Talk:Love Me Do

Recording

According to Ringo in the film Anthology 1, Andy White played on the single version, and Ringo played on the album, Please Please Me. This article has it the other way around and must have it corrected. --123.2.142.50 (talk) 00:07, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Love Me Do Re-Release 1982

The chart tables in the Love Me Do article on Wikipedia note that in 1982 Love Me Do peaked at number 4 in the UK singles chart. However I have not found any other reference anywhere in the text that relate to the circumstances of this achievement (and apologies if I have inadvertently missed something). I have the actual re-issued disc in my personal collection. It was re-issued in a picture sleeve and the disc bears the old style Parlophone Red Label. As best I can recall it was re-issued to mark the 20th anniversary of the original. Hopefully, someone out there has further details and can add them to the existing article? It would be a shame not to include such a postscript for this historic track. 2A02:C7C:8A79:5400:F405:29BA:5FF6:5BA4 (talk) 13:19, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

My British Hit Singles book has it reaching a chart position of number 4 on the 16th October 1982 and describes it as a re-entry. Remarkable really as this eclipses its initial debut and possibly merits a mention in the lead? Patthedog (talk) 22:08, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Starting with "Love Me Do" in 1982, all the Beatles singles were gradually reissued by EMI in the UK exactly twenty years after the original release dates. (I don't have the book with me right now but this is supported by, for example, Keith Badman's THE BEATLES DIARY VOLUME 2 in entries covering specific release dates during the 1980s.) I think I'm right in saying only "Love Me Do" achieved that sort of chart placing; in fact, as the years went by, the singles tended to chart lower and lower. I totally agree it deserves to be mentioned in the lead. JG66 (talk) 21:41, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

How about:

"Love Me Do" is the official debut single by the English rock band the Beatles, backed by "P.S. I Love You". When the single was originally released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1962, it peaked at number 17. It was released in the United States in 1964, where it became a number one hit. Re-released in 1982 as part of EMI’s Beatles 20th anniversary, it re-entered the UK charts at number 4.

I don't think Capitol did anything similar? Please feel free to improve upon it. Patthedog (talk) 17:06, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Original British run

The section of Chart performance only mentions US charts and how well the song fared months later in the UK once Beatlemania had hit off with Please Please Me. The actual sequence of events, according to the Anthology documentary, is that, as the article mentions, nobody but the band themselves thought it would do much anyways, but right away turned out quite the success for a newcomer band as a UK #17, resulting in a growing respect on the side of EMI personnel and management for their new asset. As George said in the Anthology, on the "auditioning" recording sessions for Love Me Do, Besame Mucho, How do You Do It, and Please Please Me, the studio treated them like shit, but once Love Me Do had hit #17 in the UK, personnel and management became much friendlier to them. --2003:EF:170A:9255:A111:81B0:384A:BD5D (talk) 17:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Maybe the heading ought to be US Chart Performance or perhaps not appear at all as it's mainly trivia? Patthedog (talk) 08:07, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

2023 "remix" on Now and Then single??

I keep reading in this article and in the Now and Then one that the version that's included in that single is a 2023, but to me there's no evidence of that. The metada or the title song itself says "2023 REMASTER", and there's no citation or sources here every time this is asserted. I'm suspecting that Wikipedia is spreading a false claim, mistake or whatever. I think most of the media is making a mistake with this also. The single version in which Ringo is playing drums was released back in the 60's, and it's always been a stereo version, but that's a different recording to the one that's included in the Red Album, which is the most known one. Many people is taking it as it remixed that one in stereo for the first time, but that's not the case. IT SEEMS a stereo version of that one, as well as She Loves You, the ones in mono whose track recordings where deleted after they where mixed to be reused, as it was the common practice by that time, will have a new remix in stereo thank to separating the tracks by AI more or less as they did with Revolver, but that's not the case of the Now and Then one. I'm gonna add the "citation needed" label until someone provides some evidence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.42.56.27 (talk) 22:55, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Where have you seen it credited as a remaster? Everywhere I look it's listed as '2023 Mix', such as on Spotify. On the Beatles website, it doesn't necessarily say it's a new mix, it instead says that "both songs are mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos". Considering the original wasn't in Dolby Atmos, I think this counts as a new mix. Tedster41 (talk) 08:07, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Now on Deexer it appears, inddex, as "2023 mix". Maybe they changed/corrected it, but I'd say I saw it listed as "2023 remaster" during the first hours of the release... 79.117.110.208 (talk) 12:34, 6 November 2023 (UTC)