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Quoted from Bobber

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- in order to give their fans value for their money, they hardly put any singles on their albums. Well, in the USA it happened, much to the disagreement of the Beatles themselves.
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Nice summary there!!! ...

... but I wouldn't say "they hardly put any singles on their albums" ... it was not a very Guyish thing to do tho some people may think so ... another myth (things were not so strict):  

They released many (more or less half of them!!! ... and some of the most famo-us) singles on their albums, every year!!!:

1963.- Love Me Do and Please Please Me
1964.- Can't Buy Me Love and A Hard Day's Night
1965.- Help! and Ticket To Ride (A-sides)
1966.- Yellow Submarine
1967.- All You Need Is Love (A-side) and I Am The Walrus (B-side)
1968.- the re-make of Revolution 1
1969.- Come Together/Something
1970.- Get Back and Let It Be (A-side) ...
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20 songs = 10 singles  


... imagine! they even included Yellow Submarine (once again on an album after have been a single too) and All You Need Is Love on their Yellow Submarine album!!! ...  

... and I'm not going to remember A Collection Of Oldies But Goldies (1966) including recent singles too ... or those tons of EPs till mid-60s with nothing new on them (exception: Long Tall Sally EP including their original I Call Your Name) ...  

I do not agree - I think it IS true to say that they hardly ever took singles from their albums. Some of the tracks you mentioned were actually released BEFORE the albums (Ticket To Ride and Can't Buy Me Love for example) but still it was still quite rare for a song to be released as a single and to also appear on an LP.

For example - none of the following albums contained ANY UK singles:

With The Beatles
Beatles For Sale
Rubber Soul
Sgt Pepper
White Album (you can't say that Revolution was released from this album - it was a TOTALLY different version!)

PLUS they released all of these singles which didn't appear on a any UK albums (apart from A Collection Of Oldies)!!!!

Love Me Do - version 1 with Ringo on drums (different version to the Please Please Me LP)
From Me To You - Thank You Girl
She Love's You - I'll Get You
I Want To Hold Your Hand - This Boy
I Feel Fine - She's A Woman
Help! (different vocal to Help! stereo LP version) - I'm Down
Day Tripper - We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer - Rain
Strawberry Fields Forever - Penny Lane
(All You Need Is Love appeared on Yellow Submarine) - Baby You're A Rich Man
Hello, Goodbye  - I Am The Walrus
Lady Madonna  - The Inner Light
Hey Jude - Revolution (version 2 - completely different to White Album version)
Get Back (different ending to Let It Be version) - Don't Let Me Down
Ballad Of John And Yoko - Old Brown Shoe
Let It Be (different verses and guitar solos to Let It Be version) - You Know My Name

PLUS they released 2 EPs of exclusive material - Long Tall Sally and Magical Mystery Tour and had one spare track left over for their greatest hits collection in 1966 (A Collection of Oldies) - Bad Boy

To me that looks like quite an obvious policy of trying not to release singles from albums, don't you?

Ok, from that point of view you're right ... I was only seeing the half of the thing ...   again!!!LOL!  

Well, I've re-read the "original post" and mine too ... and I insist:
I wouldn't say they hardly put any singles on their albums

Quoted from raxo

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... but I wouldn't say "they hardly put any singles on their albums" ... it was not a very Guyish thing to do tho some people may think so ... another myth (things were not so strict):  
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... tho your data are really appreciated, The End.  

Getting a little off the current track here, but wasn't Yesterday and Today (with British Revolver tracks I'm Only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing and Dr Robert) released 2 mos. before Revolver was released? So us Yanks got a sneak preview of the Revolver sessions even BEFORE the Brits? If so, that's sort of a US milestone here.