She Loves You/From Me To You/We Can Work It Out/Help/Michelle/Yesterday/I Feel Fine/Yellow Submarine/ Can’t Buy Me Love/Bad Boy/Day Tripper/A Hard Day’s Night/Ticket To Ride/Paperback Writer/Eleanor Rigby/I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Oldies album was a rare commercial failure from The Beatles. Despite containing more No. 1 hit singles than almost any album in history, its sales were relatively disappointing. Presumably, since most fans already had the tracks as singles, they saw no need to buy them again in LP form. (UK:7)
"This was the first opportunity for British listeners to get tracks like She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand and Day Tripper in LP form. Released as The Beatles were entering into their psychedelic phase, this compilation features wonderful cover art. The sequencing here doesn't make all that much sense (but all the songs are phenomenal). I love the addition of Bad Boy, the only cover song on the album, which is a very underrated Beatle rocker."
"A contractual obligation album, but a good one. Not having enough material to release a second album of new songs in 1966, The Beatles chose to release a compilation of all their singles instead. Vital tracks appear here for the first time on an LP record."
"While a collection of all single A-sides (except, oddly, Love Me Do and Please Please Me) kind of makes sense, it doesn't make for a very cohesive album, especially in the present jumbled running order. I can't help feeling that instead of some of the songs that were already available on LP, a few of the better single B-sides would have been nice, but who am I to complain? This is great stuff."
"Their only official compilation issued during the band's lifetime. All the early singles except for the first two, plus key album tracks, with a very odd running order."
"Love the cover art work on this now somewhat hard to find LP. There is not a track on this that I would skip, an excellent collection of mostly hits up to 1966."
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