FROM ME TO YOU / THANK YOU GIRL
Parlophone A8083
Released 9 May 1963
Original recommended retail price: 10/-
The Beatles’ second Australian single, initially unsuccessful but given a new lease of life when reissued during Beatlemania in 1964.
Matrix Information
Side 1: (mono) 7XCE17329 7AXPA542
Side 2: (mono) 7XCE17330 7AXPA543

June 1976
Side 1: (mono) 7XCE 17329
Side 2: (mono) 7XCE 17330

Overview
The formal arrangement for Leeds Music to be the local Northern Songs and Jaep representative did not commence until August 1963, some three months after this single was released. By then, Essex Music of Australia had claimed the local rights to 'From Me To You', through Del Shannon's cover version released here on the London label. Thus, initial copies of this single have 'Parlophone Control' royalty stamps on both sides (not MCPS as Epstein's Northern Songs didn't have a linkage to MCPS, so in the absence of any claim, EMI (Australia) collected royalties into a 'keep account' until the owner was identified) with copies from around August having the updated 'Essex' royalty for 'From Me To You'.

Initially released in May 1963, it was reissued in February 1964 off the back of the success of the 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' single, where it again entered charts across Australia.

Deleted by 1968, the single was recut in June 1976 (both sides in mono) and reissued in July, where it remained available until the late 1980s.
Chart Performance

Brisbane

(QLD)

Sydney

(NSW)

Melbourne

(VIC)

Hobart

(TAS)

Adelaide

(SA)

Perth

(WA)

Chart Entry

26-May-63

14-Jun-63*

25-May-63

26-May-63

15-Jun-63*

19-Jul-63*

Highest Position

10

8

4

5

5

10

Weeks In

16

15

14

11

15

10
Listed as "From Me To You"
* Bracketed with Del Shannon

Chart Re-entry

14-Mar-64

-

22-Feb-64

22-Feb-64

22-Feb-64

-

Highest Position

5

 

4

13

5

 

Weeks In

12

 

13

7

12

 
Listed as "From Me To You"

Chart Entry

-

29-Mar-64

-

-

-

-

Highest Position

 

24

 

 

 

 

Weeks In

 

9

 

 

 

 
Listed as "Thank You Girl"
Pink
AUSP8083P.a

PARLOPHONE CONTROL fac (both labels)
AUSP8083P.b

ESSEX fac / PARLOPHONE CONTROL fac
Silver/Black Style 'A'
AUSP8083SBA.a

Comma in "Thank You, Girl"
Silver/Black Style 'B'
AUSP8083SBB.a
Orange
AUSP8083O.a
Silver/Black Style 'C'
AUSP8083SBC.a

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

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