The Beatles Ballads LP 20-track 1980 compilation Canadian pressing NM Vinyl

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The Beatles

Ballads

Capitol Records SL_9612  LP 33RPM 12" 1980 (Canada)

The Beatles Ballads is a compilation album featuring a selection of ballad songs by The Beatles. The album was not released in the United States, but in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, India, Japan, South Korea and Australia. In Australia, the album was a big success, spending 7 weeks at #1. It reached #40 in the UK.

The cover art by "Patrick" (John Byrne) had been created in 1968 as a possible cover for what would become The Beatles ("The White Album"). Its style and concept appears to support the White Album's original working title of A Doll's House.

The album was released in 1985 on LP and cassette under the EMI-ODEON label in Brazil using identical front and back cover art. It has never been officially released on compact disc.

All songs written by Lennon–McCartney, except where indicated.

Despite a running time of almost one hour the vinyl edition of this release has only ever been available as a single LP, rather than as a double set as sometimes presumed. Also note that for some of the tracks, such as "Norwegian Wood," EMI Records did not use the mixes of the originally-released versions of the tracks. In South Korea, "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" was censored until 1993, so it was replaced with "Girl".

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

The vinyl is NEAR MINT (a couple of visible finger marks, no scratches orscuffs) in a plastic inner sleeve in a hard card picture sleeve in VERY GOOD condition (edge wear) in a plastic protector sleeve

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