KOMM, GIB MIR DEINE HAND / SIE LIEBT DICH
Parlophone A8117
Released 25 June 1964
Original recommended retail price: 10/-
The rarest original Australian Beatles single, with fewer than 2,000 copies sold before its early deletion.
Matrix Information
Side 1: (mono) 7XBE1505 7AXPA722
Side 2: (mono) 7XBE1506 7AXPA723

June 1982
Side 1: (stereo) A 8117 A AP
Side 2: (stereo) A 8117B AP

Overview
Germany and Australia were the only two countries to press this coupling (indeed, ours was mastered from a copy of the German single). EMI (Australia) was hoping for big sales with this single, but perhaps unsurprisingly, it failed to impress here, with fewer than 2,000 copies sold (although it did reach No. 20 in Hobart!). As such, it was the first Beatles single deleted from the catalogue, in June 1967. Original copies are therefore very rare and expensive.

The single would not be reissued until 1982, where in June it was recut (both sides in stereo) at Studios 301 by Allan Parsons for inclusion in The Australian 20th Anniversary Singles Collection. It subsequently went out of print again before returning on 7 December 1987.
Chart Performance

Brisbane

(QLD)

Sydney

(NSW)

Melbourne

(VIC)

Hobart

(TAS)

Adelaide

(SA)

Perth

(WA)

Chart Entry

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24-Jul-64

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-

Highest Position

 

 

 

20

 

 

Weeks In

 

 

 

5

 

 
Listed as "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand"
Silver/Black Style 'A'
AUSP8117SBA.a
AUSP8117SBA.b

Variation coming soon!
Silver/Black Style 'C'
AUSP8117SBC.a

First appeared in October 1982 with the release of The Australian 20th Anniversary Singles Collection

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