Something New (Beatles album)

Originally scheduled for 1 August 1964,{{cite magazine |author1=Gross, Mike |title=Labels In Beatles' Battle |magazine=Billboard |date=4 July 1964 |volume=76 |issue=27 |page=1 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1964/Billboard%201964-07-04.pdf |access-date=13 September 2024 |publisher=Cook, Hal B. |location=Cincinnati, OH, USA |language=English |issn=0006-2510 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210121040704/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1964/Billboard%201964-07-04.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2021 |quote=Capitol has scheduled a Beatles' album titled 'Something New' for release Aug. 1.}} the album was rush-released on 20 July 1964,{{cite journal |editor1-last=McClelland |editor1-first=Doug |title=Cap Beatles LP 'Something New' |journal=Record World |date=25 July 1964 |volume=18 |issue=894 |page=22 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/60s/64/RW-1964-07-25.pdf |access-date=13 September 2024 |publisher=Austin, Bob |location=New York, NY, USA |language=English |issn=0034-1622 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210224210619/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/60s/64/RW-1964-07-25.pdf |archive-date=24 February 2021 |quote="Something New," Capitol's third Beatle album which goes on sale Monday, July 20, is one LP that lives up to its name.}} ten days after the British release of A Hard Day's Night. It was released in both mono and stereo versions. All mono mixes of the five songs duplicated from the United Artists soundtrack album are identical on both releases. Something New was the only early Capitol Beatles album to contain all tracks in true stereo. The mono release contains alternative versions of "Any Time At All" (a different mix during the instrumental bridge), "I'll Cry Instead" (with the "missing" third verse), "When I Get Home" (the line "Till I walk out that door again" during the song's bridge has a different vocal passage from the UK mono mix), "If I Fell" (Lennon's non-double-tracked introductory vocal), and "And I Love Her" (McCartney's non-double-tracked vocal).

This album was also released on the Parlophone label for sale only on American Armed Forces bases in Europe. These copies have great collector value. The album was also issued in Germany on the Odeon label. The German stereo version contains a reprocessed stereo version of "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" and an extended version of "And I Love Her", repeating the closing riff six times instead of four. This mix was later released on the US version of Rarities.{{cite web|url=http://www.beatlesebooks.com/and-i-love-her |title="And I Love Her" by the Beatles. The in-depth story behind the songs of the Beatles. Recording History. Songwriting History. Song Structure and Style |publisher=Beatlesebooks.com |access-date=9 September 2011}}

In 2004, Something New was released for the first time on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set (catalogue number CDP 7243 8 66876 2 3) containing the US mixes for both mono and stereo. In 2014, the album was released on CD again, both individually, and included in the boxed set The U.S. Albums, which contained the album's running order but with UK mixes as remastered in 2009.

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| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John (Editors). The Rolling Stone Record Guide, 1st edition, Random House/Rolling Stone Press, 1979, p. 26.

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The album spent nine weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in 1964, behind the United Artists A Hard Day's Night album.{{sfn|Stannard|1981|p=133}}

Something New was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=0899190251|chapter=A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php|access-date=March 16, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

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All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (Lennon–McCartney), except where noted.

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| extra_column = Written by

| title1 = I'll Cry Instead

| length1 = 2:09

| title2 = Things We Said Today

| length2 = 2:39

| title3 = Any Time at All

| length3 = 2:13

| title4 = When I Get Home

| length4 = 2:18

| title5 = Slow Down

| extra5 = Larry Williams

| length5 = 2:55

| title6 = Matchbox

| extra6 = Carl Perkins

| length6 = 1:58

| total_length = 14:03

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{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| extra_column = Written by

| title1 = Tell Me Why

| length1 = 2:10

| title2 = And I Love Her

| length2 = 2:32

| title3 = I'm Happy Just to Dance with You

| length3 = 1:58

| title4 = If I Fell

| length4 = 2:22

| title5 = Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand

| extra5 = Lennon–McCartney/Jean Nicolas/Heinz Hellmer

| length5 = 2:19

| total_length = 11:21

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Note: "I'll Cry Instead" mono version 2:09, stereo version 1:49.

According to Ian MacDonald:{{sfn|MacDonald|2007|pp=99–103, 104n2, 108–112, 116–118, 120–122}}

The Beatles

• John Lennon{{snd}}lead, harmony and backing vocals; electric and acoustic rhythm guitar, handclaps; piano {{small|("Things We Said Today")}}
• Paul McCartney{{snd}}lead, harmony and backing vocals; bass guitar, handclaps; piano {{small|("Any Time At All")}}
• George Harrison{{snd}}harmony and backing vocals; electric and acoustic lead guitar; lead vocals {{small|("I'm Happy Just to Dance With You")}}; handclaps
• Ringo Starr{{snd}}drums, handclaps; lead vocals {{small|("Matchbox")}}; tambourine {{small|("I'll Cry Instead")}}; bongos and claves {{small|("And I Love Her")}}; African drum {{small|("I'm Happy Just to Dance With You")}}

Additional musicians and production

• George Martin{{snd}}production; piano {{small|("Matchbox" and "Slow Down")}}
• Norman Smith{{snd}}engineering

In the U.S., the album sold 1,049,243 copies by 31 December 1964 and 1,443,735 copies by the end of the decade.{{cite web |url=http://deconstructingpopculture.com/2009/04/how-many-records-did-the-beatles-actually-sell |title=How Many Records did the Beatles actually sell? |publisher=Deconstructing Pop Culture by David Kronemyer |date=29 April 2009 |access-date=11 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306054326/http://deconstructingpopculture.com/2009/04/how-many-records-did-the-beatles-actually-sell/ |archive-date=6 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|title=Something New|artist=The Beatles|award=Gold|relyear=1964|access-date=15 September 2013}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|title=Something New|artist=The Beatles|award=Platinum|number=2|access-date=15 September 2013}}

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• Outline of the Beatles
• The Beatles timeline

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• {{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Ian |author1-link=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |title-link=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |date=2007 |orig-year=1994 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-55652-733-3 |edition=Third}}
• {{Cite book| last=Stannard | first= Neville | year=1981| title= The Long and Winding Road: A History Of The Beatles On Record| publisher=Virgin Books Ltd. | location=London | isbn=0-907080-96-0}}
• {{citation | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Joel Whitburn Presents Top Pop Albums, Seventh Edition | year = 2010 | publisher = Record Research Inc. | isbn = 978-0-89820-183-3}}

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• {{Discogs master|type=album|46151|name=Something New}}
• [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/something-new "Something New" album. Recording history. Origin of the album]

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