Help!
1. Help! (Lennon/McCartney)
2. The Night Before (Lennon/McCartney)
3. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (Lennon/McCartney)
4. I Need You (Harrison)
5. Another Girl (Lennon/McCartney)
6. You’re Going to Lose That Girl (Lennon/McCartney)
7. Ticket to Ride (Lennon/McCartney)
8. Act Naturally (Russell/Morrison)
9. It’s Only Love (Lennon/McCartney)
10. You Like Me Too Much (Harrison)
11. Tell Me What You See (Lennon/McCartney)
12. I’ve Just Seen a Face (Lennon/McCartney)
13. Yesterday (Lennon/McCartney)
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Williams)
Help! is the fifth UK album and tenth U.S. album by The Beatles, and the soundtrack album from their film of the same name. Produced by George Martin for EMI’s Parlophone Records, the album (in its original British form) contains seven songs that appeared in the film Help! (including the singles "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride"), and seven that did not. In 2003, the album was ranked number 332 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Music
The album features the Paul McCartney ballad "Yesterday". Tracks like Lennon’s "You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away" indicate the influence of Bob Dylan and folk music. Also tracks like "I’ve Just Seen a Face" the Beatles’ sound truly matured into an eclecticism that started to reach beyond the bounds of what had previously been considered rock music. Several songs on 1964′s Beatles for Sale, as well as "I’ll Cry Instead" from A Hard Day’s Night, had leaned in a country and western direction. But "I’ve Just Seen a Face" was almost pure country, taken at such a fast tempo that it might have been bluegrass if not for the absence of banjo and fiddle.
In later years, Lennon said that the title track of the album was a sincere cry for help, as the pressures of the Beatles’ fame and his own unhappiness (what he later called his "fat Elvis" period) began to build, and that he regretted turning it from a downbeat song in the style of Roy Orbison’s "Only the Lonely" to an upbeat pop song as a result of commercial pressures.
George Harrison contributed "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much". These were Harrison’s first song compositions to be included on a The Beatles album since "Don’t Bother Me", from 1963′s With The Beatles.
Rejected songs
A few songs that were intended for the film were not used because of the Beatles’ suggestions. Lennon and McCartney wrote "If You’ve Got Trouble" for Ringo Starr to sing, but he hated it. McCartney’s "That Means a Lot" was not used because he thought it was not recorded perfectly. Lennon had the same opinion about his "Yes It Is", but the song ended up as the B-side of "Ticket to Ride". "You Like Me Too Much" and "Tell Me What You See" were rejected for use in the film by Richard Lester, though they did appear on the album.
Much later, in June 1965, the song "Wait" was recorded for the album. However, all four Beatles thought the song was rather dull. "Wait" ended up on the album Rubber Soul when an extra song was needed to fill out that album.
[From Wikipedia - Original page is here]
