OFF THE BEATLE TRACK - George Martin and His Orchestra (Full Album - 1964)

The early Beatles music is more dynamic and often has an increasing tension. George prefered modest commercial pop music, and therefor he excluded the octave run in the middle part of Lennon´s Please Please Me, the climax in the song! "...it so hard to reason with YOU..."

An innovation with The Beatles, in the beginning, was the new expressionism. For example the octave-run. I don´t think George Martin liked that. He preferred more a commercial sound. Therefore he excluded the octave-run in the middle part in Please Please Me "...it´s so hard to reason with YOU..."! So George Martin missed the climax, and the most important bit in that song! The same mistake in I Want To Hold Your Hand "I wanna hold your HAAND!"

An innovation with The Beatles, in the beginning, was the new expressionism. For example the octave-run. I don´t think George Martin liked that. He preferred more a commercial sound. Therefore he excluded the octave-run in the middle part in Please Please Me "...it´s so hard to reason with YOU..."! So George Martin missed the climax, and the most important bit in that song! The same mistake in I Want To Hold Your Hand "I wanna hold your HAAND!" There are other examples.

An innovation with The Beatles, in the beginning, was the new expressionism. For example the octave-run. I don´t think George Martin liked that. He preferred more a commercial sound. Therefore he excluded the octave-run in the middle part in Please Please Me "...it´s so hard to reason with YOU..."! So George Martin missed the climax, and the most important bit in that song! The same mistake in I Want To Hold Your Hand "I wanna hold your HAAND!"
It´s incredible.

The Beatles and George Martin son eternos

I'm a massive Beatlemanic, but I never cared for Can't by me love, but this arrangement is great!

Espetacular. Dancei todas as musicas. Beatles Forever

I cannot find this album, either in stores in library. 'Think you could upload the .wavs\flacs for download somewhere?

As a senior In college I bought this record in 1965. Listening to it brings me back to that wonderful time in my life. Ron Annapolis MD

The man who refined the uncut diamond into the perfect gem!

I would love to play these with a band sometime.

Lennon´s "This Boy" is absolutely marvellous! Oh, so "deep sorrow". I get touched to tears.

Thank you, Master!!! R.I.P.

I wonder if he had George come in and do the guitar parts ?

For me it's good inspiration, how to play Beatles songs instrumental.

did no-one buy this at the time ? ive never heard of this until now...never seen a copy in a charity shop...never heard anyone mention it....why is this so under the radar..? youd think every home would have one of these..... like The Graduate soundtrack or Dr Zhivago....

george martin happy birthday in La hsitoria del rock

"DON'T BOTHER ME", SOUNDS LIKE A WESTERN FILM MUSIC.

I came here due to The John Lennon Letters book from letter 43.

Nice listen in times like these,I wish I had the CD.

Great album George Martin RIP

A rare album for sure....never saw or heard of this before.
Thanks for posting! Thanks for sharing this unique Recording!

wow All My Loving is so beautiful

the following year, he covered the help album

This Boy sounds very similar to Earth Angel

All I’ve got to do is pretty cool, he certainly more attention to this lovely track then Lennon ever did

Must track this down. Re-issue please.

hollyridge strings is much more enjoyable to me

He was nothing special without The Beatles.

Meh...

Great highway cruising music!

Can someone with melodyne-expertise seperate the vocals and put them on here?

At least they included a GH song.

George Martin & His Orchestra are playing their a$$es off!

I like when it sounds like waiting for the newly wed game to return from Comercials in1976-78,Especialy the American help opening overture when as children we used to play spy games to it because the James Bond feel it has and it so groovey baby🤣

The Tim being abou27minuets is not enough to last through a good shag session ,ooh behave😂

This album was released in the UK the same day as the 'A Hard Day's Night' album by The Beatles - 10 July 1964. The two albums had consecutive catalogue numbers - 'Off The Beatle Track' Parlophone PCS 3057 and 'A Hard Day's Night' Parlophone PCS 3058.

Yuck...schmaltz.

Fantastic songs 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

This album loses the real beatles sound songs all sound the same its a miss for me

All instrumental tracks are in mono. Nice selection. 🌠

A GREAT ALBUM!!!! Sir George's orchestral album of Beatles favorites is a delight to listen to. I especially enjoyed the strings on "All My Loving", the trombones on "This Boy",' and the harmonica on "Don't Bother Me".

Really the 5th Beatle. Sir George Martin not only produced the Beatles records, play the piano per example in their first LP in the song Misery.

This was released at the same time as their 3rd album - there was enough songs to choose from to make an album longer than 26 and a half minutes.

Some of these are fantastic! The studio musicians who worked this really were quite skilled.

This is an original UK release of “Off The Beatle Track” by George Martin and his Orchestra. It was also released in the US on the United Artists label in 1964 where they also did the soundtrack to “A Hard Day’s Night”, both on the same label.

Real art stands the test of Time, not nostalgia Please! I wish society would cut that out. I love Mozart as I do the Beatles. I'm missing my dear spouse who loves them too! He's jamming with john and George. Entertaining God and making it lively as if heaven wasn't already.; Curt Tuned Pianos because He loves the Beatles. He was blind. He was blessed to have met them.i am blessed to be his spouse. Music brought us resilience and to calm us. Being visually impaired is a challenge but we have to tread onward. Thanks to George Martin, and The Beatles.Thank you God.i was raised on Jazz but Love Rock and the Blues.Celtic, Classical.