Apple singles on CD

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Contents 1 About digital remasters of Apple singles 2 Where to find Apple singles on CD

About digital remasters of Apple singles

There are still a few parts that Apple's digital remastering project has yet to reach, which is a shame. If only as a vanity project, a complete digital edition of albums and singles would surely be an important historical record. Bootleggers have shown the way: the Complete Apple UK Singles Collection is a 10 CD set with almost every Apple single on it. It comes in a gold-embossed box in a style evoking the elegant blue livery of the various Beatles boxed sets, and includes a detailed booklet and fold-out posters of record sleeves. As far as I can tell, whoever made it used digital sources where possible, but many tracks were "remastered" direct from vinyl copies. (The Brute Force tracks are particularly ropy; both King Of Fuh and Nobody Knows have only more recently been issued on CD, but not by Apple.)

Of course there are bound to be rights issues in reassembling the complete catalogue. Rykodisc currently deals with Yoko's old records, and John and Yoko's difficult, early "avant garde" noodlings. Others, such as Brute Force and Phil Spector, own their Apple recordings - but where there's a will, there's usually a way.

Ironically, many of the undigitised singles are among Apple's best: Trash, Ronnie Spector, Chris Hodge, Sundown Playboys, Black Dyke Mills Band. However, no one's likely to miss I'm Going To Fall In Love Again: Mary Hopkin magnanimously included Knock Knock, Who's There when she compiled the excellent CD version of her "Best Of" album, Those Were The Days (CD SAPCOR 23), but its twee B-side must have been beyond the pale.

Other unreleased items have also been promised, but never materialised. The sleeve notes to the CD re-issue of James Taylor (CD SAPCOR 3) promise unreleased gems from James Taylor's Apple session. The Al Kooper remix of Name Of The Game, the cancelled Apple 35, has been hinted at in sleeve notes (CD SAPCOR 19). Lon (or was it Derrek?) Van Eaton has promised a re-issue of Brother (SAPCOR 25), which would make both Apple 46 and the Van Eaton's second, US-only single, available - but no sign yet.

Of course, it's not enough just to re-issue the recordings, they have to be kept in print too. By 2004 some of the CD re-issues had seemingly become as hard to find as the vinyl originals: Jackie Lomax's eponymous album (CD SAPCOR 6) and Maybe Tomorrow by The Iveys (CD SAPCOR 8), in particular, briefly reached £40 or more on eBay, before they were eventually re-issued by Apple/EMI/Virgin in May 2004.

Below is a list of all UK Apple singles - plus the others, real and imagined, that complete the sequence - with details of CD releases. I've not included the 1991 Apple EP, which was released on vinyl and CD simultaneously, though it's worth noting that the vinyl release has the edited single version of That's The Way God Planned It, while the CD has the full length version.

Tracks in green are ones I rather like, and together they make an excellent and extremely listenable Best Of Apple CD.

Where to find Apple singles on CD

Record No.	Artist	Title	Digital release
Apple 2	Mary Hopkin	Those were the days	CD APP 1;CD SAPCOR 5;CD SAPCOR 23
		Turn, turn, turn	CD SAPCOR 5
Apple 3	Jackie Lomax	Sour Milk Sea	CD APP 1;CD SAPCOR 6
		Eagle Laughs At You	CD SAPCOR 6
Apple 4	John Foster & Son Ltd. Black Dyke Mills Band	Thingumybob	None
		Yellow Submarine	None
Apple 5	The Iveys	Maybe Tomorrow	CD SAPCOR 8;CD SAPCOR 12; CD SAPCOR 28
		And Her Daddy's A Millionaire	CD SAPCOR 8 ;CD SAPCOR 12
Apple 6	Trash	Road To Nowhere	None
		Illusions	None
Apple 7	Mary Hopkin	Lontano Dagli Occhi	CD SAPCOR 23
		The Game	CD SAPCOR 5
Apple 8	Brute Force	King Of Fuh	Rev Ola CDREV36
		Nobody Knows	Rev Ola CDREV36
Apple 9	Mary Hopkin	Prince En Avignon	CD SAPCOR 5
		The Game	CD SAPCOR 5
Apple 10	Mary Hopkin	Goodbye	CD SAPCOR 23
		Sparrow	CD SAPCOR 23
Apple 11	Jackie Lomax	New Day	CD SAPCOR 6
		Fall Inside Your Eyes	CD SAPCOR 6
Apple 12	Billy Preston	That's The Way God Planned It	CD APP 1;CD SAPCOR 9
		What About You	CD SAPCOR 9
Apple 13	Plastic Ono Band	Give peace a chance	Parlophone 8219542
		Remember Love	Rykodisc CD10411
Apple 14	The Iveys	Dear Angie	CD SAPCOR 8;CD SAPCOR 12;CD SAPCOR 28
		No Escaping Your Love	CD SAPCOR 8
Apple 15	Radha Krishna Temple	Hare Krishna mantra	CD SAPCOR 18
		Prayer to the spiritual masters	CD SAPCOR 18
Apple 16	Mary Hopkin	Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)	CD SAPCOR 23
		Fields Of St Etienne	CD SAPCOR 23
Apple 17	Trash	Golden Slumbers	None
		Trash Can	None
Apple 18	Hot Chocolate Band	Give Peace A Chance	EMI Gold 5602172
		Living Without Tomorrow	EMI Gold 5602172
Apple 19	Billy Preston	Everything's All Right	CD SAPCOR 9 (different mix, without horns)
		I Want To Thank You	CD SAPCOR 9
Apple 20	Badfinger	Come and get it	CD APP 1;CD SAPCOR 12
		Rock of ages	CD SAPCOR 12
Apple 21	Billy Preston	All That I've Got	CD SAPCOR 14
		As I Get Older	CD SAPCOR 9
Apple 22	Mary Hopkin	Temma Harbour	CD SAPCOR 23
		Lontano Dagli Occhi	CD SAPCOR 23
Apple 23	Jackie Lomax	How The Web Was Woven	CD SAPCOR 6
		Thumbing A Ride	CD SAPCOR 6
Apple 24	Doris Troy	Ain't That Cute	CD SAPCOR 13
		Vaya Con Dios	CD SAPCOR 13
Apple 25	Radha Krishna Temple	Govinda	CD SAPCOR 18
		Govinda Jai Jai	CD SAPCOR 18
Apple 26	Mary Hopkin	Knock knock who's there	CD SAPCOR 23
		I'm going to fall in love again	None
Apple 27	Mary Hopkin	Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)	CD SAPCOR 23
		Fields Of St Etienne	CD SAPCOR 23
Apple 28	Doris Troy	Jacob's Ladder	CD SAPCOR 13
		Get Back	CD SAPCOR 13
Apple 29	Billy Preston	My Sweet Lord	CD SAPCOR 14
		Little Girl	CD SAPCOR 14
Apple 30	Mary Hopkin	Think about your children	CD SAPCOR 23
		Heritage	CD SAPCOR 23
Apple 31	Badfinger	No matter what	CD SAPCOR 16
		Better days	CD SAPCOR 16
Apple 32	James Taylor	Carolina In My Mind	CD SAPCOR 3
		Something's Wrong	CD SAPCOR 3
Apple 33	Ronnie Spector	Try Some, Buy Some	None
		Tandoori Chicken	None
Apple 34	Mary Hopkin	Let My Name Be Sorrow	CD SAPCOR 23
		Kew Gardens	CD SAPCOR 23
Apple 35	Badfinger	Name Of The Game	CD SAPCOR 19 (different version)
		Suitcase	CD SAPCOR 19 (different version)
Apple 36	Bill Elliot & Elastic Oz Band	God Save Us	None
		Do The Oz	Parlophone 5287402
Apple 37	Ravi Shankar	Joi Bangla	None
		Oh Bhaugowan	EMI Classical CDS5555772
		Raga Mishra-Jhinjhoti	None
Apple 38	Yoko Ono	Mrs. Lennon	Rykodisc RCD10415/16
		Midsummer New York	Rykodisc RCD10415/16
Apple 39	Mary Hopkin	Water, paper and clay	CD SAPCOR 21 ;CD SAPCOR 23
		Jefferson	CD SAPCOR 23
Apple 40	Badfinger	Day after day	CD SAPCOR 19;CD SAPCOR 28
		Sweet Tuesday Morning	CD SAPCOR 19
Apple 41	Yoko Ono	Mind Train	Rykodisc RCD10415/16 (long version)
		Listen, The Snow Is Falling	Rykodisc RCD10413 (different version?)
Apple 42	Badfinger	Baby Blue	CD SAPCOR 19;CD SAPCOR 28
		Flying	CD SAPCOR 19
Apple 43	Chris Hodge	We're On Our Way	None
		Supersoul	None
Apple 44	Sundown Playboys	Saturday Nite Special	DMC UTICD001
		Valse De Soleil Coucher (Sundown Waltz)	None
Apple 45	Elephant's Memory	Power Boogie	None
		Liberation Special	None
Apple 46	Lon & Derek Van Eaton	Warm Woman	None
		More Than Words	None
Apple 47	Yoko Ono	Death Of Samantha	Rykodisc RCD10417/18
		Yang Yang	Rykodisc RCD10417/18
Apple 48	Yoko Ono	Run, Run, Run	Rykodisc RCD10419
		Men, Men, Men	Rykodisc RCD10419
Apple 49	Badfinger	Apple Of My Eye	CD SAPCOR 27;CD SAPCOR 28
		Blind Owl	CD SAPCOR 27
APPLES 1001	Plastic Ono Band	Cold turkey	Parlophone 8219542
		Don't worry Kyoko	Rykodisc RCD10415/16
APPLES 1002	Plastic Ono Band	You Know My Name	Parlophone CDP7900442
		What's The New Mary Jane	Parlophone CDPCSP729
APPLES 1003	Plastic Ono Band	Instant karma	Parlophone 8219542
		Who has seen the wind?	Rykodisc RCD10413
CT 1	The Iveys	Storm In A Teacup	CD SAPCOR 12
	James Taylor	Something's Wrong	CD SAPCOR 3
	Jackie Lomax	Little Yellow Pill	CD SAPCOR 6
	Mary Hopkin	The Pebble And The Man	CD SAPCOR 5 (as Happiness Runs)