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Souvenir of Their Visit to America is an EP of music by English rock band the Beatles. Released on 23 March 1964, it is the first of three Beatles EPs released in the United States and the only one released by Vee-Jay Records. The EP features four songs that had previously been released by Vee-Jay on their Introducing... The Beatles album. This EP did not chart.

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Souvenir of Their Visit to America
EP by the Beatles
Released	23 March 1964
Recorded	1963, EMI Studios, London
Genre	Pop, rock
Length	9:18
Label	Vee-Jay
Producer	George Martin
The Beatles EP chronology
All My Loving (1964) Souvenir of Their Visit to America (1964) Four by The Beatles (1964)

Context

Capitol Records, a unit of EMI and sister label to the Beatles' record label Parlophone, had first refusal rights to any material released by an EMI label. Capitol in the US repeatedly turned down the Beatles for most of 1963, so the Beatles' first two singles of that year, as well as an altered version of their British debut album Please Please Me, were released by Vee-Jay Records. Vee-Jay was a small company with few resources, and as a result of little publicity or promotion, the records sold poorly. Vee-Jay lost the rights to the Beatles' music over nonpayment of royalties, and the smaller Swan Records received the rights to issue the "She Loves You" single.

After the Beatles were booked to perform on the popular Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, Capitol finally exercised its option and signed a deal with the Beatles in November 1963. In a legal settlement with Capitol, Vee-Jay received rights to market the Beatles recordings they possessed until 10 October 1964, at which point all rights to all EMI Beatle recordings in the United States would be assigned to Capitol Records.

Souvenir of Their Visit to America was a great success and is by far the most common Beatles EP of all the US releases. However, because part of the EP's sales were through mail-order offers, the trade magazines refused to chart it.

Track listing

External links

• The Beatles on Vee-Jay Records

На других языках

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- [en] Souvenir of Their Visit to America

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[es] Souvenir of Their Visit to America

Souvenir of Their Visit to America —en español: ‘Recuerdo de su visita a Estados Unidos’— es el primer EP de los Beatles en el mercado estadounidense y el cuarto en total, fue lanzado el 23 de marzo de 1964. El EP no entró en lista. Sólo fue publicado por Vee-Jay en Estados Unidos, fue catalogado como VJEP 1-903. Las canciones de este EP estaban puestas también en el lanzamiento estadounidense Introducing... The Beatles publicado apenas tres meses antes de este EP.

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[ru] Souvenir of Their Visit to America

Souvenir of Their Visit to America — первый из трёх мини-альбомов группы «Битлз», вышедших в США. Данный мини-альбом был выпущен 23 марта 1964 года лейблом Vee-Jay (номер по каталогам VJ EP 1-903[1]). В мини-альбом вошло четыре песни группы, уже выпущенные лейблом Vee-Jay на американском альбоме Introducing... The Beatles. В чартах мини-альбом не участвовал, вышел лишь в моно-версии.

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