Editing A Hard Day's Night (album) (section)

==North American release==
{{Infobox album
| name         = A Hard Day's Night
| type         = soundtrack
| artist       = [[the Beatles]] and [[George Martin]]
| cover        = AHardDaysNightUSalbumcover.jpg
| alt          = 
| caption      = 1964 stereo United Artists release
| released     = 26 June 1964
| recorded     = 29 January{{snd}}4 June 1964
| venue        = 
| studio       = *[[Abbey Road Studios|EMI]], London
*Pathé Marconi, Paris
| genre        = Rock, [[instrumental music|instrumental]]
| length       = 29:47
| label        = [[United Artists Records|United Artists]]
| producer     = [[George Martin]]
| chronology   = [[The Beatles]] [[The Beatles' North American releases|North American]]
| prev_title   = [[The Beatles' Long Tall Sally]]
| prev_year    = 1964
| next_title   = [[Something New (Beatles album)|Something New]]
| next_year    = 1964
| misc         = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[The Beatles]] United States
 | type       = soundtrack
 | prev_title = [[The Beatles' Second Album]]
 | prev_year  = 1964
 | title      = A Hard Day's Night
 | year       = 1964
 | next_title = [[Something New (Beatles album)|Something New]]
 | next_year  = 1964
}}
{{Singles
 | name        = A Hard Day's Night
 | type        = soundtrack
 | single1     = [[Can't Buy Me Love]]
 | single1date = 16 March 1964
 | single2     = [[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]
 | single2date = 13 July 1964
 | single3    = [[This Boy|Ringo's Theme (This Boy)]]
 | single3date = July 1964
 | single4    = [[And I Love Her]]
 | single4date = 20 July 1964
}}
}}

The American version of the album was released on 26 June 1964 by [[United Artists Records]] in both mono and stereo, the fourth Beatles album in the United States. The album went to number one on the [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] [[Billboard 200|album chart]], spending 14 weeks there, the longest run of any album that year.{{sfn|Whitburn|2001|p=1178}} United Artists rushed the album into stores over a month before the film's US premiere; as a result, the Beatles had both the number-one album and number-one single in the country when ''A Hard Day's Night'' opened on 11 August 1964.

All seven songs from the film, the first side of the UK album, were featured along with "I'll Cry Instead", which, although written for the film, was cut at the last minute. The American version also included four orchestral instrumental versions of Lennon and McCartney songs [[arranged]] by George Martin conducting an orchestra of studio musicians: "I Should Have Known Better", "And I Love Her", "[[This Boy|Ringo's Theme]]" (featuring [[Vic Flick]] on lead guitar<ref name="guitarplayer">{{cite web |last=McQuade|first= Martin |date=June 14, 2021|title= Sixties Session King Vic Flick Reflects on Scoring Bond, His Most Famous Gigs, and Reminds Us To "Make Every Note Music"|publisher=Guitar Player |url= https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/sixties-session-king-vic-flick-reflects-on-scoring-bond-his-most-famous-gigs-and-reminds-us-to-make-every-note-music | access-date = July 4, 2024}}</ref>), and "A Hard Day's Night". After [[EMI]] acquired United Artists Records, this album was reissued in August 1980 on the Capitol label, catalogue SW-11921.

While the stereo version of the album included the instrumental tracks in true stereo, the Beatles' own recordings appeared as electronically rechannelled stereo recordings made from the mono releases. The 1980 [[Capitol Records]] reissue used the same master tape as the original United Artists LP release in fake stereo, despite the availability of several tracks with official true stereo remixes. True stereo versions of most of the songs had been issued on the Capitol album ''[[Something New (Beatles album)|Something New]]'', released in July 1964. "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better" finally appeared in stereo on the 1970 [[Apple Records]] compilation ''[[Hey Jude (Beatles album)|Hey Jude]]''. The song "A Hard Day's Night" did not appear in true stereo in the US until the 1982 Capitol compilation album ''[[Reel Music]]''. In 2014, the American version of the "A Hard Day's Night" album was released on CD individually and in a [[The U.S. Albums|boxed set of all the other US Beatles albums]] to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles first US visit. This CD reissue features all of the songs in both true stereo and mono mixes. . 

In 2000, the 1964 North American release of ''A Hard Day's Night'' by [[The Beatles]] on the United Artists label was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=GRAMMY HALL OF FAME AWARD |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#g |access-date=2023-08-06 |website=www.grammy.com}}</ref>

===Track listing===
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1 = [[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]
| extra1 = Lennon and McCartney
| length1 = 2:33
| title2 = [[Tell Me Why (The Beatles song)|Tell Me Why]]
| extra2 = Lennon
| length2 = 2:10
| title3 = [[I'll Cry Instead]]
| extra3 = Lennon
| length3 = 2:06
| title4 = [[I Should Have Known Better]]
| extra4 = instrumental
| length4 = 2:10
| title5 = [[I'm Happy Just to Dance with You]]
| extra5 = Harrison
| length5 = 1:59
| title6 = [[And I Love Her]]
| extra6 = instrumental
| length6 = 3:46
| total_length = 14:44
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1 = [[I Should Have Known Better]]
| extra1 = Lennon
| length1 = 2:44
| title2 = [[If I Fell]]
| extra2 = Lennon and McCartney
| length2 = 2:22
| title3 = [[And I Love Her]]
| extra3 = McCartney
| length3 = 2:29
| title4 = [[This Boy#Ringo's Theme|Ringo's Theme (This Boy)]]
| extra4 = instrumental
| length4 = 3:10
| title5 = [[Can't Buy Me Love]]
| extra5 = McCartney
| length5 = 2:12
| title6 = [[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]
| extra6 = instrumental
| length6 = 2:06
| total_length = 15:03
}}