repeating bridge and a fifth verse. The completed mono mix lasts 2:04. On 9 June, Martin and Smith copied this mix, sending it to the US record labels United Artists and Capitol. On 22 June 1964, Martin and Smith finished production on the rest of the A Hard Day's Night LP, including mixing "I'll Cry Instead" for stereo. Like the mono version, they edited together takes six and eight, but joined the takes at a different place. After an edit at 1:08, the song cuts to the second bridge, omitting the fourth verse and resulting in a length of 1:43, 21 seconds shorter than the US mono mix. To make the mono and stereo version match, they roughly trimmed the mono version, bringing it down to 1:44, though this fix was only made to the UK mono releases, the longer mono version having already been sent for printing in the US. Release EMI's Parlophone label released the A Hard Day's Night LP in the UK on 10 July 1964. "I'll Cry Instead" appears on the album's second side, sequenced alongside the other tracks that do not appear in the film. Despite the song's absence from the film, United Artists kept the song on the North American version of A Hard Day's Night, released in the US on 26 June 1964. Capitol retained the rights to the same songs, so long as they were not marketed as a film soundtrack, and began issuing songs from the United Artists soundtrack as singles in the US. The label released "I'll Cry Instead" as a single in the US on 20 July 1964, backed with "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You". The song reached on the Cash Box Top 100 and on the Billboard Hot 100 record charts, additionally achieving in Canada. Capitol collected the released singles on the North American LP Something New, also released on 20 July 1964, sequencing "I'll Cry Instead" as the album's opening track. When Universal Pictures and Walter Shenson re-released A Hard Day's Night in theaters in 1982, "I'll Cry Instead" was included in an opening sequence as a tribute to Lennon, consisting of a "Swingin'" early to mid-1960s-style collage of photos of the Beatles in 1964. Personnel According to Ian MacDonald: John Lennon double-tracked vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar Paul McCartney bass George Harrison lead guitar Ringo Starr drums, tambourine Chart performance Notes References Citations Sources External