1962-67

1962-67 is a Beatles greatest hits compilation album adapted by C.Syde65. This compilation album is based on an old cassette tape that was taped for me in the 1990's.

It included all 26 songs taped from a LP record of The Beatles' album 1962–1966, along with the first 9 songs taped from a LP record of The Beatles' album 1967–1970.

While the compilation itself has not been burnt, the 2-disc adaption was compiled on various occasions between 2013 and 2019, making it difficult to know the exact time I decided to make a compact disc adaption.

Because the cassette tape this compilation is based on was taped using the LP versions of the 1962–1966 and 1967–1970 albums instead of the CD versions, there are a few differences between what was on the cassette tape and what is presented in the CD adaption below.

On the cassette tape, "A Day in the Life" faded in through the crossfade from "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Reprise]". On the compact disc adaption, the song starts cleanly with no fade or crossfade, since I ripped the song from the 1993 compact disc version of 1967–1970 instead.

On the cassette tape, most of "Hello, Goodbye" is omitted, since there wasn't enough room on the second side of the tape. On the compact disc adaption, all of the song is included since all writable compact discs have 80 minutes of space available.

The "no pause between tracks" box would be ticked when burning this compilation, to prevent the Nero Express Essentials software from adding 2 second pauses between tracks, to free up more space on the CD - not that there wouldn't be enough space to fit 19 and 16 songs on the first and second discs respectively anyway. The "normalise all audio files" box would also be ticked, to set the volume of all the tracks to a standard volume.

An interesting fact is that some of the handwritten information on some of the cassette tapes that were taped for me was inaccurate. For example, "All My Loving" had '64 written next to it, despite being recorded and originally released in 1963. However it may have referred to the year it was released as a single. This "error" was fixed when I wrote down the songs and their basic information, as shown below.

"Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" had '67 next to them on the handwritten track listing of the cassette tape, referring to the year both songs were originally released, though the recording sessions for both songs began and - in the case of the former - ended in 1966.