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This article is a discography for Apple Records, a record label founded in 1968 by The Beatles. In addition to releasing The Beatles' work (although the rights remained with EMI), Apple had an eclectic roster of other recording and publishing artists. The first group to have their work published by sister company Apple Publishing was Grapefruit, whose single "Dear Delilah" was released on RCA in early 1968. This did not, however, lead to them releasing any songs on Apple Records. (Recording sessions were in London in late 1967, and the producer was the American Terry Melcher of The Byrds fame). Apple Records' initial clutch of recording artists, apart from the Beatles, included James Taylor, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, The Iveys (later to become Badfinger) and The Pathfinders (renamed White Trash by Apple). The first singles to be released by Apple in the UK and US were the batch known as Our First Four, comprising the Beatles' "Hey Jude", Hopkins' "Those Were the Days", Lomax's "Sour Milk Sea" and the Black Dyke Mills Band's "Thingumybob".

Zapple Records was a subsidiary of Apple Records, intended to release spoken word and avant garde records. It was active from October 1968 until June 1969, and only two albums were released on the label: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's (Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions) and George Harrison's (Electronic Sound). Planned releases of a UK appearance by comedian Lenny Bruce, and an album by Richard Brautigan 'Listening to Richard Brautigan' was never completed, and the label was shut down by Allen Klein.

Apple Records albums

UK

USA

ST-3350 Wonderwall Music George Harrison
ST-3351 Postcard Mary Hopkin
SKAO-3352 James Taylor James Taylor
ST-3353 Under The Jasmine Tree The Modern Jazz Quartet
ST-3354 Is This What You Want? Jackie Lomax
ST-3355 Maybe Tomorrow (unreleased) The Iveys
ST-3357 Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions John Lennon And Yoko Ono
ST-3358 Electronic Sound George Harrison
ST-3359 That's the Way God Planned It Billy Preston
STAO-3360 Space The Modern Jazz Quartet
SMAX-3361 Wedding Album John Lennon and Yoko Ono
SW-3362 Live Peace In Toronto 1969 The Plastic Ono Band
SMAS-3363 McCartney Paul McCartney
ST-3364 Magic Christian Music Badfinger
SW-3365 Sentimental Journey Ringo Starr
SKAO-3367 No Dice Badfinger
SMAS-3368 Beaucoups of Blues Ringo Starr
SMAS-3369 The Whale John Tavener
ST-3370 Encouraging Words Billy Preston
ST-3371 Doris Troy Doris Troy
SW-3372 Plastic Ono Band John Lennon
SW-3373 Plastic Ono Band Yoko Ono
SMAS-3375 Ram Paul & Linda McCartney
SKAO-3376 The Radha Krishna Temple The Radha Krishna Temple
SW-3377 Cometogether Original Soundtrack Recording
SW-3379 Imagine John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band With The Flux Fiddlers
SVBB-3380 Fly Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
SMAS-3381 Earth Song - Ocean Song Mary Hopkin
4(8)XC 3380-3381/82 Fly (Cassette/8-Track) Yoko Ono
SWAO-3384 Raga Original Soundtrack
STCX-3385 The Concert for Bangla Desh George Harrison and Friends
SW-3386 Wild Life Wings
SW-3387 Straight Up Badfinger
SWAO-3388 El Topo Original Motion Picture Score
SMAS-3389 Elephant's Memory Elephant's Memory
SMAS-3390 Brother Lon & Derrek Van Eaton
SW-3391 The Pope Smokes Dope David Peel & The Lower East Side
SVBB-3392 Some Time in New York City John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band
4(8)XWB-3392/93/94 Some Time in New York City (Cassette/8-Track) John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band
SW-3395 Those Were the Days Mary Hopkin
SVBB-3396 In Concert 1972 Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan
4(8)XVV 3396-8XC3397/98 In Concert 1972 (Cassette/8-Track) Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan
SVBB-3399 Approximately Infinite Universe Yoko Ono
SW-3400 The Phil Spector Christmas Album Various Artists
4(8)XVV 3399-8XC3401/02 Approximately Infinite Universe (Cassette/8-Track) Yoko Ono
SKBO-3403 1962 - 1966 The Beatles
SKBO-3404 1967 - 1970 The Beatles
4(8)XVV 3403-8XC3405/06 1962-1966 (Cassette/8-Track) The Beatles
4(8)XVV 3404-8XC3407/08 1967-1970 (Cassette/8-Track) The Beatles
SMAL-3409 Red Rose Speedway Paul McCartney & Wings
SMAS-3410 Living in the Material World George Harrison
SW-3411 Ass Badfinger
SW-3412 Feeling The Space Yoko Ono
SWAL-3413 Ringo Ringo Starr
SW-3414 Mind Games John Lennon
SO-3415 Band on the Run Paul McCartney & Wings
SW-3416 Walls and Bridges John Lennon
SW-3417 Goodnight Vienna Ringo Starr
SMAS-3418 Dark Horse George Harrison
SK-3419 Rock 'n' Roll John Lennon
SW-3420 Extra Texture (Read All About It) George Harrison
SW-3421 Shaved Fish John Lennon
SW-3422 Blast from Your Past Ringo Starr

Irregularly Numbered LPs (these bear Capitol Records catalogue numbers, except where noted)

SWBO-101 The Beatles The Beatles
SW-153 Yellow Submarine The Beatles
SO-383 Abbey Road The Beatles
SO(SW)-385 The Beatles Again: Hey Jude The Beatles
AR-34001 Let It Be The Beatles (original USA release distributed by United Artists Records)
SBC-100 The Beatles' Christmas Album The Beatles (issued to Fan Club members only)
T-5001 Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins John Lennon And Yoko Ono (original USA release by Tetragrammaton Records)
STCH-639 All Things Must Pass George Harrison
ABL1-0220 Son Of Dracula Harry Nilsson (released by RCA Records)

Capitol Reissues

ST-2047 Meet The Beatles The Beatles
ST-2080 The Beatles' Second Album The Beatles
ST-2108 Something New The Beatles
STBO-2222 The Beatles' Story The Beatles
ST-2228 Beatles '65 The Beatles
ST-2309 The Early Beatles The Beatles
ST-2358 Beatles VI The Beatles
SMAS-2386 Help! The Beatles
ST-2442 Rubber Soul The Beatles
ST-2553 Yesterday . . . and Today The Beatles
ST-2576 Revolver The Beatles
SMAS-2653 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles
SMAL-2835 Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles

New Apples

8 30129 2 Come and Get It: The Best of Badfinger Badfinger
8 31796 1 Live at the BBC The Beatles
8 36234 1 Anthology 1 The Beatles
8 34448 1 Anthology 2 The Beatles
8 34451 1 Anthology 3 The Beatles
5 21481 1 Yellow Submarine Songtrack The Beatles
5 29326 1 1 The Beatles
5 26974 2 The Very Best of Badfinger Badfinger
5 95714 2 Let It Be... Naked The Beatles
8 66878 2 The Capitol Albums Vol.1 The Beatles
3 57497 2 The Capitol Albums Vol.2 The Beatles
3 79810 2 Love The Beatles

Apple Records singles

UK

Apple 1 "The Lady is a Tramp" (one copy issued privately by Apple) Frank Sinatra
R 5722 "Hey Jude" / "Revolution" The Beatles
Apple 2 "Those Were the Days" / "Turn! Turn! Turn!" Mary Hopkin
Apple 3 "Sour Milk Sea" / "The Eagle Laughs At You" Jackie Lomax
Apple 4 "Thingumybob" / "Yellow Submarine" Black Dyke Mills Band
Apple 5 "Maybe Tomorrow" / "And Her Daddy's A Millionaire" The Iveys (later to become Badfinger)
Apple 6 "Road To Nowhere" / "Illusions" (a few copies were issued as being by 'White Trash') Trash
Apple 7 Number not used in UK
Apple 8 "King Of Fuh" / "Nobody Knows" (issued privately by Apple) Brute Force
Apple 9 Number not used in UK
Apple 10 "Goodbye" / "Sparrow" Mary Hopkin
R 5777 "Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down" The Beatles
Apple 11 "New Day" / "I Fall Inside Your Eyes" Jackie Lomax
R 5786 "The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe" The Beatles
Apple 12 "That's the Way God Planned It" / "What About You" Billy Preston
Apple 13 "Give Peace a Chance" / "Remember Love" Plastic Ono Band
Apple 14 Number not used in UK
CT 1 "Storm in a Teacup" (The Iveys) / "Something's Wrong" (James Taylor) Walls Ice Cream
"Little Yellow Pill" (Jackie Lomax) / "The Pebble And The Man" (Mary Hopkin) Promotional EP
Apple 15 "Hare Krishna Mantra" / "Prayer Of The Spiritual Masters" Radha Krishna Temple
Apple 16 Number not used in UK
Apple 17 "Golden Slumbers-Carry That Weight" / "Trashcan" Trash
Apple 18 "Give Peace A Chance" / "Living Without Tomorrow" Hot Chocolate Band
Apple 19 "Everything's Alright" / "I Want To Thank You" Billy Preston
Apples 1001 "Cold Turkey" / "Don't Worry Kyoko" Plastic Ono Band
R 5814 "Something" / "Come Together" The Beatles
Apple 20 "Come and Get It" / "Rock Of All Ages" Badfinger (formerly The Iveys)
Apples 1002 "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" / "What's The New Mary Jane" (not issued) Plastic Ono Band
Apple 21 "All That I've Got" / "As I Get Older" Billy Preston
Apple 22 "Temma Harbour" / "Lontano Dagli Occhi" Mary Hopkin
Apple 23 "How The Web Was Woven" / "Thumbin' A Ride" Jackie Lomax
Apple 24 "Ain't That Cute" / "Vaya Con Dios" Doris Troy
Apples 1003 "Instant Karma!" / "Who Has Seen The Wind?" John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band / Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band
Apple 25 "Govinda" / "Govinda Jai Jai" Radha Krishna Temple
R 5833 "Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" The Beatles
Apple 26 "Knock Knock, Who's There?" / "I'm Going To Fall In Love Again" Mary Hopkin
Apple 27 Number not used in UK
Apple 28 "Jacob's Ladder" / "Get Back" Doris Troy
Apple 29 "My Sweet Lord" / "Long As I Got My Baby" (not issued) Billy Preston
Apple 30 "Think About Your Children" / "Heritage" Mary Hopkin
Apple 31 "No Matter What" / "Better Days" Badfinger
Apple 32 "Carolina in My Mind" / "Something's Wrong" James Taylor
R 5884 "My Sweet Lord" / "What Is Life" George Harrison
R 5889 "Another Day" / "Oh Woman, Oh Why" Paul McCartney
R 5892 "Power To the People" / "Open Your Box" John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band
R 5898 "It Don't Come Easy" / "Early 1970" Ringo Starr
Apple 33 "Try Some, Buy Some" / "Tandoori Chicken" Ronnie Spector
Apple 34 "Let My Name Be Sorrow" / "Kew Gardens" Mary Hopkin
Apple 35 "Name Of The Game" / "Suitcase" (not issued) Badfinger
Apple 36 "God Save Oz" / "Do The Oz" Bill Elliot & Elastic Oz Band
R 5912 "Bangla Desh" / "Deep Blue" George Harrison
R 5914 "Back Seat of My Car" / "Heart Of The Country" Paul & Linda McCartney
Apple 37 "Joi Bangla" / "Oh Bhaugowan" / "Raga Mishri" Ravi Shankar
Apple 38 "Mrs. Lennon" / "Midsummer In New York" Yoko Ono
Apple 39 "Water, Paper And Clay" / "Jefferson" Mary Hopkin
Apple 40 "Day After Day" / "Sweet Tuesday Morning" Badfinger
Apple 41 "Mind Train" / "Listen, The Snow Is Falling Yoko Ono
Apple 42 Number not used in UK
R 5936 "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" / "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" (Instrumental Version) Wings
R 5944 "Back Off Boogaloo" / "Blindman" Ringo Starr
R 5949 "Mary Had a Little Lamb" / "Little Woman Love" Wings
Apple 43 "We're On Our Way" / "Supersoul" Chris Hodge
Apple 44 "Saturday Night Special" / "Valse De Soleil Coucher" The Sundown Playboys
R 5970 "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" / "Listen, The Snow Is Falling" (released on green vinyl; re-issued on black vinyl) John & Yoko
R 5973 "Hi, Hi, Hi" / "C Moon" Wings
Apple 45 "Power Boogie" / "Liberation Special" Elephant's Memory
Apple 46 "Warm Woman" / "More Than Words" Lon & Derrek Van Eaton
R 5985 "My Love" / "The Mess" Paul McCartney & Wings
Apple 47 "Death Of Samantha" / "Yang Yang" Yoko Ono
R 5988 "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" / "Miss O'Dell" George Harrison
R 5987 "Live and Let Die" / "I Lie Around" Paul McCartney & Wings
R 5992 "Photograph" / "Down And Out" Ringo Starr
R 5993 "Helen Wheels" / "Country Dreamer" Paul McCartney & Wings
Apple 48 "Run, Run, Run" / "Men Men Men" Yoko Ono
R 5994 "Mind Games" / "Meat City" John Lennon
R 5995 "You're Sixteen" / "Devil Woman" Ringo Starr
R 5996 "Jet" / "Let Me Roll It" Paul McCartney & Wings
Apple 49 "Apple of My Eye" / "Blind Owl" Badfinger
R 5997 "Band on the Run" / "Zoo Gang" Paul McCartney & Wings
R 5998 "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" / "Beef Jerky" John Lennon
R 5999 "Junior's Farm" / "Sally G" (later re-issued with the sides reversed) Paul McCartney & Wings
R 6000 "Only You (And You Alone)" / "Call Me" Ringo Starr
R 6001 "Dark Horse" / "Hari's On Tour (Express)" George Harrison
R 6002 "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" / "I Don't Care Anymore" George Harrison
R 6003 "#9 Dream" / "What You Got" John Lennon
R 6004 "Snookeroo" / "Oo-Wee" Ringo Starr
R 6005 "Stand By Me" / "Move Over Ms. L" John Lennon
R 6007 "You" / "World Of Stone" George Harrison
R 6009 "Imagine" / "Working Class Hero" John Lennon
R 6011 "Oh My My" / "No No Song" Ringo Starr
R 6012 "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)" / "Maya Love" George Harrison

Apple 16 was allocated to Mortimer's "On Our Way Home", but failed to surface in the UK. NOTE "Those Were the Days" by Mary Hopkin was released in France and Canada with French lyrics, and Italy with Italian lyrics.

USA

The following is a list of Apple Records' commercially-released singles, as released in the US, with catalog numbers, song names, and artists. Note that the The Beatles' singles are numbered differently from the others. The first two digits of the Beatles singles are more or less consecutive, and were continued from their Capitol Records 45 singles catalog numbers. A link is provided for an artist, only the first time the name appears.

2276 "Hey Jude" / "Revolution" The Beatles
1800 "Thingumybob" / "Yellow Submarine" John Foster & Sons Ltd. Black Dyke Mills Band
1801 "Those Were the Days" / "Turn Turn Turn" Mary Hopkin
1802 "Sour Milk Sea" / "The Eagle Laughs At You" Jackie Lomax
1803 "Maybe Tomorrow" / "Daddy's A Millionaire" The Iveys (later to become Badfinger)
1804 "Road To Nowhere" / "Illusions" Trash
1805 "Carolina in My Mind" / "Taking It In" James Taylor (re-issued with the B-side "Something's Wrong")
1806 "Goodbye" / "Sparrow" Mary Hopkin
2490 "Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down" The Beatles with Billy Preston
2531 "The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe" The Beatles
1807 "New Day" / "Thumbin' A Ride" Jackie Lomax
1808 "That's the Way God Planned It" / "What About You?" Billy Preston
1809 "Give Peace a Chance" / "Remember Love" Plastic Ono Band / Yoko Ono
1810 "Hare Krishna Mantra"/ "Prayer To The Spiritual Masters" Radha Krishna Temple (London)
2654 "Something" / "Come Together" The Beatles
1811 "Golden Slumbers-Carry That Weight" / "The Beatles" Trash
1812 "Give Peace a Chance" / "Living Without Tomorrow" Hot Chocolate Band
1813 "Cold Turkey" / "Don't Worry Kyoko" Plastic Ono Band
1814 "Everything's All Right" / "I Want To Thank You" Billy Preston
1815 "Come and Get It" / "Rock Of All Ages" Badfinger
1816 "Temma Harbour" / "Lontano Dagli Occhi" Mary Hopkin
1817 "All That I've Got "/ "As I Get Older" Billy Preston
1818 "Instant Karma!" / "Who Has Seen The Wind?" John Ono Lennon/Yoko Ono Lennon
1819 "How the Web Was Woven "/ "(I) Fall Inside Your Eyes" Jackie Lomax
2764 "Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" The Beatles
1820 "Ain't That Cute" / "Vaya Con Dios" Doris Troy
1821 "Govinda" / "Govinda Jai Jai" Radha Krishna Temple (London)
2832 "The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue" The Beatles
1822 "No Matter What" / "Carry On Till Tomorrow" Badfinger
1823 "Que Sera, Sera" / "Fields Of St. Etienne" Mary Hopkin
1824 "Jacob's Ladder" / "Get Back" Doris Troy
2969 ("1826") "Beaucoups of Blues" / "Coochy-Coochy" Ringo Starr
1825 "Think About Your Children"/ "Heritage" Mary Hopkin
2995 "My Sweet Lord" / "Isn't It A Pity" George Harrison
1826 "My Sweet Lord"/ "Little Girl" Billy Preston
1827 "Mother" / "Why" John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band / Yoko Ono
1828 "What Is Life?" / "Apple Scruffs" George Harrison
1829 "Another Day" / "Oh Woman, Oh Why" Paul McCartney
1830 "Power to the People" / "Touch Me" John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band / Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band
1831 "It Don't Come Easy" / "Early 1970" Ringo Starr
1832 "Try Some, Buy Some" / "Tandoori Chicken" Ronnie Spector
1833 never used (assigned to "Name of the Game" / "Suitcase" by Badfinger)
1834 "Sour Milk Sea" / "(I) Fall Inside Your Eyes" Jackie Lomax
1835 "God Save Oz" / "Do The Oz" Bill Elliot & Elastic Oz Band
1836 "Bangla Desh" / "Deep Blue" George Harrison
1837 "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" / "Too Many People" Paul & Linda McCartney
1838 "Joi Bangla" + 2 Ravi Shankar
1839 "Midsummer New York"/ "Mrs. Lennon" Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
1840 "Imagine" / "It's So Hard" John Lennon
1841 "Day After Day" / "Money" Badfinger
1842 "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" / "Listen, The Snow Is Falling" John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band, With The Harlem Community Choir
1843 "Water, Paper, And Clay" / "Streets Of London" Mary Hopkin
1844 "Baby Blue"/ "Flying" Badfinger
1845 "Sweet Music" / "Song Of Songs" Lon & Derrek Van Eaton
1846 never used
1847 "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" / "Give Ireland Back To The Irish

(Instrumental Version)"

Wings
1848 "Woman Is the Nigger of the World"/ "Sisters, O Sisters" John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band, With Elephants Memory And Invisible Strings/Yoko Ono
1849 "Back Off Boogaloo" / "Blindman" Ringo Starr
1850 "We're On Our Way" / "Supersoul" Chris Hodge
1851 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" / "Little Woman Love" Wings
1852 "Saturday Night Special" / "Valse De Soleil Coucher" Sundown Playboys
1853 "Now Or Never" / "Move On Fast" Yoko Ono
1854 "Liberation Special" / "Power Boogie" Elephant's Memory
1855 "Knock Knock, Who's There" / "International" Mary Hopkin
1856 never used
1857 "Hi Hi Hi" / "C Moon" Wings
1858 "Goodbye, Sweet Lorraine" / "Contact Love" Chris Hodge
1859 "Death Of Samantha" / "Yang Yang" Yoko Ono
1860 never used
1861 "My Love"/ "The Mess" Paul McCartney & Wings
1862 "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" / "Miss O'Dell" George Harrison
1863 "Live and Let Die" / "I Lie Around" Wings
1864 "Apple of My Eye" / "Blind Owl" Badfinger
1865 "Photograph"/ "Down And Out" Ringo Starr
1866 "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" (scheduled release - never issued) George Harrison
1867 "Woman Power" / "Men Men Men" Yoko Ono
1868 "Mind Games" / "Meat City" John Lennon
1869 "Helen Wheels" / "Country Dreamer" Paul McCartney & Wings
1870 "You're Sixteen" / "Devil Woman" Ringo Starr
1871 "Jet" / "Mamunia" Paul McCartney & Wings (re-issued with new B-side, "Let Me Roll It")
1872 "Oh My My" / "Step Lightly" Ringo Starr
1873 "Band On The Run"/ "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five" Paul McCartney & Wings
1874 "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" / "Beef Jerky" John Lennon With The Plastic Ono Nuclear Band
1875 "Junior's Farm" / "Sally G" Paul McCartney & Wings
1876 "Only You" / "Call Me" Ringo Starr
1877 "Dark Horse" / "I Don't Care Anymore" George Harrison
1878 "#9 Dream" / "What You Got" John Lennon
1879 "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" / "Hari's On Tour (Express)" George Harrison
1880 "No No Song" / "Snookeroo" Ringo Starr
1881 "Stand By Me" / "Move Over Ms. L" John Lennon
1882 "It's All Down To Goodnight Vienna" / "Oo-Wee" Ringo Starr
1883 "Ain't That A Shame" / "Slippin and a Slidin'" (never issued) John Lennon
1884 "You" / "World Of Stone" George Harrison
1885 "This Guitar" / "Maya Love" George Harrison

Zapple Records

Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions, John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Electronic Sound, George Harrison