Capitol’s second in a short series of box sets, namely “The Capitol Albums, Vol. 2,” was released on April 11th, 2006.  It contained the original US “Rubber Soul” album, including “Think For Yourself,” in both stereo and mono, although early copies of the set mistakenly substituted a “fold-down” version of the stereo mix instead of the true 1965 mono mix.

Because a small snippet of George and Paul rehearsing the harmonies made it onto the actual 1968 film “Yellow Submarine,” the full song was included on the September 13th, 1999 released album “Yellow Submarine Songtrack.”  This album was put together to coincide with the re-release of the film and included all of The Beatles songs that appear in the movie, even partially.  The engineers assigned to this project were granted permission to access the original four-track tapes and created new mixes using the new technology of the time, therefore the sound is impeccable.  This album brought The Beatles back onto the Billboard charts for the end of the decade, reaching #15 on the US album chart.

n preparation for the first “Rubber Soul” release on compact disc, George Martin went back to the drawing board in 1986 to make a new stereo mix of “Think For Yourself” which stands as the most widely available mix of the song as of this day.  Once again, the double-tracked vocals are kept on separate channels.

A third stereo mix of the song was made in 1999 at EMI Studios expressly for its inclusion on the “Yellow Submarine Songtrack” album of that year.  While George Martin was not involved, engineers Peter Cobbin, Paul Hicks, Mirek Stiles and Allan Rouse were.  This time around, all vocals are centered in the mix to give an incredibly full sound.

Version 1
(RS05-01-RM1)

UK / US Album

MONO

Version 2
(RS05-01-RS1-a)

UK Album

STEREO

Version 3
(RS05-01-RS1-b)

US Album

STEREO

Version 4

1987 International CD

STEREO

Version 5

Yellow Submarine Songtrack

STEREO

Version 6

Yellow Submarine Rehearsal?

STEREO

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