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{{Infobox Album
| Name        = 4-by The Beatles
| Type        = ep
| Artist      = [[The Beatles]]
| Cover       = 4bytheBeatlesEPcover.jpg
| Released    = 1 February 1965
| Recorded    = 1964, [[Abbey Road Studios]], [[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]
| Genre       = [[rock music|rock]]
| Length      = 10:26
| Language    = [[English language|English]]
| Label       = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
| Producer    = [[George Martin]]
| Chronology  = The Beatles EP
| Last album  = ''[[Extracts from the Album A Hard Day's Night]]''<br />(1964)
| This album  = '''''4-By The Beatles'''''<br />(1965)
| Next album  = ''[[Beatles for Sale (EP)|Beatles for Sale]]''<br />(1965)
}}

'''From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-by_The_Beatles Wikipedia]...'''

'''''4-By The Beatles''''' was the second of two [[The Beatles|Beatles']] [[Extended play|EP]]s released by [[Capitol Records]] (catalogue number R-5365) in the [[United States]].

==History==
Though the first Beatles' EP released by Capitol did not succeed as much as the label would have hoped, it did well on the singles chart, which enabled Capitol to create a new series called the "4-By" series, which acted like a "super single." The idea was to market a set of four songs to "complement the artist's singles and albums and not compete with the performer's current hit single."<ref name="spizer">[[Bruce Spizer|Spizer, Bruce]] (2000). ''The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part One: Beatlemania and the Singles'', p.65-6. New Orleans, Louisiana: 498 Productions. ISBN 0-9662649-1-6</ref> Accordingly, the series name is a reference to the limited success of that first EP by The Beatles that Capitol had released: ''[[Four by The Beatles]]''.

Although initially intended to appear as a single by releasing the "4-By" in a soft sleeve and thus "distinguish the '4-By' product from EP's," The Beatles "4-By" was released in a hard cardboard sleeve, similar to regular EP releases.<ref name="spizer" /> [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] did not chart this "4-By" as a single either, instead as an EP, with it charting as high as 68 on the ''[[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]]'', the highest it reached in the ''[[Cash Box magazine|Cash Box]]'' chart as well.<ref name="spizer" />

Capitol deleted this release from its catalog on 31 December 1965, less than a year after it was released.<ref name="spizer" />

==Track listing==
*The "4-By" featured four songs that were previously released on ''[[Beatles '65]]'' in December 1964.
;Side one
#"Honey Don't" ([[Carl Perkins]])
#"I'm A Loser" ([[Lennon/McCartney]])

;Side two
#"Mr. Moonlight" (Johnson)
#"Everybody's Trying to be My Baby" (Perkins)

==See also==
*''[[Four by The Beatles]]'' [[Extended play|EP]]
*''[[Beatles '65]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[category:Beatles Albums]][[category:The Beatles EPs]]