Greatest Hits Volume 2

This is the original 1967 issue of the Stereo Version. The Stereo Volume 2 was released prior to Stereo Volume 1. Both Greatest Hits volumes were conceived in early 1966, with EMI (Australia) requesting stereo tapes from EMI UK for the tracks not already in its vaults. This means that despite not being released locally in stereo until February 1967, Volume 2 contains the 1965 stereo mixes of Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out rather than the new mixes that were created by EMI UK in November 1966 for A Collection Of Beatles Oldies. This also explains why the two volumes contain no post-1965 “greatest hits”. Volume 2’s claim to fame was being the only album worldwide, until the 1980 Beatles Box release, to contain the stereo mix of She’s A Woman.