 In keeping with the record company's policy for all the Beatles' North American LPs until 1967, Capitol Records selected songs for "Yesterday and Today" by culling from the albums the band released in Britain, and other territories overseen by EMI, and from tracks issued on non-album singles outside North America.The industry preference in the US for shorter LPs facilitated this policy, as did the fact that the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!