Beatles Movie Medley

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The Beatles Movie Medley was a compilation of snippets from various Beatles songs. It remains, to date, the only Beatles single not released on CD. The single peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #7 on the British charts in 1982. The songs were chosen from the four Beatles movies (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, and Let It Be) and the TV special, Magical Mystery Tour. The songs included in the medley are "Magical Mystery Tour", "All You Need is Love", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", "I Should Have Known Better", "A Hard Day's Night", "Ticket To Ride", and "Get Back".

Capitol Records first issued the single in conjunction with the album Reel Music and was inspired by the success of the Stars on 45 Medley, a song which included numerous Beatles songs with a lead vocalist who sounded like John Lennon. The song was released in the US as Capitol B-5107.

Parlophone Records initially refused to issue the single in the UK, regarding the single as "tacky". But after the import demand for the US release grew, it was finally issued as Parlophone R6055. The original flip side was an interview with The Beatles about the making of the movie A Hard Day's Night. Later, it came out with I'm Happy Just to Dance with You. The single with the former flip side is considered quite rare and valuable.

The Beatles
Singles
All You Need Is Love | Baby It's You | The Ballad of John and Yoko | Can't Buy Me Love | Come Together | Day Tripper | Do You Want to Know a Secret? | Eight Days a Week | Eleanor Rigby | Free as a Bird | From Me to You | Get Back | Got to Get You into My Life | A Hard Day's Night | Hello Goodbye | Help! | Hey Jude | I Feel Fine | I Want to Hold Your Hand (Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand) | Lady Madonna | Let It Be | The Long and Winding Road | Love Me Do | Matchbox | Beatles Movie Medley | Nowhere Man | Paperback Writer | Penny Lane | Please Please Me | Rain | Real Love | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | She Loves You (Sie Liebt Dich) | Slow Down | Something | Strawberry Fields Forever | Ticket to Ride | Twist and Shout | We Can Work It Out | Yellow Submarine | Yesterday
B-sides
Ask Me Why | Baby You're a Rich Man | Baby's in Black | Don't Let Me Down | For You Blue | I Am the Walrus | I Don't Want to Spoil the Party | I'll Get You | I'm Down | Matchbox | Old Brown Shoe | P.S. I Love You | Revolution | Rock and Roll Music | She's a Woman | Thank You Girl | The Inner Light | Things We Said Today | This Boy | What Goes On | Yes It Is | You Can't Do That | You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
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