 Here Comes The Sun

B6 Blackbird

B7 And I Love Her

B8 She's Leaving Home

B9 Here, There, And Everywhere

B10 Let It Be

CONDITION:  LP is VERY GOOD + (no surface marks, a few spindle marks) in a plastic inner sleeve in a hard card picture gatefold sleeve (VG)