This compilation album, credited to The Beatles & other great group sounds from England, was issued by Atco Records in order to cash in on Beatlemania.

[3] This album's title track, sung by John Lennon, is one of two more songs that were recorded solely by the fledgling British band during these sessions.

[4] American drummer Bernard Purdie has long claimed, the first time in a 1978 interview, to have overdubbed or fully re-recorded drum parts on no less than 21 Beatles tracks.

[5] He occasionally repeated this claim in the following decades, though there is no mention of it on the musician's official website or in his autobiography, Let the Drums Speak!, and there is no known documentary evidence to support it.

[8] It is also probable that he played on covers of Fab Four songs performed by groups of imitators with names like the Buggs, the Liverpools or the Beetles, created by unscrupulous record companies in order to capitalize on the Beatles' success.