The Beatles Ballads

The Beatles Ballads
Compilation album by The Beatles
Released	14 October 1980
Recorded	1962–1970 at EMI, Trident and Apple studios, London
Genre	Rock
Length	58:59
Label	Parlophone
Producer	George Martin and Phil Spector
The Beatles British chronology
Rarities (1978) The Beatles Ballads (1980) The Beatles Box (1980)

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, 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.

Track listing

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.^[1][2] 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".

Side one

1. "Yesterday"
2. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
3. "Do You Want to Know a Secret"
4. "For No One"
5. "Michelle"
6. "Nowhere Man"
7. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
8. "Across the Universe" ("Wildlife" version from a British various artists charity album titled No One's Gonna Change Our World)
9. "All My Loving"
10. "Hey Jude"

Side two

1. "Something" (Harrison)
2. "The Fool on the Hill"
3. "Till There Was You" (Willson)
4. "The Long and Winding Road"
5. "Here Comes the Sun" (Harrison)
6. "Blackbird"
7. "And I Love Her"
8. "She's Leaving Home"
9. "Here, There and Everywhere"
10. "Let It Be"

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1981	Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart	1

References

1. Archived March 2, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
2. "The Beatles Ballads". Norwegianwood.org. 1980-10-20. Retrieved 2011-09-09.

External links

• The Beatles Ballads at Discogs (list of releases)