Help! (George Martin album)

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Studio album by
The George Martin Orchestra
Released1965
Recorded1965
StudioEMI, London
GenreEasy listening
LabelColumbia, United Artists
ProducerGeorge Martin
The George Martin Orchestra chronology
George Martin Scores Instrumental Versions of the Hits
(1965) 		Help!
(1965) 		George Martin Instrumentally Salutes "The Beatle Girls"
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic2.5/5 stars[1]

Help! is a 1965 album by the George Martin Orchestra, the second of a series of albums by Martin featuring instrumental arrangements of Beatle songs. This release focused on songs from their album Help! Unlike his other albums, the UK issue is not on Martin's Parlophone label, but on EMI's sister Columbia Graphophone's Studio 2 Stereo series label.

Since there were frictions between George Martin and movie director Richard Lester on the previous film, the orchestral soundtrack for the film Help! was done by Ken Thorne and snippets of these recordings were released on the North American album amid the Beatles numbers.[2]

Track listing[]

This is the Columbia version. The United Artists release lists "I've Just Seen a Face", "It's Only Love" and "Yesterday" under their working titles (*) and omits the track "Bahama Sound".

All tracks are written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted [3].

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Help!"2:37
2."Another Girl"2:08
3."You're Going to Lose That Girl"2:16
4."I Need You" (George Harrison)2:50
5."You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"1:58
6."The Night Before"2:29
Side two
No.TitleLength
7."Ticket To Ride"3:00
8."Bahama Sound" (George Martin) (The United Artists release omits this track[note 1])2:40
9."I've Just Seen a Face (Auntie Gin's Theme*)"2:10
10."It's Only Love (That's a Nice Hat*)"2:37
11."Tell Me What You See"2:41
12."Yesterday (Scrambled Egg*)"2:19

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon[]

At the end of Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon, on the track "Eclipse", a section of the orchestral version of "Ticket to Ride" can very faintly be heard beneath the closing heart-beat sound effect. It is believed to be from this album. Before digital recording, recording tapes were wiped and re-used. It is possible that the tape used to record the heart-beat sound effect was not properly wiped and formerly had this track on it, if it was a deliberate inclusion by the band, or if it was playing in the background of Abbey Road Studios when the part of the track was being recorded, the latter theory being the most accepted.[4] Others have speculated that the recording bares a stronger resemblance to another rendition of "Ticket to Ride" by the Hollyridge Strings, though it is unlikely that this American orchestra would have had a tape in Abbey Road's possession.

Notes[]

  1. ^ This instrumental was released in 1967 in the US as the B-side of the single "Love in the Open Air". It is not clear if these are the same recordings.

References[]

  1. ^ Help! at AllMusic
  2. ^ Rybaczewski, Dave. ""HELP!" (SMAS 2386)". Beatles Music History. DKR Products Toledo, Ohio. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  3. ^ Running order and length as per Discog :https://www.discogs.com/The-George-Martin-Orchestra-Help/release/12789689 and https://www.discogs.com/The-George-Martin-Orchestra-Help/release/9401526/image/SW1hZ2U6MjU3NzU4NTQ=
  4. ^ https://ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/pink-floyd-dark-side-40-years-later-40-205227757.html
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