Cleanup Of The Month/The Beatles

Collaboration of the Month: The Beatles

The CollaborationOfTheMonth for November-December 2006 is The Beatles. Please edit this page mercilessly, add things that need to be done and any useful resources you find. If you want to consult other moderators, please post in this forum topic.

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Albums

• There appear to be quite a few bootleg releases that do not belong in this category. Try to find releases that have mostly previously released material and change them to compilations.
  • By convention releases that combine two (or more) albums are also entered as albums. There are at least several Russian bootlegs that include all the tracks from two Beatles albums, so I guess they are still entered as albums. - ssundell

• Official albums could be linked to their respective Wikipedia and Discogs pages.
• ASINs need to be added to official releases.

Singles

There are many singles that need to be added.

Resources

• http://www.beatletracks.com/bt45s.html (Not many of the releases here have countries listed so either use [unknown country] or research further)
  • Parlophone = United Kingdom & Australia
  • Tollie = United States
  • Veejay = United States
    • http://www.dermon.com/Beatles/Veejay.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_discography#Singles (UK & US singles only)
• http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/music/beatcan.html (Canadian & Mexican releases)
  • All Canadian releases from this site have been added.

• http://www.jpgr.co.uk/ (UK releases)
• http://members.aol.com/egweimi/btls2.htm (Stacks of useful stuff, they claim to have over 1000 photos of covers, labels, and records)
• http://home.swipnet.se/~w-29168/BeatLp.htm (albums released in Sweden, includes cat#'s for lots of the compilations, and some swedish/scandinavian only releases)

Bootlegs

Many of the listed bootlegs have missing or incomplete release attributes and most have no release dates.

Resources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_discography#Bootlegs
• BootlegZone catalogs zillions of Beatles bootlegs.

Compilations

Most compilations need release dates and ASINs added.

Resources

• http://www.amazon.com

Tony Sheridan & The Beatles/Beat Brothers

• Sort out the early German releases as referenced here & here where The Beatles were known as The Beat Brothers.
• Some of the same material was later re-released as The Beatles. Which name do we use?
  • I've entered some tracks under Tony Sheridan & The Beatles for now.