North American Release
| Help! | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by The Beatles and Ken Thorne | ||||
| Released | 13 August 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 15–19 February, 13 April, 10 May & 14–17 June 1965, EMI Studios, London |
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| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 28:43 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | George Martin, Dave Dexter, Jr. | |||
| The Beatles North American chronology | ||||
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The North American version, the band's eighth Capitol Records album and tenth overall, includes the songs in the film plus selections from the orchestral score composed by Ken Thorne and performed by the George Martin Orchestra, which contains one of the first uses of the Indian sitar on a pop album. "Ticket to Ride" is the only song on the American release in duophonic stereo (also known as "fake stereo") reprocessed from the mono mix. This album is available on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 2 box set. This set also includes the mono version of the American release, which is purely a stereo-to-mono fold-down mix, including the "fake stereo" duophonic "Ticket To Ride" folded down to mono, despite Capitol already having the mono mixes for the single releases of both that song and "Help!".
The American version of "Help!" reached the number one spot on the Billboard album charts for nine weeks starting on 11 September 1965.
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