Stars on 45

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 crapfromthepast wrote:

Jody - Great observation!

I checked my dub of the US 45 of "Medley II", and it does 

indeed have the "From Me To You" segment, just like the 

UK album.

I found an online article from 2012 that discusses the 

publishing stuff:

"The US publishing rights for six of The Beatles’ early 

songs have changed hands for the first time since the 

1960s.

Round Hill Music and Adage Classics have bought a 

portfolio of copyrights that includes the songs ‘She 

Loves You’, ‘From Me To You’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, 

‘Misery’, ‘There’s A Place’ and ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’.

Round Hill Music, a year-old start up, bought the 

catalogue with Adage Classics, an intellectual property 

rights group, for the GIL Music and GPS Music catalogues. 

Although the terms of the deal have not been disclosed, 

the songs are believed to be worth up to $10 million.

The sale allows Round Hill and Adage to collect 

songwriting royalties and licensing income for the songs. 

The rights are restricted to the United States and 

Canada.

New York song promoter George Pincus originally acquired 

the US and Canadian rights to the songs, written by John 

Lennon and Paul McCartney, after seeing The Beatles 

perform in England in 1963. In 1964 Pincus attempted to 

sell the rights for £200, but they remained under family 

ownership." 

For a while a couple of those songs in the pre-

ATV/Northern Songs Beatles catalog were controlled by 

Universal (formerly MCA). I think the only 

Lennon/McCartney hit with publishing actually owned by 

them (at this time) is "Love Me Do" and its original 

flipside "PS I Love You". Yoko and Sir Paul acquired the 

rights from EMI Beechwood for those two. 