By Bob Berry

51 years later, it’s astounding.

A recording by the greatest group of all-time, with perhaps the most recognizable chorus of all-time, that ultimately went to Number One and was #64 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.

And their record label didn’t want it, radio barely played it and it sold about 1,000 copies!

Such was the fate of The Beatles’ “She Loves You“, released-not by Capitol Records, but by Philly’s Swan Records (Palisades Park) 51 years ago today, September 16, 1963!

Astounding?

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

By Bob Berry

Today is the anniversary of The Beatles album Yesterday and Today starting 5 weeks at Number One in the U.S. back in 1966.

And in celebration of the LP that gave us “Nowhere Man”, “We Can Work It Out”, “Yesterday” and 7 other great tunes, I wanted to share an amazing website with you: “Inside Abbey Road“, presented by Google.

It’s an extraordinary, interactive website, with layer upon layer of photos, videos and anecdotes of perhaps the greatest-certainly the most famous, recording studio in the world.The place where The Beatles and so many others (The Hollies, Pink Floyd, The London Symphony Orchestra) made music history.

Here’s the preview, click the link above, or here, to go “Inside Abbey Road”.

On June 10, Capitol released a box set with the Beach Boys US Singles from their 1962-1966 prime. This 66 track collection features both the A and B sides, the original mono mixes, stereo mixes and a ton of other goodies that we’ve come to expect with Beach Boy re-releases. It includes a 48 page hardbound book. Capitol has the new media marketing nailed too. The official Beach Boy website has a special section devoted to the box set that includes a flash player allowing you to listen to your favorite tune in its original glorious mono format.

At Keener13.com, we have all the original Beach Boy singles on 45, every Beach Boy LP?and just about every Capitol CD re-issue, including the first box set. Even though we haven’t bought one music CD during the last year, we’re headed to Borders to get this collection. The packaging and the aggregated content can’t be duplicated on ITunes and the product is created with such attention to detail and class, that it will be well worth the investment.

I’m thinking about how carefully the Disney folks manage their brands. They study every possible marketing channel and have found ways to package their products in every conceivable format to maximize the customer value add and associated cash flow. As the RIAA and record companies lament mp3 sharing, packages like this are the way to regenerate interest and supercharge sales.