All My Loving

All My Loving is an extended play on Parlophone (catalogue GEP 8891), released 7 February 1964. Compiles four With the Beatles LP tracks.

Recorded during the band's Beatlemania (1962–1964) period, produced by George Martin with Norman Smith engineering. The tracks were committed to tape at EMI Studios, Abbey Road on Twin-track BTR-2 (1962); Studer J37 four-track from late-1963 via the REDD.37 / REDD.51 valve consoles.

All My Loving is a Beatles EP issued in the United Kingdom on 7 February 1964 by Parlophone under catalogue number GEP 8891. It sits in the band's Beatlemania (1962–1964) period. The release arrived 77 days after the parent LP With the Beatles, placing it firmly within that album's commercial window.

Sessions were produced by George Martin with Norman Smith engineering, working at EMI Studios, Abbey Road. The signal chain ran through the Twin-track BTR-2 (1962); Studer J37 four-track from late-1963 • REDD.37 / REDD.51 valve consoles, with vocals captured on Neumann U47, U48. This combination of room, tape format and outboard chain is the same one heard across the band's other releases from the era — meaning the release shares its sonic identity with its parent LP rather than departing from it.

The EP collects 2 tracks — All My Loving, Ask Me Why — drawn from contemporaneous LP and single sessions. Each individual song entry preserves its full session history and pattern analysis, which the EP-level page references rather than duplicates.

Documented alternate masters and remaster passes can be found via the linked entries above; the editorial position throughout Beatles Answers is that the original UK mono master is the canonical point of reference for any EP from this era, with the 2009 and 50th-anniversary stereo remasters treated as documented variations rather than replacements. Catalogue numbers, label copy and matrix data are taken from EMI/Parlophone primary documentation and cross-checked against Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (1988).

Each track on this EP carries its own session history on the dedicated entry. The summary below pulls the most distinctive editorial detail from each:

• All My Loving — The recording was completed efficiently, with the rhythm section of McCartney's bass and Ringo Starr's drums providing tight anchor for John and George's harmonic backing vocals. The four-track recording allowed strategic separation of McCartney's bass from other elements, enabling precise mixing focus.
• Ask Me Why — The song was captured in just six takes on the November session, demonstrating studio efficiency compared to the A-side's eighteen takes.

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